Smart YouTube PROWordPress Plugin

Smart Youtube is one of the most popular wordpress plugins, with more than 1,000,000 downloads to date..

From version 4.0 smart youtube changed the name to smart youtube pro and now also supports playback of Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook high quality videos, works on iPhone & iPad, produces xhtml valid code (unlike YouTube embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen, has video thumbnails support, has robust widget support and much more.

The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources. It has a number of customizable options.

Main Features:

• easily embeds youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook videos (normal/HD mode)
• Works on iPhone, iPad and iPod
• Embed YouTube playlist (normal/HD)
• Supports latest high definition video protocols
• Extract video thumbnails in your archive/category posts
• Provides a sidebar widget for videos as well
• Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter)
• Autoplay videos, autoplay only the first video on the page (if multiple vidoes)
• Show video in Colorbox
• Supports migrated blogs from WordPress.com
• Supports migration from other Youtube plugins such as wp-youtube
• Produces xHTML valid code

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

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Credits

Some of the functions of smartyoutube plugin came from other plugins. So I can at least thank these people:

• Oliver for his cforms II plugin
• Scott for his excellent readme.txt file
• YouTube folks for their service and javascript selector

Thanks.

License

This file is part of Smart YouTube.

Smart YouTube is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Smart YouTube is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with Smart YouTube. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Use the Options page to change your options
4. When you want to display Youtube video in your post, copy the video URL to your post and change http:// to httpv:// (notice the ‘v’ character)

TTo use the video in your posts, paste YouTube video URL with httpv:// (notice the ‘v’).

Important: The URL should just be copied into your post normally and the letter ‘v’ added, do not create a clickable link!

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg

If you want to embed High/HD Quality video use httpvh:// instead (Video High Defintion).

Vimeo Example: httpv://vimeo.com/27287078

Metacafe Example: httpvh://vww.metacafe.com/watch/7815470/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_dvd_interview/

Live Leak Example: httpv://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cad_1322822486

To embed playlists use httpvp:// (eg. httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=528026B4F7B34094)

Smart Youtube also supports migrated blogs from WordPress.com using

httpv:// - regular video
httpvh:// - high/HD quality
httpvp:// - playlist
httpvhp:// - HD playlist
 - supported for blogs migrated from wordpress.com

Additionally, you can set how do you want the video to be displayed in your RSS feed. Smart Youtube can show the preview image of the video (automatically grabbed from Youtube), the link to the video, or both. I recommend enabling only the preview image.