Description
Built utilizing the highly efficient YouTube Data API v3 structural hidden playlist mechanics, this plugin bypasses tedious standard query loops, ensures fast page speeds via WordPress Transients, and provides a beautiful, native, tab-separated admin dashboard.
Key Features:
- YouTube v3 API Integration: Safely and quickly fetch raw playlist data directly from official Google servers.
- Smart Performance Caching: Uses the WordPress Transients API to store video data locally for 12 hours, drastically reducing external API overhead and page load times.
- Fully Tailored Slick Slider Engine: Complete responsive controls for infinite looping, arrows, dot navigation, desktop mouse dragging, autoplay speeds, and slide transition timing.
- Advanced Styling Controls: Customize card drop shadows, border-radius layouts, background bases, and navigation colors directly from your WP Admin dashboard.
- Native Tabbed Dashboard UI: Clean layout built completely matching the native WordPress styling architecture for seamless site management.
Shortcodes
Deploying the carousel slider engine onto your site frontend requires a single tag:
[shorcafo_carousel]
Shortcode Attribute Overrides:
You can conditionally bypass your dashboard global options by declaring inline attributes:
* api_key: Explicitly pass an alternative Google developer authorization string.
* channel_id: Override the default channel target to render another creator’s feed.
* count: Set a strict limit on the absolute number of short videos to process.
Example usage:
[shorcafo_carousel count=”6″ channel_id=”UC_EXAMPLE_CHANNEL_ID”]
External Services
This plugin connects to external third-party services to fetch and display video content.
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YouTube Data API v3 (googleapis.com)
- Used for: Fetching public playlist data and short video details from your designated channel.
- Data sent: Sends API keys, target channel identifiers, and item result counts. No personal user data is collected or tracked.
- Links: YouTube API Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy
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YouTube Embedded Player (youtube.com)
- Used for: Rendering and playing selected short videos directly in the frontend Slick carousel slider frame wrappers.
- Data sent: Video asset identification tracking codes.
- Links: YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy
Installation
- Upload the
shortlix-carousel-for-youtubefolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Navigate to YT Shorts Setup in your sidebar admin menu to input your YouTube v3 API key and Channel ID.
- Drop the shortcode
[shorcafo_carousel]onto any post, page, or widget layout area.
FAQ
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Where do I get a YouTube API Key?
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You can generate a free server-side browser access token by visiting the official Google Developers Console, activating the YouTube Data API v3 library, and creating a standard credential API key.
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Why are my changes not appearing immediately on the frontend?
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The plugin features an internal security and performance runtime cache using WordPress Transients to keep page loading speeds near instant. Video feeds refresh automatically every 12 hours. If you need to see structural layout changes immediately, modify one of the values inside your YT Shorts Setup dashboard or briefly switch your target feed count parameter to clear out the active cache.
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Does this plugin inject script libraries sitewide?
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No. The underlying Slick Slider layout engine, custom CSS variables, and native jQuery dependencies are selectively conditionally enqueued only when a target page layout explicitly detects the presence of the
[yt_shorts_carousel]shortcode asset block.
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Contributors & Developers
“Shortlix Carousel for YouTube” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.4
- Fix repository naming constraints and brand guidelines.
- Implement robust escaping optimizations across backend dashboard interfaces.
- Add comprehensive third-party service connection legal declarations.
1.0
- Initial baseline production engine release.