IX Show Latest YouTube

Provides a shortcode and a template tag to embed the latest video or current live stream of a specified YouTube channel.

Author:Ixiter IT - Peter Liebetrau (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.4
WordPress version tested:4.0.1
Plugin version:2.4.4
Added to WordPress repository:17-11-2012
Last updated:03-12-2014
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. 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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Total downloads:9 026
Active installs:300+
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The plugin provides a shortcode and a template tag to embed the latest video or current live stream of one or more YouTube channels. It comes with an options page to let you set the default options for YouTube ID(s), width, height, autoplay and count of latest videos to embed. You can customize these parameters with the shortcode and template tag if needed.

This also works great with YouTube Live, by following this fallback progression.

  1. If you're currently live, display the live video.
  2. If you're not currently live, display the next upcoming live event.
  3. If there is no upcoming live event, display the text from Settings > Ixiter Show Latest YT > Show message if not broadcasting.
  4. If there is no "not broadcasting" message, show the most recent YouTube video(s) from your channel(s).

This plugin is now frequently maintained by Daniel J. Lewis from The Audacity to Podcast.