Screenroom – Video Gallery & Slider for YouTube

Screenroom shows YouTube videos as a slider, a player with playlist, a grid, a Shorts wall, a list or a single video. Your website stays fast, and visitors are not connected to Google before they click play.

Use it as a YouTube channel feed on your homepage, a video gallery for your portfolio, courses or products, a Shorts wall or a playlist player. You no longer embed videos one by one, and unlike other YouTube feed plugins it does not ask for an API key.

Try it first: click Live Preview above. The studio opens in your browser with four demo galleries of the Blender open movies, and there is nothing to install.

Three ways to pick videos

• Channel: the newest videos of any channel appear automatically. Choose videos, Shorts or both.
• Playlist: any public playlist, also from other channels.
• Your own list: paste links to any videos, or pick them from the videos your galleries have loaded.

Show them as they come, newest or oldest first, A–Z, most viewed first or in random order.

Six layouts

• Slider with swipe support, endless and optionally moving on by itself; arrows left, centered, right, far apart or on the pictures; progress as lines, dots, a number or a bar
• Large player with a playlist beside or below it, a soft ambient glow and a cinema mode
• Grid with a large lead video
• Shorts wall: upright videos side by side, swipeable on phones
• Compact list for long archives with title, date and a small picture, newest or oldest first
• Single video

Design

• Four styles to start from (Modern, Classic, Minimal and Cinema), for the whole website or as a style of its own for one gallery
• Any accent color, light or dark scheme, corner radius, spacing
• Image formats 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 and 9:16 for Shorts
• Title below or on the image, hover effects (zoom, drift, shine, lift)
• Play button in three colors, four shapes (circle, rounded square, wide or just the triangle) and four triangle styles
• Play in place, large right below its row in a grid, or in a lightbox that grows from the card. An “Up next” card appears before the next video starts
• Start time per video, subtitles on, start muted
• Show dates, view counts, the description and a “New” badge for fresh videos
• Hide single videos or filter by words in the title
• Swipe and keyboard in every layout; no animation for visitors who turned animations off

Fast pages

Video lists are loaded in the background about once an hour and cached, so pages never wait for YouTube. The YouTube player is only loaded when a visitor clicks play. A page with ten videos loads as fast as a page with none.

Privacy-friendly

• Thumbnails are copied to your own website. Before clicking play, visitors do not connect to Google at all.
• Videos play from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.
• Optional notice before playing, with an “always play” choice that is remembered in the visitor’s browser without a cookie.
• Follows your cookie banner: Borlabs Cookie, Complianz, Real Cookie Banner, CookieYes, Cookiebot, Usercentrics and Klaro are asked at the moment of the click.

Easy to use

• The studio: each gallery is edited full screen, with the real gallery in the middle. Where the videos come from is on the left, its design on the right, and below it you pick the device (desktop, tablet, phone) and a light or dark website. Click a part of the gallery to change it, or switch to “Try it” and use it like a visitor. Undo and redo, keyboard shortcuts and panels you can widen are there too. It saves itself.
• From the block editor, the block opens the studio right over the page.
• Overview: what needs attention at a glance. Videos: every video your galleries have loaded. Search them, hide one everywhere or make a gallery from a selection.
• Shows on which pages each gallery is used.
• Privacy check with a text suggestion for your privacy policy.
• Settings: how often YouTube is asked, how new galleries start, whether editors may edit galleries, export and import.
• Help and status page: frequently asked questions, last refresh, a one-click refresh and “Copy diagnostics” for the support forum.
• “Screenroom” block for the block editor, shortcode for page builders. Pages that show a gallery leave the page cache when it changes (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, Elementor).
• No YouTube API key and no Google account needed.

Pro version

Everything above is free, without limits on galleries. An optional Pro version adds coverflow, stories, bento, spotlight and testimonial layouts, smart galleries that fill themselves by rules, chapters and a course mode, “Show more” for long galleries, an end card with a call to action, galleries as tabs or as a shelf of tiles, a search field, a link to each video, several channels in one gallery, up to 200 videos via your own YouTube API key, live streams and premieres first with a countdown, a mini player, a call-to-action button, video SEO, click statistics without cookies, and an Elementor widget and Divi module. The free version works fully on its own.

External services

This plugin connects to YouTube, a service provided by Google LLC, to show videos. No API key or account is used.

From your server (in the background, about once an hour, and when you save a gallery):

• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml: loads the list of videos (ID, title, date, view count) of the channels and playlists you configured. Sent: the channel or playlist ID.
• https://www.youtube.com/oembed: loads the title of videos you added as your own list. Sent: the video URL.
• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=…: used only when you enter an old channel link with /user/, to find its channel ID once. Sent: the user name.
• https://i.ytimg.com: downloads video thumbnails to your uploads folder (unless “Serve thumbnails from this website” is turned off). Sent: the video ID.

These requests come from your server and contain no data about your visitors. If WP-Cron is disabled and a refresh is overdue, a page view starts wp-cron.php once in the background, which is a request from your site to itself. The admin area also asks your own site, at most once a day, which referrer rule it sends, and Help & status checks at most twice a day whether the site can reach itself. Both are requests from your site to itself; nothing goes to other servers.

From your visitors’ browsers:

• https://www.youtube-nocookie.com: the YouTube player, loaded only after a visitor clicks play. YouTube receives the visitor’s IP address and browser data.
• https://i.ytimg.com: thumbnails are loaded directly from YouTube, but only if you turn off “Serve thumbnails from this website”.

In the admin area only: the live preview and the gallery overview may load thumbnails directly from https://i.ytimg.com while local copies do not exist yet. Visitors are not affected.

YouTube Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy