Lightweight YouTube Channel WidgetWordPress Plugin

Use this plugin when you want to display a list of recent youtube videos from a

channel or playlist in your site’s sidebar.

This plugin is a fork of Aleksandar Urošević’s YouTube

Channel. This plugin is much

more lightweight and does only have a subset of YouTube Channel’s features.

The videos are each only presented with a thumbnail, and optionally also its

title and/or description. Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video’s

page on YouTube. This results in a much smaller codebase and no additional

front-end dependencies. The original plugin, YouTube Channel by Aleksandar

Urošević, on the other hand depends on several javascript libraries

(jQuery, FitVids.JS and

Magnific Popup), which

potentially makes the whole wordpress site both slower to load and use.

Features

• Display latest videos from YouTube channel, favorites or playlist.
• Option to get random videos from resources mentioned above.
• The videos are displayed with a thumbnail.
• Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video’s page on YouTube.
• custom caching timeout.

Styling

You can use the style.css from your theme to style the widget’s content.

• .youtube_channel – Main widget wrapper class (non-responsive block has
  

  additional class default, responsive block has additional class
  

  responsive).

• .ytc_title – Class of video title above thumbnail.
• .ytc_video_container – Class of a single item’s container wrapper.
• .ytc_video_1, .ytc_video_2, … – class for the container of a single
  

  item where the number is the item’s placement in the list.

• .ytc_video_first – Class of the first item’s container.
• .ytc_video_last – Class of the last item’s container.
• .ytc_video_mid – Class of all other containers.
• .ytc_description – Class for video description text.

Developer

The full source code of the plugin can be found on Github at

github.com/MaTachi/lightweight-youtube-channel-widget.

Credits

• Original codebase (YouTube Channel version
  

  2.4.1.3) is written by
  

  Aleksandar Urošević and licensed under GPLv3.

1. Upload the plugin’s directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Add the widget to one of your theme’s widget areas.