Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget WordPress Plugin
Widget showing video thumbnails of recent videos from a YouTube channel or
playlist.
Use this plugin when you want to display a list of recent YouTube videos from a channel or playlist in your site's sidebar.
This plugin is a fork of Aleksandar Urošević's YouTube Channel. This plugin is much more lightweight and does only have a subset of YouTube Channel's features.
The videos are each only presented with a thumbnail, and optionally also its title and/or description. Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video's page on YouTube. This results in a much smaller codebase and no additional front-end dependencies. The original plugin, YouTube Channel by Aleksandar Urošević, on the other hand depends on several JavaScript libraries (jQuery, FitVids.JS and channel Favorites playlist sidebar thumbnail video widget youtube
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Usage of Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 10 to 6 — down 4 (-40%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 6 | -2 |
| June 2024 | 8 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 8 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 8 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 8 | +1 |
| February 2024 | 7 | -2 |
| January 2024 | 9 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 9 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 9 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 9 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 10 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 10 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 10 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 10 | — |
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