Shortcodes - Plugixa Video

Shortcodes put the player and the plugin’s pages anywhere on your site: in a page, a post, a widget or a theme template. Each one has a block and an Elementor widget that print exactly the same thing, so use whichever suits your editor.

You do not need a shortcode for a video, channel or series PRO page: those show their player or page on their own.

See Blocks and Elementor widgets.

The player: [pvx_video]

[pvx_video id="706"]
[pvx_video id="706" autoplay="true"]
[pvx_video id="706" width="content"]

Browsers may refuse to autoplay a video with sound until the visitor has interacted with your site. See The player.

What the shortcode prints depends on the video:

• Published or unlisted: the player. Who may actually watch is checked when it loads, see Access control.
• Password-protected: WordPress’s password form, until the visitor enters it.
• Draft, private, scheduled, trashed or unknown: nothing, for visitors. Someone who can edit the video sees the player.

The browse page: [pvx_browse]

Search, filters and rows of videos by category. It takes width. See Browse and search.

The member library: [pvx_library]

Continue watching, the subscriptions feed, favorites, history, playlists and subscriptions of the signed-in viewer. Guests are asked to sign in. It takes width. See Member library.

Channels: [pvx_channels] and [pvx_channel]

[pvx_channels] shows a grid of all your channels. [pvx_channel id="12"] shows one channel with its videos: put the channel’s id in id. Both take width. A channel’s own page shows it without a shortcode. See Channels.

A series: [pvx_series]

[pvx_series id="34"], part of Pro, shows one series with its seasons and episodes. It takes id and width. A series’ own page shows it without a shortcode. See Series.

A playlist: [pvx_playlist]

[pvx_playlist id="56"] shows one playlist in its own order. It takes id and width. A private playlist is only shown to its owner. See Playlists.

Width

Every shortcode takes width, which overrides the Width on the site setting for that one shortcode:

Left out, or with any other value, the shortcode follows Settings -> General -> Player -> Width on the site, which is full by default. See Appearance.

[pvx_browse width="wide"]
[pvx_video id="706" width="content"]

On a block theme, give pages that hold these shortcodes the Video: Full-width page template, so full can use the whole width.

Finding an id

A video’s id is the number in its edit address in the admin app: #/videos/706 is video 706. The same goes for #/channels/..., #/series/... and #/playlists/.... The Videos list can also show each video’s ready-made shortcode.

Loading and caching

A page with a shortcode loads the plugin’s script and styles; a page without one loads nothing from the plugin. The shortcodes print nothing personal into the page, only an empty box of the right size that fills in after the page opens, so pages stay cacheable by a page cache.