Embed YouTube in WordPress without slowing it down
A YouTube video shows as a still poster with a round play button. The player only loads when someone clicks, in place or in a popup.
Type
A Grinner block
Find it
Press + and search “Video Embed”
Phones
The ripple keeps running, there’s no hover to stop it
Speed
YouTube’s player loads only on click
Nothing loads until you press play.
This is the real Video Embed block, running on this page.
Settings Open in popup on Pulsate play button on custom poster
The settings worth knowing.
The poster, the button and where the video plays.
Aspect ratio
Wide or upright
Auto, which makes Shorts upright, Landscape 16:9 or Portrait 9:16.
Press play to open it over the page
Open in popup
In place or popup
Off plays in the page, on opens a popup over it.
Select poster
Your own poster
Use your own image instead of YouTube’s thumbnail.
Pulsate play button
Ripples
Two rings ripple out from the play button every 2.4 seconds.
Three steps. No new tool.
Fair questions.
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