by Galaxy Weblinks 3 (6 reviews)

Post Featured Video

Name: Post Featured Video
Rating: 3.0 (6 reviews)
Author: Galaxy Weblinks

Post Featured Video is a very nifty responsive video plugin that helps your users to see a YouTube or Vimeo video or Custom HTML MP4 video

Post Featured Video ranks #7,169 among WordPress.org plugins with 900+ active installations, is #850 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 3/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated Apr 29, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8.12 (Current: 7.1.4)

v1.7 Current Version v1.7

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 29 Apr, 2025

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#850 of 6,651 in Media Top 10% by installs Downloads +19.6% this week No update in over a year

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Active Installs

900+

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KW Avg Position

81.8

0.7 better

Downloads

18.1K

+7 today

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60%

Review 3 out of 5

3 (6 reviews)

Next Milestone 1K

Total Progress 62%

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Reviews & Ratings

3.0

6 reviews

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Sep 26, 2025 UNPATCHED

Post Featured Video [post-featured-video] <= 1.7 (unfixed)

CVE-2025-60137 · No fix released

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.7
Last Updated: Apr 29, 2025
Requires WP: 4.0+
Tested Up To: 6.8.12
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Galaxy Weblinks

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 3
Reviews: 6
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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Post Featured video post thumbnail video lightbox video popup

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who want to feature video content on their posts and pages. It solves the problem of displaying a YouTube, Vimeo, or custom MP4 video in place of the featured image, with customizable playback options.

Enable/disable video per post type
Autoplay video
Enable/disable video lightbox popup
Display mode: YouTube, Vimeo, or MP4
Set YouTube video height
Restrict display to specific post types

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Post Featured Video

Once you enabled featured video for the post type, go to the post edit page, there is featured image area (in the classic editor and Featured Video in Gutenberg) for you to look for and set URL or upload a video to display video.

For YouTube and Vimeo videos, copy the URL from the browser’s address bar. You may also enter a direct URL to any video hosted on your server. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkuKHwetV6Q&t=39s or http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/movie.mp4

Please make a sure post featured image should have been set and video URL must be valid.

Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose display mode.

Yes, Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose settings option

Yes, Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose settings option.