Suggestion: Add a Video Gallery to ForumSpark

I’d like to suggest adding a Video Gallery feature to ForumSpark, similar to the existing Media Gallery, but specifically designed for sharing and organising videos.

The Video Gallery could allow members to submit videos from platforms such as YouTube, rather than having to upload the actual video file directly to the forum.

💡 How it could work

Members could add a video by simply pasting a YouTube link. ForumSpark would automatically retrieve information such as:

• 🎥 Video thumbnail

• 📝 Video title

• 👤 Channel/creator

• 📅 Upload date

• 🔗 Link to the original video

The video could then be displayed directly within the gallery, allowing members to watch it without leaving the forum where possible.

📂 Categories & Organisation

Much like the Media Gallery, administrators could create different categories or albums for videos. For example:

• 🎵 Music Videos

• 🎮 Gaming

• 🎬 Movies & TV

• 😂 Funny Videos

• 📚 Tutorials

• 📰 News & Current Events

• 🌟 Community Videos

This would make it much easier for members to browse videos based on their interests.

❤️ Community Features

The Video Gallery could also include features such as:

• Likes/reactions

• Comments

• Views

• Ratings

• Favourite/save option

• Featured videos

• Most viewed/popular videos

• Recently added videos

Administrators could also have moderation tools to approve, edit or remove submissions.

🚀 Why it would be useful

A Video Gallery would give ForumSpark communities another way to build content and encourage member interaction. Forums often have members sharing YouTube videos, music, tutorials, gaming clips and other video content, so having a dedicated place to organise these would be a useful addition to the existing Media Gallery.

It could essentially be a community-powered video library, while still using external platforms such as YouTube to host the actual videos, meaning ForumSpark wouldn't need to store large video files itself.

That is a very interesting idea! I’ve seen similar plugins like that for WordPress.

I do like this idea, but I think I’d probably offer it as an extension. I’ll give it a thought. 🙂

On Sep 9, 2026, Cedric said:

I do like this idea, but I think I’d probably offer it as an extension. I’ll give it a thought. 🙂

I agree it would be better as an extension. Not everyone will use it, but it being available somehow would be pretty cool.

On Sep 9, 2026, Shawn said:

I agree it would be better as an extension. Not everyone will use it, but it being available somehow would be pretty cool.

I like this as well, i could see it being useful.

Something else, if you or your members have a YouTube or Twitch channel and they post videos or live streams, their content could be watched from there and not have to leave your community.

A livestream add-on similar to what we have at Revillution - Live streams | Revillution - Your Portal to Video Game and Content Creation Entertainment | Gaming Forums

That supports Kick, Twitch & Youtube streams would be awesome to see as an extension on forumspark as well. 🙂

On Sep 9, 2026, Smokey said:

A livestream add-on similar to what we have at Revillution - Live streams | Revillution - Your Portal to Video Game and Content Creation Entertainment | Gaming Forums

That supports Kick, Twitch & Youtube streams would be awesome to see as an extension on forumspark as well. 🙂

Yeah, it seems like it might could be part of a all in one video gallery extension.