Qaiyo Social Video Embed

Description

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.
• VideoObject structured data — Every embedded video is described with Schema.org JSON-LD (title, thumbnail, player URL, upload date, duration), so search engines and AI answer engines understand the page. Each video is described once per page; switch it off in the settings if another plugin already does this.
• Customizable play button — Background and icon color configurable in the admin.
• Resilient cache — Metadata is cached; when a platform is down, a channel gallery keeps showing the last videos it read instead of going blank, and a failing feed is not retried on every page view.
• YouTube nocookie support — GDPR-friendly privacy-enhanced mode.
• 4 display modes — single, grid, carousel, list.
• Accessible — Descriptive labels, keyboard support, a focus-trapped lightbox dialog.
• 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 videos
• https://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. The feed lists a channel’s latest 15 uploads. Handle URLs (/@name) and custom URLs (/c/name) cannot be resolved without the YouTube Data API, which this plugin does not use — paste the /channel/UC… URL instead. The feed does not say which uploads are Shorts, so /shorts shows the latest uploads vertically rather than filtering them.

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.com or www.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/privacy/