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Smart YouTube

Author: Vladimir Prelovac

Smart Youtube is a Wordpress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed.

The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.

From version 2.0 Smart youtube also supports playback of high quality videos, works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTUbe embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen and most recently supports YouTube playlists.

The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources. It has a number of customizable options.

Main Features:

  • Easily embeds YouTube videos
  • Embed YouTube playlist
  • Supports latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p)
  • Allows full YouTube customization (colors, border, full screen...)
  • Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter)
  • Works on iPod and iPhone
  • Provides a sidebar widget for videos as well
  • Produces xHTML valid code
  • Very fast and light, no extra scripts needed

Change Log:

v3.2 - Added title to widget, fixed HTML code issue with widget

v3.1.1 - param closed properly for HTML validation (thanks Jan Eberl)

v3.1 - wmode transparent parameter updated to better handle transparancy

v3.0 - Added video template, option to set sidebar video size, fixed sidebar widget code, fixed video syntax issue

v2.8.1 - Added option to remove Annotations

Plugin by Vladimir Prelovac. Looking for WordPress Consulting?