A Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo uses colorbox thanks to
Jack Moore to show YouTube and Vimeo video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from Youtube and Vimeo video.
you can use it with a shortcode in the page, post, and text widget.
The plugin now has support for the official AMP plugin.
[youtube videoid="<youtube videoid goes here>" height="<height goes here>" width="<width goes here>"]
[youtube url="<youtube url goes here>"]
in the backend you can generate shortcodes also you can set default height, width, and an option to play video automatically.
Now Supports Vimeo
[vimeo videoid="<vimeo videoid goes here>" height="<height goes here>" width="<width goes here>"]
[vimeo url="<vimeo url goes here>"]
2.6.1
Renamed plugin and updated logo to avoid copyright violations.
2.6
Added Official AMP Plugin Support.
Tested up to 5.6
2.5
Tested up to 5.4.2
2.4
Fixes warning.
2.3
Fixed issue with directly redirecting to video.
Added Extended version of colorboxjs
2.2
Added muted autoplay for Chrome and Safari.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
2.1
Fixes Widget text minor issue.
2.0
Updated colorboxjs
Now supports Vimeo.
1.6
Updated colorboxjs
Updated for WordPress 4.0
Now supports SSL (HTTPS)
Improved look and feel
Updated text domain to be the same as a slug
Updated code to make plugin translation ready, the latest version of colorboxjs updated.
Fixed shortcode inside shortcode bug with return output
Updated for WordPress 4.1
Fixed iPhone iPad bugs
1.0
First release. Compatible with IE9,IE10, Chrome, Firefox