YT Player – Embed and Customize Video Players
A modern, accessible, fully customizable & user-friendly YouTube Video Player for WordPress.
4.8(12 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, YT Player is a WordPress plyr plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 57K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: HTML5 Video Player – Embed and Play….
4.8/512 reviews
1.0K+active installs
57K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
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YT Player is a modern, lightweight, and fully customizable YouTube video player built for WordPress. Whether you’re adding a single video or creating a video-rich experience across posts, pages, or widget areas, this plugin makes it easy to embed YouTube videos with a sleek, accessible interface powered by HTML5 and the Plyr framework.
Use a simple shortcode to embed YouTube videos without needing iframe codes. Ideal for bloggers, marketers, educators, and anyone looking to add YouTube video to WordPress effortlessly.
Key Features – Free Version
- Easy YouTube Embed with Shortcode – Paste your YouTube URL inside [ytp]…[/ytp] and place it anywhere — posts, pages, sidebars, or custom templates. No embed code needed.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great tool!
by andriiandrii13·4 years ago
Easy to use, but very powerful!
Very usefull
by suriafrancesco·4 years ago
Easy to use. It don’t show youtube site at the end like most do.
Great little plugin
by themaddis·4 years ago
Was great alternative to having to pay for Vimeo as its a fraction of the price to customize an embed video. Thanks again!
I love it!
by pcogd·5 years ago
Thank you so much for this plugin it is awesome.
Great for beginners, very easy to add videos.
I just love it!
Very good and simple. would be the best if include quality selection for youtube
by zacky131·5 years ago·1 reply
Thanks…your plugin is awesome.
Would be the best and simple if also add video quality selection for youtube or vimeo 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 23Yesterday: 25This week: 175Period total: 12K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
55.4%
v1.6
21.2%
v1.5
11.3%
v1.3
8.6%
Other
3.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.7 – 16 March, 2026
- Fixed: dataset issue fixed.
- Update: Alert pro modal added.
- Update: Competible stablist version with wordpress.
- Update: Latest dashboard added.
Contributors
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