Video Embedder
Video Embedder lets you easily add movies from a wide variety of online services, without breaking validation.
5(1 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Video Embedder is a WordPress embed plugin with 900 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 67K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 60% this week. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
5/51 reviews
900active installs
67K+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008
Overview
This is a plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to embed movies from various sources, such as YouTube. The benefit with this plugin is that you don’t have to paste some strange video embed code into your WordPress post, all you need is the ID of the video. As a bonus none of the videos embedded with Video Embedder will break your precious validated WordPress based site, all of the movies will show up nice and clean.
Another advantage is that you can manage the settings for all of your embedded movies from the WordPress settings for Video Embedder, the properties for all the movies will be updated instantly as soon as you save the settings.
Have you changed the layout for your WordPress blog? No sweat, Video Embedder makes it a breeze to change the dimensions of all your embedded v…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
works!
by vtrs·13 years ago
works with 3.5.1 with no problem. i add a vmv vid and plays very nice!
Keep your good work alive!!
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 3This week: 24Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.7
71.9%
v1.8
24.1%
v1.6
4.0%
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Changelog
1.8 – 2 apr 2025
- Security patch to avoid the possibility for a targeted attack that could allow an attacker to perform a CSRF attack under specific conditions
- Updated the way videos are rendered
- Made the video rendering responsive, still keeping the aspect ratio from previous settings
- Removed the following services since they don’t exist or don’t have embeddable videos any longer. This will not break anything since the…
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