Media website, what should i choose?

Jason

Hello members, i love to have a site where i can have a gallery and a page with YouTube Videos. Can this be achieved using WordPress.

Abhi

Jason where i can have a gallery

Yes, WordPress has built-in as well as advanced gallery system

Jason a page with YouTube Videos

How do you want to add those YouTube videos ? Host them ?

Jason

Abhi How do you want to add those YouTube videos ? Host them ?

No, just use the Youtube video links no hosting

admin No, just a site to showcase photos and YouTube videos

admin

Do you want them associated with a forum ?

Abhi

WordPress will able to do both. Install locally and try.

phenomlab

Abhi WordPress will able to do both. Install locally and try.

Actually, YouTube is in the process of preventing some video embed URLs from displaying outside of its platform. Not the case for all of them, but I've seen some that won't work cross domain.

Jason

I thought of starting a WordPress using the theme named "Devion" but it is outdated and anyone can help me to find a similar theme.

Abhi

It would be useful to know

What do you like about this theme, so that we can look for similar feature
It is available for free download. Did you try installing on the latest WordPress ?

Options framework
Featured video plus
WP-postviews
Zilla Likes

These extensions listed on the theme page might give you the same features on other themes. Please give it a try.

I will still try to keep a watch on similar themes.

Jason

Abhi What i like about the theme is how the videos appear in the front page with blog posts. How the video pages showcases the Video posts

Yes it is available for free download and i have tried this template in the past and I think there is no update provided to the theme as of now.

Abhi

Jason how the videos appear in the front page with blog posts.

I think Featured video plus plugin does that. Can you give it a try ?

Jason

Abhi Thanks Abhi i will give this plugin a try with other themes and see whether i can achieve the same result.

Abhi

Also check

YouTube Simple Gallery

YouTube showcase

Jason

I gave the plugin a try and i am not able to get the option in other themes. When Devion theme is enabled the plugin also gets activated else it vanishes.

Abhi

Jason When Devion theme is enabled the plugin also gets activated else it vanishes.

It works with the Devion theme ? Did you try with the default theme ?

Abhi

There is a theme called VideoTube which does almost what you want. Costs $ 49 on ThemeForest.net . They also have a Vlog theme for $ 69.

For free options, try this link

https://justfreethemes.com/themes/video/

admin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-featured-video/

This one is free and allows you to mark a post with " featured video ". I think later you can use a block to list Featured Videos on top the page.

Abhi

Comes with two sidebar widgets:
Featured YouTube Videos
Recent YouTube Videos

https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-showcase/

See this plugin as well

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-video-gallery/

Jason

Thank you for suggesting the theme and plugins. I will check it. And please anyone who try the theme i have mentioned don't use it. It has a malicious file and it is not safe to try it.

Abhi

Jason please anyone who try the theme i have mentioned don't use it. It has a malicious file and it is not safe to try it.

Devion ?

phenomlab

Jason And please anyone who try the theme i have mentioned don't use it. It has a malicious file and it is not safe to try it.

Where was this downloaded from ? If it came from a nulled site, I'm not surprised. There's no such thing as a free lunch 👍

Jason

Abhi Yes, Devion theme

phenomlab I didn't download it from a nulled site but a theme site where it is listed from a start.