Embed Private YouTube Video on your WordPress site!

Aarati Parajuli
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2 min readAug 8, 2019

You want to embed your private YouTube videos on your WordPress site? Well, it is easy to embed a public youtube video on a website. But to embed private youtube videos in WordPress, you surely need a plugin. So we suggest you a plugin that can help you through. Embed Private YouTube Video is a WordPress plugin that allows you to embed private YouTube videos inside your website. This plugin makes your private videos visible & shareable to only selected users, or to whom you allow to.

embed private YouTube video in WordPress

YouTube lets you upload your videos in both public and private mode. When you embed public videos on your site, they become visible as well as shareable to anyone who visits your site. Meanwhile embedding videos in private mode doesn’t let everyone to watch them.

To embed Private YouTube Videos into your website you need “Embed Private YouTube Video” WordPress plugin. This maintains privacy and prevents leakage of your paid YouTube videos.

Who should use Embed Private YouTube Video plugin?

This plugin can be used in the case when you are running online courses as well as video tutorial websites. Or if you are an artist who post music and video to the website.

Generally any websites aiming to deliver video contents only for registered users should use this plugin. Additionally, this software is also available in the form of HTML/JavaScript code for any kind of website besides WordPress.

Many online paid courses or consultant’s videos are leaked. This is because owners don’t pay attention on their privacy. Therefore, who would pay for a video that is already available for free?

Here comes the use of this plugin. You can post your videos in YouTube and then embed them using this plugin. As a result, unauthorized viewer becomes unable to watch the video.

Demo & Test

To see how well it works visit Demo. Additionally, You can also test the plugin here.

Note: You are only allowed embedding your own private YouTube videos. Embedding someone else private YouTube videos is not applicable because it needs the official YouTube API of the videos.

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