Description
Velocity is an alternative loading method to the standard to YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Soundcloud iframe embeds.
With Velocity you will decrease the loading time and increase overall performance of your website by lazy loading media on-demand instead of on initial page load.
To add Velocity to your site, simply create a Velocity shortcode by selecting a preview image and media type using the intuitive shortcode builder then add the generated snippet to your page.
Shortcode Parameters
- type – Choose a media type [youtube, vimeo, twitch, soundcloud].
- id – The ID of the media item.
- options – Add optional styling and display parameters for the embedded media – e.g. rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0.
- playlist – Is this a Soundcloud playlist [true/false].
- img – The path to the preview image.
- alt – The alternative text to be attached to the preview image.
- color – Play button arrow color.
- bkg_color – Play button background color.
Example Shortcode
[velocity type="youtube" id="239793212" img="https://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/image-1263626715.jpg" alt="Play Video"]
Tested Browsers
- Firefox (Mac, PC)
- Chrome (Mac, PC, iOS, Android)
- Safari (Mac, iOS)
- IE10+
- Android (Native)
- BB10 (Native)
Website
https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/
Screenshots
Settings. 
Velocity shortcode builder. 
Add Velocity (page/post edit screen). 
Velocity lightbox (page/post edit screen).
Installation
How to install Velocity.
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Search for ‘Velocity’
- Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select
velocity.zipfrom your computer - Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download
velocity.zip - Extract the
velocitydirectory to your computer - Upload the
velocitydirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
FAQ
- What are the steps to getting Velocity integrated on my website
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- Create your Velocity shortcode.
- Add the shortcode to your page, by adding it through the content editor or placing it directly within one of your template files.
- Load a page with Velocity in place, click the preview image and load your media.
Reviews
maxplateau
May 28, 2020
Excellent plugin qui permet un affichage beaucoup plus rapide de la page !
treeflips
August 22, 2020
I wish it could manually grab the image thumbnail for me and load locally. The manual builder is enough work as it is.
Thank you for this great plugin, though.
It is one if the plugins that “just works”.
Awesome.
Thanks!
The plugin works great and does everything that promises.
But what I appreciate the most is that Darren, who develops the plugin, is always listening, helping and implementing new suggestions. When you choose a plugin for your website, is important to make sure it’s regularly updated and won’t be abandoned. Darren puts a lot of effort on this aspect. In fact, all the plugins he creates are pure gold.
Thanks a lot for all your work and effort.
Keep up the good work, man!
An excellent plugin, and one of the easiest to use that I’ve seen. Some people may want control over additional parameters, in which case look elsewhere, but if you just want to put lazy loading videos on a page as simply and quickly as possible, I’d highly recommend this.
It also does away with YouTube’s related videos, which is another huge plus point in my book.
Contributors & Developers
“Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.2.1 – January 4, 2020
- UPDATE – Update admin CSS styling for issues with new WordPress 5.3 accessibility styles.
- UPDATE – Improved meta data classes.
1.2.0 – July 23, 2019
- NEW – Added Twitch support.
- NEW – Added responsive styling for play button.
- NEW – Added focus state for accessibility.
- NEW – Add SEO Metadata to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitch embeds. YouTube and Twitch metadata is still a work in progress and will be evolving.
- FIX – Removed issue with
.clearfixclass causing issue with page builders
1.1.1 – March 17, 2017
- FIX – Patch for PHP warning regarding $soundcloud_type variable.
1.1 – March 14, 2017
- Added fade out transition from preview image to media embed.
- Added new
optionsshortcode parameter to pass various options to embed video – e.g. autoplay=1&loop=1&title=0 - Added support for Soundcloud playlists – e.g. [velocity type=”soundcloud” playlist=”true” id=”1659224″ alt=”Play” color=”#FFFFFF” bkg_color=”#000000″]).
- UI Updates and enhancements.
1.0.1 – May 10, 2016
- Adding .min js file
- Adding support for loading Velocity media with Ajax
1.0 – March 3, 2016
- Initial Plugin Release