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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991 Comments
The code on the screen reads as such when I went on Mozilla:
watch?v=dOgupWvXfLU">watch?v=dOgupWvXfLU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355" >
Also, apart from my Options Menu inquiry..have you ever received an issue where the "code is showing"? Purportedly, this is what my friend sees on his screen...
He is using Mozilla on a Mac. I am using Safari and a MAC w OS X and I see no such code..
Thoughts anyone?
-Andrew
I am using your plugin and it kicks ass..I have read the above comments, and many of you are over my head, but I'm learning quickly.
Sorry to be so lame, but,
Where is the Options Menu you mentioned??
Thanks much,
Andrew
Awesome plugin! Very clean and does what its supposed to do.
One thing we REALLY wish it had is a button in the editor that a less savvy user of our sites can click to open a popup window, paste the url to the video, choose whether it is normal, HD or a playlist and the plugin then adds the 'v', 'vp' etc to the string itself.
It seems like it should be pretty easy to implement and I think it would vastly improve the usability of this great plugin. If this is something you would need to do freelance and charge for, please let me know!
Thanks Vladimir!
Nice find Mike, I released version 3.1 to reflect this change.
OK -- finally figured it -- smartyoutube.php needs the wmode="transparent" to be set in the EMBED tag in order to work -- this change allows dropdown menus to remain on-top and for thickbox also to remain on top:
In current version change line 511 and 515 to add wmode="transparent" to the embed tag like this:
embed wmode="transparent" src="'.htmlspecialchars(...
My drop down menus are hidden behind the smart youtube...
My theme css sets z-index:9999 for the drop-downs
How should I adjust my theme so that my drop-down menu remains on top? wmode=transparent exists in the smart youtube code, but doesn't seem to be effective.
Smart YouTube also floats on top of NextGen Gallery images when displayed in lightbox (enlarged image)...
Perhaps the wmode=transparent in the smart youtube isn't 'working' ??
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike
The plugin is awesome and worked quiet well but since they upgraded wordpress, I seem to be getting weird error and captions on embedding youtube vids. you cna check the website and see the article named "Most Awesome Video Ever".
Titles and ratings are gone again this morning. Plugin is working fine including playlist videos. As google/youtube has been messing with their code again during the last week, ie: moving data between youtube and google servers, some user data is showing incorrectly but this does not effect this plugin. This is one of my favorite plugins. Thanks Vladimir
This plugin was working fine until last night. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, but i still only see 'an error occured, please try again later'. I checked on youtube, and the videos and my playlist seem to be okay. Any ideas?
I tried wp-youtube, because it allows you to set autoplay per video (video profile actually). With smart-youtube activated, I can't get wp-youtube to work, so I just embedded the code of the youtube video I need to autoplay manually and set it to autoplay.
How can I embed this direct into the sidebar without using the dynamic sidebar widget?
I am also thinking if l can automaticly fetch thumbnails too with the videos.. Cos many of the plugins dosnt allow it.
Remove Title and Ratings no longer works. I don't know if YouTube changed it, but I noticed just today that the titles and ratings started showing up despite having "disable Titles and Ratings" selected in SmartYouTube...
Thank you for the time you have put into this plugin.
One feature request:
Enable a "Title" field in the widget, similar to how the standard Text widget works.
It would be very helpful to simply add a Title to a sidebar video via the widget, instead of having to manually add HTML to do so.
Also looking for selective autoplay. Thanks Vladimir! You really put together wonderful tools and resources. :-)
Mine just stopped working also.. Maybe a delete and reinstall
Will try that next..
Great plug..
happened with me too ... the plugin stop working... hopefully it will rectify itself soon
Hello, great plugin so far... but I experience some problems... Suddendly yesterday the plugin stopped working... Is there any other experiencing the same problem ?
Just don't know what to do with this. I uninstalled and re-installed but again the videos stopped appearing in the post. Only the address ... :(
This plugin is great, thanks a lot!
OK, I disabled this plugin, because I figured it had something to do with code line breaks: PS Disable Auto Formatting and it worked, however, I really like using that plugin, because I like being able to paste real HTML into my posts. I'll have to work with this one...ideas?
Tried xHTML, but the videos show in the sidebar of the Amazing Grace theme in Firefox, and I see a stray rel='nofollow' on all of the posts with videos. The code is somehow getting out of whack.
My videos are also appearing twice, any idea what is going on, I have the most recent version of smart youtube. Here is an example:
http://www.curetinnitus.org/war/
I also would like to see the possibilty to get HTML to work in the sidebar, plus adding a title.
loving the plugin, Thank you
This is a fantastic plugin! Great job!
One issue:
I see in the widget that the user has the ability to insert html in the sidebar. I'm unable to get this to work. I just would like to stylize my title for the sidebar video and I'm unable to do so. If there was just a field to add your title that would work for me. (I noticed that Jim on April 8th also is asking for this to be added.)
Thanks and this plugin is really the best one in the marketplace thus far!
Cheers!