Automatically embed YouTube videos that are related to your content.
As of April 2026, Related YouTube Videos is a WordPress videos plugin with 200 active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 46K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Featured Video Plus.
Related YouTube Videos is a free WordPress plugin that embeds a number of, well, YouTube videos that are related to your content. The list is put together by using the YouTube search API. And you can specify the relation between the videos and your content by:
Also, this plugin offers you two ways to embed related videos:
As of April 2015 the YouTube AP…
| WordPress | 3.0.0+ requiredTested up to 5.0.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
= 1.9.9
* security fixes: nonce + sanitization
= 1.9.7
* https fix
* random picking fixed
= 1.9.4
* ‘exclusion’ fix
= 1.9.2
* Dropped the former limit of 10 results max to whatever you want (Youtube will cap that, not this plugin)
* Fixed the programmatical approach to not display results on a given list of post IDs (exclude=”1,2,3″ etc)
= 1.9.0
* New widget (only) option “Hide on” (list of comma separated post IDs)
= 1.8.5
* orderBy=”published” issue fixed.
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