Video Player for YouTube – Embed Videos Your Visitors Will Love to Watch

YT Player | Documentation | Pricing | Support | Demo YT Player is a modern, lightweight, and fully customizable YouTube video player built for WordPress. Whether you're adding a single video or creating a video-rich experience across posts, pages, or widget areas, this plugin makes it easy to embed YouTube videos with a sleek, accessible interface powered by HTML5 and the Plyr framework. Use a simple shortcode to embed YouTube videos without needing iframe codes. Ideal for bloggers, marketers, educators, and anyone looking to add YouTube video to WordPress effortlessly.

2.1.1 - 6 Sep, 2026

• Security: Hardened player data attributes, shortcode parameters, and AJAX endpoints against XSS with enhanced sanitization and escaping.
• Fix: Aligned Gutenberg Preset modal controls with Admin Settings — locked Pro controls (Restart, Rewind, Fast Forward, Play Large) in Free mode and displayed upgrade notices.
• Fix: Cleaned up default player control schema to exclude Pro controls by default on Free player instances.
• Fix: Resolved hideYoutubeUI boolean evaluation ("false" / "0" string handling) to prevent accidental YouTube UI hiding and iframe cropping.
• Fix: Enforced strict server-side and client-side Pro feature filtering across player preview, block editor, shortcode, and frontend rendering.
• Fix: Separated preset overlay background color priority from global admin brand color for accurate custom background rendering.
• Update: Enhanced dynamic license status checking to seamlessly unlock Pro controls upon activation without requiring page reloads.
• UI/UX: Reorganized Block Editor inspector sidebar panel titles with intuitive naming ("Basic Settings", "Player Controls", "Preset Controls").
• UI/UX: Standardized PRO badge styling and feature notice card layouts across settings panels and preset modals.
• Maintenance: Cleaned up default preset schemas and removed deprecated source files.

2.1.0 - 29 Aug, 2026

• Security: Hardened preset data handling and AJAX endpoint security.
• Security: Improved data sanitization and permission verification.
• Fix: Resolved quick shortcode [ytp] URL parsing and player style enqueuing.
• Fix: Improved clipboard copy compatibility across HTTP and HTTPS environments.
• Fix: Resolved block editor player controls rendering and SVG icon display.
• Update: Enhanced UI option consistency and Pro field controls.

2.0.9 - 16 July, 2026

• Update: Freemius SDK update.
• Fixed: Plugin dashboard activation issue.
• Added: WP Utils added.
• Fixed: Editor block selected issue.

2.0.8 - 2 April, 2026

• Fixed: Dashboard license activation issue fixed.
• Update: freemius sdk version updated.

2.0.7 - 16 March, 2026

• Fixed: dataset issue fixed.
• Update: Alert pro modal added.
• Update: Competible stablist version with wordpress.
• Update: Latest dashboard added.

2.0.6 - 21 Jan, 2026

• Vulnerability patch problem fixed

2.0.5 - 11 Dec, 2025

• freemius sdk version updated

2.0.4 - 6 Nov, 2025

• Video input field working both, ID or URL.

2.0.3 - 28 Oct, 2025

• Update: Update Freemius WordPress SDK
• Added a New Features

2.0.2 - 27 Aug, 2025

• Update: Yt Player Admin Bug Fixed

2.0.1 - 18 Aug, 2025

• Update: Dashboard preview tabbed description
• Update: Added upgrade button on dashboard

2.0.0 - 25 july, 2025

• More New Featured Added
• Update: Freemius Wordpress SDK

1.6.2 - 28 Jan, 2025

• Feature: Set Ratio
• Update: Freemius WordPress SDK

1.6.1 - 2 July 2024

• Updated: Player library

1.6.0 - 2 Jan 2024

• Added: 'Video Player for youtube' Block in free version

v1.5.6 (Aug 28, 2023)

• Added 2 Gutenberg Block in Premium version (video, Timeline)

1.5.1

• Improved Code Quality

1.3

• Bug Fix - iOs:Full screen video cut
• Improved Performance.

1.2

• Added Quick ShortCode [ytp]YouTube Video URL[/ytp] for Post/page/widget/Guten Block.
• Fix Minor Bug

1.1

• Review request as Admin notice removed.
• Imporved performance

1.0

• Initial Release