Contributors: milindmore22

A Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo uses fancy-box(light-box) to show YouTube video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from YouTube video.

Offical Wordpress Plugin Repo : https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtubefancybox/

A Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo uses colorbox /lightbox (thanks to Jack Moore(http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/) to show YouTube video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from YouTube video. you can use it with shortcode in page, post and text widget.

`[youtube videoid="<youtube videoid goes here>" height="<height goes here>" width="<width goes here>" ]`
`[youtube url="<youtube url goes here>"]`

in the backend you can genrated shorcodes also you can set default height, width and a option to play video automatically or not

1. Upload youtubefancybox folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Place shortcode like[youtube videoid="<videoid goes here>"] in your page, post , text widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtubefancybox/faq/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtubefancybox/screenshots/

Tested upto 5.8