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How to Embed a YouTube Playlist in WordPress For Free_ Best Method
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Oct 25, 2023
In the video, "How to Embed a YouTube Playlist in WordPress For Free: Best Method," viewers will discover a straightforward and cost-effective approach to enrich their WordPress website with engaging YouTube content. This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to seamlessly embed a YouTube playlist into your WordPress site. It's the best method for bloggers, content creators, and website owners seeking to enhance their websites with curated video content, offering an easy and efficient way to keep visitors engaged and informed. Learn how to do it without any additional expenses, making it an excellent resource for those looking to improve their website's user experience and content delivery.
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What's up guys? Here's Claudio from Visual Model WordPress Teams and in today's video you're gonna learn how to embed or how to add our YouTube channel or any YouTube channel playlist into our WordPress website in a simple, fast, effective and especially free method
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sites favor so let's get this started very first thing to do when you want to embed youtube
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playlists into your wordpress website is go into your wordpress dashboard review the left sidebar
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menus and hover mouse or plugins and click on add new wordpress do not offer
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any feature to embed playlists you can embed YouTube videos we have a guide for
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it on visualmodal.com website on our blog on our youtube channel but to embed
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entire playlists you're gonna need a plugin and the one that you're gonna be
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using for this video it's called YouTube gallery sort video gallery so once on
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your plugins add new list hover your mouse over the left sidebar the right sidebar on the top
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section where you can see search plugins right here into this field next to keyword and type
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video gallery you're going to screw it down just a little bit and you're going to be installing this
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one video gallery youtube playlist channel gallery by youtube wp click on install it and after this
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click on activate make sure that is by youtube wp this is one of the best ones that i can find for
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free click on install after click on activate after installing the plugin and you're gonna be
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redirected to this page right here the page where you can get the layout we can select the columns
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the plugin settings okay but let's start with the most important part of the plugin okay in fact it
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appears into the upper message that appears when you activate the plugin
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thank you for activating YouTube WP set up an API key to start using read more
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so let's review the steps right here we have general players styling effect
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sketch API click right here and now review the right sidebar of menus right
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here we can see document you do not know how to get your YouTube API key read
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this article so let's click on it okay YouTube related with the YouTube gallery
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create the app key so here are the steps to create our app key you're gonna need
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to go to YouTube developers console okay so into the Google developers page go
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to the project part and click on new project okay we gonna create a new project you can go to the manage resource page in order to see this part
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right here to create a new project I already have one so you I may not see it
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different from yours but try to create a new project okay so you can type this
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project name with this name right here and create it and here is the informations we have we have some API's we are looking for this
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one YouTube data API v3 click on it we're gonna click on enable
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Google gonna redirects you to a new page there this is my key and what you can do
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we can create credentials okay so here is the bottom click right here
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so we're gonna use public data and we're done now if you want to get the credentials you can go right here to the
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credentials from the left sidebar I know no need to worry Google is a little bit complicated Google
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tries to make this simpler but it's not that easy but go to credentials here is my API key
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here is the date where you created it and go to show key you're gonna need to
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copy this key okay please do not share this key with anyone I'm gonna delete
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this key after doing this tutorial but if you will use this for a long time do
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not share this key with anyone so we can copy the key go back to the WordPress
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plugin section YouTube API key post right here and save the chains now let generate our short code Okay So still into the left sidebar of menus on our WordPress dashboard you going to be able to see next to the general
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settings, a sub button called it short code generator. We're going to click on it. Okay
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After this, we're going to grab our YouTube channel playlist. You can do it, you can do it
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by going to your YouTube channel, finding the playlist that you would like to embed
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in my case is going to be this one elemental wordpress plugin website builder okay
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so here is the playlist i'm going to copy the playlist url okay the entire url of the playlist
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after this i go back to my wordpress dashboard i'm gonna enter the playlist
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link right here to verify here is the playlist we can use these full options or we can customize
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the options in the case that i want let's start using the default here is the short code now i'm
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gonna go to my page okay add new or find any other section and we're gonna simply post the
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codes right here you can post it into a text widget if you're using elementor a text block
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if you are using wp bakery or into any block of your site if you're using the wordpress default
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editor after this let's preview the results you got okay and here is the
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result we have our entire playlist and bad on the WordPress website very simple
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easy and free and under 10 minutes of work okay so it's easy now let's
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customize this playlist okay let's try to make it different okay how to do this let's go back to our
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plugin general settings and let's find out the general we have grid list or mix
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let's do the mix and save change so we can have you and here is what changes can you see now let's go to another format the list save chance and
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and here is the results we got what else we can do we can change the amount of
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columns for example for four columns the videos per page you can change the
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amount the pagination the pagination type can be pager or load more we can
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change the video aspect radio for normal to AG the video title and the video
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description okay we can make both appears let's save change what else we
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can do there is a player there is the play mode play widget screw offset play
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title playing description controls autoplay in the case that you like out of pull out on next video it very good it helped the engagement by the way you can look
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the videos if you prefer the branding logo type the show info the model
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thumbnails force closed captions it is really all up to you but after doing your
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change don't forget to hit the Save Change button okay here is our layout as
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you can see then then we have two columns okay then I have four columns by
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the way so it's really simple you can play with the layouts if you want you
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can change the backgrounds there is other options for styling if you prefer
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okay we can change every single part of this boot on for example the boot on
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style the boot on text color the background call or the hover the gallery
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background color there is a lot of things to play with let me change the
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gallery background color so I can show you let me save the chains
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now as you can see there is other colors okay so it is do your chance let me know into the
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comments if how it how it does for you we can even apply some effects you can change the cache if you
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Thank you
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