Lazy Load for YouTube – GDPR Friendly YouTube Embed Block by DBlocks

The GDPR friendly way to embed YouTube videos in WordPress. This block replaces heavy YouTube iframes with a lightweight placeholder image and only loads the YouTube player when your visitor clicks play.

No YouTube scripts or cookies are loaded until the user interacts — making your site faster and privacy compliant.

Key Features:

• GDPR & Privacy Friendly: Zero YouTube scripts loaded until the user clicks play
• Faster Page Speed: Replaces heavy YouTube embeds with a lightweight image placeholder
• 6 Play Button Styles: Choose from 6 icon presets and apply them globally
• Custom Play Icon: Upload your own SVG play icon
• Theme Color Support: Use your WordPress theme colors on the play button
• Adjustable Icon Size: Control the size of the play button
• Thumbnail Quality: Choose the YouTube thumbnail quality per block
• Custom Thumbnail: Upload your own thumbnail image for extra privacy
• Global Settings: Set icon style, colors, and size once — applies across your entire site
• Free: No premium upsells or locked features

Third-Party Services

This plugin integrates with YouTube’s services in the following ways:
– Fetches video thumbnail images from YouTube servers when displaying video previews
– Loads the YouTube video player and related scripts when a user clicks to play a video
– Communicates with YouTube’s servers to stream video content

For more information about YouTube’s services:
– YouTube Service Homepage
– YouTube Terms of Service
– Google Privacy Policy (YouTube is owned by Google)

Embeds

For more information about embeds:
– Embed guide

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/dblocks-lazyload-for-youtube directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Use Youtube LazyLoad from DBlocks group

1.3.1

• Release fix

1.3.0

• Added automatic migration for legacy block name (create-block/dp-lazy-youtube)
• Fixed YouTube embed Error 153 by updating iframe parameters and permissions
• Legacy blocks now render correctly without requiring manual re-save

1.2.7

• Version bump

1.2.6

• Fixed Rendering image on the front end to work correctly with WordPress installations in subdirectories

1.2.5

• Fixed REST API endpoint URLs to work correctly with WordPress installations in subdirectories

1.2.4

• Fox for Added one more transform.

1.2.3

• Added one more transform.

1.2.2

• Icon Colors were reverted on the front end.

1.2.1

• Updated readme file.

1.2.0

• Added option to upload custom thumbnail for extra privacy.

1.1.1

• Added option to use custom icon. SVG will be sanitized on upload. You will not able to recolor custom icon. Style it before upload.
• Color, size, style, quality, icon type, svg content are now global settings.
• Quality is now pre block settings. It will use heighers quality and you can lower it if some video does not support it.
• Fixed issue with container id if block is duplicated. It was causing play video in first block.

1.1.0

• Ability to use custom icon.
• Moved colors under “Played icon panel”
• Updated button styles for choosing icons

1.0.3

• Assets update.

1.0.2

• Limited number of tags to 5

1.0.1

• Added assets.

1.0.0

• Release