Featured Video Plus

Featured Video Plus

Add Featured Videos to your posts and pages. Works like magic with most themes which use Featured Images. Local Media, YouTube, Vimeo and many more.
Rating:
4.8
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Active Installations:
10000+
Last Updated:
Nov 28, 2017
WordPress Version:
3.7 or higher
Tested up to:
4.7.29

Enhance your content

Embed videos seamlessly into your posts

Multiple display options

Choose from automatic insertion, lazy loading, or lightbox overlays

Easy integration

Use shortcode or PHP functions to add videos to your page

Extensive provider support

Embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, SoundCloud, Spotify, and more

2.3.3: 2016-12-17

  • Fix frontend ajax requests. (*)

2.3.1 & 2.3.2: 2016-12-16

  • Fix for illegal video message when using oEmbed. (*, *)
  • Fix for are you sure error on post creation. (*, *)

2.3.0: 2016-12-15

  • Now compatible with Video SEO! (*, *, *)
  • Fix AJAX vulnerability reported by @jamesgol.
  • Disallow raw embeds (iframe, object, embed) by default for new videos — can be enabled in the settings. Could have been misused if somebody had gained access to an editor account beforehand. Reported by @jamesgol.
  • “Single” now actually means single posts and pages. (*, *)
  • Fix some problem with fixed size specifications. (*, *, *, *)

2.2.3: 2016-07-19

  • Fix for bad iframe src attributes. (*)
  • Fix a problem with image type detection. (*, *)

2.2.2: 2015-09-15

  • Fix for not correctly hidden preload images. (*, *, *)
  • Replace features videos more reliably on AJAX requests. (*)

2.2.1: 2015-09-08

  • Now compatible with infinite scroll! (*, *, *)
  • Fix bad overlay sizing when loading from cache. (*)
  • Fix local video responsiveness in recent WordPress videos.
  • The has_post_video function is now pluggable.
  • The get_the_post_video_url function post id argument is now optional (*).

2.2.0: 2015-07-20

  • Shortcodes can now be used as featured content (e.g. [gallery]).
  • Added fine tuned autoplay options.
  • New option for hiding YouTube video annotations. (*)
  • Expose a JS function to manually re-initialize the plugin’s JS behavior like responsive sizing and overlays. Specifically interesting when using FVP in combination with a infinite scroll plugin. (*)
  • Fetch high quality thumbnails for YouTube and Dailymotion. (*)
  • Fix bug which suppressed the removal of foreign featured images. (*)
  • Fix ‘undefined function exif_imagetype’ error. (*, *, *)
  • Implement a workaround for a bug with iframes in Google Chrome, see [0], [1]. (*)
  • Fix bug which resulted in a invisible video playing in the background when using autoplay and overlay mode. (*)

2.1.2: 2015-06-16

  • Fix bug which resulted in missing featured images when a post did not have a featured video. (*, *)

2.1.1: 2015-06-15

  • Fix play and loading featured image overlay for some themes. (*)
  • Fix broken remove featured image link. (*, *, *)

2.1.0: 2015-06-11

  • Display options are now chained using OR – if one of them holds, the replace mode is used.
  • Added always use replace mode when viewing single posts and pages option, was implicitly true since 2.0.0. (*)
  • Fixed undefined warnings when using WP_DEBUG. (*)
  • Fixed double-wrapped .post-thumbnails. (*)
  • Lazy loading a video no longer breaks other videos. (*)

2.0.3: 2015-06-01

  • Remove usage of PHP short array syntax in order to support PHP versions lower than 5.4 (*)

2.0.2: 2015-06-01

  • Fixed undefined warnings when saving posts with fresh featured videos.

2.0.0 & 2.0.1: 2015-06-01

  • Requires WordPress 3.7 or higher now! This reflects versions of WordPress which are “officially” supported. The plugin will from now on try to stick to supporting all versions listed there.
  • Major code refactor which results in many bugs scrubbed.
  • Support for raw embed codes and all WordPress core media providers.
  • Updated wp.org icon and cover.

1.9.1: 2014-09-06

  • Last update compatible all the way back to WordPress 3.2!
  • You can now specify the ‘end‘ parameter for YouTube embeds (*)
  • Added option for only displaying videos on single posts/pages (*,*,*)
  • Removed hardcoded http protocol for embeds *

1.9: 2014-01-02

  • Replaced Video.js with MediaElement.js (ships with WordPress since 3.6 – breaks local videos partially if you use an older WordPress version!)
  • Added Spanish translations! Translation by WebHostingHub.com
  • Updated FitVids.js to 1.0.3

1.8: 2013-05-16

  • Video.js 4.0
  • Customize the local video player
  • Better autoplay handling
  • Remove anchors wrapping videos
  • General bug fixes

1.7.1: 2013-04-30

  • Fixed manual usage option (*)
  • Added featured image mouse over effect for featured video AJAX usage

1.7: 2013-04-30

  • Added functionality to display featured video in an lightbox using AJAX on featured image click (*)
  • Added functionality to replace featured image with featured video on demand when image is clicked using AJAX (*)
  • get_the_post_video_url has a new second parameter (boolean) to get the fallback video’s URL (*)
  • Tested with WordPress 3.6

1.6.1: 2013-04-18

  • Fixed removing featured image when no featured video is specified (*)

1.6: 2013-04-16

  • Added get_the_post_video_url($post_id) PHP-Function
  • Added YouTube enablejsapi parameter with playerapiid (fvpid + $post_id) and iframe id (*)
  • Added a filter for get_the_post_video: get_the_post_video_filter (*)
  • Added option for using the featured image as video thumbnail for local videos
  • Fixed local videoJS (*)
  • Fixed auto width and height for the Dailymotion and videoJS players
  • Fixed YouTube videos for which the plugin cannot access the YouTube API (*)

1.5.1: 2013-03-27

  • Fixed Featured Video box on new-post.php
  • Enhanced Featured Image ajax behavior

1.5: 2013-03-22

  • AJAXified the Featured Video box – just like Featured Images
  • Added options for a) disabling VideoJS JS/CSS, b) enabling VideoJS CDN and c) YouTube wmode
  • Plugin no longer breaks WP image editor (*)

1.4: 2013-03-15

  • WP 3.5 Media Manager seamless integrated
  • Time-links now available for YouTube and Dailymotion (append #t=1m2s)
  • New autoplay setting
  • Specify your Dailymotion Syndication Key
  • Added get_the_post_video_image & get_the_post_video_image_url
  • Local videos no longer break when domain changes or attachment is edited
  • Better Featured Image handling

1.3: 2013-01-16

  • Internationalization: Added German translations
  • Added customizations for YouTube and Dailymotion
  • Revamped video sizing
  • Better error handling
  • Contextual help on media settings and post edit screen
  • LiveLeak (very experimental, they have no API)

1.2: 2013-01-09

  • Local Videos: mp4, webm, ogg
  • More dynamic user interface
  • Minimized JS and CSS

1.1: 2012-12-16

  • Dailymotion
  • Fixed YouTube time-links
  • Enhanced interaction of Featured Videos & Featured Images

1.0: 2012-12-13

  • Release

One of the best video plugin for posts

By ishainfo on February 20, 2025

I can't believe it's already been five years since I started using the Featured Video Plus plugin! This tool has completely transformed the way I present content on my websites. The ease of adding featured videos has not only enhanced user engagement but also made my sites look so much more professional. I truly appreciate the developer for offering this amazing plugin for free! It's a game-changer for anyone looking to spice up their site with multimedia. If you haven’t tried it yet, you’re missing out on a fantastic resource!

Great Plugin but not longer Supported because of PHP7.4 Switch

By klpmgg on February 16, 2023

Hello Guy´s

Can you please update the obsolete code to a newer version, since Wordpress and also the website hosters in Germany don't provide longer support for Php7.4, you need to update the code to PHP8.0-PHP8.1, then it will work great again !

Please do this for us, we have sooo many youtube videos embedded with this plugin and run out of time to use Php7.4. This means that our hoster will end support in March.

You need to customize this plugin please - it was the only thing that ever worked perfectly!

great work - thank you soo much for your work!

Very useful

By shashwathi on January 20, 2023

Very useful

Still working!

By dwlorimer on July 6, 2020

This plugin still works for me on WP 5.4.2. So easy. Worked out of the box, except for a couple theme css adjustments I had to make.

Works great!

By ajiaim (ajia.im) on April 13, 2020

I was ready to pay for a plugin that does this, I'm so glad I came across this! Old but still works perfectly!

Working! Holly Crap!?

By Duke Snoogens (MikeLoucas) on April 11, 2020

So far so good! I said it hasn't been update in 3 major releases, but so far its working for me (v5.4). I tried others and they didn't support Vimeo formats nor could I link them externally. So far I love this plug-in. Four stars because It auto plays in single posts (or did i miss something?); would to control that, but F it this thing still rocks! Does a butternut cookie suffice? :-)

Superb!

By mikeypowel1 on December 20, 2019

At last! This is a brilliant plugin that works in Elementor with no extra faff. Perfect for portfolio pages and posts.

Useful plugin

By Espace (wiki2018) on May 6, 2019

Please, update the plugin, so we can donate!

Easy to use. Reliable.

By Leavenworth on July 4, 2018

Followed the easy instructions and everything worked as expected. Simple as that. If you need to add videos to your WP site, give this plugin a try.

Nice and easy... works well

By DBZEROONE on September 20, 2017

This plugin makes adding a video in place of a featured image a breeze. Your theme has to be using the default WP post thumbnail code though. Mine wasn't, but probably 99% of themes do so no worries there. I took one star off for the lack of support... almost all of the questions in the support forum are unanswered.
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