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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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
umm... today I just plop in the embedding code from YT and maybe edit for size. It even gives the full code in the RSS so my readers can watch the vid right there in Google Reader and probably other readers, instead of getting just a screenshot, so what am I missing really? sounds like this plugin give me _less_ than a copy and a paste from yuoutube does... what am I missing?
Outstanding plugin ..running wp2.5 thanks for a really neat, simple plugin that does what it claims! A+++
What video sites you would like to see for next version? I plan on adding support for other popular sites for version 2.0
I addressed this issue in a next release which should be up tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback.
I seem to be returning a lot of validation errors - mostly due to additional parameters being specified after the object location, eg:
data="http://www.youtube.com/v/E37qiafjT4E&rel=1&color1=3a3a3a&color2=999999&border=0"It's all the &border &color stuff..
Here's my validation fail page:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Falex.leonard.ie%2F2008%2F06%2F06%2Fbeing-fellated-by-a-groupie%2F
Just realised why this is happening, you have to make sure the line
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blah...
is unformatted in the visual editor in wordpress, the visual editor could turn it into a link which is the cause of the problem...
Hi,
I am having the same issue as Tanya, when i view the embedded video in firefox it all looks good until I press play, then I am taken to the Youtube page rather than it playing within the browser?
Vladimir,
I added the "v" to the uTube citation and I get a small "block" tab in my blog article where the video should appear. I'm not terribly tech savy, so would appreciate your help & guidance.
ross
Hi.. me again
to pass the validation DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
I had to change the & into & in the code.
For the WAI A1 because of the missing alternativ text in the I added a general text before the as
" the Youtube video,as presented on this blogpost".
It's ok now
Hi Vladimir... it's great and usefull.. but isn't possible to have the same for our " dailymotion" http://www.dailymotion.com ? I think no, as there is no public API :(
the effin best plug in ever. the rest can eat a load of crap.
keep up the great work
http://www.jamestran.net/
Great plugin, easy to use. Thanks to you, its make a wonderfull video blogging so easy to create now.
More question: can it works to insert video sharing from another site ?
Does not work for this site:
http://www.videoku.tv
http://www.seleb.tv
since those two site are new video sharing site for my country.
Cheers ! :)
Worked perfectly, right out of the box. Up and running in less than 3 minutes. This plugin rocks! Thanks so much.
What a great plugin! Thank you Vladimir! A little help please!
I want to embed part of the video on the front view of my video not the video Icon. Would you help?
Installed am happy.
Would like to be able to wrap text properly and completely around the video box instead of in line from the bottom - a la proper use of whitespace.
Any thoughts?
Radi se na tome.. ;)
Super ;) aj sad napravi isto za Google Videos sa pretrazivacem i ja te platim u nebrusenim dijamantima
Hi, thanks for the cool plugin :-)
Today I discovered that when I open my blog with Firefox and want to watch the youtube videos and press play, I am transferred to the youtube site to watch them there. This is not that problem when I am using IE.
Jane, it seems to be a problem with WordPress. Namely WordPress replaces all x surrounded by numbers into multiplication character (ouch!). Really strange why they decided to do that.
Anyways I am releasing today a new version addressing this problem, let me know if that works for you.
Fantastic job. I'm impressed and grateful.
Bill
love your plugin. normally it works fine but when i tried to add this particular video, the letter x in the id is changed to '×' in the html source:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1x8DJC8ZZY
any ideas why? i tried disabling all other plugins, but that didn't solve the problem
Aha!
I was using a second plugin that was "helping." All better now!
I still see a link on your site. You should just copy the text do not make a link out of it.
I released a new version of Smart Youtube plugin today it brings some very cool features.
Thanks for the quick reply! But all I'm adding is this:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2EQiVHqQqQ
And I get two of them...
Of course, it works great here! What's wrong with my WordPress?...
Adrienne,
Just past the url to the video, do not make a link of it and it will work fine.