Features Comparison

TubePress is available in two different packages: the free WordPress plugin and the more powerful TubePress Pro. The table below identifies the difference between the two. Be sure to check out the Feature Showcase to see all of these features in action!

	TubePress Free	TubePress Pro $39.99 per year
Populate your galleries from one of nineteen sources… “Favorites” of a YouTube user Videos from a YouTube playlist YouTube videos matching a search term Videos uploaded by a YouTube user “Featured” videos on YouTube’s homepage Most-viewed videos on YouTube from the past day, week, month, or all-time Most-discussed videos on YouTube Most-linked videos on YouTube Most-responded-to videos on YouTube Top-rated videos on YouTube Newest videos added to YouTube Videos uploaded by a Vimeo user Videos “liked” by a Vimeo user Videos in which a Vimeo user appears Vimeo videos matching a search term Videos credited to a Vimeo user Videos from a Vimeo channel Videos from a Vimeo album Videos in a Vimeo group
After clicking a thumbnail, a video can play… Normally (above gallery thumbnails) In an HTML popup window On the video’s original YouTube page On the video’s original Vimeo page With ShadowBox With jqModal Statically (each click causes a page refresh In a new window by itself
Interactive search. Let your users surf YouTube or Vimeo without leaving your site!
Customize the thumbnail gallery… Set the number of videos per page Set the height and width of thumbnails Set the sort order of the videos Turn on/off pagination above or below the thumbnails Ability to randomize thumbnail images for each video Choose between relative and absolute dates (eg. “yesterday” vs. “Nov 3, 2008″) Limit video descriptions to a certain length Clean HTML templates and CSS available to adapt look and feel to your site
Lots of embedded player options… Choose between the standard YouTube/Vimeo player or the JW FLV Media Player (YouTube videos only) Set the height and width of the player Turn on/off auto-play Enable/disable fullscreen playback Turn on/off video looping Adjust the primary and secondary colors of the player Enable/disable display of title and rating before video starts Turn on/off the display of related videos after a video finishes
Customize what shows up under each thumbnail. Choose any combination of… Author Date uploaded Title Runtime YouTube/Vimeo URL Average rating Number of ratings Category Number of views YouTube/Vimeo video ID Description Vimeo “likes” count
Fine tune your how your site interacts with YouTube or Vimeo… Enable/disable a request cache Choose to only retrieve embeddable videos Filter out “racy” content Change the YouTube API Developer Key Cap total number of videos in a gallery
Several advanced options for the savvy user… Control the output formatting of date information Change the shortcode keyword (WordPress only) Turn on/off debugging Blacklist videos from your gallery Choose your underlying HTTP transport mechanism Choose cache directory and expiration times
Videos play perfectly on nearly every mobile device that supports HTML5 or Flash
Easily embed individual videos with all associated meta information (description, length, author, etc)
HTML output is entirely customizable via lightweight, upgrade-proof themes. No specialized template syntax! Just regular HTML, CSS, and PHP.
Tested to work on IE 7, IE 8, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari
“Fluid” thumbnails that align themselves to best-fit, even on browser resize
Extremely verbose debugging mode to help diagnose and resolve any installation issues
Fast – minimal performance penalty
Easily used in WordPress posts, pages, and as a widget
Detects and lazy-loads missing JS and CSS resources
100% open source under the GNU GPLv3 license
Semantically correct, clean, XHTML compliant HTML source
Scalable – Unlimited unique galleries on unlimited pages
Powerful, easy-to-use shortcode syntax lets you insert galleries throughout your site with no coding
Available in nine languages English Arabic German Hebrew Italian Portugese Russian Spanish Swedish
Widget functionality – put a strip of videos in your sidebar
One full year of priority support
One full year of free TubePress Pro upgrades
Easily used as a stand-alone PHP library
Easily used in WordPress templates
Ajax-enabled pagination
Ajax-enabled interactive searching
Use high quality thumbnails
Combine multiple video sources into a single, seamless gallery! (e.g. videos from multiple users)
After clicking a thumbnail, videos can play… with TinyBox with FancyBox
Full SSL (HTTPS) support
Automatically start the next video in a gallery when playback finishes
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