Best shorts plugins for WordPress
The most popular shorts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Video Slider for YouTube (Lite) leads with 30+ active installs, ahead of Qaiyo Social Video Embed (10+) and Devexis Floating Video Widget (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “shorts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 shorts plugins
- 1.
Video Slider for YouTube (Lite)The most installed shorts plugin, with 30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Qaiyo Social Video Embed10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Devexis Floating Video WidgetFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “shorts”
Video Slider for YouTube (Lite)
Up in the last 7 days:194#25,184by Furkan Türker7 months ago
Embed beautiful, responsive YouTube sliders on any page. Supports Normal (16:9) and Shorts (9:16) with thumbnail lazy-loading for faster page speed.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Qaiyo Social Video Embed
Up in the last 7 days:2,834#31,876by qaiyo1 month ago
TikTok, YouTube (Shorts + regular) and Vimeo in one mixed gallery, with YouTube channel feeds, lightbox playback and VideoObject structured data.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Devexis Floating Video Widget
#73,132by Devexis India1 month ago
Floating autoplay video preview with a centered Reels-style viewer for MP4/WebM and YouTube videos.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day