WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Add 'Youtube Sidebar Widget' to pool of widgets http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-youtube-sidebar-widget-to-pool-of-widgets WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Add 'Youtube Sidebar Widget' to pool of widgets en Fri, 24 May 2013 22:15:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 garyploski on "Add 'Youtube Sidebar Widget' to pool of widgets" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-youtube-sidebar-widget-to-pool-of-widgets#post-1140597 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:56:47 +0000 garyploski 1140597@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The other post was added to the wrong forum so I added it here because it is an idea for a widget not an available WP widget.

]]> timethief on "Add 'Youtube Sidebar Widget' to pool of widgets" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-youtube-sidebar-widget-to-pool-of-widgets#post-1140561 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:03:11 +0000 timethief 1140561@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Duplicate. See > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1?replies=3#post-1138652

]]> garyploski on "Add 'Youtube Sidebar Widget' to pool of widgets" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-youtube-sidebar-widget-to-pool-of-widgets#post-1140535 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:30:28 +0000 garyploski 1140535@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Many of us have heard of a little site called YouTube though the only way we can share YouTube videos is in a Post or a Page. Why stop there, WordPress? I'm at a loss why there is no better option in the available widgets. Embedding code into a Text Widget offers a very poor user experience.

The gigya method is more or less the same as using the Text Widget. The video size remains small which is not a good user experience.

There is an awesome widget that would fit perfectly into WordPress.com blogs because it presents a YouTube video, a playlist or a username's videos larger than an embed and keeps the reader/viewer on the blog. Win/Win!

Youtube Sidebar Widget
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-sidebar-widget/

How often does anyone watch a video that is the size of a sidebar and how many people actually know how to enlarge a YouTube video without ending up on YouTube.com vs staying on the site with the embeded video?

I can't be the only one who would love to use this on their site. WP Team, please add this widget to the wp.com widget pool. =)

Who else is with me?

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