Improvements made to the Urbexy website

We recently made several updates to our website. We focused on enhancing our website’s performance and introducing new features.

Website performance is important to ensure page load times are as expected. We reduced our overall page sizes and eliminated some plugins that were previously used. We use WordPress software to power our website. Our recent update involved the creation of a custom theme. The custom theme is Bootstrap based, so we can use a wide range of Bootstrap widgets without the need for third-party plugins.

We also improved how we display videos on the website. Our goal was to have videos displayed correctly regardless of the screen size the viewer is using. This is called responsive design.

One new feature we added was the “random video” viewer. This lets you view a random video from us. If you don’t like what you see, refresh or hit “Load new random video”, and a new random video will be displayed. We hope this will help people find videos they like and want to watch.

The random video feature involved creating a custom WordPress plugin that interacts with the YouTube API. It selects all uploaded videos, chooses one at random, and displays it within our embedded player. We have several ideas to improve this, and will continue to work on it moving forward.