Currently in a private beta. Fill out the form below if you’re interested!
What it does
This plugin makes YouTube videos load fast. Like 200x faster. And it does it with the default WordPress YouTube Embed block.
How? It only loads the video thumbnail at first and then loads the full player only when people play the video. It also loads it from YouTube’s nocookie domain for increased speed and visitor privacy.
You can see it in action on this site.
Interested in more features?
Even better, this plugin has the potential to add lots of helpful features on top of the baseline improvements such as:
- Autoload the video when scrolled into view
- Lazy load the video image when scrolled into view
- Options to set a custom start and end time
- Full support for all YouTube query parameters
- Custom thumbnail images for videos
- Adjust the image quality of the thumbnail
- Custom aspect ratios for videos
- Support for YouTube shorts
- Control whether to load video from nocookie.youtube.com or not
- Support for playlists, not just single videos
- Classic Editor / shortcode support
- Support similar features for Vimeo or other sources
Want the PRO version?
With sufficient interest, I’d love to release a paid add-on with powerful new features. If you want that to happen, let me know in this form: