Go to Settings > Plugins > WP Video Lightbox, and set this to “true”
$vid_lightbox_autoplay = 'true';
I personally did not find a setting section for WP Video Lightbox. Also, adding &autoplay=1 to the link doesn’t work either. This is what I did instead:
1. Go to plugins.
2. Under “WP-Video-Lightbox”, click “Edit.” This opens the relevant plugin files.
3. You will automatically open the 1st file (wp-video-lightbox/wp-video-lightbox.php). Scroll to the middle of the file and you should see:
$vid_lightbox_autoplay = ‘false’;
4. Change ‘false’ to ‘true’.
5. Celebrate.
-RON
Jae
(@linseyja)
Thanks tzzel, that worked a treat! 🙂
My code doesn’t have that. Where do I insert the “$vid_lightbox_autoplay = ‘false’;?”
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mra13
(@mra13)
Open the “wp-video-lightbox/js/video-lightbox.js” file and search the following:
autoplay: false
Once you find it, change it to the following:
autoplay: true
Hey there – I found a solution to this for Lightbox Plus Colorbox. Simply add:
“?rel=0&autoplay=1”
to the end of your Youtube embed link, and the video should play automatically. No change of settings required.
Hope that helps!
@tmcguinness I tried your suggestion and that doesn’t work for me.
changing false to true does work, but can this not be accomplished with the shortcode so a plugin update doesn’t reset this value?
I was able to get a Vimeo video to successfully auto play with shortcode by adding “?autoplay=1” to the end of the video ID.
Example:
[video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id= 12345678?autoplay=1 width=xx height=xx anchor=”xx”]
Where 12345678 is the Vimeo video ID. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the suggestion Mike.
I just tried and it didn’t work for YouTube.
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=tMfu5aSXU8U?autoplay=1 width=640 height=360 anchor=”Watch Our Video”]
Will you try my code on your site just to see if it works for you?
Any update on this on a PER LINK basis please?
Working for me:
VIMEO: add ‘&autoplay=1’ to link
YOUTUBE: add ‘?rel=0&autoplay=1’ to link
