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Video Player for YouTube – Embed Videos Your Visitors Will Love to Watch
v2.1.2
A modern, accessible, fully customizable & user-friendly YouTube Video Player for WordPress
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- Rank
- #5,598 24h -3 · 7d -15
- Est. installs
- 1,824 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 65K all time
- Rating
- 4.8 ★ 12 reviews
- Official installs
- 1,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 1 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 100% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1.3 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
20 days ago
Last release
- Version
- 2.1.2
- Requires WP
- 6.5
- Requires PHP
- 7.1
- On WP.org since
- 2019
About Video Player for YouTube
Video Player for YouTube is a WordPress plugin by bPlugins, first published on WordPress.org in 2019. It has 1,000+ active installations and 65,262 downloads in total, and ranks #5,598 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it slipped 15 places. Users rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 12 reviews. Version 2.1.2 was released 20 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 6.5 and PHP 7.1 or later. In the last two months, 1 of 1 support thread was marked resolved (100%). It is listed under plyr, video player, youtube, YouTube embed and youtube Video Player. Plugins with a similar focus include Media Player Addons for Elementor, Protected Video and SmartVideo.
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