Plugin / Lazy Load for Videos

Changelog

2.7.8

• Load thumbnails for domain-restricted Vimeos (and possibly some other Vimeo cases)
• Change language “es_MX” to “es_ES”

2.7.7

• Add Spanish translation. PR from @po5i on Github: https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos/pull/34

2.7.6

• Remove “VideoObject” video attributes because some mandatory descriptors are missing

2.7.5

• Fix to allow autoplay Vimeo player on Chrome. PR from @po5i on Github: https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos/pull/33
• Fix to make Vimeo URLs with query params in it work
• Fix to prevent PHP warning “Invalid argument supplied for foreach()”

2.7.4

• Fix issue where plugin didn’t work for users who never updated the settings of this plugin

2.7.2

• Improve “Only load CSS/JS when needed” feature by scanning for embeds on pages with multiple posts (e.g. homepage, archive).
• Add filter: lazyload_videos_should_scripts_be_loaded
• No longer support “SCRIPT_DEBUG” variable for development

2.7.0

• ️️⚡ Performance: Independence from jQuery! The user-facing part of this plugin no longer requires jQuery.
• Privacy: Load all Youtube videos in privacy-enhanced mode using the https://www.youtube-nocookie.com URL
• Rewrite large parts of the JavaScript to make maintenance and open source contributions easier and less risky.
• Improve Ajax support, including support for Ajax Page Loader plugin. Thanks to @devattendant’s PR.
• Show a link to the video if the browser doesn’t support JavaScript
• Remove option to display a credit link in the top right corner of each video. This further reduces CSS and JS file sizes. Please consider donating instead: https://www.kweber.com/donate/LazyLoadVideos/.
• Remove Youtube feature “Schema.org Markup”
• Remove Youtube feature “Hide Youtube logo”
• Remove Youtube feature “Player colour” (has been deprecated for a while)
• Remove Youtube feature “Relations” (Youtube no longer supports hiding related videos)
• Remove Youtube feature “Hide title/uploader” (no longer supported by Youtube)
• Reduce risk of conflicting class names with other plugins, see issue.

2.6.0

• New feature: Hide Youtube logo from control bar by using Youtube’s modest branding feature.
• Extend iframe code with allow attribute and values recommended by Youtube.

2.5.1

• Use https for thumbnails.
• Display background correctly if same Vimeo video is placed on the same page repeatedly.

2.5

• NOTE: The HTML and CSS for videos has been adjusted, mostly affecting the Vimeo embed. If you’ve added any custom CSS, be warned. Otherwise, no need to worry.
• NOTE 2: If video titles aren’t showing as expected, click on the “Update Posts” button on the admin page for this plugin.
• A11y: Make it easier for screen readers to select both video types, Youtube and Vimeo.
• I18n: Make “Play video” text translatable.
• Fixed Vimeo title that didn’t show up if background pattern option was selected.
• Reduced CSS and JS file sizes.

2.4

• New feature: Display a pattern instead of a thumbnail and thereby avoid requests to a video platform (until the user clicks play and requests become necessary).
• Automated CSS prefixing. Some prefixes are no longer added. (Supported browsers are defined in .browserslistrc file.)
• For developers: Update all dependencies and Webpack.

2.3

• New feature: Disable lazy-loading of a single video by appending lazyload=0 to the video URL.
• Solved AMP error: “The attribute ‘video-title’ may not appear in tag ‘a’.”. NOTE: The change will only affect new and updated posts. Click on “Update Posts” in the admin panel to apply the change to all posts/pages.
• Big refactoring: The plugin’s JavaScript and CSS is now organized in modules and the output files are generated using Webpack. This refactoring makes contributions possible/easier and allows development using modern, future-proof JavaScript.

2.2.3

• Don’t show video link if preview image isn’t loaded yet.
• Wait with displaying preview image until initial resize of video is done.
• Fallback if visitor has no JavaScript: Display video title and URL.
• Feature “Player color” for Youtube videos is now deprecated because Youtube doesn’t support it for its HTML5 player.
• Reduced play button image file sizes.

2.2.2.2

• Prevent other themes/plugins (such as BBPress) from displaying Youtube videos “inline” because this causes videos not to be displayed.
• Set the default margin-bottom for iframes/embeds to “0”.

2.2.2.1

• Now you can add a custom start time to each video URL. Use it like this: …url…/watch?v=VIDEO_ID&t=XhYmZs or …/watch?v=VIDEO_ID&t=Z (replace X/Y/Z with hours/minutes/seconds). Thanks to @R33D3M33R’s PR.
• Removed “http” from URLs for https compatibility.

2.2.1.2

• Added Serbian translation by Ogi Djuraskovic.

2.2.1.1

• Fixed not working option to disable Vimeo.
• Removed callback functionality.
• Merged pull request from @R33D3M33R on Github (https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos/pull/7): Load video at custom start time wasn’t working properly. Background-image was always overriden, even if user has set a custom one.

2.2.1

• The “i” link is now optional. By default, no information link is displayed.

2.2.0.4

• Important: The wp_footer function in your theme is now required.
• Combined several JavaScript files into one. Thanks to @summatix’s PR.
• Added fallback by @summatix to load thumbnail with default quality when a high quality version is not available. Removed “Force maximum resolution” option because the fallback makes this feature unnecessary.
• Made plugin translatable.

2.2.0.3

• Fix: Updated URL definitions to improve js minify (merge request via Github by @sigginet)
• Changed the background colour of loading preview images from black to transparent. You can use the following custom CSS to use black instead: .preview-lazyload { background-color: #000 !important; }

2.2.0.2

• Fixed not working pre-roll and post-roll feature (values had not been stored).

2.2.0.1

• The pre-roll and post-roll ads feature is now available for free! Please consider an appropriate donation.
• Updated screenshots.

2.1.5.1

• Added callback function.

2.1.5

• Fix to make Vimeo working again.

2.1.4

• Improvement: MUCH ENHANCED performance when updating all posts. Fewer queries, faster execution. Should fix the “Allowed memory size exhausted” issue that appeared on large sites with many posts.
• Improvement: Support every kind of post type.
• Fix/new feature: By default, max resolution is only used when a singular post/page is displayed. Users can choose to also load high quality thumbnails on archives and other pages using a “force” checkbox.
• Fix: Replaced ‘<?=’ with ‘<?php echo’.
• Improvement: Use not minified JavaScript files when SCRIPT_DEBUG is true (defined in wp-config.php).
• Added version number to scripts.

2.1.1

• Fix: Replaced incorrect ‘INCOLL_TDM_TD’ variable.
• Fixed not correct commented out variables.
• Fix: Replaced ‘<?=’ with ‘<?php echo’.

2.1

• New feature: Add schema.org markup to your Youtube and Vimeo videos.
• New feature: Hide title/uploader. Don’t display information like the video title and uploader when the video starts playing.
• New feature: Hide annotations (such as “subscribe to channel”).
• Improved colour picker.
• Fix: Made ‘Update Posts’ working again.

2.0.7

• Added red play button to the list of play buttons.
• Added support for three more post types (any, home_slider, nectar_slider).
• Fix: Display videos on BuddyPress activity streams.
• Fix: Don’t duplicate branding links (as seen on BuddyPress activity streams).
• Fix: Actually clear oembed cache when post is updated.

2.0.6

• Improvement: Reduced memory usage when all posts are updated.
• Thumbnail size “cover” is now default.
• Fixed a responsive video bug.

2.0.5

• Fix: Manually inserted links for Youtube playlists are working again.

2.0.4

• Fix: “Update Posts” now also works for pages (not only for posts).
• Added support for several often used post types (portfolio, news, article, articles, event, events, testimonial, testimonials, client, clients).

2.0.3

• Improvement: Automatically clear oembed cache when a post is updated.

2.0.2

• Fixed “unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM”.

2.0

• New feature: Youtube and Vimeo videos are responsive now! The video height automatically adjusts to its width
• New feature: Set default thumbnail quality. Choose between standard and maximum resolution. You can override the default setting on every post and page individually.
• Two new styles for the play button: “White Pulse” and “Black Pulse”.
• Improvement: Use POST method to update all posts/pages.
• Added very basic RTL (right-to-left) language support.

1.6.2

• New feature (beta): Apply schema.org markup to videos
• Fix: The new CSS play buttons caused some errors that have been fixed with this update
• Fix: Use WordPress’ built in function to delete oembed caches. Much better performance! Now, again, do update all posts that have an oembedded medium when user activates the plugin
• Fix: Actually remove the “i” link when the option to remove it is checked
• Fix to make the plugin ready for WordPress 4.0 and its new feature to display video previews in editor

1.6.1

• Wrapped videos into a div-container.

1.6

• New feature: Choose from three play buttons (CSS-only white, CSS-only black, Youtube button image)
• New premium feature: Convert Youtube videos into a playlist and automatically add your corporate video, product teaser or another video advertisement at the end of every Youtube video
• New premium feature: Remove branding
• New feature: With a colour picker the user can choose a colour of the video controls (Vimeo only)
• New feature: Support for Youtube and Vimeo URLs in tables created with plugin TablePress
• Improvement: User must not update articles anymore when he changes setting ‘Display Youtube title’
• Fix/new feature: Users can activate an option to only load CSS/JS files on pages/posts when necessary. (It can happen that – when this option is activated – videos on pages do not lazy load although they should.)

1.5.2.1

• Fix: Do NOT update all posts that have an oembedded medium when user activates the plugin anymore

1.5.2

• New feature: When user -activates- or deactivates this plugin, all posts that have an oembedded medium will be updated once automatically
• New feature: Users can update all existing posts manually
• Improvement: Only load CSS/JS files on pages/posts when necessary

1.5

• New feature: Choose between two colours for Youtube player (dark or light)
• New feature: Support for widgets (Youtube only)
• New feature: Choose thumbnail size (standard or cover)
• New feature: Don’t display related videos at the end of your videos (Youtube only)
• New feature: Hide controls from Youtube player (Youtube only)
• New feature: Choose between two colours for Youtube player’s video progress bar to highlight the amount of the video that the viewer has already seen (red or white)

1.4.2

• Important bugfix: Plugin v1.4 has not worked for new and updated posts
• Bugfix: On some sites the plugin did not work as expected because a CSS height was not defined

1.4

• New feature: Display video titles on preview images (for Youtube and Vimeo)
• New feature: Admins can add Custom CSS via options panel

1.3

• New feature: Support for Vimeo videos!!
• New options panel for admins (now you can deactivate Lazy Load for Youtube/Vimeo in backend)
• SEO: The preview image’s title attribute contains video’s title

1.2.1

• Bugfix: ‘Infinite Scroll’ plugins are compatible with this plugin now

1.2

• Added jQuery.noConflict to avoid some bugs (See: https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.noConflict)
• This plugin now uses jQuery that comes with WordPress

1.1

• Plugin goes public.