As you may know Youtube embed code is not responsive and order to load the player itself your browser has to download more than 1MB of data from Youtube's servers.
This plugin is replacing Youtube with the quality thumbnail and button.
The player and the video won't load until you click on the button or the thumbnail itself.
With this easy trick you will have lighter and faster website and the thumbnail + the player will be responsive too..
Manually align each video to left, right or center with the 'align parameter...
We placed Youtube video embed code in new and empty page, ran the tests and then replaced it with our solution before running the tests again..
Total page size with Youtube embed code 2.18MB.
Upload the folder to the wp-content plugins directory.
Activate the plugin through 'Plugins WordPress.
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
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