Listening to a recent episode of Weekly Web Tools by Dave Jackson made me aware of a very cool WordPress plugin called TubePress. TubePress is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a custom YouTube or Vimeo video gallery to a WordPress page or post very easily. Until now I have always done it manually, but I love how this appears to work …
There are many different ways that you can customise the look and feel of your video gallery including customising:
- How the video plays (embed, popup, etc.)
- Where the video plays (on your site or the original)
- How many thumbnails are displayed
- Size of thumbnails and of video
- much more …
You also have quite a few options for where the gallery is pulled from. Some of the source options that I could see being very useful are:
- YouTube users “Favourites”
- Videos from a YouTube playlist
- Videos uploaded by a specific user
You can see this plugin in action on my test site, http://billhutchison.org/wptest/videos/, and find out more about it on the TubePress web-site.
As of writing this post TubePress I have been experimenting with Tubepress version 2.58. According to the TubePress web-site they have recently released the final release candidate of TubePress 3.0.0 and should be releasing the new version soon, which includes some great looking new options.
The gallery looks great! thanks for helpful guide…it is really helpful for WP Bloggers..