Description
Limeboom Product Video Gallery lets you show a product video inside the WooCommerce gallery — the natural place customers already look.
How it works: you pick a video URL and a poster image per product. The poster is written into the product’s real gallery data, right after the featured image, so it shows up in any theme — including themes with fully custom gallery sliders. A play button appears on the poster; clicking it swaps the image for the video player, inline: a YouTube player, or an HTML5 player for video files.
Free features:
- Unlimited products with video
- YouTube links (watch, youtu.be, Shorts and embed URLs), played inline with the privacy-friendly youtube-nocookie.com player
- Direct video file URLs (MP4, WebM, OGG, MOV — format detected automatically)
- Click-to-play with a clean play button overlay
- Poster becomes a genuine gallery item — theme-independent by design
- Autoplay, muted, loop, and controls settings
- Adjustable play button overlay sizes
- Opt-in clean uninstall
Need more? Limeboom Product Video Gallery Pro adds:
- Vimeo support
- Automatic poster images taken from the video’s own thumbnail
- Play on hover and autoplay-on-scroll (muted) triggers
- Multiple videos per product
- Video play analytics on your Products list
- Schema.org VideoObject markup for video rich results in search
- Priority support
External services
This plugin can load a YouTube video player when a product uses a YouTube link. That is the only external service it uses.
- What it is and what it is used for: YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com), Google’s video service, hosts the video and its player.
- What is sent, and when: nothing is loaded when the page opens. Only after a visitor clicks the play button, the visitor’s browser loads the player from youtube-nocookie.com, which receives the visitor’s IP address and browser information, as with any embedded video.
- Terms and privacy: YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.
Products that use a direct video file load nothing from outside your own site.
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Installation
- Install through the WordPress plugin screen, or upload the folder to
/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin. WooCommerce must be installed and active.
- Edit a product, open Product data General, enable the product video, paste a video URL, and choose a poster image.
- Update the product. The poster appears as the second image in the gallery with a play button.
- Optional: adjust playback behavior under WooCommerce Product Video Gallery.
FAQ
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Does it work with my theme?
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Yes. Instead of hooking into theme-specific gallery rendering, the poster image is written into the product’s actual gallery data — the same field every theme reads from. Tested with Storefront, Astra, and Flatsome, including themes with custom gallery sliders.
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Which video sources are supported?
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YouTube links (watch, youtu.be, Shorts and embed URLs) and direct file URLs: MP4, M4V, WebM, OGG/OGV, and MOV. The correct MIME type is detected from the file extension. Vimeo is supported in the Pro version.
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Do I need a poster image for a YouTube video?
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Yes. Choose a poster image in the product editor; it becomes the gallery thumbnail and the play button sits on top of it. The Pro version can fetch the poster from the video’s own thumbnail automatically.
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What happens to my data if I delete the plugin?
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Nothing, by default. Your video URLs and poster selections are kept, so reinstalling (or upgrading to Pro) picks them right back up. If you want a clean removal, enable “Remove all plugin data” in the settings before deleting.
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Where does the video poster appear?
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Right after the product’s featured image — the second image customers see in the gallery.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.1.0
- New: YouTube links now work in the free version (watch, youtu.be, Shorts and embed URLs), played inline with the privacy-friendly youtube-nocookie.com player after a click.
- Autoplay, muted, loop and controls settings apply to YouTube videos too.
- Product editor texts updated to mention YouTube.
1.0.0
- Initial release.