YouTube External Subtitles WordPress Plugin
With Themes4WP YouTube External Subtitles you can display subtitles over videos from YouTube on your site. This WordPress plugin is very lightweight and easy to use. The scripts (11 kb) are loaded only on pages with the shortcode.
How to use plugin
Copy and paste the sortcode to your page or post. Add the youtube ID (only the ID – jW3XPtGczqw) and URL to subtitle file (must be stored on your host!). Set the width and height of the video if you need
[youtube-subtitles width="640" height="360" id="" sub=""]
- id = YouTube ID (e.c. fGPPfZIvtCw)
- sub = Subtitle URL (Must be uploaded on your host. External link is not allowed)
- width = Video width (default 640 – in px)
- height = Video height (default 360 – in px)
Demo
The video code
[youtube-subtitles width="640" height="360" id="jW3XPtGczqw" sub="http://themes4wp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Captain-America-Civil-War-Trailer-HD.srt"]
Subtitle example
Format of subtitle:
1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Subtitle 1.1 2 00:00:28,967 --> 01:30:30,958 Subtitle 2.1 Subtitle 2.2
This plugin is based on:
https://github.com/bazh/subtitles-parser
https://github.com/siloor/youtube.external.subtitle
Sigitas Jurkstas says:
Thanks a lot! A very useful plug-in!!! 🙂