---
title: YouTube with EmbedPress PRO
description: "Learn how to enable YouTube in Elementor Pro easily & quickly."
url: "https://embedpress.com/docs/youtube-add-on/"
updated: "2023-12-14"
category: Video Embeds
---

# YouTube with EmbedPress PRO

YouTube with **[EmbedPress PRO](https://embedpress.com/#pricing)** provides many extra features for your YouTube videos. To access the features, you need the **EmbedPress PRO** installed and activated. 

1. Login to your WordPress site’s dashboard and go to the **EmbedPress menu.**
2. Go to the **“General”** tab and select **“YouTube”** from the drop-down menu.

[![youtube](https://embedpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1-1.gif)](https://embedpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1-1.gif)

Change the settings depending on your needs to customize the YouTube embeds:

- **Auto Play:** Automatically start to play the videos when the player loads.
- **Progress bar color:** Specifies the color that will be used in the player’s video progress bar to highlight the amount of the video that the viewer has already seen.
- **Force Closed Captions:** Setting this option to Yes causes closed captions to be shown by default, even if the user has turned captions off. This will be based on user preference otherwise.
- **Display Controls:** Indicates whether the video player controls are displayed.
- **Enable Fullscreen button:** Indicates whether the fullscreen button is enabled.
- **Display video annotations:** Indicates whether video annotations are displayed.
- **Display related videos:** Indicates whether the player should show related videos when the playback of the initial video ends.
- **Modest Branding:** Indicates whether the player should display a YouTube logo in the control bar.

Click Save Changes when you’re done.

### **Activate EmbedPress PRO License**

We recommend you use the license key to receive automatic updates for this add-on in the future directly into your WordPress site. [**Read this tutorial**](https://embedpress.com/docs/embedpress-pro-license/) to know how to activate your license.

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