Modern, clean social video display for WordPress with TikTok and YouTube (Shorts + regular) support, mixed galleries and YouTube channel feed import.
Qaiyo Social Video Embed is a modern, multi-platform video embed plugin with TikTok, YouTube (Shorts + regular videos) and Vimeo support. Mix videos from different platforms together in a single gallery, or automatically import the latest videos from a YouTube channel.
Key features:
- Multi-platform — TikTok, YouTube and Vimeo in one plugin.
- Mixed galleries — Videos from different platforms together in one grid, carousel or list view.
- Gutenberg block — Insert galleries from the editor with a live preview, no shortcodes needed.
- YouTube channel feed import — Paste a channel URL and automatically show the latest N videos or Shorts (no API key required).
- Lightbox / modal playback — Optionally open videos in a fullscreen modal instead of inline.
- Responsive column breakpoints — Separate column counts for desktop, tablet and mobile.
- High-resolution thumbnails — Automatic use of maxresdefault.jpg (1280×720).
- Automatic aspect ratio detection — 9:16 (Shorts/TikTok), 16:9 (regular YouTube).
- Lazy load + click-to-play — The iframe only loads on click, keeping pages fast.
- Customizable play button — Background and icon color configurable in the admin.
- oEmbed cache — Transient caching with adjustable duration.
- YouTube nocookie support — GDPR-friendly privacy-enhanced mode.
- 4 display modes — single, grid, carousel, list.
- Accessible — ARIA labels and keyboard navigation.
- Dark mode and print styles.
- Extensible — Provider pattern, write your own provider.
- Translation ready — Fully internationalized; translations are provided through translate.wordpress.org.
- Translation plugin compatible — Works with WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress and other translation plugins.
- WordPress standards — Nonce verification, capability checks, input sanitization, escaped output.
YouTube channel feed
Paste the channel’s ID-based URL (you can copy it from the channel’s About/Share panel or from a video’s channel link):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx— the latest videoshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/shorts— the latest uploads shown vertically (9:16)https://www.youtube.com/user/legacyname— legacy username channels are also supported
The plugin reads YouTube’s official public RSS feed (feeds/videos.xml) for that channel — no API key needed and no page scraping. Handle URLs (/@name) and custom URLs (/c/name) require the YouTube Data API; that (and exact Shorts filtering) is available in the Pro add-on.
External services
This plugin embeds videos hosted on third-party platforms. It therefore contacts those platforms in two different ways, described below.
1. Server-side requests (made by your site, from wp-admin or while rendering a page)
These resolve the metadata of the videos you add. Only the video or channel URL that you enter is sent; the responses are cached. No visitor data is involved.
- YouTube (Google) —
www.youtube.com: oEmbed endpoint (/oembed) for individual videos, and the official public RSS feed (/feeds/videos.xml) for channel feeds, using the channel ID or legacy username contained in the URL you provide. - Vimeo —
vimeo.com: oEmbed endpoint (/api/oembed.json) for individual videos. - TikTok —
www.tiktok.com: oEmbed endpoint (/oembed) for individual videos. - WordPress.org —
api.wordpress.org: on the plugin’s “Discover Qaiyo” screen only, the standard WordPress plugin API (plugins_api) is queried to list this author’s free plugins. No data about your site is sent beyond the standard API query.
2. Requests made by your visitors’ browsers (when a page with the gallery is viewed)
Video thumbnails and the video players themselves are loaded directly from the platforms. This means your visitors’ browsers contact those platforms, and — as with any embedded video — the platform receives the visitor’s IP address, user agent and referring page, and may set cookies.
- Thumbnail images —
i.ytimg.com(YouTube), plus Vimeo’s and TikTok’s own image CDNs. - Video players (loaded only after the visitor clicks play) —
www.youtube.comorwww.youtube-nocookie.com(YouTube),player.vimeo.com(Vimeo),www.tiktok.com(TikTok).
To reduce this, the plugin uses click-to-play (nothing from the player is loaded until the visitor clicks), offers YouTube’s privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com mode, and requests Vimeo’s Do Not Track (dnt=1) parameter.
This functionality is required for the plugin to display embedded videos. Provider terms and privacy policies:
* YouTube (Google): https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — https://policies.google.com/privacy
* Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/terms — https://vimeo.com/privacy
* TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-service — https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy
* WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/about/terms/ — https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
