How to add YouTube Videos to WooCommerce 

Are you looking to add YouTube videos to WooCommerce store to showcase and describe your products in detail, attract more customers, and grow sales? 

In this blog, I’ll show you how to add YouTube videos to WooCommerce sites and boost sales.  

Moreover, it doesn’t require coding knowledge; you can do it in minutes. 

Let’s go ahead and get in.

Key Benefits of Adding Videos to Your WooCommerce Store 

Build Trust with 360° View & Detailed presentation   

Product videos offer a dynamic and detailed presentation of your products. They thoroughly show every side, part, and capability of a product. Unlike static images, videos bring your product to life, letting shoppers see real-world use. Plus, background audio describes the product’s top features and key specifications in detail. This can lead to increased conversion rates because shoppers who watch product videos are 73% more likely to buy. 

Educate Customers

When it comes to newly launched, uncommon, or technical products, customers feel hesitant about using them effectively. In such cases, adding tutorial videos demonstrates proper usage and makes customers feel more confident in their purchases. 

Enhance Mobile Shopping Experience 

Mobile users prefer quick, engaging videos over reading long product descriptions. Product videos give shoppers on mobile an easy and detailed understanding on their small screens.  

Help SEO

Search engines love media content, including video. In addition, product videos increase the visitors’ dwell time on your product pages. Moreover, videos reduce the bounce rate with a clear and detailed product view.  Thus, videos help your WooCommerce site rank higher in search engine result pages and get more traffic (customers).  

Boost Sales and Grow Business 

Product videos provide a detailed and genuine display, build trust, reduce bounce and return rate, get more customers, boost sales, and ultimately accelerate your business growth. 

Embed YouTube Videos in WooCommerce Without a Plugin 

WordPress Gutenberg editor provides a built-in YouTube Embed block. It allows you to embed the YouTube video link anywhere on your WooCommerce store that supports Gutenberg blocks. 

In addition to the YouTube Embed block, several  Gutenberg blocks and the product form editor also support YouTube video links. 

However, some crucial areas of WooCommerce, such as the product gallery or archive listing, don’t natively support YouTube videos.

No worries, you can add YouTube Videos to WooCommerce galleries and product listings in two simple steps without coding. 

Add YouTube Videos in WooCommerce With a Plugin in Two Simple Steps

A good plugin lets you go beyond the restriction and enables you to add YouTube videos to WooCommerce dynamic product listings and galleries in minutes with no code. 

There are several options. One of the best options is WooGallery. Let’s add videos to your WooCommerce store in two easy steps.

Step 1: Install and activate WooGallery

Thousands of WooCommerce stores use this plugin to make their product galleries highly aesthetic and interactive to boost sales growth. 

It lets you embed unlimited videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and more. 

Furthermore, it allows you to display videos on: 

• WooCommerce single product galleries 
• WooCommerce variable product galleries
• WooCommerce shop and archive pages 

The following video lets you learn more about WooGallery.

After activating the WooGallery, let’s dive into the second step.  

Step 2: Copy & Paste YouTube Video Link 

First, copy the YouTube video URL and open the product form to which you want to add the video. Then, go to add or edit the product or a gallery image and paste the video link into the video field at the bottom right of your WordPress media library. Finally, update the product form and refresh the product detail page to view the changes.

Let’s dive into more detailed, personalized, and visual methods. 

Add YouTube Videos to WooCommerce Product Gallery 

Follow the simple click steps to add YouTube videos to your WooCommerce product galleries. 

1. First, go to your WordPress admin sidebar and click Products. 
2. Next, edit an existing product or add a new one. 
3. Now, click Add product gallery images. 
4. Select an image as the video thumbnail. 
5. Paste the video link in the field. In addition to YouTube videos, you can add videos from Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, and more. 
6. Click the Set product image button. 
7. Finally, hit the Update button on your product form.

This way, you can add as many videos as you want. 

Add YouTube Videos to WooCommerce Product Variation Galleries 

Additionally, WooGallery empowers you to add YouTube videos to the additional galleries of each product variation. These variable product galleries can largely grow your sales.

WooGallery allows you to create additional variation galleries for every product variation and offers the same video field to add videos to the variation galleries while adding media. 

Add YouTube Videos to WooCommerce Shop & Archive Pages (Product Featured Video)

First, go to Products in the left sidebar of your WordPress admin dashboard. Then, add a new product or edit an existing one. Click the Product Image in the right sidebar of the product form. 

Select an image in your WordPress media library and find the video field (by WooGallery) at the bottom right. Paste your YouTube video URL in the field and click the Add to gallery button. After filling out the product form with the required input, hit its Update button at the top right. 

Then, navigate to WooGallery→ SHOP PAGE VIDEO and turn on the Show Product Video on the Shop Page toggle to display YouTube videos on your store’s shop and archive pages. 

Hide YouTube Suggested Videos to Prevent Distractions 

YouTube is the most popular for embedding product videos in WooCommerce. However, it has a great pitfall.

Turn it off and keep your audience focused on your products to grow conversions.  

Automatically play YouTube Videos in Your WooCommerce Store 

WooGallery allows you to automatically play product videos and even hide the video player controls. This means if you turn on Autoplay and hide Controls, the video will start just after a visitor lands on the page and will not give the visitor any options to pause or skip the video.

However, auto-playing videos without controls isn’t always a good practice. It’s best to run an A/B test to see how your visitors respond, then decide whether to keep, adjust, or remove the video based on their behavior.

Find these features in the GALLERY and the SHOP PAGE VIDEO tabs of WooGallery.  

Customize Your Video Player and Product Gallery 

WooGallery offers you a lot of modern gallery layouts, robust features, and easy customizations. So, you can make your Woo product gallery exactly like the world’s top brands and accelerate the sales growth. 

You will find all the features in the tabs at the top of the image. Its key features include:  

• Customize the video player appearance to match your brand color 
• On/off Autoplay
• Show hide the video player controls 
• Hide YouTube’s auto-recommended videos 
• 16 modern gallery layouts, including vertical thumbnail gallery slider
• Different layouts per category  
• Horizontal and vertical thumbnail sliders 
• Custom gallery and thumbnail size  
• Gallery thumbnails are on the left, right, top, or bottom
• Gallery adaptive height, accessibility, RTL mode, and swipe-to-slide
• Add videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and more 
• Unlimited color for video icons, lightbox icons, pagination & navigation icons, and thumbnail borders. 
• Zoom in, zoom out, slide up, slide down, and hover effects
• Border around, bottom line, zoom out, and opacity active thumbnail styles
• Fade, slide, flip, and cube product gallery effects
• Customize slider navigation and pagination
• Any color for the lens, border, and image overlay 

And more 

Explore the features thoroughly and utilize all the potential to make the most of it. 

Takeaway 

YouTube videos in your WooCommerce store make your product display more detailed and convert visitors into customers. With WooGallery, you can easily add YouTube videos to WooCommerce in minutes without coding. 

So, let’s add YouTube videos to WooCommerce and grow sales. 

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