Title: The Media Widget
Author: Alobaidi
Published: <strong>October 14, 2015</strong>
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# The Media Widget

 By [Alobaidi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alobaidi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/the-media-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/the-media-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/the-media-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/the-media-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/the-media-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-media-widget/)

## Description

### The Media Widget

Display media in text widget easily, youtube video, vimeo video, instagram image,
easy to use just paste link! fully responsive and custom height.

### The Features

 1. Fully responsive.
 2. Youtube, Vimeo, Instagram images support.
 3. Easy to use, just paste link.
 4. Custom height.
 5. Same Text widget in wordpress.

### Live Demo

 * [http://wp-plugins.in/the-media-widget](http://wp-plugins.in/the-media-widget)

### Rate The Plugin

 * [Please rate The Media Widget plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/the-media-widget#postform)

### More Plugins

 * [My Plugins](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alobaidi#content-plugins)

## Installation

### Installation

 1. Upload ‘the-media-widget’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Now use “Text Widget” in wordpress, paste media link (youtube or vimeo or instagram
    image) in “Content” field.
 4. Iframe video height is “300” pixel, if you want to change it, go to Settings > 
    Media, now in “Video Height” field, enter your custom height for youtube and vimeo
    video.

 * [Read explanation of use](http://wp-plugins.in/the-media-widget)

## FAQ

  FAQ

 * [Read explanation of use](http://wp-plugins.in/the-media-widget)
 * [For more questions or help, contact me.](http://wp-plugins.in/1XnA5Qr)
 * [Or on twitter.](http://wp-plugins.in/1L6zCZL)

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-10689/)󠁿

 [Cyndi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cynderella/) September 3, 2016 1 reply

Excellent plugin!!!

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 [nathaningram](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nathaningram/) September 3, 2016 
1 reply

Nice job! Makes adding media to a sidebar one step easier – especially for clients.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-media-widget/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“The Media Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Alobaidi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alobaidi/)

[Translate “The Media Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/the-media-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-media-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/the-media-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/the-media-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/the-media-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

First version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.6.30**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-media-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [media](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/)[media widget](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media-widget/)
   [video](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video/)[video widget](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-widget/)
   [videos](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/videos/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/the-media-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-media-widget/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-media-widget/reviews/?filter=4)
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[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-media-widget/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Alobaidi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alobaidi/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-media-widget/)

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