YouList – YouTube playlist shortcode

Description

This plugin adds the shortcode [youlist] so you can easily embed YouTubeâ„¢ playlist defined by

• playlist id (PL in front of the playlist id)
• comma seperated video ids list
• user favorites
• user uploads
• search query

in a single YouTubeâ„¢ player.

Live demo

New in version 1.0.6

• show random playlists with the new attribute randompid
• added apply_filters for output, style, class and src
• bug fix

New in version 1.0.5

• enable nocookies
• enable the https protocol
• play videos in a specific quality (fx. hd720)
• enable wmode to handle z-index issues.

Usage Examples

To embed a playlist with thumbnails
[youlist pid=PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F]

To embed three videos with thumbnails (comma seperated video id list):
[youlist vid=ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4?]

To embed three videos without thumbnails:
[youlist vid=ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4? showinfo=0?]

To embed a playlist from the search string higgs boson
[youlist search=higgs boson width=600? height=400?]

To embed a random playlist
[youlist randompid=PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F, PL9AEE7FF9E83DEA62, PL2B8DB1BD4364033F]

To embed a playlist for all uploaded videos for the user mismag822?
[youlist uid=mismag822? listtype=user_uploads]

To embed a playlist for all favorite videos for the user mismag822?
[youlist uid=mismag822? listtype=user_favorites]

To embed a playlist width your own custom style
[youlist pid=PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F style=width:300px;height:400px;z-index:1;]

To embed a user playlist with all the supported attributes (default values shown):
[youlist
uid=mismag822?
randompid=
showinfo=1?
width=680?
height=480?
class=youlist
autohide=2?
autoplay=0?
disablekb=0?
listtype=user_uploads
theme=dark
modestbranding=1?
controls=1?
color=red
fs=1?
rel=1?
start=0?
loop=0?
iv_load_policy=1?
version=3?
style=
vq=
nocookie=0?
https=0?
wmode=
parameters=
]

Ideas for how to use this plugin

1. You can use it to display ad-video before or after the main video
2. You can have your own short trailer before the main video
3. You can collect lessons/tutorials/music videos
4. You can use it for your YouTubeâ„¢ playlist
5. You can watch your friends favourites videos
6. You can collect videos for your kid and watch it on your site
7. etc

Shortcode Parameters

The youList-shortcode is a wrapper for most of the YouTubeâ„¢ iframe parameters described here:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters

iframe parameters:

• width [integer] iframe width in pixels
• height [integer] iframe height in pixels
• class [string] iframe css classname
• style [string] iframe css custom style
• parameters [string] custom source parameters (&param1=value1&)

youtube parameters:

• pid [string] YouTube playlist ID
• uid [string] YouTube user ID)
• vid [string] Comma seperated YouTube Videos ID list
• randompid [string] YouTube random playlist ID, from a comma seperated PIDs list
• listtype [playlist|user_uploads|search] YouTube listtype
• search [string] YouTube search string)
• theme [dark|light] Dark or light control bar
• modestbranding [0|1] Prevent the YouTube logo from displaying in the control bar
• showinfo [0|1] Display thumbnail images for the videos in the playlist
• autohide [0|1|2] Hide the video controls automatically after a video begins playing
• autoplay [0|1] The initial video will autoplay when the player loads
• disablekb [0|1] Disable the player keyboard controls
• controls [0|1|2] Display the video player controls
• color [red|white] The color in the video progress bar
• fs [0|1] Display the fullscreen button
• rel [0|1] Show related videos when playback of the initial video ends
• start [integer] Play the video at the given number of seconds from the start of the video
• loop [0|1] Play the entire playlist and then start again at the first video
• iv_load_policy [1|3] Show video annotations
• version [2|3] AS player version
• https [0|1] Enable the https protocol
• nocookie [0|1] No cookies thank you
• vq [small|medium|large|hd720|hd1080] Change video quality