Make Videos Responsive in WordPress site, so that your site makes a good impression on the visitors coming through mobile phones or other small screen devices.

With the increase in number of responsive WordPress themes, it has become really important for webmaster to make all the element of the site responsive including embedded videos.

Otherwise if a user visit your site through smaller screens they will see videos stretched and not proportionate. In this article we will check the best plugins available to make videos responsive in WordPress.

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1. Advanced Responsive Video Embedder

A very simple lightweight plugin lets you embed videos from many providers with full responsive sizes via URL or Shortcode. Show videos as thumbnails and let them open in Colorbox.

This plugin supports almost all the leading video sites, which makes it really useful to use because many plugins only supports YouTube and other one or two sites.

2. FitVids for WordPress

A very useful plugins to make videos responsive in WordPress. This plugin makes videos responsive using the FitVids jQuery plugin on WordPress.

Once you activate the plugin you get a new option under Appearance as “FitVids”. From there you can add your selector and turn jQuery on and off.

3. WordPress Canvas – Responsive Videos

A latest plugin to make videos responsive in WordPress which works on CSS, no Javascript. This plugin will automatically resize your videos inserted in your WordPress editor.

The code is light and only uses CSS. No javascript is used so there is no delay in your iframes and/or embeded objects from being resized. This plugin will also try to correctly guess your aspect ratio so your videos always look great.

It currently has been tested for the following providers:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion

4. Responsive Video Embeds

This plugin will automatically resize your WordPress auto-embeds, including video and other iframes, in a responsive fashion.

It currently supports the following providers:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• Blip.tv
• Viddler
• hulu.com
• Revision 3
• Funny or Die
• WordPress.tv
• Scribd

5. Responsive Video Shortcodes

Responsive Video Shortcodes is a tiny Plugin that allows you to embed video files from the popular video hosting platforms in a responsive design. It is based on the WordPress oEmbed Feature, so it supports every online service that is natively supported by WordPress.