jazzonvinyl

No problem. I’ve investigated and carried out some testing. Calling the player from youtube-nocookie.com does indeed stop the views being registered but it’s also caused by the forced autoplay parameter. Which is why no views were being registered after changing the .js files to youtube.com

I understand the logic behind the forced autoplay as it makes sense to the user if the video plays after clicking on the thumbnail. However, some website owners may want to have their plays registered (albeit at the expense of an extra user click)

I appreciate that this is a feature request but would it be possible to have an option added to load from youtube.com and an option to disable the autoplay parameter? It would be ideal if this could be built in rather than having to hack the plugin.

Thanks again for all your help!

I understand that when the video first displays it’s just the thumbnail and won’t register as a view. When I say view I mean after the user clicks on the thumbnail and the iframe loads and actually plays the video.

If I click play on a video embedded in a standard WordPress post without this plugin, I can see the realtime view appear in my YouTube Studio dashboard as I’m watching the video. If I click play on a video with this plugin, no realtime view shows in YouTube Studio.

Thanks

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the fast reply! I edited that file and also lyte.js as that had references to youtube-nocookie.com too. Is it necessary to change both?

It loads the iframe from youtube.com now but I don’t see any views being registered in YouTube Studio. I know the play count can take a while to update but I should be able to see the views registered under Analytics / Realtime.

If I embed a YouTube video in a standard WordPress post block on a site without this plugin, I can see the views being registered on YouTube in realtime.

So looks like it might be something to do with this plugin, any ideas?

Thanks for your help!