Widget showing video thumbnails of recent videos from a YouTube channel or playlist.
As of April 2026, Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget is a WordPress widget plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
Use this plugin when you want to display a list of recent YouTube videos from a
channel or playlist in your site’s sidebar.
This plugin is a fork of Aleksandar Urošević’s YouTube
Channel. This plugin is much
more lightweight and does only have a subset of YouTube Channel’s features.
The videos are each only presented with a thumbnail, and optionally also its
title and/or description. Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video’s
page on YouTube. This results in a much smaller codebase and no additional
front-end dependencies. The original plugin, YouTube Channel by Aleksandar
Urošević, on the other hand depends on several JavaScript libraries
(jQuery, FitVids.JS and
Magnific Popup), which
potentially makes the whole WordPress site both slower to load and use.
| WordPress | 3.9.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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