Better YouTube Block – Fast Embed Videos, Shorts & Playlists

1.1.5

Release Date – 06 May 2026

• Added – caption_kses parameter to the helper function, allowing inline HTML tags (<a>, <em>, <strong>) in video captions when using the custom API function.
• Added – New hook better_youtube_embed_block_render_block_args to modify the helper function parameters.
• Improved – Updated setting controls for compatibility with WordPress 7.0

1.1.4

Release Date – 06 January 2026

• Added – Block binding support for the url and caption attributes.
• Improved – Handling of the frontend script when hosts or cache plugins defer or delay it.

1.1.3

Release Date – 21 July 2025

• Added – Support for loading WebP thumbnails to reduce file size.

1.1.2

Release Date – 06 January 2025

• Fixed – The captions of old YouTube videos are not converted to this block when automatically transforming core/embed to this block.
• Updated – Requires at least WordPress version 6.5

1.1.1

Release Date – 09 November 2024

• Fixed – a CSS conflict between the play button and button styles in some themes

1.1.0

Release Date – 23 August 2024

• Added – Play multiple videos or the whole playlist
• Added – Loop continuously once it finishes playing
• Added – Show related videos from the same channel
• Added – Allow rendering embeded frame when browsers require click two times to play videos
• Updated – Requires at least WordPress version 6.3

1.0.5

Release Date – 15 June 2024

• Added – Support custom thumbnail for videos
• Added – Allow editing media settings in the contentOnly mode
• Updated – Change the ‘Requires at least’ to 6.0
• Added – Support clientNavigation interactivity

1.0.4

Release Date – 23 February 2024

• Added – Add a PHP API for developers to render a YouTube video URL as this block
• Added – A new option to load high-resolution image
• Added – Add the ability to render all core/embed for YouTube videos as this block

1.0.3

Release Date – 05 January 2024

• Added – Custom aspect ratio
• Added – Margin support feature

1.0.2

Release Date – 11 August 2023

• DEV – Update to apiVersion 3
• DEV – Change i18 texts for translation

1.0.1

Release Date – 21 April 2023

• DEV – Add keywords to the block

1.0.0

• Release Date – 23 November 2022*