As of April 2026, Lightweight and Responsive Youtube Embed is a WordPress embed plugin with 30 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
3/52 reviews
30active installs
2.0K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
If you are embedding Youtube video(s) into your site then you will need this plugin. As you may (or may not) know the default Youtube embed code is not responsive and in order to load the player itself your browser has to download more than 1MB of data from Youtube’s servers. That is way too much and this is the reason why we made this plugin. A video player has to be lightweight and responsive. Period.
This plugin is replacing the default Youtube player with the video’s high quality thumbnail and a play button. The real player and the video won’t load until you click on the play button or the thumbnail itself. With this easy trick you will have a much lighter and faster website and the thumbnail + the actual player will be responsive too.
Our plugin is only 60KB without…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0
- Initial release of the plugin.
Contributors
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