Just works! Much leaner YouTube and Vimeo embeds.

  • Bjarne Oldrup

    (@oldrup)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Lazy Embed is a no fuss, super simple and robust way to improve on performance, privacy and sustainability of video embeds using the block editor. Some highlights include:

    • Works with existing and new video embeds.
    • Accessibility-friendly; video can be triggered with keyboard.
    • No settings or custom code needed; activate and be done.
    • Leave no trace behind; deactivate if you don’t like it.
    • Valid HTML output; quality code.
    • Much improved Google Lighthouse scores.

    If you mostly embed YouTube, Vimeo or Daily Motion videos, and you don’t need custom overlays with, say, link to privacy polices (hint: you can link to these in the captions), Lazy Embed is definitely worth a try.

    Tested with WordPress 6.5 beta 3 and PHP 8.3; no issues encountered.

    There are similar plugins out there, which allow for more customizations and support for more embed types. These might give you more flexibility, but it’s also more work.

    Lazy Embed definitely has my recommendation.

    Bjarne

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  • Plugin Author beleaf

    (@beleaf)

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Hi Bjarne

    Thanks for the great review. We take pride in the quality of the code we release, and I am thankful you took the time to review it in the way you did.

    Whilst the plugin doesn’t have an options screen with settings for the facade presentation, we have filters that allow for configuring the image, the play button, or the entire facade content.

    We are looking in to bringing some no-code flexibility to the plugin, but at its core, we want it to remain a plugin that can be enabled and disabled without leaving anything behind.

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