YouTube Showcase Pro

Give YouTube videos a browsable home on your site

YouTube Showcase Pro is a paid WordPress edition for presenting videos as responsive galleries, playlists, and grids. Creators, bloggers, marketers, and other site owners can organize a video collection for users to view on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Choose how videos enter the collection

For individual videos, enter the 11-character YouTube Video ID from the video URL in the WordPress dashboard. The extension uses that ID to fetch the video content. To include an entire channel or playlist, configure automatic synchronization, which reduces the need to add videos one by one. Optimized embed loading is also supported.

Build and preview a gallery in your preferred editor

Use the Visual Block in the Block Editor to create galleries and playlists. Its sidebar preview shows setting changes as you work, so you can adjust the display without saving and refreshing the page. Shortcodes are available for websites using a classic editing process.

Use layouts to shape how visitors browse

A cinematic playlist pairs a large featured player with thumbnail navigation. Responsive video grids offer another way to explore a collection, with Pro adding masonry, Coverflow, and other grid layouts. Layouts adjust for tablet and mobile screens, and playlist navigation switches to an icon-based system on mobile.

Help visitors find and watch a video

Pro supports lightbox playback, allowing a video to open in a popup while visitors remain on the current page. Frontend filtering and search help visitors browse by category or tag. Add custom text for each video: the full content appears on its single video page, while an excerpt can appear below the main video in a gallery.

Choose 16:9 or 4:3 thumbnail options to fit the display. Video URL slugs can be adjusted for your branding. Automated video pages provide an individual page for each video, with WordPress comments enabled.

Set up the display before publishing

After adding the add-on to WordPress, open the Video menu in the dashboard to enter video IDs or configure synchronization for a channel or playlist. Design a gallery with the YouTube Showcase block, or use a shortcode for a classic editing workflow. The Optional Setup Assistant can create a ready-to-use gallery page and a four-column responsive grid page. Then select the layout, thumbnail ratio, categories, text, and Pro display options before publishing.