Embeds for YouTube
🎥 An incredibly fast, simple, yet powerful, method of embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress site.
4.2(24 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Embeds for YouTube is a WordPress embed plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 773K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
4.2/524 reviews
10K+active installs
0%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
NOTE: This plugin supports the ability to insert the standard Embeds for YouTube and playlist players. However, if you need to embed a YouTube facade, livestream, or gallery, we recommend the EmbedPlus.com plugin that’s freely available here. It’s been around for many years and is highly trusted.
Embeds for YouTube is an incredibly fast, simple, yet powerful, method of embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress site.
Key features include…
- Build your own playlists and play them back however you want
- Automatically generate playlists based on user name
- Create multiple profiles – use them for different videos to get the exact style that you want
- Dynamic video sizing for responsive sites
- Housekept caching keeps the code generation nimble and your database tables sli…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.224 reviews
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Recent Reviews
The WORST!
by shieldfactory·2 years ago
Crashed our entire site due to lousy written php code so we had to spend hours on going into safe mode, disabling all plugins in database and removing this crappy plugin from our site.
Beyond that, it DOES NOT work!
Avoid like the plague!
- This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by shieldfactory.
Good Video Embedding
by dsitechmktg·2 years ago
Easy way to embed YouTube videos on my website
solid
by Embeds For YouTube Plugin Support·2 years ago
simple and sweet
Rockstar of a plugin
by redlid·4 years ago
Thanks for this, it works well and couldn’t be much easier to use.
The plugin that shifts the ability of the embedding youtube videos to star level
by Alexander Guskov·4 years ago
The extra value of this plugin to wp’s [ embed] shortcode as like extra value of Mercedes to horse-driven-farm-cart. The same 4 wheels but note the difference!
Download Trends
Today: 28Yesterday: 26This week: 199Period total: 21K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.4
65.8%
v5.3
12.0%
v5.2
10.8%
v5.0
6.2%
Other
5.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
I use semantic versioning, with the first release being 1.0.
5.4
- Maintenance: Rename plugin to comply with WordPress.org plugin guidelines. More info here.
- Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.8.
- Bug: Removed broken and insecure download YouTube feature; removal also complies with Google’s terms of service.
Contributors
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