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WP PlugIndex currently records Iframe Block – Easy Embed Block for YouTube, Vimeo & More version 1.1.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Iframe Block adds one dedicated block for every external embed that has no first-party core block: videos, maps, audio players, dashboards, booking tools, donation widgets, LMS players, calendars and forms.
Paste a link, pick a ratio, publish. be/… share link or a Vimeo unlisted link just works.
What you get
Responsive aspect ratios — 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 21:9 and 9:16 reserve the space before the embed loads, so nothing jumps around while the page renders. Fixed pixel heights are still available for maps, forms and dashboards.
Smart URL handling — YouTube watch, share, Shorts, live and embed links, playlists and start times (?t=1m30s ) are normalised. Vimeo watch, channel, group and unlisted (hash) links become proper player URLs.
Privacy mode — one toggle switches YouTube to youtube-nocookie.com, so no viewing cookies are set until playback starts.
Lazy-loading that behaves — each block gets its own load margin, embeds load once and never reload on scroll, and the small helper script is only enqueued on pages that actually contain a lazy embed. Optional “watch for dynamic content” also covers embeds inserted later by sliders, tabs or infinite scroll.
SEO and accessibility markup — semantic figure / figcaption, a required accessible title on every iframe, and a noscript fallback link to the embed for crawlers and script-less visitors.
Safe by default — only http(s) URLs are accepted, inline styles are filtered for known XSS vectors, sandbox tokens are validated, and referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" is always set.
Pair it with your SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO, The SEO Framework) for meta tags, schema and sitemaps.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
google maps
embed
iframe
vimeo
youtube
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity26 Aug 20262mo ago
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