MisticEase

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MisticEase turns supported video URLs into popup thumbnails or title links without custom HTML, extra classes, or special attributes.

Paste a YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Vimeo, or Dailymotion URL into a page or post, save it, and MisticEase converts the supported URL into a clickable thumbnail. Use n/ before a supported video URL to show a title link instead.

Fetched thumbnails are stored in the uploads directory and reused on later page views. Media Library images can also open in a popup viewer and can be grouped automatically for sequential viewing.

MisticEase includes floating popup controls, cache management, inline guidance, and Multisite network settings. A live demo is available on the MisticEase demo page.

Features

• Convert supported video URLs into popup thumbnails or title links.
• Use Slash Markup Core for thumbnail width, popup width, image captions, and custom labels.
• Cache thumbnails locally in the WordPress uploads directory.
• Use draggable floating popups on supported screen sizes.
• Open supported Media Library images in a popup viewer.
• Configure Multisite network settings.

Quick start

Block and Classic Editors use the same notation.

Add a supported video URL to a page or post and save:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASTE_A_REAL_VIDEO_ID_HERE

Use n/ when you want a title link:

n/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASTE_A_REAL_VIDEO_ID_HERE<h3>Slash Markup Core</h3>

Slash Markup Core lets you write short instructions directly before a supported URL. It is not a shortcode. The instruction must touch the URL without a space, line break, or HTML tag between them.

Common prefixes:

• t300/ sets the thumbnail display width to about 300 pixels.
• p900/ sets the popup width to about 900 pixels.
• n/ shows a title link instead of a thumbnail for supported video URLs.
• ttl My Caption/ is mainly for image captions or image-related description text.
• /My Link/ shows a custom text label.
• /// can be used as an explicit URL end marker.

Examples:

t300/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASTE_A_REAL_VIDEO_ID_HERE
p900/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASTE_A_REAL_VIDEO_ID_HERE
n/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASTE_A_REAL_VIDEO_ID_HERE
/Watch this video/p900/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASTE_A_REAL_VIDEO_ID_HERE
/Open image/ttl Image caption/t220/p900/https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg

A custom label must be placed at the beginning and wrapped with slashes. If used, MisticEase displays a text link instead of a thumbnail.

The /// marker is useful when a URL is immediately followed by punctuation or other text.

MisticEase can apply a t.../ thumbnail display width to a directly pasted image URL only when the URL points to an image under the same site’s wp-content path.

Unsupported video-service URLs, such as channel pages, playlists, user pages, and search pages, are kept as lightweight external links.

Supported pasted video URLs include common YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion video URLs, including URLs with query strings. YouTube popup playback uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced nocookie embed mode.

Floating UX mode and images

A popup can be dragged to switch into floating window mode. On supported desktop and tablet-sized screens, MisticEase can keep one video popup and one Media Library image popup open at the same time.

If another popup of the same type is opened while one is already floating, the existing popup is replaced. If the existing floating popup is pinned, it stays open and the pin control flashes.

On smartphone-sized screens, floating mode is disabled and MisticEase uses the normal single-popup behavior.

Media Library images can open in a popup when an image block or text link points to a supported image file in the WordPress uploads directory. Supported popup image formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and AVIF. SVG files are not handled by this popup feature.

If you already use another gallery plugin, the image popup feature can be turned off in the settings.

Cache and external services

When a supported video URL is first displayed, MisticEase fetches the thumbnail image and stores it locally in the WordPress uploads directory. The cached local thumbnail is reused on later page views.

The maximum cache size can be configured in the settings panel. When the cache limit is reached, older cached thumbnails are removed automatically. A scheduled cleanup also runs once every 30 days.

MisticEase connects to external services when a supported video thumbnail has not yet been cached locally. These requests are used only to retrieve thumbnail images or thumbnail-related metadata for supported video URLs.

The n/ title-link feature may request provider metadata to resolve the video title when displayed. MisticEase does not create persistent database cache entries for these title-link titles.

When a visitor plays a video, the browser also connects to the original video service for playback.

External services used by supported video features include YouTube, YouTube nocookie playback, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

Related service and privacy pages:

• YouTube Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
• YouTube API terms: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service
• YouTube API policies: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-policies
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Vimeo legal terms: https://vimeo.com/legal
• Vimeo API terms: https://vimeo.com/legal/service-terms/api
• Vimeo Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy
• Dailymotion Terms: https://legal.dailymotion.com/en/terms-of-use/
• Dailymotion Privacy Policy: https://legal.dailymotion.com/en/privacy-policy

Freemius SDK and optional opt-in

MisticEase includes the Freemius SDK for important product notices, MisticEase Arc upgrade flows, licensing, and support-related features. If you opt in, it also helps the MisticEase developer understand product usage environments and prioritize compatibility and localization work.

Freemius connection is optional. You can use MisticEase without opting in to Freemius.

If you opt in, the information shown in the Freemius opt-in screen is sent to Freemius and managed by Freemius. This information includes your WordPress account username, email address, site URL, product version, plugin status, WordPress version, PHP version, site language, and basic WordPress environment information used for compatibility, updates, licensing, and support-related purposes.

Freemius explains in its Privacy Policy and Data Practices that it does not sell personal data, uses industry-standard practices to keep data secure, and takes appropriate steps to process and store personal data securely in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including GDPR-related rights, California privacy rights, and Brazil’s LGPD.

For details, refer to Freemius:

• Service: https://freemius.com/
• API: https://api.freemius.com/
• Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
• Data Practices: https://freemius.com/privacy/data-practices/
• Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/