Youtube Autoplay

Go to Settings > Plugins > WP Video Lightbox, and set this to “true”
$vid_lightbox_autoplay = 'true';

I personally did not find a setting section for WP Video Lightbox. Also, adding &autoplay=1 to the link doesn’t work either. This is what I did instead:

1. Go to plugins.

2. Under “WP-Video-Lightbox”, click “Edit.” This opens the relevant plugin files.

3. You will automatically open the 1st file (wp-video-lightbox/wp-video-lightbox.php). Scroll to the middle of the file and you should see:

$vid_lightbox_autoplay = ‘false’;

4. Change ‘false’ to ‘true’.

5. Celebrate.

-RON

Thanks tzzel, that worked a treat! ??

My code doesn’t have that. Where do I insert the “$vid_lightbox_autoplay = ‘false’;?”

Open the “wp-video-lightbox/js/video-lightbox.js” file and search the following:

autoplay: false

Once you find it, change it to the following:

autoplay: true

Hey there – I found a solution to this for Lightbox Plus Colorbox. Simply add:

“?rel=0&autoplay=1”

to the end of your Youtube embed link, and the video should play automatically. No change of settings required.

Hope that helps!

@tmcguinness I tried your suggestion and that doesn’t work for me.

changing false to true does work, but can this not be accomplished with the shortcode so a plugin update doesn’t reset this value?

I was able to get a Vimeo video to successfully auto play with shortcode by adding “?autoplay=1” to the end of the video ID.

Example:

[video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id= 12345678?autoplay=1 width=xx height=xx anchor=”xx”]

Where 12345678 is the Vimeo video ID. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestion Mike.

I just tried and it didn’t work for YouTube.

[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=tMfu5aSXU8U?autoplay=1 width=640 height=360 anchor=”Watch Our Video”]

Will you try my code on your site just to see if it works for you?

Any update on this on a PER LINK basis please?

Working for me:

VIMEO: add ‘&autoplay=1’ to link

YOUTUBE: add ‘?rel=0&autoplay=1’ to link