Tubely Documentation

Overview

YouTube videos that load only when clicked: faster pages, nothing loaded from YouTube before play, local thumbnails and youtube-nocookie.

• Videos load on click
• No YouTube before play
• Faster pages

Best for: Sites with YouTube videos

Installation

1. Download tubely-privacy-youtube.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Existing YouTube embeds replaced automatically
• Thumbnail stored on your site
• Nothing loaded from YouTube before the click
• youtube-nocookie.com player
• Notice on the video
• Shortcode [tubely id="…"]
• Keyboard accessible play button

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [tubely]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• tubely_active
• tubely_sanitize

add_filter( 'tubely_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• tubely_admin_after_form
• tubely_admin_before_form
• tubely_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions