WP YouTube Live
Displays the current YouTube live video from a specified channel.
4(10 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, WP YouTube Live is a WordPress live plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 66K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are up 9% this week. Top alternative: SearchWP Live Ajax Search.
4/510 reviews
1.0K+active installs
66K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Displays the current YouTube live video from a specified channel via the shortcode [youtube_live].
Setup Notes
Your YouTube livestream must be set to “Public” or it will not work. This is a security feature of YouTube’s API and unfortunately there’s no way to work around it.
In addition, your live stream must be set to allow embedding on third-party sites. If that feature is unavailable, you may need to enable monetization for your account. See YouTube documentation for more information or help with allowing embedding.
How It Works
If no live video is available, you can display a specified video or a “channel player” showing all your recent videos.
You can also enable auto-refresh to automatically check for a live video every 30 seconds (warning: will increase server load, so use with cau…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It Works, But The Default Settings Don’t
by macsopinion·1 year ago
I have my default settings set to the size that I want the player to be and it doesn’t work. I also include the width and height to the short code and it still doesn’t work. The video shows, but just not the dimensions that I want it to be di[splayed.
UPDATE: 07-27-2024 Doesn’t work anymore
- This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by macsopinion.
Needs an update
by Kasirye Arthur·3 years ago·2 replies
Would really be a great plugin just wondering why it keeps throwing the debugging log even when you disable it, the size options for the channels also do not work, wondering if this is because am using it in a pagebuilder or its a plugin issue
This Plugin Actually Worked with API Key!
by Mohsin Alam·3 years ago
I tried and it’s worked. Thank you so much for this plugin.
It would have been nice if a video was made on the settings of this plugin.
by cdsharma·4 years ago
People like us find it very difficult to get the API set up because we don’t know how to do it. So if there is a video tutorial on its setting on this it would be great.
Did exactly what I needed
by cdtoews·5 years ago
I needed a plugin to show a livestream if there was one live, and otherwise to just show the most recent video. using it for a church website.
Download Trends
Today: 14Yesterday: 12This week: 89Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.10
82.3%
v1.7
8.3%
v1.8
7.8%
v1.9
1.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.10.1
- Add nonce to protect cache flush
Contributors
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