How to Sync a YouTube Playlist with WordPress



A playlist is one of the cleanest ways to organize video — so it makes sense to sync a YouTube playlist with WordPress and let it stay current on its own. Add a video to the playlist on YouTube, and it appears on your site, in the layout you chose, without you lifting a finger.

Import the playlist once, sync it forever

Point Video Hub at any playlist and it imports the videos as real posts. Scheduled, cron-based imports then keep the playlist in sync — new entries are pulled in automatically, off-request, so nothing slows your pages down. See the automation options.

Display it as a themed gallery

Once imported, show the playlist in one of six responsive themes — a tidy Grid, a dramatic Cinema view, a scannable Listy layout and more — with pagination and AJAX load-more for long lists. Browse the playlist themes.

Build playlists your way

Beyond a YouTube playlist, you can build playlists from hand-picked posts or by taxonomy — handy for course and membership libraries that group lessons by topic.

What “in sync” really means

You decide how many videos to pull and how often the sync runs; from then on, new entries added to the YouTube playlist are imported for you on schedule. Each becomes a real post with its title, description, thumbnail and publish date mapped across — and because imports happen off-request via cron, the sync never blocks a visitor’s page load. Start from an existing playlist and you can bulk-import the back catalog first, then let automation handle everything new.

Perfect for series, courses and channels

Playlists map neatly onto real-world content: a course module, a podcast season, a product range or a weekly show. Sync each playlist to its own themed gallery and you get a self-updating section for every topic — ideal for course and membership libraries where lessons need to stay grouped and in order.

A synced playlist works for SEO, too

Every synced video is an indexable post on your domain — not a JavaScript embed — so it carries schema markup, appears in your sitemap and RSS, and can rank on its own. The playlist gives visitors a tidy way to browse, while search engines get a steady stream of fresh, ownable video pages. See how it compares to embed widgets.

For setup details, see the documentation.

Sync your playlists to WordPress

Set it once and it stays current. 30-day money-back guarantee.