#349 by installs
Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin)
The Feeds for YouTube plugin allows you to display customizable YouTube feeds from any YouTube channel.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (205)
- Updated
- 3 days ago
Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery, Livestream and Lazy Loading with Facades
A multi-featured plugin to embed YouTube in WordPress. Embed a video, YouTube channel gallery, playlist, or YouTube livestream. Defer JavaScript too!
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #360 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 8.7M
- 8,727,513
- Downloads, 30 days
- 19.7K
- 4.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5
- 572 reviews
- Last updated
- 55 days ago
- Sep 6, 2026
- Version
- 14.2.6.1
- 143 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 6, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.5 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | December 24, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.6 / 5 from 572 reviews
| 5 stars | 492 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 17 |
| 3 stars | 7 |
| 2 stars | 8 |
| 1 star | 48 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
A multi-featured plugin to embed YouTube in WordPress. Use this plugin to embed and customize a YouTube gallery (channel or playlist), YouTube livestream (and premiere), YouTube short, or standard YouTube video. This plugin for YouTube can be customized in a wide variety of ways. The plugin also focuses on performance with the ability to lazy load with a facade and defer JavaScript while serving minified CSS and JavaScript. Here are a few recently added features to all versions (free and Pro) of this plugin:
- YouTube gallery embeds and standard videos now support Facade Mode which improves plugin performance by loading a lighter version of the player, until it is clicked. The plugin then loads the real YouTube embed after clicking (note: for live streams, the real player is always loaded). We have tested this feature in multiple cases with a mix of other WordPress plugins, and we found it to successfully improve your Lighthouse performance score by addressing the following recommendation: “Some third-party resources can be lazy loaded with a facade – 1 facade alternative available.” You can demo this facade feature on our Embed Plus for YouTube Plugin WordPress test site.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
How do I add this plugin for YouTube to WordPress?
Watch the following YouTube video which shows the process for our specific plugin:
How do I embed a YouTube video with a facade?
See a demo on this YouTube WordPress Test Page
How do I create a YouTube gallery in WordPress?
Here’s a video that shows the steps with our YouTube plugin, along with the full set of gallery features:
Why use a YouTube plugin?
You can certainly embed YouTube videos in WordPress with oembed using the default embedder. However, a good YouTube WordPress plugin helps you easily embed and customize a video, playlist, channel, gallery, premiere, live stream, and facade. The premium version of this plugin has additional features like embed playback analytics.
How to get a YouTube API key?
To embed a gallery, livestream, schema tags, and more, you’ll need to get a YouTube API key from Google. The Data API is free and comes with a decent quota, which can be extended. See here for steps on creating a YouTube API key.
You can also learn plenty of other tips on the EmbedPlus How To Page.
How do I embed a YouTube livestream on WordPress?
Assuming you already have the EmbedPlus plugin active, you can embed a YouTube stream (premiere or livestream) in a very similar manner.
- [Steps for a premiere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqroYZ1qVtY}
- Steps for a standard live stream
Latest changelog entry
- This version improves compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
Screenshots
Embed Plus for YouTube Plugin Screenshot 1: Paste a YouTube link on its own line and it will become a YouTube embed on your website. Or,… 
Embed Plus for YouTube Plugin Screenshot 2: How to get to YouTube's admin settings 
Embed Plus for YouTube Plugin Screenshot 3: Visual YouTube Wizard and Search Tool 
Embed Plus for YouTube Plugin Screenshot 4: Wizard Insert Search Result Screenshot
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Where this page's numbers come from
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