A video gallery for Elementor: YouTube, Vimeo and self-hosted clips in a grid with a lightbox, filters and thumbnails.
The course sits in the documentation, not behind a login. Every lesson is a recording of the real screens, and the running order on the right holds a learner’s place while they work through the module.
Recorded by the people who build the widgets.
Slow television needs one frame, a running order and nothing else in the way. The strip beneath the picture is the entire schedule, and it scrolls without leaving the page.
Three short episodes, filmed in one kitchen. The list stays beside the pan so a cook can jump to the step they are on without scrolling away from the hob.
Chicken skewers with a charred lemon dressing, a cucumber salad that takes four minutes, and a sushi board for people who have never rolled one.
A tour operator does not want six embeds stacked down a page. One frame, one running order, and the traveller decides where to start.
Best window
April to early June, before the rains
Pace
Two wonders a week, no red-eye flights
Guides
Local, on foot, small groups
Getting there
One long-haul, then rail wherever it exists
A newsroom hands out three kinds of file: an embed, a mirror on another platform, and a raw cut on the company server. One playlist takes all three, and a journalist never has to guess which link works.
Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.
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Yes — the Video Gallery widget in Sky Addons for Elementor pairs one player with a thumbnail rail. Each row can be YouTube, Vimeo, a file from your media library or an external file URL, and those sources mix freely in the same playlist. Clicking a thumbnail swaps the video without reloading the page.
No. There is one player element on the page and Sky Addons swaps its source when a thumbnail is picked, so only the video someone actually chooses is fetched. What does load up front is one poster image per row, which is why good posters matter more here than the number of videos.
YouTube rows pull their still straight from YouTube’s own image host and Vimeo rows use a public Vimeo thumbnail service. Self-hosted files get no automatic still at all — without a Poster they fall back to Elementor’s grey placeholder. Setting a Poster on a row overrides every one of those defaults.
No. It ships in Sky Addons Pro and runs on free Elementor with any theme. Playback uses the Plyr player, bundled with the plugin, so nothing is fetched from a CDN, and YouTube and Vimeo videos need no API key or developer account — a normal share link is enough.
Yes — the Layout control offers Vertical, which stands the thumbnail rail alongside the player and scrolls it vertically, and Horizontal, which lays it across the bottom. Below 768 pixels the rail always turns horizontal anyway, showing three thumbnails at a time and two below 500, so a phone never gets a tall stack.
Each one separately: progress bar, current time, volume and mute, the settings menu for quality and speed, picture-in-picture, and fullscreen — plus a master switch that removes the bar entirely. Auto-hide fades the bar while the video plays and the pointer is idle. Picture-in-picture applies to self-hosted files only.
Yes. Give a row a Share Slug and the page URL gains a sa-video parameter carrying it, updated quietly as visitors move through the playlist. Opening that URL selects the matching video. The browser may still hold on the first frame rather than start playing, because the player deliberately runs unmuted.
Yes, by default. When a video finishes the gallery advances to the next row that has a playable source, skipping any that are empty. Loop Playlist is a separate switch that wraps back to the first video after the last one. Turn Autoplay Next off if each video should simply stop where it ends.
No — it plays inline. The Video Gallery is a player with a playlist rail sitting in the page, not a grid of thumbnails that opens a popup over the content. Inline is the stronger choice when the video is the point of the section; for a popup, use a button with Elementor’s own lightbox.
Yes, per device. Aspect Ratio offers 16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 21:9 and 9:16, and a Min Height slider sets a floor — 550 pixels on desktop and 400 on mobile out of the box, in pixels or viewport height. Together they stop a portrait clip collapsing inside a wide column.
