Daily New Nation YouTube Shorts

Production-ready WordPress plugin for showing Daily New Nation YouTube Shorts with a shortcode, dedicated plugin tables, scheduled YouTube Data API sync, archive page, and on-site modal playback.

Repository: https://github.com/RayhanSysMin/dnn-youtube-shorts

Author: Rayhan Sardar

Features

• Dedicated optimized database tables.
• No WordPress posts, categories, tags, or custom post types for Shorts.
• YouTube Data API v3 sync from @dailynewnation.
• Uploads playlist based sync, not expensive YouTube search queries.
• Manual Sync Now button.
• WP-Cron scheduled sync.
• Admin Shorts list with active/inactive and Short/not Short toggles.
• Responsive Shorts slider shortcode.
• Paginated archive shortcode.
• YouTube no-cookie iframe modal playback.
• Configurable primary color. Default: #dd0000.
• Cache clearing after sync and settings changes.

Installation

Download the release ZIP from GitHub Releases and install it from:

WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin

Or upload the extracted folder to:

wp-content/plugins/dnn-youtube-shorts/

Activate:

Daily New Nation YouTube Shorts

Settings

Open:

Daily New Nation Shorts > Sync Settings

Configure:

• YouTube API key
• Channel ID or channel handle
• Archive slug
• Slider limit
• Archive per-page count
• Primary color
• Cron sync interval
• API pages per sync

Default channel handle:

@dailynewnation

Shortcodes

Slider:

[dnn_youtube_shorts]

Slider with attributes:

[dnn_youtube_shorts limit="8" title="Shorts" archive_url="/shorts/" autoplay="true"]

Archive:

[dnn_youtube_shorts_archive]

Database Tables

The plugin creates and uses only these dedicated tables:

{prefix}dnn_shorts
{prefix}dnn_shorts_sync_log

It does not create Shorts as normal posts.

Release

Current release:

v1.0.7

Development

Run PHP lint:

find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 php -l

Run JavaScript syntax checks:

node --check assets/js/frontend.js
node --check assets/js/admin.js

License

GPLv2 or later.