We’re happy to announce that WPMU DEV has released a brand new plugin – the YouTube Featured Video plugin.
This simple, flexible widget lets you select videos from a YouTube channel and then feature them in your sidebar. If you look over to the bottom of the right hand sidebar here on wpmu.org, you’ll see it action.
We wanted this for ourselves, and so we thought a number of you might like it too.
How This Plugin Can Help You
The YouTube Featured Video plugin not only helps you keep your video content in front of your visitors, on every page you reinforce the idea that you have multimedia offerings for them as well. If your videos are only buried inside of posts, then you’re missing a chance to get your visitors more engaged.
But you don’t only have to show your own videos, of course. You can show videos from any YouTube channel that you think your visitors will appreciate.
The YouTube Featured Video plugin lets you easily …
- Control the setting from simple options on the widget itself
- Title the widget whatever you’d like
- Select which videos to show from the YouTube channel of your choice
- Choose how you would like the videos to be selected for display: all videos, a random video, or a related video based on tags and the video description
- Show the video in an overlay popup, or play it right there on the sidebar
- Choose to show the video’s title or not
- Choose to show a link back to the channel on YouTube (and define your own text for the link)
In addition, of course you can use the widget over and over as many times as you like, giving you the option of selecting videos from multiple channels.
Super Simple to Set Up
To set it up, just fill in the Title and Channel boxes. And then next you’ll have the option to select whichever videos you’d like from the channel you chose.
When the popup appears, choose your videos.
After you’ve done that, just choose your settings.
You’ll then see your video(s) in your sidebar. As we mentioned, you can see an example of the widget at work over on the right hand sidebar.
Here’s a look at it as well.
And that’s it – a simple, flexible solution for showing off video content. You can have it up and running in minutes. Find it here.
Very nice i will try this out on a new site i have in the pipeline
Doesn’t look like, or work, like it does in the documentation.
Hi Jack – I’m not sure what kind of problems you’re running into, but if you post about it in the Support area, I’m sure they can work with you on your specific case to get it ironed out.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/support/
I do not see where you can specify the size dimensions of the video. Can it be resized to fit sidebar?
Where are the adjustment controls located?
Thank you
Hi Joe,
Does this YouTube Featured Video plugin show stats like these?
21 views | 1 week ago
172 views | 1 month ago
TVB -The plugin doesn’t currently have those controls, but if you ask in the Support Community, the developer might be able to add them.
He should also be able to tell you how to control the size manually for now.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/support/
Hello again Joe,
Thank you very much, I will do it.