YouTube SimpleGallery
Download
Installation
- Install from Plugins in WP Dashboard
OR
- Unzip the archive
- Upload the folder “youtube-simplegallery” to “/wp-content/plugins/”
- Activate the Plugin in the WordPress Dashboard
THEN
- Download and install either Shadowbox JS, Fancybox or Thickbox if you want to show videos in a box on your site.
- Go to the Settings Page (Settings > YouTube SimpleGallery) and configure the plugin to suit your needs
Usage
In Posts or Pages:
To embed a gallery in a Post or a Page use the following code:
[youtubegallery]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTac_O_wh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK-G9-dLzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqM_wu6Ns
[/youtubegallery]
If you want to add titles/description to the videos, add it before the link and separate with | (pipe), like this:
[youtubegallery]
Avatar Trailer HD|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ
Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Deathmatch|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTac_O_wh4
The Fast Show: Unlucky Alf|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK-G9-dLzw
Jožin z bažin|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqM_wu6Ns
[/youtubegallery]
In Theme files (outside The Loop):
If you wish to add a gallery in a part of the Theme that is outside «The Loop» and/or not within a Widget, you can use the do_shortcode()-function like this:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[youtubegallery]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1Bh44Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTac_O_wh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK-G9-dLzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqM_wu6Ns
[/youtubegallery]'); ?>
Make sure to keep the linebreaks!
Columns
For both Posts & Pages and do_shortcode you can add cols=x, e.g. [youtubegallery cols=4] to override the default setting.
In Widgets:
Add a «YouTube SimpleGallery» widget to your sidebar(s), add links with linebreaks in the area entitles «Links». You do not use the [youtubegallery] and [/youtubegallery] in Widgets. You can add titles in the same way as for Posts and Pages.
Result
The gallery will be displayed like this:
Avatar Trailer HD
Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Deathmatch
The Fast Show: Unlucky Alf
Jožin z bažin
Changelog
1.5
- Added option for thumbnail size
- Added option for columns w/breaking rows
- Added style option for titles
1.4.1
- Fixed compatability issue with PHP 5.3.5.
1.4
- Added support for Fancybox.
- Added option for autoplay on click.
- Changed all embedding to HTML5 compliant.
- Remodeled Settings page.
1.3
- Fixes broken thumbs.
- Fixes broken Thickbox.
- Added HD option.
- Minor bug fixes.
1.2
- Fixes bug with broken thumbs and videos when adding titles.
1.1
- Added option to open links in new window/tab when going directly to YouTube.com
1.0
- 1st official release. Option for Shadowbox JS added. Bugfixes: Fixed broken thumbnails. Fixed URIs with special characters.
0.4.1 BETA
- Minor bugfix.
0.4 BETA
- Fixed issues with WP’s auto embedding of YouTube-URIs, introduced in WP 2.9.
0.3.1 BETA
- Minor bugfix.
0.3 BETA
- Fixed errors when showing several galleries to one Page, or when showing Home or Archives with galleries in multiple Posts.
0.2 BETA
- Option to include titles/description added
0.1 BETA
- First launch
Hi there,
It seems as though this plugin needs updating since the latest version of wordpress was released. All I get on my site is grey icons for the video links.
Hope you get it fixed soon,
D
still got the old pb with this plugin
the plugin shows right on all the browsers but in the explorer
the tumbnails will not resize
so pls can u fix that
Hi,
I installed your plugin on my site to show Youtube trailers and the trailers work fine. But for some reason it adds 2 extra gray video icons, one before my first trailer and another after my last trailer. Do you know why it is doing that?I even tried the default youtubegallery cols=3 code and the extra videos still show up.
You sir made a great pluggin, but reacently i faced issues :/
OK, now I’m new to all of this WP stuff, but I’m slowly learning as I go.
I have installed & activated the youtubegallery plugin, along with shadowbox-js. I have linked the two together.
When I make a new post, I get the grey “video missing” thumbnail which is tall and skinny rather than square. When I hover my mouse over the link it gives me “http://www.youtube.com/embed/%3Ciframe%20width=” and upon clicking it, tries to load the page, but obviously that link is bad.
I even reinstalled the plugin from scratch, re-linked it to Shadowbox and used the default video links supplied in the readme:
[youtubegallery]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTac_O_wh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK-G9-dLzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqM_wu6Ns
[/youtubegallery]
I’ve got to be missing something somewhere, but I’m totally stumped. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-simplegallery/
I’m having the same problem, cept I get a bunch of default youtube thumbnails and broken links as described above.
Grrr. I simply can’t figure this out and I’ve tried all three types of boxes. I can get the gray boxes on my screen, but when I click I get an error. I’m attempting to use this in a widget on my homepage. Could you, perhaps give us an example of how exactly your text looks for the referenced examples inside a widget box? Perhaps I’m doing the line breaks incorrectly or perhaps I’m supposed to have <> in there somewhere. The instructions aren’t clear to me. Thanks.