word press plugins for making winning video galleries
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3 WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR MAKING WINNING VIDEOGALLERIES
Staff | July 13, 2015 | Tips And Tricks WordPress
Do you want to display your videos on your WordPress website?
WordPress has several plugins to let you do so without any hassle. We will tell you as towhich plugins can help you greatly showing your videos on your blog in interactiveways. We have collected three out of box plugins, perusing the WordPress pluginsdirectory. These are- YouTube Channel Gallery plugin, WordPress Video Galleryplugin, and Huge-IT Video Gallery Plugin. Let us have a discussion on them.
YouTube Channel Gallery
The very first plugin that impresses us with its ease of use and features is YouTubeGallery Plugin. Unlike other plugins, this plugin acts a widget upon activation, then, it
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can be placed in the widget areas. Don’t worry, you are not limited to use this pluginonly in the sidebar or widget areas. You can absolutely use this plugin for showing thevideos on your pages and posts.
Here is how you go with this plugin for making video gallery.
Install the free version of it from the plugin directory and activate. After activating theplugin, go to Appearance–> Widgets. There you can see the YouTube Channel Gallerywidget in the list of available widgets. Drag it and drop in sidebar or any other widgetarea of your choice.
As you drop in this widget, you are given the options to configure the feed, player,thumbnail and link settings. Put your YouTube id at specified place and set the playlistorder. You can activate the cache for your videos and set the cache time.
In player settings, you can determine whether to show player or not, what should beits width and aspect ratio, show related videos, etc. You would love to know that thisplugin allows to set different thumbnail columns for phones, tablets, large andmedium desktops. Further, the plugin gives an option to show the link to your channelin the link tab of the widget settings.
To show the videos on your page or post, write this shortcode in the editor-
[Youtube_Channel_Gallery user=”TemplateToaster”]. Replace the TemplateToasterwith your own channel name while using this code for your website.
Our demo gallery on a post looks like this.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Active Installs: 50,000+
WordPress Video Gallery
This plugins has many settings, still very easy to configure. As you activate the plugin, itautomatically creates a sample page filled with sample content and sample videocategories; which better helps understating the plugin.
Here is how you are going to use this plugins once you activate it.
You can find its settings on the left sidebar of admin dashboard after activation. Thesettings are divide into five tabs, which are self-explanatory. Beneath the tabs, you’llnotice the “how to use” and “how to use RSS feeds” bars. These bars drop down asyou click the “+” symbol and show you the description of the shortcodes andparameters provided by this plugin. Those shortcodes are given for displaying thevideos in user’s style on the front-end.
You can add YouTube, Viddler and Dailymotion videos. Even upload your own andset them for download. This plugin even gives the option for using the subtitle for thevideo. For including the subtitles, upload the srt files.
Other sections include options for more functionalities. From “categories” tab, createdifferent categories for your videos. Categorized videos ease the search of particularvideos on the site. This plugin also gives the options for adding Video-Ads andchoosing their type, like Pre-roll/Post-roll Ad, Mid-roll Ad and IMA Ad and their furthersettings. The Ad management settings are kept in the Video Ads tab.
Inside the settings tab, you can make Ads settings, comment settings, playerconfiguration, player color settings, Amazon S3 bucket settings, and skinconfiguration settings. In shorthand, this plugin gives the greater flexibility to customizealmost everything.
In the end, it even gives the option to include the Google AdSense. All in all, this is ausable plugin that amazes with its advanced options and ease of use.
Have a look at our demo gallery.
Rating: 4.2 out of 5
Active Installs: 10,000+
Huge-IT Video Gallery
Next candidate of our list is Huge-IT Video Gallery plugin. Once you activate thisplugin after installation, a new video gallery menu gets created on the admindashboard. To create a gallery, simply click the Add New Video Gallery buttonfollowed by a click on the Add Video button.
After that start to put the title, URL, and description for each video you want toinclude in the gallery. When you finish it up, just copy-and-paste the shortcode fromthe sidebar and paste it on the page/post, you want to display the gallery. That’s it.
In the freemium version, user is not able to configure the video gallery options. Usercan only select the gallery view option in freemium version. But, the premium versioneven enables to customize the selected view type and Lightbox settings.
Take a look at our demo gallery.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Active Installs: 10,000+
Conclusion
The flexibility of WordPress is incomparable. What you can imagine, you can executethat with WordPress. There is always a plugin for helping you out in doing anything onyour website. We have learned three different plugins to curate video collection on aWordPress website.
Both, YouTube Channel Gallery plugin and WordPress Video gallery Plugin are niceplugins. The first one is too simple to use and best suitable for the YouTube publishers.You just need to configure a handful of settings. Whereas, the latter plugin allows to
upload your own videos locating in your system. You can even use the srt files(contain subtitles) for respective videos with the WordPress Video Gallery plugin. Itfurther gives the options for running video-Ads.
Hence, if you only need to show your videos from your YouTube channel, then, go forYouTube Channel Gallery plugin. Otherwise, the WordPress Video gallery is a nicechoice.
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agoGive a try to Gmedia Gallery plugin. A fantastic FREE WordPress tool, absolutely love it and highly recommend.https://wordpress.org/plugins/...
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