Smart YouTube PRO: A Leading Edge Video Plugin

By Preeti Singhal Our Bestseller: WordPress Themes

In today’s scenarioare becoming the heart of online content. Whether you want to deliver some useful information about the latest technology or you want to drive out your new product through ads, video presentation is the powerful tool as it increases the engagement time of viewers and retains long term audience on your content. I think, it would be fair enough to say that it is an attractive platform to share information worldwide.

Including videos in your blogs and webpages will increase the opportunity for users to gain easily consumable content and absorb information quickly because sometimes lengthy text does not work in the way it should do. In another way if your content encapsulate information in text and videoformat, users will get the best from you as they want it .

It is said that pictures speak a thousand things more than words promptly . A blog by HubSpotclearly specifies that 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in the brain than text .

Additionally it provides stability for the users to access information quickly instead of going through the long textual procedure again and again. Don’t get me wrong I am not backbiting textual content, I am just saying video contents gives strength to your textual content and viewers can grasp information frequently while accessing video contents. Hence, it is a powerful feature that enables your users to get acknowledged with your web contents easily.

WordPress contains lots of plugins that gives the facility to insert videos in your blog post but amongst them Smart YouTube PROplugin is very popular and has completed more than one million downloads. It’s a very handy plugin through which you can insert multiple videos in your blogs in a very few steps. You have to need to insert the video URL with appropriate suffix on your post in the following manner:

httpv: // -Video URL: Applied for regular videos. httpvh: // -Video URL: Applied for HD video. httpvp: // -Video URL: Use to display video playlist. httpvhp: // -Video URL: Use to display HD playlist.

Smart YouTube PRO is developed bywho is the product architect and CEO of Prelovac Media, a website developer, active WordPress community contributor, founder of Manage WPand many more. He is one of the famous person who has ranked among world’s top 100 influences in Social Media in 2012. You can find more relevant information about him on his own website.

Advantages Of  Smart YouTube PRO Plugin:

It is a powerful method to insert regular/HD videos in your blog posts. It provides facilities to use video as a thumbnail in your posts and it works on iPhone, iPad, iPod. In addition to YouTube videos you can also include Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook videos in normal or high definition mode on your posts. Besides it contains a widget which you can drag and drop in the sidebar widget where you can show videos. Additionally it has inbuilt designed frames called Colorbox which can be integrated all over around the videos, hence it gives an attractive look at your post. It allows autoplay for the first video in case you include multiple videos in your blogs/webpages. Apart from this you can include your videos in your RSS feed account too.

How To Install Smart YouTube PRO Plugin :

The Smart YouTube PRO plugin is very simple to implement and configure on your website. You can integrate it with any of the website themes, though I have used this plugin in the InkThemes Colorwaytheme.

First off install any suitable theme on your dashboard.
Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Themes -> Add New -> Install Themes.

Install the theme and activate it. To add the plugin go to your dashboard and follow these steps:
Dashboard -> Plugin s -> Add New

After that a page will appear with the heading Install Plugins option. Enter the plugin name in the search bar and click on Search Plugins button. You can see a screen with Smart YouTube PROoption, click on the Install Now button.

In the next step, activate the plugin. You can see a Smart Youtube icon appears under the dashboard. How To Use The Smart YouTube PRO Plugin?

Once you activate the plugin on your dashboard you need to configure it according to your requirement. Follow the steps given below:

Go to
Dashboard -> Smart YouTube -> Settings. Settings screen will appear.

When you click on view instructions option you will see the area where you find all the easy steps to use Smart Youtube PRO plugin. See the screenshot below:

Set the width and height of the videos. You can keep different dimensions for both regular videos and HD videos in Video width and height in normal mode (httpv: //) and Video width and height in high qual ity mo de (httpvh: //) respectively. To set the dimensions follow these steps:
Go to
Dashboard -> Smart YouTube -> Options -> Video Appearance. See below the screenshot:

Here I will give you an example how you can insert videos into your posts/pages with relevant content. Insert Videos In Posts: First off, make a post page on your website, follow  the steps given below:
Dashboard -> Posts -> AddNew. Note: If you are using any of the InkThemes , make sure your blog page should be set Blog Pa ge template than only all your  blog posts will be able to display correctly. Now give a suitable title to your posts insert the video URL in it. Just copy the video URL and paste it on your post with the appropriate suffix as mentioned above. Keep in mind  video URL should not be clickable as you can see in the screenshot below:

Once you insert the video URL  and save the changes and then visit your website’s blog page. You can see the result  in the below  screenshot:

You can set any of your important videos as a thumbnail in your blog posts . To do this follow the steps given below:
Go to Dashboard -> Smart YouTube -> Settings -> Options -> Video Appearance Choose
Thumbnail option from the dropdown list next to the field show embeds in post excerpts as . See the screenshot below:

Just copy and paste the required video url with the appropriate suffix. If you have embedded multiple videos then first video will be set as thumbnail in your particular post, to get a crystal clear view see the screenshot below: Insert Videos In Web Pages: You can add videos in your web pages by the same  method used while inserting videos in blog-posts. First off, create new pages with appropriate titles on your dashboard.
Go to Dashboard -> Pages -> Add New . Now paste the video url with appropriate suffix as shown below, save the contents and visit your site.

Once you insert the URL in your page, visit your webpage and see the  result. Below is a screenshot for reference:

Insert Videos On Sideba r:

Smart YouTube PRO is also a widgetized plugin so you can insert videos in sidebar. Just follow the steps given below.

Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widget

There you can see the Smart YouTube plugin widget as shown in below screenshot:

Drag and drop Smart YouTube  widget to the sidebar widget where you want to display videos as shown below: Now visit your website and see the look given below in the screenshot: If you want to give a different look to your videos, you can do it through inbuilt designed frames or Colorbox around videos. To set the Colorbox  follow the steps given below:
Go to Dashboard -> Smart YouTube -> Colorbox Options . Set the theme from the dropdown list next to Choose Colorbox theme and click on Update options button. See the image below for reference: Conclusion:

It’s a matter of fact the more you create an easy capturing customer’s grabbing content, more you invite success for your blog and sustainability in the blogging world. Textual blogging is the core of blogging, nothing can substitute it but it can be made more interesting with videos and other things.

Besides, if you are acknowledged with a handy video insertion platform like Smart YouTube PRO which allows simplified manner of including videos in your blog, then you are in a way to make your  blogs more user-friendly.

About Preeti Singhal
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I believe that experimental learning paves the way for overall development. I love to know about new things and share it with others. Blogging is a creative platform to share your ideas worldwide. Here, I am doing the same for others.

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