Video Slider for YouTube (Lite)

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

1. Go to YouTube Sliders → Add New
2. Give your slider a title
3. Paste YouTube URLs (one per line) — supports watch, shorts, and youtu.be links
4. Choose slider type, colors, and thumbnail mode
5. Copy the shortcode shown in the editor
6. 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.