Craftsmenit-Video Platform for YouTube

Craftsmenit-Video Platform for YouTube turns your WordPress site into a beautiful video platform powered by the YouTube Data API. Provide your API key and Channel ID, and the plugin automatically imports all playlists and videos, presenting them in a sleek, dark-themed interface with horizontal sliders, a hero section, modal previews, and a full-featured video player.

Key Features

• Automatic YouTube Sync — Import all playlists and videos from any YouTube channel. Schedule syncs hourly, twice daily, or daily via WP Cron.
• Channel Auto-Detection — Channel name, logo, and banner are automatically fetched and applied.
• Beautiful Home Page — Hero section, search bar, and horizontal Swiper.js playlist rows with video thumbnail cards.
• Video Preview Modal — Click any card to open a popup with video preview and play button.
• Custom Video Player — Dedicated watch page using the YouTube IFrame API with custom controls (no native YouTube chrome).
• Tabbed Sidebar — Episodes tab lists all videos in the current playlist. Transcript tab displays synced captions with timestamps.
• Transcripts — Multi-language transcripts fetched via the mrmysql/youtube-transcript PHP package. Download as a text file.
• Continue Watching — Tracks playback progress for logged-in users and shows a “Continue Watching” row.
• My List / Favorites — Logged-in users can save videos to a personal list.
• Auto-Play Next — Automatically advances to the next video in a playlist.
• Keyboard Shortcuts — Space (play/pause), arrow keys (seek), F (fullscreen), M (mute).
• Speed Control & PiP — Playback speed adjustment and Picture-in-Picture support.
• Search — Real-time AJAX search across videos and playlists.
• REST API — Full API at /wp-json/ytcp/v1/ for videos, playlists, search, progress, favorites, and transcripts.
• Customizable — Accent color picker, configurable URL slugs, and feature toggles for transcripts, history, favorites, auto-play, and PiP.
• Responsive — Fully responsive design for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
• Translation Ready — i18n support with the craftsmenit-video-platform-for-youtube text domain.
• Channel Switching — Changing the Channel ID and syncing purges old data and imports the new channel.

Custom Post Types

• ytcp_video — Each synced YouTube video.
• ytcp_playlist — Each synced YouTube playlist.
• ytcp_genre — Taxonomy for genre/tag classification.

Custom Database Tables

• wp_ytcp_user_progress — Tracks user playback position per video.
• wp_ytcp_transcripts — Caches fetched transcripts with language support.
• wp_ytcp_favorites — Stores user favorites / “My List” entries.

Shortcodes

• [ytcp] — Full page layout (hero + search + playlist rows + modal).
• [ytcp_hero] — Hero section only.
• [ytcp_playlist id="POST_ID"] — Single playlist horizontal slider.
• [ytcp_player video="POST_ID"] — Single embedded video player.
• [ytcp_search] — Search bar component.

URL Structure

• /watch/ — Home page with hero section and all playlist rows.
• /watch/video-slug/ — Single video player page.
• /series/playlist-slug/ — Single playlist page.

(URL slugs are configurable in settings.)

Requirements

• WordPress 5.8 or higher.
• PHP 7.4 or higher.
• A YouTube Data API v3 key (free from the Google Cloud Console).
• Composer dependencies are bundled in the vendor/ directory.

External Services

This plugin connects to external services to provide its full functionality. Please review the following:

YouTube Data API v3 (googleapis.com)

This plugin connects to Google’s YouTube Data API to fetch and synchronize YouTube channel content (playlists, videos, metadata, transcripts).

What data is sent: – Your YouTube API key (stored securely in WordPress options) – YouTube Channel ID – Requests for channel info, playlist listings, and video metadata – Requests are sent when: (1) manually syncing content from the admin dashboard, (2) during scheduled automatic syncs (via WP Cron), (3) when fetching transcripts for video display

Service Provider: Google LLC

Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/static/terms.html

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

YouTube IFrame API (youtube.com)

The custom video player uses YouTube’s IFrame Embed API to display and control video playback on the watch/player pages.

What data is sent: – Your video embeds are served through YouTube’s iframe infrastructure – Standard YouTube analytics data (views, watch time) applies

Service Provider: Google LLC

Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/static/terms.html

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy