Simple by design, and it plays well with others
While working on a plugin to make YouTube embeds sticky, I hit a performance wall: the more videos on a page, the heavier it got. So I tried Lazy Load for Videos, and it turned the standard block-editor embeds into lazy-loaded ones with zero extra setup. The page got dramatically lighter. What I appreciated most is that videos aren't materialized on scroll, but on click. It's common for a page to have 10 embedded videos where visitors actually play only 2 or 3. Scroll-based lazy loading still ends up loading everything eventually, but with click-based loading, only the videos people actually want get loaded. That difference is noticeable. Pairing this with my sticky plugin turned out to be the missing piece. Articles featuring multiple video guides now feel clean and lightweight, carrying no extra weight until a reader actually hits play. Understated, well thought-out, and hard to find a substitute for.
Doesn’t do anything
Well, it’s free, so that’s worth an extra star all by itself, but it doesn’t actually do anything. My site is exactly the same as it was without it. I installed it, set my settings, even changed the play button to “pulsing”, hit the “update posts” button, and load-blocking iframe youtube embeds still display as the same load-blocking iframe youtube embeds they’ve always been. I checked the support forums and there’s a huge notice on top that the plugin is unsupported, so, uh, there goes the extra star it got for being free. A free plugin gets extra stars even if it doesn’t work perfectly, but a totally broken, totally unsupported plugin is 0 stars even if it’s free. I would have donated if it had worked, too.
Easy to understand
Lazy Load for Videos is easy to understand, easy to use, and it does its job well. Thanks for the fine plugin.
Simple by design, and it plays well with others
While working on a plugin to make YouTube embeds sticky, I hit a performance wall: the more videos on a page, the heavier it got. So I tried Lazy Load for Videos, and it turned the standard block-editor embeds into lazy-loaded ones with zero extra setup. The page got dramatically lighter. What I appreciated most is that videos aren't materialized on scroll, but on click. It's common for a page to have 10 embedded videos where visitors actually play only 2 or 3. Scroll-based lazy loading still ends up loading everything eventually, but with click-based loading, only the videos people actually want get loaded. That difference is noticeable. Pairing this with my sticky plugin turned out to be the missing piece. Articles featuring multiple video guides now feel clean and lightweight, carrying no extra weight until a reader actually hits play. Understated, well thought-out, and hard to find a substitute for.
Easy to understand
Lazy Load for Videos is easy to understand, easy to use, and it does its job well. Thanks for the fine plugin.
Doesn’t do anything
Well, it’s free, so that’s worth an extra star all by itself, but it doesn’t actually do anything. My site is exactly the same as it was without it. I installed it, set my settings, even changed the play button to “pulsing”, hit the “update posts” button, and load-blocking iframe youtube embeds still display as the same load-blocking iframe youtube embeds they’ve always been. I checked the support forums and there’s a huge notice on top that the plugin is unsupported, so, uh, there goes the extra star it got for being free. A free plugin gets extra stars even if it doesn’t work perfectly, but a totally broken, totally unsupported plugin is 0 stars even if it’s free. I would have donated if it had worked, too.
Simple by design, and it plays well with others
While working on a plugin to make YouTube embeds sticky, I hit a performance wall: the more videos on a page, the heavier it got. So I tried Lazy Load for Videos, and it turned the standard block-editor embeds into lazy-loaded ones with zero extra setup. The page got dramatically lighter. What I appreciated most is that videos aren't materialized on scroll, but on click. It's common for a page to have 10 embedded videos where visitors actually play only 2 or 3. Scroll-based lazy loading still ends up loading everything eventually, but with click-based loading, only the videos people actually want get loaded. That difference is noticeable. Pairing this with my sticky plugin turned out to be the missing piece. Articles featuring multiple video guides now feel clean and lightweight, carrying no extra weight until a reader actually hits play. Understated, well thought-out, and hard to find a substitute for.
Easy to understand
Lazy Load for Videos is easy to understand, easy to use, and it does its job well. Thanks for the fine plugin.
Thousands of columns in the database when exporting Woocommerce products to CSV
HI Kevin,We sell 10,000 products and we edit and crate products using the Woocommerce CSV import/export.This plugin has added 5,000+ columns into the CSV file when it's exported from Woocommerce…so it crashes the server and Google Sheets and Apple Numbers are unable to open the CSV because the plugin created too many columns. How can we stop the plugin from creating so much data in the database? If we uninstall it, will it delete all database data to solve this issue? We don't see any settings in it that "removes all data upon uninstall" like other plugins…and we don't know how to stop it from overloading the database other than to remove it…
joyryde
August 24, 2023
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4 replies
Doesn’t do anything
Well, it’s free, so that’s worth an extra star all by itself, but it doesn’t actually do anything. My site is exactly the same as it was without it. I installed it, set my settings, even changed the play button to “pulsing”, hit the “update posts” button, and load-blocking iframe youtube embeds still display as the same load-blocking iframe youtube embeds they’ve always been. I checked the support forums and there’s a huge notice on top that the plugin is unsupported, so, uh, there goes the extra star it got for being free. A free plugin gets extra stars even if it doesn’t work perfectly, but a totally broken, totally unsupported plugin is 0 stars even if it’s free. I would have donated if it had worked, too.
Doesn’t do anything
Well, it's free, so that's worth an extra star all by itself, but it doesn't actually do anything. My site is exactly the same as it was without it. I installed it, set my settings, even changed the play button to "pulsing", hit the "update posts" button, and load-blocking iframe youtube embeds still display as the same load-blocking iframe youtube embeds they've always been. I checked the support forums and there's a huge notice on top that the plugin is unsupported, so, uh, there goes the extra star it got for being free. A free plugin gets extra stars even if it doesn't work perfectly, but a totally broken, totally unsupported plugin is 0 stars even if it's free. I would have donated if it had worked, too.
Aspect Ratio Issue
I have videos with differing aspect ratios (4:3, 2.35:1, 9:16, 2:1, 1.85:1,…). Unfortunately, the plugin always shows the thumbnail in an aspect ratio of 16:9. Is there a way to make the plugin adapt to the aspect ratio of the video?
