Title: WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube, Rumble & Vimeo
Author: David Vongries
Published: October 14, 2016
Last modified: February 23, 2026
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# WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube, Rumble & Vimeo
By [David Vongries](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvongries/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup.2.10.4.zip)
* [Details](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/#description)
* [Reviews](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/#installation)
* [Development](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/)
## Description
**[WP Video Popup](https://wp-video-popup.com/?utm_source=repository&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wp_video_popup)**
lets you add a responsive YouTube, Rumble or Vimeo video lightbox to any page, post
or custom post type of your website. Add beautiful, minimalist video lightbox popups
to your WordPress site with just a few clicks – **without sacrificing performance**.
### Why choose WP Video Popup?
#### ✨Effortless integration
Add a sleek, minimalist video lightbox to any page, post, or custom post type using
a simple shortcode.
#### ⚡Performance optimized
Embedding YouTube or Vimeo videos can slow down your site. With WP Video Popup,
videos are only loaded when users click to view them, ensuring fast page speeds
and optimal performance.
#### 📱Fully responsive
Our lightbox plugin adapts to all screen sizes, offering a flawless viewing experience
on any device.
#### ✅GDPR compliant
WP Video Popup is GDPR compliant. No video connections are made until the lightbox
is triggered.
### How it works
**Add the shortcode**
```
[wp-video-popup video="link-to-your-youtube-or-vimeo-video"]
```
anywhere to your post, page, custom post type or template file to embed the responsive
video lightbox to your WordPress website.
**Trigger the lightbox:** Add the CSS class `wp-video-popup` to the element that
should open the lightbox. This can be any element.
**Example (Link):**
```
```
### Example Shortcodes
For **YouTube**:
```
[wp-video-popup video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"]
```
For **Vimeo**:
```
[wp-video-popup video="https://vimeo.com/136696258"]
```
For **Rumble**:
```
[wp-video-popup video="https://rumble.com/embed/v4j2rri/?pub=4"]
```
### Shortcode attributes
Here is a list of available shortcode attributes to further customize the viewing
experience.
**Mute video:**
```
mute="1"
```
**Hide related videos (YouTube):**
Since September 2018, hiding related videos
is no longer possible. Instead, videos from your channel will be shown.
```
hide-related="1"
```
**Start video at a specific time (value in seconds):**
```
start="24"
```
**Portrait mode (Vimeo):**
```
portrait="1"
```
**Example shortcode with shortcode attributes applied:**
```
[wp-video-popup mute="1" start="24" video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"]
```
### Advanced
To add additional parameters to the embed URL, use the filter below. For example,
to remove the YouTube branding:
```
function prefix_your_custom_embed_url_attributes( $video_url ) {
$video_url .= '&modestbranding=1';
return $video_url;
}
add_filter( 'wp_video_popup', 'prefix_your_custom_embed_url_attributes' );
```
### 🚀 WP Video Popup PRO
Unlock advanced features like **video galleries**, **self-hosted videos**, **multiple
videos per page** & more with **[WP Video Popup PRO](https://wp-video-popup.com/pricing/?utm_source=repository&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wp_video_popup)**!
**PRO Features:**
* Multiple popups per page
* Self-hosted videos
* Video galleries
* Autoplay on page load
* Adjustable popup size
* Customizable Overlay background color
Get **[WP Video Popup PRO](https://wp-video-popup.com/pricing/?utm_source=repository&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wp_video_popup)**
today!
### What’s next?
If you like WP Video Popup make sure to check out our other products:
* **[Page Builder Framework](https://wp-pagebuilderframework.com/?utm_source=wp_video_popup&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=wpbf)**–
A fast & minimalistic WordPress theme designed for the new WordPress era.
* **[Ultimate Dashboard](https://ultimatedashboard.io/?utm_source=wp_video_popup&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=udb)**–
The #1 WordPress plugin to customize your WordPress dashboard and admin area.
* **[Better Admin Bar](https://betteradminbar.com/?utm_source=wp_video_popup&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=bab)**–
The plugin to make your clients enjoy WordPress. It replaces the default admin
bar to provide the best possible user experience when editing & navigating a
website.
## Screenshots
[⌊Live example⌉⌊Live example⌉[
Live example
[⌊Desktop example⌉⌊Desktop example⌉[
Desktop example
[⌊Mobile example⌉⌊Mobile example⌉[
Mobile example
## Installation
1. Download the responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup.zip file to your computer.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Upload the `responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup` folder to your `/wp-content/plugins/`
directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the _Plugins_ menu in WordPress.
## FAQ
### How do i use this plugin?
WP Video Popup doesn’t create an admin settings page. To trigger and display the
lightbox popup, please follow the steps under **Description**.
### The video doesn’t play automatically
We add the autoplay attribute to the embed-URL by default. That being said, the
video should play automatically after the trigger element has been clicked. Some
browsers have changed their autoplay policy and videos only start playing if they’re
muted.
To mute the video, add the `mute="1"` attribute to the shortcode like this:
```
[wp-video-popup mute="1" video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"]
```
## Reviews
### [Excellent Idea – thank you](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-idea-thank-you/)
[dffgraphics](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dffgraphics/) November 7, 2025
thank you – great add on for website
### [SKT Theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skt-theme/)
[enamul3266](https://profiles.wordpress.org/enamul3266/) August 20, 2024
Excellent service
### [Brilliant Plugin – worth installing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brilliant-plugin-worth-installing/)
[doctoremote](https://profiles.wordpress.org/doctoremote/) April 11, 2024
This is a brilliant plug in and well worth installing. Works like a charm. Good
documentation.
### [Works Fine for my needs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-fine-for-my-needs/)
[graphixguy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/graphixguy/) February 22, 2024
Thank you!
### [Fine for my needs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fine-for-my-needs-2/)
[saligramon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saligramon/) January 1, 2024
Thank you very much!
### [works great, thank you](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-thank-you-64/)
[oliverfritsch](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oliverfritsch/) December 11, 2023
Have been using the Plugin for a few years and its working great, Thanks!!
[ Read all 43 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube, Rumble & Vimeo” is open
source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ David Vongries ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvongries/)
[Translate “WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube, Rumble & Vimeo” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/)
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## Changelog
#### 2.10.4 February 19, 2026
* New: Added native support for private Vimeo videos
* Tested up to WordPress 6.9
#### 2.10.3 November 04, 2025
* Fixed: Security improvements
* Tweak: Code quality and translation consistency
#### 2.10.2 June 05, 2025
* Tested up to WordPress 6.8
#### 2.10.1 August 27, 2024
* Tweak: Added support for Rumble video URLs, allowing users to provide the video
URL directly instead of the embed URL
#### 2.10 August 23, 2024
* New: Added support for Rumble videos
* Tested up to WordPress 6.6
#### 2.9.7 May 10, 2024
* Tested up to WordPress 6.5
#### 2.9.6 December 01, 2023
* Tested up to WordPress 6.4
#### 2.9.5 April 17, 2023
* Tested up to WordPress 6.2
* Minor tweaks & improvements
#### 2.9.4 November 11, 2022
* Tested up to WordPress 6.1
* Removed deprecated webkitallowfullscreen & mozallowfullscreen
#### 2.9.3 July 01, 2022
* Tested up to WordPress 6.0
#### 2.9.2 March 02, 2022
* Tested up to WordPress 5.9
* Updated plugin description
#### 2.9.1 March 15, 2021
* Slight improvements to the settings page design
* Tested up to WordPress 5.7
#### 2.9 February 23, 2021
* Refactored settings page design
#### 2.8.1 December 04, 2020
* WordPress 5.6 compatibility
* Minor tweaks & improvements
#### 2.8 June 17, 2020
* Maintenance release
#### 2.7 October 15, 2019
* New: Added support for portrait videos (Vimeo). To declare a vertical Vimeo video,
simply add the `portrait="1"` parameter to your shortcode.
#### 2.6 September 26, 2019
* Code improvements
#### 2.5.1 September 16, 2019
* Fixed: Safari full-screen mode doesn’t work
#### 2.5 August 27, 2019
* New: youtube-nocookie.com support
* Deprecated: vimeo=”1″ parameter to declare a Vimeo video. No longer required.
We now check that for you in the background.
* Tweak: Improved backwards compatibility
* Overall code improvements
#### 2.4 April 8, 2019
* Tweak: Added allow=”autoplay” parameter to iframe to allow autoplay in Chrome(
thanks @owenmack)
* Fixed: A bug where URL parameters weren’t added properly using shortcode attributes
* Fixed: Vimeo video was not muted with mute=”1″
* Deprecated: hide-related shortcode attribute
#### 2.3 December 12, 2018
* New: Shortcode attributes to add URL parameters (mute, hide-related, start)
* Tweak: Updated PAnD to the latest version
* Tested up to WordPress 5.0
#### 2.2 September 23, 2018
* New: Filter to add attributes to the embed-URL
#### 2.1 September 4, 2018
* New: Minor tweaks & improvements
#### 2.0 August 25, 2018
* New: Shortcode has changed to [wp-video-popup video=”link-to-your-video”] for
YouTube videos and [wp-video-popup vimeo=”1″ video=”link-to-your-video”] for
vimeo videos
* New: Instead of the embed-URL, the direct YouTube/Vimeo video link can now be
used in the shortcode
* Fixed: Nesting the shortcode causes other elements overlapping the lightbox
* 100% backwards compatibility
* Minor CSS tweaks and improvements
#### 1.1.2 05/16/2017
* Removed admin notice
* Updated plugin description
#### 1.1.1 05/20/2017
* New: Elementor support – by adding !important to the video iframe width and max-
width attributes to prevent Elementor (and others) from overriding.
#### 1.1 02-27-2017
* Stability & maintenance release
* New: Use ESC-key on your keyboard to close the popup
#### 1.0.1
* Tweak: Increased z-index to make sure ryv-popup is on top
#### 1.0
* Initial release
## Meta
* Version **2.10.4**
* Last updated **8 months ago**
* Active installations **9,000+**
* WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
* Tested up to **6.9.10**
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/)
* Tags
* [video lightbox](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-lightbox/)[video popup](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-popup/)
[vimeo lightbox](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/vimeo-lightbox/)[youtube lightbox](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/youtube-lightbox/)
* [Advanced View](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/advanced/)
## Ratings
4.1 out of 5 stars.
* [ 30 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/reviews/?filter=5)
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* [ 7 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/reviews/?filter=1)
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## Contributors
* [ David Vongries ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvongries/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
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