Description
Video Popup & Lightbox Block for WordPress
Display YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, and MP4 videos in beautiful lightbox popups. Add customizable play buttons anywhere on your site that open responsive video popups – perfect for hero sections, portfolios, and landing pages.
A simple yet powerful Gutenberg block that enhances your website with engaging video content.
Features
- Works with Vimeo & YouTube videos
- Supports YouTube Shorts videos in portrait orientation — NEW
- Supports TikTok videos in portrait orientation — NEW
- Supports self-hosted (MP4) videos
- Customize the Play button as you want
- Choose your Play icon
- Simple & Lightweight block
- Single-block plugin that can be installed directly in the editor. No bloat!
Perfect for Block Themes (FSE – Full Site Editing Themes)!
Recommended Themes & DEMO
Inspiro Blocks – NEW
Inspiro Lite
Inspiro Premium
Inspiro PRO – NEW
Quick Tips
Place this block inside a Cover block.
Read more –> How to add a Video Popup in the Header Hero in Inspiro Lite using Gutenberg
Additional Resources
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- WPZOOM Video Popup Block
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Go to Plugins > Add New
- Search for plugin name
- Install & Activate.
In the Block editor click on the “+” button to add a new button. Search for “Video Popup Block” to add the block in the editor.
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Contributors & Developers
“Video Popup Block – YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok Lightbox by WPZOOM” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Video Popup Block – YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok Lightbox by WPZOOM” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.1.8
- Added an accessible name (“Play video”) to popup links that show only the play icon, and marked the icon as decorative. Fixes the “Links must have discernible text” accessibility audit
1.1.7
- Fixed the “Close (Esc)” and “Loading…” strings in the video popup not being translatable
- Fixed translations not loading for the block editor strings
- Added a title and aria-label to the popup close button
- Updated the translation template file with all missing strings
1.1.6
- Added compatibility with WordPress 7.0
1.1.5
- Added new Aspect Ratio option
1.1.4
- Added support for TikTok videos with portrait orientation
- Added support for YouTube Shorts URLs with portrait orientation
1.1.3
- Bug fix with the Close icon not showing
1.1.2
- Added a new option to control the size of the popup
- Minor bug fixes
1.1.1
- Added preview for self-hosted videos
1.1.0
- Added the ability to use self-hosted videos
1.0.0
- Initial plugin release