Description
Video Popup & Lightbox Block for WordPress
Display YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, and MP4 videos in beautiful lightbox popups. Add customizable play buttons anywhere on your site that open responsive video popups – perfect for hero sections, portfolios, and landing pages.
A simple yet powerful Gutenberg block that enhances your website with engaging video content.
Features
- Works with Vimeo & YouTube videos
- Supports YouTube Shorts videos in portrait orientation — NEW
- Supports TikTok videos in portrait orientation — NEW
- Supports self-hosted (MP4) videos
- Customize the Play button as you want
- Choose your Play icon
- Simple & Lightweight block
- Single-block plugin that can be installed directly in the editor. No bloat!
Perfect for Block Themes (FSE – Full Site Editing Themes)!
Recommended Themes & DEMO
Inspiro Blocks – NEW
Inspiro Lite
Inspiro Premium
Inspiro PRO – NEW
Quick Tips
Place this block inside a Cover block.
Read more –> How to add a Video Popup in the Header Hero in Inspiro Lite using Gutenberg
Additional Resources
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- WPZOOM Video Popup Block
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Go to Plugins > Add New
- Search for plugin name
- Install & Activate.
In the Block editor click on the “+” button to add a new button. Search for “Video Popup Block” to add the block in the editor.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Video Popup Block – YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok Lightbox by WPZOOM” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.1.6
- Added compatibility with WordPress 7.0
1.1.5
- Added new Aspect Ratio option
1.1.4
- Added support for TikTok videos with portrait orientation
- Added support for YouTube Shorts URLs with portrait orientation
1.1.3
- Bug fix with the Close icon not showing
1.1.2
- Added a new option to control the size of the popup
- Minor bug fixes
1.1.1
- Added preview for self-hosted videos
1.1.0
- Added the ability to use self-hosted videos
1.0.0
- Initial plugin release

