Smart Youtube is a WordPress Video plugin that allows you to easily insert videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.
Smart Youtube is one of the most popular WordPress plugins, with more than 1,000,000 downloads.
From version 4.0 Smart Youtube changed the name to Smart Youtube PRO and now also supports playback of Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook high quality videos, works on iPhone&iPad, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTube embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen, has robust widget support and much more.
The videos will be embedded in your RSS feed as well, and if this is not support by the reader you can choose to have video link and/or video preview screenshot displayed instead.
Main Features
- Easily embeds YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook videos (normal/HD mode)
- Works on iPhone, iPad and iPod
- Embed YouTube playlist (normal/HD)
- Supports latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p)
- Allows full YouTube customization (colors, border, size, full screen...)
- Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter)
- Supports migrated blogs from WordPress.com
- Supports migration from other Youtube plugins such as wp-youtube
- Extract video thumbnails in your archive/category posts
- Provides a sidebar widget for videos as well
- Produces xHTML valid code
- Very fast and light, no extra scripts needed
Example
You can discuss all plugin related issues in the wordpress plugin forums.
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Download
Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to change RSS feed options
- When you want to display Youtube video in your post, paste the video link with httpv:// (notice the 'v')
Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000
0000000 part is your video REF#
The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.
If you want to post a high/HD (DVD quality, 720p) quality video you would use httpvh:// ('vh' for video high resolution)
To embed a playlist use extension 'vp' (eg. httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=528026B4F7B34094)
To use video deep linking just add &start=time parameter at the end of url. For example httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg&start=30 will start the video 30 seconds in.
Additionally, you can set how do you want the video to be displayed in your RSS feed. Smart Youtube can show the preview image of the video (automatically grabbed from Youtube), the link to the video, or both. I recommend enabling only the preview image.
Vimeo
httpv://vimeo.com/27287078
Metacafe
httpvh://vww.metacafe.com/watch/7815470/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_dvd_interview/
Liveleak
httpv://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cad_1322822486
Changelog
= 4.0 =
* Major release
* Added support for Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook videos
* Now parses http:// and httpv:// videos jsut the same
* Option to autoplay only the first video on the page
* Exctract Video thumbnails
* Show video is Colorbox
* New much better, sidebar Widget support
= 3.9.1 =
Support for WiziApp.
= 3.8 =
* Support for new IFRAME embed code
* Support for HD playlists (httpvhp)
* Support for new play formats (1280x745 & 960x745)
v3.5
- Changes to Iphone video embed
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1021 Comments
Finally a youtube plugin that really works. No more raw code!
I'm looking for a wordpress plugin for my African safari blog that will open a video like the one on http://woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com/ Any suggestion on where i could find it?
Pressing thumbnail in feed brings you to YouTube site. You can try that with my feed. The links you quote do not have to do anything with nor are produced by my plugin.
I hope it's on the plugin side; after all I can do without watching in Firefox and hope everybody else doesn't have the problem
I found another way to embed YouTube in Wordpres but I would have to give up on visual editor in WordPress and it doesn't seem to work in IE7 so I stick with Smart Youtube; but hey here is another question - what happens if you press the thumbnail in rss feed? do you go to YouTube site? 'cause I get another failure and this time in every browser:
Opera:http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=operaio2.jpg
IE7;http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ie7mv2.jpg
Firefox is my browser of choice too and the plugin of course works with it. If I am to make a guess what went wrong by looking at your picture I would say that it would be one of (many) firefox plugins you use.
firstly it's really cool plugin; thanks
but here is a problem; it works perfectly in Opera and IE7 but fails in Firefox; I hope you can help me as Firefox is my primary browser
here is the screenshot of the failure: http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxfailpx5.jpg
here is the site: http://www.fulham.pl
That worked, love it! Thank you!
You are not doing anything wrong, the youtube video window is just that size. However you can change the size and make them smaller. If you edit the plugin you can find code looking like this width="425" height="355", and you can change this to any size you need.
Is there a way for me to change the size the YouTube video appears in my post? I just installed it and it's bleeding over to my right column... http://www.amyschan.com/blog/
I know I'm doing something wrong but not sure what. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
This plugin is great! And much easier than the other plugins available in wordpress. Thank you! Already tagged you in my bookmarks. :)
Great plugin! Works straight out of the box.
it has made my formatting life so much easier!
Cheers for this.
This is not an issue with the plugin as I use it in Firefox and has probably something to do with the way your firefox is setup.
Very helpful plugin and very easy to use. I have a question though. When I play the video on Internet Explorer, the video plays directly on my website. When I switch over to Mozilla Firefox, it opens up youtube website where I took the link from. How do I fix this in Mozilla Firefox to make it play on my website instead.
Thank you.
Thanks Bryan, that is what I wanted to hear ;)
Good looking out on this plugin! I run a movie-themed blog and this really makes the entire process of embedding Youtube clips extraordinarily simple.
Not at present but I will look into this functionality for next version.
can you embed a youtube video OUTSIDE of a post or the RSS feed ..?
i wanna put a youtube clip in my sidebar ..?
Thank you for this plugin. I am using it because I needed a way to show an icon in by feed instead of an embedded player. This allows it to be more apparent that there is a video in my post when something like Facebook aggregates by feed, and does not allow in-line embed, but allows img tags.
I hope you can keep it up to date as wordpress evolves.
-Owl
Just wondering if this will work for videos from other sites like googlevideo, metacafe if i just used the httpv:// when I paste the video link
Thanks for the feedback it means a lot to me!
Thanks for the plugin!! Appreciate it.I will also keep you posted on how it works
This looks like a very useful plugin. I will be using it a lot. I will also keep you posted on how it works
Thanks for the plugin!! Appreciate it.
If you a look at the photo above in the post, you will see preview image of videos directly injected in the rss feed. You can also select to only inject video links.
How does your plugin help it get into the RSS feed? I have a theme that does the Youtube embedding on it's own, by using a custom field, but I'd like to get it into my RSS feeds.