Youtube Feeder

Youtube Feeder allows you to embed a live Youtube feed anywhere in your WordPress blog. The feed is always up to date because it pulls directly from Youtube’s data api, but it can also cache the Youtube feed based on configurable settings.

The feed can be:

• User Uploads
• User Favorites
• User Subscriptions
• User Playlist
• Standard Feed
• Category / Tag
• Search

The plugin is very flexible because every aspect is configurable. Each video feed can be configured separately, or you can use defaults that take effect site-wide. Each component is given accessible classes for complete customization of the display through CSS.

The “Playlist” style of display was made possible by a jQuery plugin by Dan Drayne. The code is used with permission.

Features

• Retrieves and embeds the newest videos from Youtube video feeds automatically. No more updating pages or fiddling with embed code.
• Displays player, title, date, and description for every video.
• Configurable video size. Can be set site-wide or per video feed.
• Display styles completely customizable with simple tweaks to included CSS file.
• Completely configurable date format.
• Configurable caching of feeds to reduce server load and load time for visitors. Can be handled site-wide or per video feed.
• Can simply list each video or create a player, allowing visitors to click on each video title, loading it dynamically into the single player.
• Configurable number of videos displayed in each feed.
• Dedicated function to get the published date of the most recent video in a feed.
• Dedicated function to get the thumbnail of the most recent video in a feed.

Requirements

• Your server’s PHP environment must have cURL support or PHP.ini must have allow_url_fopen set to “On”
• The PHP JSON extension

License

This plugin is released under the GPLv3 license and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. I make no guarantee this plugin will work for you.

Support

For support, please visit the plugin page