Simple YouTube Embed
Embed YouTube videos in WordPress beautifully. Embed YouTube video with a URL or shortcode and customize the player using this YouTube embed plugin.
4.2(15 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Simple YouTube Embed is a WordPress embed plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 151K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
4.2/515 reviews
5.0K+active installs
151K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Simple YouTube Embed plugin is the easiest way to embed YouTube videos in WordPress. This plugin extends the default YouTube embed with advanced player parameters.
Unlike other YouTube plugins, It doesn’t replace your on-page video embed code with JavaScript/HTML code. Loading a video with JavaScript doesn’t provide any video SEO benefit as a search engine crawler will only see some code instead of the actual video object.
Simple YouTube Embed is easy to use because there is no setting to configure. It uses the oEmbed API so your videos will be responsive and provide all the benefits that core WordPress YouTube embed has to offer. YouTube videos on your website will continue to work even if you choose to deactivate the plugin.
Features
- Responsive and mobile friendly.
- Proper…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Without &mute=1 autoplay is not working
by Bearenstark·2 years ago
Hi,
i like your Plugin-Idea, but i think for youtube-Video autoplay is not working without mute anymore. But the parameter mute is deleted or not allowed through your Plugin. I added it by myself and changed your plugin but with the next update my changes will be removed.
Could you please add this feature so people can use the WordPress Youtube embed Block with all YouTube parameters (autoplay, mute, rel, playlist, loop, etc.)
Thanks for your Feedback!
Great and simple Plugin to show your own videos as recommendations at the end
by stefan.b·4 years ago
I didn’t want to have unrelated videos as recommendations at the end of my videos. Therefore I had to add ?rel=0 at the end or the YouTube URL. In the default YouTube block in WordPress ?rel=0 isn’t working but with this plugin it does. Thanks a lot for developing this plugin and for keeping it up to date.
Problemsolved
by lunet·5 years ago
Dont bother. Does nothing more than default wp embed
by patbell101·6 years ago·6 replies
If you try the parameters such as &autoplay=1 or &rel=1 wp converts & to & and stops it working.
Simple and Easy to use
by siamnaulak·7 years ago
I really love this plugin. Simple and easy to use….
Download Trends
Today: 23Yesterday: 27This week: 152Period total: 11K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
83.9%
v1.0
16.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0.5
- Added support for iv_load_policy.
Contributors
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