Contributors: milindmore22
A Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo uses fancy-box(light-box) to show YouTube video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from YouTube video.
Offical Wordpress Plugin Repo : https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtubefancybox/
A Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo uses colorbox /lightbox (thanks to Jack Moore(http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/) to show YouTube video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from YouTube video. you can use it with shortcode in page, post and text widget.
`[youtube videoid="<youtube videoid goes here>" height="<height goes here>" width="<width goes here>" ]`
`[youtube url="<youtube url goes here>"]`
in the backend you can genrated shorcodes also you can set default height, width and a option to play video automatically or not
- Upload
youtubefancybox
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Place shortcode like
[youtube videoid="<videoid goes here>"]
in your page, post , text widget
https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtubefancybox/faq/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtubefancybox/screenshots/
Tested upto 5.8