Title: YouTube quick shortcode plugin
Author: peeping4dsun
Published: <strong>November 26, 2014</strong>
Last modified: February 3, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# YouTube quick shortcode plugin

 By [peeping4dsun](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peeping4dsun/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/youtube-quick-shortcode.zip)

 * [Details](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/youtube-quick-shortcode/)

## Description

**YouTube quick shortcode plugin contains** –

 * Embedding YouTube videos using YouTube’s URL address.
 * Text button “YouTube” within TinyMCE editor that outputs [ytube_shortcode url
   =”|||||” ]
 * The admin user can embed clips from YouTube simply by pasting the URL address
   of the clip between any two | characters, i.e. [ytube_shortcode url=”||https://
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_O_pH_mhI|||” ]
 * In order to work, the plugin settings page must be opened and prefered options
   saved. Note that even if the default settings are fine, the admin user still 
   have to save the options.
 * The plugin is light and its main purpose is to allow the admin to embed a YouTube
   video with least clicks possible.
 * The plugin doesn’t allow customization per post/page. It uses general settings
   and it is intended for users that prefer general, rather than strongly customizable,
   settings.
 * The plugin’s’ general settings lets the user define screen size, show information,
   show related, show controls of the YouTube clips.

The main purpose of the plugin is to save clicks when a WordPress administrator 
wants to embed a YouTube clip in a WordPress site.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The button and the output when the button is clicked.
 * [[
 * This is how the option page looks.

## Installation

 1. Upload ytube-quick-shortcode.zip` onto your local computer.
 2. Go to your WordPress Dashboard and select **Plugins >> Add New**.
 3. Click on the **Upload** option at the top and select the ytube-quick-shortcode.
    zip file` you just downloaded.
 4. Click on **Install**.
 5. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 6. In order to work, the plugin settings page must be opened and prefered options 
    saved. Note that even if the default settings are fine for you, you still have 
    to save the options.
 7. Within your TinyMCE editor click on YouTube text button and paste URL of YouTube
    clip between ” “

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“YouTube quick shortcode plugin” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ peeping4dsun ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peeping4dsun/)

[Translate “YouTube quick shortcode plugin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-quick-shortcode/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/youtube-quick-shortcode/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/youtube-quick-shortcode/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/youtube-quick-shortcode/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode/)
 * Tags
 * [embed](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/embed/)[quick](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/quick/)
   [shortcode](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)[youtube](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/youtube/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-quick-shortcode/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ peeping4dsun ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peeping4dsun/)

## Support

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