WordPress suggests an enormous amount of plugins on its repository, and those who own WP site often face the same problem which plugin to pick up. In order to know which are the best plugins you should use and test them on your website. This will guide and help you to understand which WordPress plugin suggests more functionality and provides the best interface. When I select a plugin for my website I always pay attention to 2 things functionality and interface, whether plugin shows my content beautifully or not, or whether it is functioning correctly.
It is already 2 years of my experience in WordPress, due to which it becomes much easier to select best plugins for my website. Running a website is not that easier, you should select themes, plugins, provide great content for visitors, or if you sell products then probably you need to display them in an appealing way.
In this blog post I will share my experience on how to select best high-quality plugins to demonstrate videos on WordPress site. I have tested all the plugins, their functionality, and the greatest thing is that all are free.
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Video Gallery Plugin By Huge-IT
The first plugin that I want to share with you is Huge-IT Video Gallery Plugin. It provides many tools to apply on videos, gives the opportunity for adding limitless videos from Youtube and Vimeo. In admin section, under each video you can see the amount of video views. The backend is very convenient and user friendly, which means you will cope with plugin quickly. What you need to do just copy and paste video links into Media Library, then pick one of 7 views, get shortcode and insert it into Post/Page or even Widget. If you have a lot of images then you can use Load More or Pagination icons to divide videos into pages.It supports responsive design due to which visitors can reach your site using mobile phones and tablets.
There are Title and description adding ability for videos, as well as you can modify colors of title/description, link button color and do many other changes from General Options.
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YouTube Video Gallery – Yottie Lite
Yottie Lite Video Gallery plugin is prepared to set your Youtube Videos directly to your website. This plugin suits for those who owns many videos and want to create their youtube channel on WordPress Website. If all your videos hosted in Youtube then by activating Yottie Lite plugin all your videos will be moved to your website. Just place your desired Youtube channel as the main source and demonstrate all videos directly on your website. Along which you can demonstrate your source channel group or even create a new one. The plugin allows sharing the videos on various social networks. YouTube Video Gallery Yottie Lite suggests many options in pro version, if you need to do more customization then you can upgrade.
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Cool Video Gallery
You can add videos from Youtube, along which Cool Video Gallery supports MP4 and MP3 formats. This plugin works with JWPlayer, when you install the plugin you should get the license key and start uploading videos. You can add title, attractive description, plugin provides option to manage video and thumbnail sizes from backend. If you are master of CSS then Cool Video Gallery plugin allows to do modification and change some design to your test. Create your video gallery, insert the shortcode into WP post/page and enjoy result of your creation.
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YourChannel: YouTube Video Gallery
The essence of YouTube Video Gallery is like a Youtube channel. The appearance of the plugin is as follows: there is an image on the top of the page, it shows number of added videos, as well as give visitors the opportunity to subscribe your channel. So, if your website suits this kind of Video Gallery, then you can select this one. For utilizing the plugin, download and install it, after which insert Youtube channel ID/username. Add shortcode on various web pages of your site and demonstrate galleries with beautiful effects.
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WordPress Video Gallery
WordPress Video Gallery is another solution for demonstrating your videos on your website. Video Gallery allows to add videos from the sources such as Youtube, Vimeo, Viddler, Daily Motion and add embed code videos from other sites as well. Plugin allows to change color of player, enable popular videos, change video order, as to users they can select videos for watching later, can have access on watched video history, create their playlists, select position for Related Video View. This plugin has an integration of Google Ads, which you can manage from backend.
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Video Gallery and Player
The backend of Video Gallery and Player plugin is very simple. It allows the users to insert videos with the following ways: add videos from Vimeo/Youtube, as well as insert MP4, webm and ogg formats videos. This plugin works with this [sp_html5video] shortcode, you need to add videos, publish them and insert the shortcode in post/page. Video Gallery and Player plugin allows create different kinds of categories, set featured images for your post. Video Category section allows create as many categories as you wish, and write description for each category. Pro version allows to add more design to your videos,it provides with responsive design, slider transition and drag and drop option.
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HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery)
One of the most easiest plugin to use in your WP site. HDW plugin can be best choice for those who do not need to add more styling and design. On backend users can find five sections, which allows to add videos with many formats, add thumbnail and preview images for each video. There is a documentation for videos which is a perfect guide for using the plugin easier.
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Responsive Video Gallery With Lightbox
There are 2 types of options to add videos one is your custom videos the other is from DailyMotion. For using the plugin go to Manage Videos when you add videos from Youtube and click get video information and thumbnail from youtube it automatically takes the default image from youtube.The same process is for adding videos from Dailymotion. Gallery Settings section is prepared to make changes on gallery slider settings, you are able to set Speed and Pause time, select to show circular slider, select sizes for videos(image height and width), along which select how many videos to show within slider. Plugin has a pro version which allows to add videos from Vimeo and Metacafe, show description for each video in lightbox, get responsive admin layout and many other options.
Vimeography
Create various galleries using Vimeo videos. After Installing Vimeography on admin section is opened a window where you should add video links and give title to gallery. Pro version allows users to edit videos adding beautiful layouts. You can add themes to your gallery, go to videos page select the gallery and edit, find Appearence where you can see Bugsauce click View Theme button and see all your themes, selecting themes you can see on live preview how is changing your theme appearance. Vimeography is entirely responsive and adaptive with any tablet or PC. So it is easy and fast to create beautiful video galleries with Vimeography.
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Huzzaz Video Gallery
Install Huzzaz Video Gallery plugin on your WordPress website, make sure that it is installed, after which go to Huzzaz official website register and start creating video collections. For creating a gallery press plus button on the top left corner from your admin panel, select to insert playlists from Youtube or Vimeo, copy youtube playlists link, then copy image link for inserting in Cover Art placeholder in plugin. After adding playlists into Huzzaz Video Gallery copy and paste shortcode into WP post/page.
There is an ability to search videos by name on front end, as well as chance to change Vimeo/youtube title and description, and many other settings to change.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/huzzaz-video-gallery/
Rio Video Gallery
Beautiful solution suggests Rio Video Gallery for your website. When you activate the plugin, you should press on Add new button, where you should give a title in post and insert embedded link from YouTube, Vimeo as well as from Dailymotion sources and publish them. Video Categories allows to create as many categories as you need and add them into galleries.In Setting section users can set number of display videos, change video player and video thumbnail size, selcet where to open video links: in a popup or in a single page.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rio-video-gallery/
I have selected plugins in high quality to demonstrate on your website. Your website must have a User Friendly Interface, in order people who visited your website to come back. Videos are an essential part of website, and it is important to show them utilizing user friendly and beautiful plugins. The plugin which you choose for website should be attractive, easy to use and functioning correctly. All above-mentioned plugins have free versions, which you can use, but if needed more options to make Video Galleries more appealing you can upgrade to paid ones. I recommend to test free versions before upgrading for making sure that it is the plugin you wanted.