YouTube is a great source of video content for any website or blog. Every video published on YouTube website has an automatically generated HTML code, which can be copied and pasted into an existing website page in order to include and republish a certain video. If you want to create a full featured PHP video blog or website, there are available many libraries to simplify the YouTube video republishing process. A free library to display YouTube video galleries automatically in WordPress blog posts, pages or sidebar is TubePress.

TubePress plugin is capable to show in a video gallery videos from a YouTube playlist, favorites of a YouTube user, videos uploaded by a YouTube user, featured videos on YouTube’s homepage, most-viewed videos on YouTube from the past day and more. All of the options related to the type of YouTube videos that will be shown in a WordPress blog can be defined from the plugin administration area.

In the same time, the video gallery appearance, such as thumbnails width and height, as well as the embedded player options (autoplay, full screen playback and others) are also easy to customize.

In order to add TubePress plugin to your WordPress blog, first download the distribution archive from the official website and unpack its content in the Plugin directory on your web server.

Then enable the plugin and review the settings from the administration area. You can start to add galleries on post or pages with the help of TubePress shortcodes presented here.

What’s New In TubePress 1.7.2:

-Fullscreen playback now available in embedded player
-Created “YouTube Feed” options category. Moved some of the advanced options into this category.
-Added ability to exclude non-embeddable videos
-Added jscolor HTML color picker for embedded player colors
-Fixed bug where debugging mode threw a fatal error
-Fixed bug where random video sort order would throw a fatal error
-Added ability to toggle display of title/rating before video starts playing
-Now uses version 2.0 of YouTube gdata API

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