Featured video is exactly the same as a featured image. It allows you to easily link a YouTube or Vimeo video to a post.
As of April 2026, Featured Video is a WordPress media plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 17K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
Featured video allows you to add a YouTube or Vimeo video to one of your posts and get to it using the shortcode [featured-video],
next to that you can also embed it right in the code of your theme with the_post_video()!
the_post_video() returns your video standard with a 560×315 resolution. You can pass along the width and height, if
you would like to change this, so: the_post_video(600,400) will return the video with a resolution of 600×400.
Next to the width and height you can pass along the window mode (only for youtube) which defaults to transparent.
You can also edit the ‘allowfullscreen’ variable of the iframe. So a featured video with different width, height,
windowmode and allowfullscreen would be:
the_post_video(600,400,’window’,”);
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| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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