ARVE Pro
- Lazyload Make your site load faster by loading only a image instead of the entire video player on pageload.
- Lightbox Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a preview image.
- Link > Lightbox Use simple links as triggers for lightboxed videos.
- Prevent video hosts to lead your visitors away from your site by disabling links in embedded video players. For example: A click on a title in a YouTube embed will not open a new tab. *
- Automatic or custom thumbnail images and titles.
- Expand on click.
- Show the latest video of a YouTube channel by using the channel URL (updated/cached hourly)
- Responsive thumbnails.
- Automatic or custom thumbnail images.
- Automatic or custom titles displayed on top of your thumbnails.
- Two hover styles and two play icon styles to choose from.
- Support my over five years work on the plugin and addons.
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The lifetime option is a one time payment, all other purchase options are billed yearly. You may cancel your subscription at any time. Addons subject to yearly license for support and updates.Lazyload
Embed Videos like the professionals do it. This technique is utilized by many big websites.
Play icon: YouTube, Hover Style: Zoom
Play icon: Circle, Hover Style: Rectangle
The iframe embed method loads a entire website from the video host. A YouTube embed page is a whopping 561.9 kb. So your page is basically loading another website inside your website for every video you embed. This is very bad for performance reasons especially on slow connections. ARVE Pro loads a chunk of HTML with useful SEO data and a thumbnail image instead. The video is only loaded when the user clicks on the thumbnail so your site will finish loading fast.
Lightbox Example
Lightbox
Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a preview image.
Link > Lightbox
Lets you easy setup links like this one to open a lightbox.
Thumbnails in ARVE Pro does not necessary mean small images. You can set your own images. Most providers, which support automatic thumbnails also support HD thumbnail images and the ARVE Pro Addon will use HTML5 srcset so visitors devices will always use the right image size.
The image you see below is automatically requested from Vimeo and loaded fast from their servers.
One Bright Dot
Expand on Click
This is a demonstration of a left aligned lazyloaded video that has a maximum width set and will expand on click before loading the video (If screen space allows it).
| Feature | WordPress Core | ARVE | ARVE Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Responsive Videos | Not in classic Editor | Yes | Yes |
| Customize Players | No | Yes | Yes |
| Seo Data | None | Yes, but requires manual entry | Yes, fills automatically |
| Lazyload | No | No | Yes |
| Custom Thumbnails | No | Yes, but not visible, only for SEO | Yes + hover effects |
| Custom Title | No | Yes, but not visible, only for SEO | Yes |
| Lightbox | No | No | Yes |
| Auto Pause u | No | No | Yes |
| Auto close Lightbox on video end u | No | No | Yes |
| Expand on Click | No | No | Yes |
| Align | No | Yes | Yes |
| Disable Opening of New Tabs | No | No | Yes |
Provider Support
| Provider | Works with video URL | Auto Thumbnail (Pro Addon) |
Auto Title (Pro Addon) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All providers with responsive iframe embed codes | |||||
| 1 | Alugha | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 2 | Archive.org | ✓ | |||
| 3 | Bitchute | ✓ | |||
| 4 | Break | ✓ | |||
| 5 | Brightcove | ||||
| 6 | CollegeHumor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 7 | Comedy Central | ||||
| 8 | Dailymotion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 9 | Dailymotion Playlist | ✓ | |||
| 10 | DTube | ✓ | |||
| 11 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| 12 | Funny or Die | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 13 | IGN | ✓ | |||
| 14 | Kickstarter | ✓ | |||
| 15 | LiveLeak | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 16 | Livestream.com | ✓ | |||
| 17 | kla.tv | ✓ | |||
| 18 | Metacafe | ✓ | |||
| 19 | myspace | ✓ | |||
| 20 | Snotr | ✓ | |||
| 21 | Spike | ||||
| 22 | TED Talks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 23 | Twitch | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 24 | Ustream | ✓ | |||
| 25 | RuTube.ru | ✓ | |||
| 26 | Viddler | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 27 | vidspot.net | ✓ | |||
| 28 | Vimeo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 29 | VK | ||||
| 30 | vzaar | ✓ | |||
| 31 | Wistia | ✓ | |||
| 32 | XTube | ✓ | |||
| 33 | Yahoo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 34 | Youku | ✓ | |||
| 35 | YouTube | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 36 | YouTube Playlist | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 37 | mp4 or webm video files | ✓ | |||
| 38 | Google Drive | ✓ | |||
| 39 | ooyala | ||||
| 40 | IMDB | ||||
| All providers with responsive iframe embed codes | |||||
Note this site already runs the upcoming version of ARVE and ARVE Pro
- New and better lightbox script that does not require jQuery and has a nice opening animation.
- Lots of improved code fully embracing oembed and a more WP native way of handing embeds.
- Better caching.
- Support for automatic detection of aspect ratio when provider has oembed support.
- Auto Pause of videos as soon as another is played. (Requires Lazyload or Lightbox mode)
- Auto close lightbox when Video ends for YouTube, Vimeo and (self hosted) HTML5 Videos.
If you have any questions about the plugin feel free to ask. If you are already a customer please use the support site instead. (Gerne auch auf Deutsch)
* Note right click on links still works to open them. Sharing functionality may depend on opening new tabs.