Video Slider for YouTube (Lite)

Video Slider for YouTube (Lite) lets you create unlimited, fully responsive YouTube video sliders — no coding required.

✨ Key Features

• Unlimited slider sets — create as many sliders as you need

• Normal (16:9) & Shorts (9:16) — each slider can be a different format

• Thumbnail lazy-load — shows a clickable thumbnail instead of an iframe, dramatically reducing page load time and improving Core Web Vitals

• Per-slider arrow & dot colors — match your brand with a color picker

• Autoplay & loop control — toggle via shortcode attributes

• Swiper-powered — smooth, touch-friendly sliding on all devices

• Works everywhere — Gutenberg, Elementor, Classic Editor, and any page builder that supports shortcodes

🚀 How to Use

• Go to YouTube Sliders → Add New

• Give your slider a title

• Paste YouTube URLs (one per line) — supports watch, shorts, and youtu.be links

• Choose slider type, colors, and thumbnail mode

• Copy the shortcode shown in the editor

• Paste [youtube_slider id="123"] anywhere on your site

⚙️ Shortcode Options

[youtube_slider id="123"] [youtube_slider id="123" type="shorts"] [youtube_slider id="123" autoplay="false" loop="false"]

Attribute

Values

Default

Description

id

post ID

—

Required. The slider post ID

type

normal, shorts

(saved setting)

Override the slider type

autoplay

true, false

true

Auto-advance slides

loop

true, false

true

Loop back to the first slide

🎬 Thumbnail Mode

When enabled, each slide shows a YouTube thumbnail image. The iframe loads only when the user clicks Play — this means zero YouTube scripts are loaded until needed, improving page speed significantly.

🌍 Translations

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