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Youtube Gallery is a video media management solution for Joomla! The component that shows a video gallery - catalog of selected videos on your Joomla website.

All you need is to create a Video List , add list of video links or a links to playlists. Save it. Then create a theme or or import one. Create menu item with YouTube Gallery type, or use plugin or module.

Key benefits

  • Supports many Video Sources: Youtube, Vimeo, UStream, Dailymotion and SoundCloud;
  • Supports Youtube Playlist, Youtube User Uploads, Youtube User Favorites, Youtube Standard Feeds;
  • Supports Youtube Search;
  • Supports Youtube Show;
  • Supports Vimeo Channel, Vimeo Album, Vimeo User Uploads;
  • Supports Dailymotion Playlist;
  • Youtube Gallery comes as package that include a component, a module and a plugin;
  • You can mix videos from different sources and mix playlists with individual videos;
  • It will update videos from Youtube (and others) playlist or channels automatically;
  • It can manage large video collections;
  • Create categories of Video Lists and mix them to form special lists etc;
  • Fetch latest videos from Youtube or Vimeo channel;
  • Get as maximum as possible information about the video including likes, views etc;
  • Downloadable free Themes;
  • Custom Layouts to satisfy any design;
  • Conditional tags in Custom Layout (If - End if);
  • Theme Import and Export (Pro Version) functionality (to share/distribute your art work);
  • Pagination;
  • Youtube Logo Cover;
  • Glass cover (to prevent click on video and go to Youtube);
  • Youtube Gallery has "Responsive" feature/option;
  • Facebook head tags preparation;
  • SEF links to videos (convert video title to the link);
  • Switch Video without Page reload or as new page;
  • Youtube Player settings: Autoplay, Repeat (loop), Allow Playlist, Fullscreen, Related Videos, Show Info, Controls, Mute Player, Initial Volume, Border, Primary Border Color, Secondary Border Color (most of these settings are applicable to other players as well);
  • Youtube Parameters (you may pass parameters like hd=1 directly to player).

Installation

Download and install the Youtube Gallery extension. For free download click on "Download" tab on this page. Or click on "Pro Version" if you need more features.

To install - open your site administration back-end, click on "Extensions","Manage","Install" select the file you just downloaded and click "Install"

Setup

Create Video List and create or import Theme - go to "Components"->"YoutubeGallery"

Group your videos in categories, adjust the layout with many options, cover the logo, place a "glass" on top of the video, use your favorite shadow/light box.

Enable Cache to increase page load speed.

Use it as a Component (menu Item)

Create the Video List and Theme, open Menu, click on "new" icon to add new menu item, select "Youtube Gallery" menu item type and select already created video list and theme.

Use it as a Module

Create the video list and theme, open "Module Manager" click "New", select Youtube Gallery type. Enter the name of the module, select desirable position and select already created video list and theme.

Use it as a Plugin

Create the video list and theme, create an article and place a special code there:

Syntax: {youtubegallery=Video List Name,Theme Name,|Itemid|} or {youtubegalleryid=Video List Id,Theme Id,|Itemid|,|Mobile Theme ID|}

Itemid - very optional. It is ID of a Menu Item where to open the video (if "rel" option not set and "Switch Video As" is not set to "Update Player")

Mobile Theme is optional parameter.

example 1:

{youtubegallery=Hot for words,Simple Grid,|Itemid|,|Mobile Theme Name|} - will show the gallery "Hot for words" with default settings, but create it first.

example 2:

{youtubegalleryid=1,2} - will show the video list (id:1) as set in theme (id:2).

Each video list and theme has it's own ID and name, this ID or Name you may use in plugin.

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