squarecandy-better-youtube

A WordPress plugin to improve the look and behavior of YouTube videos on WordPress.

• hide title and text info
• simplify controls
• don't show suggested videos on completion
• "modest branding"
• "dark" theme
• use HD if available
• apply responsive iframe via fitvids.js

We filter oembed_result & embed_oembed_html to:

• replace any youtube playlist iframes with our own playlist code (looks for youtube links like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxx&list=yyy), or
• wrap youtube iframes in fitvid divs & add extra parameters, or
• wrap vimeo iframes in .fitvid divs

We also filter get_the_excerpt to wrap all iframes in fitvid divs.

Then we have js to:

• run fitvids (responsive size) on .fitvid divs
• make .custom-playlist a magnific popup
• control display/interaction of playlists

Playlist Option

To enable the nice visual playlist generator, you must obtain a google API key that has the YouTube Data API v3 enabled and place it in your wp-config.php file:

define('YOUTUBE_API_KEY', 'yourAPIkey-XX0XX0XX0XX0-000-XXXXXXXXX-00)

History

v1.1.7

• fix: apply fitvids to the_excerpt

v1.1.6

• fix: improve youtube/vimeo fitvids display in TinyMCE

v1.1.5

• avoid double fitvids wrapper

v1.1.4

• Fix css conflict with magnific popup image mode

v1.1.3

• Fix missing fitvids wrapper issue

v1.1.2

• Bugfix: correct the magnific popup urls
• Depreciated features such as showinfo=0 and theme=dark finally stopped working. Bummer! Removed these from the code.
• Added default spacing for fitvids div
• Remove the updater script (use GitHub Updater instead)

v1.1.1

• [skip] was used for testing...

v1.1.0

• Add the playlist functionality
• Add updating via WP updater

v1.0.0

• Initial Plugin build

Roadmap

• Add options screen to enable/disable playlist feature, choose options for player display, etc.