Best video embed plugins for WordPress
The most popular video embed plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Really Simple Featured Video for Posts, Pages & WooCommerce Products leads with 4K+ active installs, ahead of Wonder Video Embed (4K+) and Video Player Block (2K+). All 22 plugins tagged “video embed” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 video embed plugins
- 1.
Really Simple Featured Video for Posts, Pages & WooCommerce ProductsThe most installed video embed plugin, with 4K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 34 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 2.
Wonder Video Embed4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Video Player Block2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 4.
SmartVideo1K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 19 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 5.
Gumlet Video300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
VidSEO100+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 6 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
FAT Cooming Soon100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.
Faster YouTube Embed100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 9.
RuTube Widum Player90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 10.
VidLive70+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
All 22 plugins tagged “video embed”
Really Simple Featured Video for Posts, Pages & WooCommerce Products
Down in the last 7 days:8#3,243by JetixWP Plugins6 days ago
Really Simple Featured Video lets you add product video & featured video to WooCommerce Products & Posts, Pages, CPTs (with featured images) a …
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.0(34)
- Downloads
- 66/day
Wonder Video Embed
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,366by WonderPlugin13 days ago
Embed MP4, Youtube, Vimeo, Wistia videos to the sidebar widget, WordPress posts and pages.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Video Player Block
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,293by bPlugins5 days ago
Video player block for Gutenberg – embed and play YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted HTML5 videos in a responsive, customizable player.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 53/day
SmartVideo
Down in the last 7 days:29#5,342by JDAdmin13 days ago
Lightweight HTML5 video player and video hosting with CDN built for WordPress
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(19)
- Downloads
- 50/day
Gumlet Video
Up in the last 7 days:104#10,763by adityapatadia2 months ago
Official Gumlet plugin: embed and upload video with a block or shortcodes, plus watermarking and analytics. Gumlet account and API key required.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
VidSEO
Down in the last 7 days:68#13,560by Pagup7 months ago
Expose video transcripts as native HTML so search engines and language models can read video content.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
FAT Cooming Soon
Down in the last 7 days:46#14,274by roninwp1 year ago
FAT Coming Soon is WordPress plugin help you easy create coming soon or maintain page with power full panel, you can change all colors, font sizes and …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Faster YouTube Embed
Down in the last 7 days:387#15,532by HT Plugins5 months ago
Faster YouTube Embed enables you to insert YouTube videos to any page and post quickly and efficiently & you’ll have no hassle of slow YouTube vid …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RuTube Widum Player
Up in the last 7 days:29#16,973by Widum Creative Studio1 year ago
RuTube Widum Player позволяет легко встраивать видео с RuTube на ваш сайт WordPress.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VidLive
Up in the last 7 days:81#18,450by northify5 years ago
Easily add your VidLive widgets in WordPress. VidLive is the easiest way to automatically stream “Currently Live" Facebook or YouTube video from …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shortcodes for Rumble
Down in the last 7 days:213#21,446by WMEric4 years ago
Being that there wasn't a plugin to ensure a good video embed of Rumble videos, Shortcodes for Rumble was born. Simple to use and developer frien …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Youtube Widget
Up in the last 7 days:102#23,135by UjW0L6 years ago
Plugin that provides users option to display Youtube Widget on the Sidebar or Footer
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPJ Sticky Video
Up in the last 7 days:783#25,455by treeflips5 months ago
Display video embeds with a floating video effect, fixed to the page corner during scroll.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vimeify
#30,933by CodeVerve7 months ago
Easily upload and embed Vimeo videos directly from your WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Winsome Responsive Video
Up in the last 7 days:5,537#42,222by masumabdullah11 years ago
This plugin will embed youtube,vimeo and dailymotion video on your wordpress site fully responsively.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SM YouTube Video iFrame
#48,378by Mahabubur Rahman9 years ago
The pluging for embed youtube video using youtube video id.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dadan
#62,413by dadanwp4 days ago
Add a record button to your site. Visitors record their screen or webcam for free, with no account or install, and you get the video.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 71/day
Simply Featured Video
#62,684by zwwuu3 years ago
Simply Featured Video allows you to set a featured video from media library, YouTube, Vimeo, and more.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FAT Editor Add On
Up in the last 7 days:2,426#63,272by roninwp9 years ago
FAT Editor AddOn is a WordPress plugin which allows you create highlight text, text with twitter share, video embed (youtube and vimeo)
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VidUP Player
#69,909by vidupco13 days ago
A business video app with an auto-updating video player. Set your video embed once; every new video appears on the same player.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
thevitaminshots Video CTA & Lead Capture
Down in the last 7 days:13,361#73,523by thevitaminshots3 months ago
Embed YouTube, Vimeo & MP4 videos with beautiful custom players, call-to-action overlays, lead capture forms and analytics. Free.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day