Video Slider for YouTube (Lite)
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Embed beautiful, responsive YouTube sliders on any page. Supports Normal (16:9) and Shorts (9:16) with thumbnail lazy-loading for faster page speed.
Video Slider for YouTube (Lite) lets you create unlimited, fully responsive YouTube video sliders — no coding required.
✨ Key Features
- Unlimited slider sets — create as many sliders as you need
- Normal (16:9) & Shorts (9:16) — each slider can be a different format
- Thumbnail lazy-load — shows a clickable thumbnail instead of an iframe, dramatically reducing page load time and improving Core Web Vitals
- Per-slider arrow & dot colors — match your brand with a color picker
- Autoplay & loop control — toggle via shortcode attributes
- Swiper-powered — smooth, touch-friendly sliding on all devices
- Works everywhere — Gutenberg, Elementor, Classic Editor, and any page builder that supports shortcodes
🚀 How to Use
- Go to YouTube Sliders → Add New
- Give your slider a title
- Paste YouTube URLs (one per line) — supports
watch,shorts, andyoutu.belinks - Choose slider type, colors, and thumbnail mode
- Copy the shortcode shown in the editor
- Paste
[youtube_slider id="123"]anywhere on your site
⚙️ Shortcode Options
[youtube_slider id="123"]
[youtube_slider id="123" type="shorts"]
[youtube_slider id="123" autoplay="false" loop="false"]
Attribute Values Default Description
id post ID — Required. The slider post ID
type normal, shorts (saved setting) Override the slider type
autoplay true, false true Auto-advance slides
loop true, false true Loop back to the first slide
🎬 Thumbnail Mode
When enabled, each slide shows a YouTube thumbnail image. The iframe loads only when the user clicks Play — this means zero YouTube scripts are loaded until needed, improving page speed significantly.
🌍 Translations
The plugin is fully translation-ready (.pot file included). If you’d like to help translate it into your language, click here.