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This plugin will create a gallery of image thumbnails which will play video on hover. Then you can use shortcode in your page to place this gallery in your page. Media Hovers also supports lightbox mode where images and videos can be viewed in larger mode. Lightbox can also contain Youtube videos, Vimeo videos, or any custom iframe.

Using wordpress admin, upload and configure your images with audio and video, and use shortcode in any page or post to display.

  • Play media on hover or click (works on mobile too!)
  • Responsive grids with breakpoints
  • Masonry support
  • HTML5 video and audio support
  • Youtube and Vimeo support
  • Lightbox support
  • Animation effects
  • Lightweight code
  • Attach url link to images
  • Accepts custom HTML inside
  • Image categories
  • Supports shortcodes in title and description

Features and options:

  • Responsive grids with breakpoints
  • Masonry support
  • HTML5 video and audio support
  • Youtube and Vimeo support
  • Lightbox support
  • Animation effects
  • Lightweight code

Notes:

  1. This is a WordPress plugin. If you would like a jQuery version go here:
    http://codecanyon.net/item/media-hovers/20704692

  2. This plugin creates gallery of its own, it does not interact with other galleries neither it can change other galleries in 3rd party plugins or themes.

If you are looking for similar plugin that is compatible with WooCommerce we present Media Hovers functionality inside WooCommerce product images and WordPress featured posts:

Updates / Changelog

VERSION 3.92 [11.5.2022]

- [FIX] some grid setting causing mobile playback method down not to work

VERSION 3.91 [6.4.2022]

- [FIX] mobile playback method down causes image popup save dialog to appear

VERSION 3.9 [22.3.2022]

- [FIX] lightbox type iframe missing
 - [FIX] lightbox hook handle spacing 
 - [FIX] undefined index supportShortcodeInTitleDesc
 - [FIX] ios 15 video not showing if not thumbnail
 - [ADD] carousel option, variable width carousel
 - [ADD] hover scale effect
 - [UPDATE] disable video picture in picture 
 - [ADD] option to specify different video quality for mobile (for html5 video)
 - [UPDATE] option to have thumbnail image as background cover instead of img element

VERSION 3.71 [9.2.2022]

- [FIX] if images were not used, only videos, on mobile videos were not playing if Try to unmute video was true

VERSION 3.7 [10.1.2022]

- [FIX] masorny layout sometimes not resizing properly on start

VERSION 3.66 [10.1.2022]

- [FIX] export feature not working in some cases (Read-only file system in plugins directory)

VERSION 3.65 [2.1.2022]

- [FIX] export / import sometimes not working when wp prefix is different

UPDATE 3.61 [17.8.2021]

- [UPDATE] video loader for html5 videos

UPDATE 3.6 [14.5.2021]

- [ADD] new hover effects
 - [ADD] option to add video hover delay to start playback after some image effect has finished

UPDATE 3.52 [5.05.2021]

- [FIX] custom CSS not saving sometimes

UPDATE 3.51 [13.3.2021]

- [FIX] youtube video not looping

UPDATE 3.5 [5.3.2021]

- [FIX] load more button not working
 - [FIX] justify grid mode not working well when pagination is used
 - [FIX] lightbox triggering when url is set and no lightbox is set, and all triggers are set to whole item

 - [UPDATE] option to upload image icon for lightbox, share, url link

 - [ADD] new title skin - Viva
 - [ADD] option to play video on touch down on mobile (only while finger is down)
 - [ADD] option to play video in tooltip

UPDATE 3.05 [14.2.2021]

- [FIX] pagination not working
 - [UPDATE] choose where to apply autoplay mode (desktop / mobile)

UPDATE 3.0 [6.1.2021]

- [UPDATE] option to use just videos without thumbnails (for self hosted media)
 - [ADD] load more items in the gallery when scrolling to window bottom 
 - [UPDATE] multiple galleries in page improvement (no instance_id)
 - [FIX] edit category creates new category instead of edit
 - [UPDATE] categories sorted by title
 - [UPDATE] admin backend translatable

UPDATE 2.85 [19.10.2020]

- [UPDATE] video unmute improvements
 - [UPDATE] IOS youtube autoplay

UPDATE 2.81 [29.9.2020]

- [FIX] disable hover on mobile always active when true

UPDATE 2.8 [22.9.2020]

- [ADD] grid pagination
 - [ADD] search field

UPDATE 2.65 [23.8.2020]

- [FIX] link, lightbox click not detected

UPDATE 2.65 [11.7.2020]

- [FIX] link, lightbox icon created even if trigger is thumbnail or whole item
 - [UPDATE] prevent video download on tap hold

UPDATE 2.62 [18.6.2020]

- [UPDATE] image hover lazy loaded

UPDATE 2.6 [8.6.2020]

- [UPDATE] category can be used in shortcode (select images with categories...), works with load more
 - [ADD] select default categories before image upload in admin

UPDATE 2.5 [8.5.2020]

- [UPDATE] ajax powered gallery edit
 - [ADD] image categories
 - [ADD] option to add a button with url inside description
 - [ADD] support for shortcodes in title and description

UPDATE 2.4 [29.1.2020]

- [UPDATE] hover items are faded in once thumbnail loads to prevent elements over thumbnail like title showing before image loads
 - [ADD] add custom classes to gallery
 - [ADD] restrain gallery width
 - [ADD] specify image ratio for placeholder when lazy load is used (or use placeholder from image size)
 - [ADD] justifed grid layout

UPDATE 2.35 [25.1.2020]

- [UPDATE] video / audio only loaded when hover happens
 - [UPDATE] ratio no longer required if only videos are used without thumbnails
 - [ADD] muted video autoplay mode (autoplay all, slideshow, random)
 - [ADD] playback rate
 - [ADD] wordpress widget

VERSION 2.3 [1.12.2019]

- [FIX] duplicate player, playlist function jquery not defined

UPDATE 2.3 [22.11.2019]

- [UPDATE] hovers now work on mobile
 - [ADD] trigger playback on hover or click
 - [UPDATE] select which element will trigger hover, link and lightbox
 - [ADD] option to add HTML inside hover item

**VERSION 2.26…