Featured Video Plus
Add Featured Videos to your posts and pages. Works like magic with most themes which use Featured Images. Local Media, YouTube, Vimeo and many more.
4.8(80 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Featured Video Plus is a WordPress post plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 80 reviews. It has been downloaded 315K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 22% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
4.8/580 reviews
10K+active installs
0%resolved
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
A picture is worth a thousand words. How many words is a video worth?
Featured Videos work like Featured Images, just smoother: Paste a video URL into the designated new box on the post edit screen and the video will be displayed in place of a post image.
There are three ways to get the videos onto your page:
- Automagically! If your theme makes use of WordPress’ native featured image functionality you are set: Automatic insertion, lazy loading or lightbox overlays, its your choice. If this does not work you can either
- insert the
[featured-video-plus]–Shortcode in your posts or - manually make use of the PHP-functions in your theme’s source files.
For more details, check the installation page.
Theme compatibility
Sadly many themes do not follow the WordPress standards…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
One of the best video plugin for posts
by ishainfo·1 year ago
I can’t believe it’s already been five years since I started using the Featured Video Plus plugin! This tool has completely transformed the way I present content on my websites. The ease of adding featured videos has not only enhanced user engagement but also made my sites look so much more professional. I truly appreciate the developer for offering this amazing plugin for free! It’s a game-changer for anyone looking to spice up their site with multimedia. If you haven’t tried it yet, you’re missing out on a fantastic resource!
Great Plugin but not longer Supported because of PHP7.4 Switch
by klpmgg·3 years ago·1 reply
Hello Guy´s
Can you please update the obsolete code to a newer version, since WordPress and also the website hosters in Germany don’t provide longer support for Php7.4, you need to update the code to PHP8.0-PHP8.1, then it will work great again !
Please do this for us, we have sooo many youtube videos embedded with this plugin and run out of time to use Php7.4. This means that our hoster will end support in March.
You need to customize this plugin please – it was the only thing that ever worked perfectly!
great work – thank you soo much for your work!
Very useful
by shashwathi·3 years ago
Very useful
Still working!
by dwlorimer·5 years ago
This plugin still works for me on WP 5.4.2. So easy. Worked out of the box, except for a couple theme css adjustments I had to make.
Works great!
by ajiaim·5 years ago
I was ready to pay for a plugin that does this, I’m so glad I came across this!
Old but still works perfectly!
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 17This week: 77Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.7+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.3
97.1%
Other
2.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.3.3: 2016-12-17
- Fix frontend ajax requests. (*)
Contributors
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