Display customizable YouTube channel feeds on your website. Feed your YouTube channel content automatically to your website in powerful and customizable ways. YouTube Feed Features Completely Customizable YouTube feeds – by default inherits your theme’s styles Completely responsive and mobile optimized – your YouTube feeds look great on any screen size Light and low overhead – minimal bloat and optimized....
Display customizable YouTube channel feeds on your website. Feed your YouTube channel content automatically to your website in powerful and customizable ways.
YouTube Feed Features
- Completely Customizable YouTube feeds – by default inherits your theme’s styles
- Completely responsive and mobile optimized – your YouTube feeds look great on any screen size
- Light and low overhead – minimal bloat and optimized requests to YouTube
- Multiple layouts – display videos from any YouTube channel in a list, gallery, or grid layout
- Multiple feeds from different YouTube channels on multiple pages or widgets
- Lightning fast – post caching and minimized YouTube API requests means that your YouTube feed loads lightning fast
- Infinitely load more of your YouTube videos with the ‘Load More’ button
- Built-in easy to use “YouTube Feed” Widget
- Fully internationalized and translatable into any language
- Includes a header at the top of your YouTube channel feed
- Enter your own custom CSS or JavaScript for even deeper customization
For simple step-by-step directions on how to set up the Feeds for YouTube plugin please refer to our setup guide.
Benefits
- Increase social engagement between you and your YouTube subscribers
- Save time by using the Feeds for YouTube plugin to generate dynamic, search engine crawlable content on your website
- Get more subscribers by displaying your YouTube videos directly on your site
- Display your YouTube channel content your way to perfectly match your website’s style
- The plugin is updated regularly with new features, bug-fixes and YouTube API changes
- Support is quick, effective, and always happy to help
- We’re dedicated to providing the most customizable, robust and well supported YouTube feed plugin in the world!
Feedback or Support
Customer support is a huge deal to us. We pride ourselves on always providing quick, effective, and courteous support to all of our users. If you’re having an issue with our YouTube pluginthen just let us know and we’ll be there to help as soon as possible. You can either open a ticket on the support forum on WordPress.org, or directly on our website.
If you like the plugin then please consider leaving a review, as it really helps to support the plugin. If you have an issue then please allow us to help you fix it before leaving a review. Just let us know what the problem is and we’ll get back to you right away.
Pro Version (Feeds for YouTube Pro)
We plan on releasing a Pro version which includes some awesome additional features to help you display your YouTube content in even more powerful ways:
- Display videos from your YouTube favorites list
- Integrate the YouTube Live API to show live streaming YouTube videos on your site.
- Display a YouTube gallery in a carousel slider
- Allow filtering of YouTube videos using keywords in the description or title
- Fully functional search endpoint for display YouTube videos from a search result
- Combine multiple YouTube feeds into one
- Customizable actions when YouTube video completes like displaying a link to a product page for example, or displaying thumbnails of your other videos.
- Download video data into a custom post type to allow visitors to browse and view YouTube videos on your website.
How to use the “Feeds for YouTube” plugin
One of our main priorities has always been to make our plugins as easy as possible to setup and use. Once you’ve installed the “Feeds for YouTube” plugin there are only a few steps to get up and running:
- 1) Click the “Log in to YouTube and connect an account” button on the “Feeds for YouTube” plugin settings page. This will prompt you to log into your Google account to authorize the plugin.
- 2) Once you’ve connected your account, save the plugin settings.
- 3) Then simply copy and paste the
[youtube-feed]
shortcode onto any page, post, or widget where you want your YouTube feed to be displayed.
That’s it! You can then customize the feed as needed using the settings on the plugin “Customize” page.
For full step-by-step setup directions with screenshots, see here.
Who’s behind this YouTube plugin?
We’re Smash Balloon; a fun-loving WordPress plugin development company birthed into existence in early 2013. We specialize in creating plugins that are not only intuitive and simple to use, but also designed to integrate seamlessly into your website and allow you to display your social media content in powerful and unique ways. Over 1 million awesome people have decided to actively use our free plugins, which is an incredible honor that we don’t take lightly. This compels us to try to provide the quickest and most effective customer support that we can, blowing users away with the best customer service they’ve ever experienced.
To find out more about the team, see here.
YouTube Feed Shortcode Settings
You can edit the settings globally for all YouTube feeds on your site using the plugin settings page, but if you want to change settings for specific YouTube feeds then you can do so by using the shortcode settings listed below:
channel – Display videos from a YouTube channel. Eg: [youtube-feed channel=”smashballoon”]
width – The width of your YouTube feed. Any number with a unit like “px” or “%”. Eg: [youtube-feed width=”300px”]
height – The height of your YouTube feed. Any number with a unit like “px” or “em”. Eg: [youtube-feed height=”500px”]
background – Background color for your YouTube feed. Any hex color code. Eg: [youtube-feed background=”#f00″]
playvideo – What the user needs to do to play a YouTube video: onclick, automatically. Eg: [youtube-feed playvideo=”onclick”]
layout – How your YouTube videos are displayed visually. Eg: [youtube-feed layout=”list”]
num – The number of YouTube videos in the feed. Eg: [youtube-feed num=”5″]
itemspacing – The spacing/padding around the YouTube videos in the feed. Any number with a unit like “px” or “em”. Eg: [youtube-feed itemspacing=”5px”]
showheader – Include a header for this YouTube feed. Eg: [youtube-feed showheader=”false”]
showdescription Include the channel description in the YouTube feed header. Eg: [youtube-feed showdescription=”false”]
showbutton – Include a “Load More” button at the bottom of the feed to load more YouTube videos. Eg: [youtube-feed showbutton=”false”]
buttoncolor – Background color for the “Load More” button at the bottom of the YouTube feed. Any hex color code Eg: [youtube-feed buttoncolor=”#0f0″]
buttontextcolor – Text color for the “Load More” button. Any hex color code. Eg: [youtube-feed buttontextcolor=”#00f”]
buttontext – The text that appers on the “Load More” button. Eg: [youtube-feed buttontext=””More Videos””]
showsubscribe – Include a “Subscribe” button at the bottom of the YouTube feed to load more YouTube videos. Eg: [youtube-feed showsubscribe=”false”]
subscribecolor – Background color for the YouTube “Subscribe” button. Any hex color code. Eg: [youtube-feed subscribecolor=”#0f0″]
subscribetextcolor – Text color for the YouTube “Subscribe” button. Any hex color code. Eg: [youtube-feed subscribetextcolor=”#00f”]
subscribetext – The text that appers on the YouTube “Subscribe” button. Eg: [youtube-feed subscribetext=””Subscribe to My Channel””]
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