WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Youtube Sidebar Widget http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1 WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Youtube Sidebar Widget en Sat, 25 May 2013 06:55:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 garyploski on "Youtube Sidebar Widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1#post-1140594 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:53:08 +0000 garyploski 1140594@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's just it, the plugin noted above makes a video fill the screen so that it can be watched in a decent size compared an embed whether it is in a sidebar or footer.

Sundance only displays a video on the front page which is limiting to video content creators who also blog.

]]> timethief on "Youtube Sidebar Widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1#post-1140569 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:07:37 +0000 timethief 1140569@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Answer: I don't know about other people. I don't watch any youtube videos on blogs in posts, let alone, in sidebars, unless they display at full size the way the Sundance theme displays them I click through to view them on youtube's site.

]]> timethief on "Youtube Sidebar Widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1#post-1140563 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:04:42 +0000 timethief 1140563@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Here is a useful post re: sidebar widths for most of the free themes http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/sidebar-width/

]]> garyploski on "Youtube Sidebar Widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1#post-1138652 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:22:23 +0000 garyploski 1138652@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ True, though 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.

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?

]]> timethief on "Youtube Sidebar Widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1#post-1138365 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:41:36 +0000 timethief 1138365@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Youtube videos can also be added to your sidebar this way:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/gigya-shortcode-1-videos/

]]> garyploski on "Youtube Sidebar Widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/youtube-sidebar-widget-1#post-1138358 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:32:34 +0000 garyploski 1138358@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.

There is a perfectly awesome widget that fits perfectly into WordPress.com blogs. 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/

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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