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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 8.1.12 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of PHP
Latest WordPress 6.2.2 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days
No problems were detected during tests.
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The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 8.1.12 & WordPress 6.2.2.
The database server is MySQL 10.6.10 and the default PHP memory limit is 512M.
The best WordPress plugin for videos? Supports close to everything you can imagine, still keeping it easy & simple. It is very likely the one and only plugin you will ever need to handle video embeds on your WordPress site(s). It goes far beyond just making your videos responsive! Big version update with Gutenberg Block is coming please help testing....
The best WordPress plugin for videos? Supports close to everything you can imagine, still keeping it easy & simple.
It is very likely the one and only plugin you will ever need to handle video embeds on your WordPress site(s). It goes far beyond just making your videos responsive!
Big version update with Gutenberg Block is coming please help testing
Documentation
GitHub Page
Pro Addon
Features
SEO friendly, lets you specify title, description, upload date to provide search engines with the schema.org data they like to have for better indexing.
WYSIWYG support. No more messing around with shortcodes and previewing.
New improved dialog for embedding videos.
Magically makes those url embedded videos responsive.
No ‘lock in’ if you do not use shortcodes and use providers WordPress already supports.
Supports almost every video host that supports iframe embed codes.
Embeds via pasting the URL in its own line just like WordPress!
Responsive embeds with CSS, much better then with JavaScript.
Tries to be as unobtrusive as possible, sets ‘hide brand’ variables if supported, disables related videos at the end … to help keep people on your site rather then going to YouTube or keep watching videos.
Autostart (for providers that support it, mobile browsers prevent this)
Custom URL parameters to use all options providers offer.
Have downloaded and paid for at least 4 other video players that use lightbox. Each one has major flaws. This products works perfectly. If you use the OnSite Editor, then just copy the short code and it works great.
For speed, the product uses the thumbnails from the server. So many of the other products do NOT do this and it slows the page rendering. This product should appear first on the WordPress search. Spent 3 days of my life wasted on other products, only to delete each one. review by jodani
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Finally something that works
So I have a responsive theme but on pages with you tube videos it wasn’t making the you tube videos fit in the mobile screen. I have spent the last hour trying many plugins and researching on google and finally I installed this. And I didn’t have to update any settings or anything just refreshed a post with videos and all the sudden it is beautiful and responsive on my mobile phone!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! review by happyecho
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Only Plug-in that worked
I used a lot of high ranking plug-ins but they still broke my design. Downloaded this and worked right away. Thanks! review by crconnell89
This plugin is financed by sales of the Pro Addon. The development and support of this plugins has become a job for me so I hope you understand that I can not make all features gratis and that you purchase it to get extra features and support the development.
Pro Addon
10% off first year with discount code wporg
Disable links in embeds (killer feature!)
For example: Clicking on a title in a YouTube embed will not open a new popup/tab/window. Prevent video hosts to lead your visitors away from your site! Note this also breaks sharing functionality and is not possible when the provider requires flash. Try it on this page. Right click on links still works.
Lazyload mode
Make your site load faster by loading only a image instead of the entire video player on pageload.
Lazyload -> Lightbox
Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a preview image
Link -> Lightbox
Use simple links as triggers for lightboxed videos
Automatic or custom thumbnail images
Automatic or custom titles on top of your thumbnails
‘Expand on click’ feature
3 hover styles
2 play icon styles to choose from
Responsive thumbnails using cutting edge HTML5 technology
Feel good about yourself
for supporting my 5+ years work on this plugin. Tons of hours, weekends … always worked on improving it.
Show the latest video of a YouTube channel by using the channel URL (updated/cached hourly)
Get the ARVE Pro Addon
ARVE AMP Addon
Requires the gratis plugins ARVE and AMP
Makes ARVE ready for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
It will display videos embedded with ARVE on AMP pages correctly
No options, just works
It creates , , , elements
For all other video hosts supported by ARVE element is used
HTML5 video embeds are also supported with
Check out the ARVE AMP Addon
Thanks
Of course all the customers who bought a addon.
Howard Iken of myfloridalaw.com top donor, super nice to me even if I was rude and not deserved it!
Ilya Grishkov for bringing up the idea and the first code to cache thumbnail urls.
Pros & Cons: This is a review from the Editorial staff of WP Hive for test purposes. We are sure the plugin made it with good heart for WordPress users and we want to encourage his/her efforts by the first review.
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Pros & Cons: This is a review from the Editorial staff of WP Hive for test purposes. We are sure the plugin made it with good heart for WordPress users and we want to encourage his/her efforts by the first review.
Overall:The plugin should be working great. Even if it does not, we respect the time and effort. If you are using this plugin - leave a review with more information.