Better YouTube Block – A better way to embed YouTube videos, shorts, playlists

The default embed block for YouTube videos sucks. It slows down your site. The more videos on the page the more it slow. This single-block plugin fixes that.

Why this block is better than the default one:

• Instead of loading the entire iframe, only the video thumbnail is loaded, resulting in significant performance improvements
• Ability to play multiple different videos as a custom playlist or input a playlist ID to play the whole playlist
• Ability to use a custom image as the video thumbnail
• Ability to set a custom aspect ratio value for displaying any kind of YouTube videos
• Ability to loop continuously once it finishes playing
• Ability to show related videos from the same channel as the initial video
• Automatically load the video title as the caption
• The same UI as the default core/embed, a…