IX Show Latest YouTube WordPress Plugin
Provides a shortcode and a template tag to embed the latest video or current live stream of one or more YouTube channels.
The plugin provides a shortcode and a template tag to embed the latest video or current live stream of one or more YouTube channels. It comes with an options page to let you set the default options for YouTube ID(s), width, height, autoplay and count of latest videos to embed. You can customize these parameters with the shortcode and template tag if needed.
This also works great with YouTube Live, by following this fallback progression.
- If you're currently live, display the live video.
- If you're not currently live, display the next upcoming live event.
- If there is no upcoming live event, display the text from Settings > Ixiter Show Latest YT > Show message if not broadcasting.
- If there is no "not broadcasting" message, show the most recent YouTube video(s) from your channel(s).
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Usage of IX Show Latest YouTube over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 3 to 1 — down 2 (-66.7%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 1 | -1 |
| June 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 2 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 2 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 3 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 3 | — |
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