Tuberail - YouTube galleries, auto-import and channel stats for WordPress

YouTube galleries, auto-import & channel stats for WordPress

Tuberail turns any YouTube channel or playlist into a beautiful, fast gallery — grid, masonry, carousel or list — and can mirror those videos into WordPress as real posts with their own SEO-friendly URLs, comments and categories. Each site uses its own YouTube Data API v3 key, and every response is cached to protect your daily quota.

Live Demo: tuberail.webkodingtheme.com
Frontend Demo: tuberail.webkodingtheme.com/wp
WP Admin Demo: tuberail.webkodingtheme.com/wp/wp-admin
Admin credentials: demo / TuberailDemo!

Tuberail layouts: grid, masonry, carousel and list

Four ready-made layouts

Grid, Masonry, Carousel and List — pick a layout per gallery and set the number of columns and videos. Masonry packs staggered cards with descriptions; the carousel ships with arrow and dot navigation; grids and lists get an AJAX “Load more” button. Every layout is fully responsive and collapses gracefully on tablet and mobile.

Point a gallery at a channel (by ID, @handle or username), a playlist ID, or your imported videos — or show several channels in one tabbed gallery with [tuberail channels=”@a,@b”]. Toggle titles, meta and descriptions, set a custom accent color, and flag live broadcasts with a LIVE badge.

Tuberail features: layouts, auto-import, stats, schema, lazy-load, caching, blocks, widgets

Built for real WordPress sites

Auto-Import — Tuberail can mirror a channel or playlist into the tuberail_video post type on a schedule, so each video becomes a real WordPress page with its own URL, comments, categories and theme rendering. That is what sets it apart from a simple embed plugin.

SEO done right — imported video pages output schema.org VideoObject JSON-LD and every gallery emits ItemList structured data. Mirroring a big channel? A one-click noindex toggle plus optional auto-clean of stale imports keep your site free of thin/duplicate content. Facade embeds load the player only on click, keeping Core Web Vitals green.

Channel stats — drop in a subscriber/view counter card with a one-click subscribe button anywhere on your site. Power users get a wp tuberail import WP-CLI command for scripted refreshes.

Tuberail quota-safe caching: API key, transient cache, cron refresh, visitors

Why quota handling matters

The YouTube Data API gives each project a limited daily quota. A naive plugin that calls search.list on every page view can exhaust a buyer’s quota in hours. Tuberail avoids this entirely: it reads a channel’s uploads playlist (1 unit) instead of searching (100 units), caches every response as a transient, and refreshes data with a background cron job. Visitors are always served cached data, so traffic spikes never translate into API spikes.

Tuberail integrations: shortcode, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, sidebar widgets

Use it with any theme or builder

Whatever you build with, Tuberail fits: a clean [tuberail] shortcode, a native Gutenberg block, a full Elementor widget, and two sidebar widgets. No page-builder lock-in, no build step, no bundled third-party libraries.

Put your channel on rails with Tuberail

Requirements

WordPress 5.8 or newer, PHP 7.4 or newer, and a free YouTube Data API v3 key (created in the Google Cloud Console). Elementor is optional — the Elementor widget only loads when Elementor is active.

Roadmap

Future ideas under consideration: additional sources beyond YouTube, more card-template presets, and an optional OAuth flow for posting comments. Feature requests from buyers are welcome and help shape the roadmap.

Support

Friendly support for setup questions and bug reports through the author profile. Please include your WordPress and PHP versions and the layout/shortcode you’re using so we can help quickly.

License

Regular License — use Tuberail in a single end product that is free for end users.
Extended License — use it in a single end product that end users are charged for.
For full terms, see Envato Standard Licenses.

Changelog

v1.0.0
– Initial release
– Grid, masonry, carousel and list layouts (carousel arrows + dots, AJAX “Load more”)
– Multiple channels/playlists in one tabbed gallery
– Shortcode, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget and sidebar widgets
– Auto-import to a custom post type with cron refresh, optional noindex and auto-clean retention
– Channel stats card, VideoObject + ItemList schema, and facade lazy-load
– LIVE badge, custom accent color, description toggle and a tuberail_render_item template filter
– WP-CLI commands (wp tuberail import / flush-cache)
– Transient caching with quota-safe API usage and a test-before-save connection check

Tuberail WordPress Plugin