SDAweb Channels for YouTube

sdaweb-channels-for-youtube · By rstake
40+ installs Updated 1 week ago v1.5.20 WP 6.2–7.1.2 PHP 7.4+

Impact score

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Homepage Score

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v1.5.20 · 3 scans
Consolidated score over 90 days · 1 versions
Not enough data to publish the grade (15 scans min, currently 3).
Time
11 ms
Memory
0.0 MB
SQL
+3
Assets
2
HTTP ext.
0

Admin Score

Impact measured in the WordPress admin

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v1.5.20 · 1 scan
Consolidated score over 90 days · 1 versions
Not enough data to publish the grade (15 scans min, currently 1).
Time
0 ms
Memory
0.0 MB
SQL
+0
Assets
0
HTTP ext.
0

About

SDAweb Channels for YouTube is a lightweight, privacy-friendly way to showcase YouTube content on your WordPress site. Add any number of public YouTube channels and display their videos using shortcodes or a Gutenberg block. Videos are cached locally so visitor page views consume zero API quota.

Four shortcodes cover every use case:

All shortcodes support these attributes: count, columns, layout, sort, player, pagination, per_page, show_stats, show_duration, show_channel, and live_only.

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This plugin connects to the YouTube Data API v3 to fetch channel information and video data. API calls are made server-side only when:

No API calls are made during normal visitor page views — all data is served from the local cache.

A YouTube Data API v3 key is required. You can obtain one for free from the Google Cloud Console.

This plugin fetches public YouTube RSS feeds (https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml) to discover recently published and scheduled videos. These requests are read-only, use no API quota, and contain only publicly available video IDs.

When a visitor clicks play on a video, an iframe loads from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com). No embed loads until the visitor initiates playback. No cookies are set by this domain.

Tags
channel embed Live Stream video youtube
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Screenshots

Author-supplied previews from wordpress.org.

Dashboard with shortcode builder and channel status overview
Dashboard with shortcode builder and channel status overview
Grid layout displaying videos from a single channel
Grid layout displaying videos from a single channel
Tabbed layout with multiple channels
Tabbed layout with multiple channels
Lightbox video player with navigation
Lightbox video player with navigation
Live and upcoming stream display with badges
Live and upcoming stream display with badges
Admin settings page with customizable labels
Admin settings page with customizable labels

Per-version history

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Version Homepage Admin Last scan
v1.5.20 3 scans 1 scan 2 hours ago

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Scan history

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Date Version Context Score Grade Time Memory
2 hours ago v1.5.20 Homepage 99/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
2 hours ago v1.5.20 Homepage 99/100 A 11 ms 0.0 MB
3 hours ago v1.5.20 Admin 100/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
3 hours ago v1.5.20 Homepage 87/100 A 53 ms 0.0 MB