After creating our Youtube Video, one of those places we want to house these lovely videos is on our website and other social media channels. Embedding youtube videos in WordPress used to be a lot challenging in the past. But as WordPress continues to improve, it became easy.

With the release of WordPress 2.9, it has become easier to embed videos, images, tweets and other content on WordPress. Now you don’t need to think of coding or creating any HTML tags. You can easily place your Youtube link in the middle of your content, and your video is automatically embedded.

But you will want to stand out of the crowd. You want to create galleries or insert your entire youtube page. Before we look at plugins that can help you add some functionalities to your video, below are some reasons why you will want to use this plugin.

1. They help avoid videos slowing your website
2. They offer settings to adjust the colour, size and the general look of your website
3. They offer social media buttons to encourage others to share your video
4. They help improve privacy and consent options for embedded videos on your website
5. They offer nice looking galleries and gives you the liberty to customize them as you deem fit
6. They help you create an animation effect of diverse degrees when users hover on your video

Let us see some of these plugins