Just a quick note confirming the release of WP YouTube Lyte 0.8.0. As previously described, the main new feature is support for embedding YouTube playlists in a high-performance and accessible kind of way that is typical of this plugin. While testing the new feature on different platforms I noticed the playlist-player only comes in Flash, … Read more
Work on the next version of WP YouTube Lyte is almost finished. The main new features you can expect in version 0.8.0 are: support for playlists support for HD video (if size of the embedded player is big enough) updated UI elements & player sizes to match new, dark YouTube player style removed support for … Read more
Last night I finished version 0.7.0 of WP YouTube Lyte. The bump in version number (0.6.5 to 0.7.0) is because of a new feature: the ability to embed YouTube as audio-only player, as seen on Pitchfork. Because after all, as great a source for music discovery as YouTube can be, you really don’t want to … Read more
It’s been a while since my last “state of WP YouTube Lyte” post, so here are the most important tidbits since; we’re at version 0.6.2 now, with at least one change ready for what might become 0.6.3 the “major” new feature in 0.6.x; support for widgets (3 sizes to choose from) it has been downloaded … Read more
Although it has been a few months since I last wrote about my baby WordPress plugin, time did not stand still between version 0.3.0 and 0.5.2; the player size can now be changed in the options-screen, I’ve replaced my newTube html5-hack with Google’s official (yet experimental) new html5-compatible embed code and I started migrating the … Read more
I re-implemented newTube.js, an earlier experiment to embed HTML5 YouTube video, into my WP YouTube Lyte plugin. This means that WP YouTube Lyte (for easy lite YouTube embeds, reducing download size & rendering time substantially) can now also use the HTML5-based YouTube video-player to play your embedded video. If the -experimental- HTML5 option is enabled, … Read more
Elementor 3.1 came with “refactored YouTube source to use YouTube API in Video widget” which resulted in WP YouTube Lyte not being able to lyten up the YouTubes any more. Below code snippet (consider it beta) hooks into Elementor to fix this regression; Hat tip to Koen for his assistance in digging into Elementor, much … Read more
As mentioned earlier here, Google checks YouTube API usage and can cancel a project/ API key if there are no API requests for 90 days. Based on the fact that earlier post received more hits the last week and people asking on the WordPress support forum, I went back to the drawing board code editor … Read more
WP YouTube Lyte users might have received the following mail from Google/ YouTube: This is to inform you that we noticed your project(s) has not accessed or used the YouTube Data API Service in the past 60 days. Please note, if your project(s) remains inactive for another 30 days from the date of this email … Read more
So you have a WooCommerce shop which uses YouTube video’s to showcase your products but those same video’s are slowing your site down as YouTube embeds typically do? WP YouTube Lyte can go a long way to fix that issue, replacing the “fat embedded YouTube player” with a LYTE alternative. LYTE will automatically detect and … Read more