Black Tube Pro

Dark, high-performance WordPress theme for video sites - dense 16:9 grid, custom HTML5 player, seven ad zones, zero plugins required. One-time $24.95.

Black Tube Pro is a dark, high-performance WordPress theme built for video sites. It gives you the complete toolkit - the grid, the player, the ad zones and the compliance tools - in one theme, for a one-time price of $24.95. No recurring fees, no plugins required, GPLv2 or later license.

Everything a video site needs, out of the box

• Dense 16:9 video grid - hover-play cards with duration and HD badges, view counts, and lazy-loaded images with zero layout shift.
• Custom HTML5 player - smart source ordering (embed iframe, native MP4, shortcode, post content), http-to-https repair, fullscreen and autoplay, plus privacy-safe rewrites (YouTube nocookie, Vimeo dnt=1, Dailymotion consent).
• Built-in ad slots - pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll player ads, plus seven widget ad zones (header banner, in-feed every 5th card, over-video dismissible, below player, sidebar 300x250, above footer, footer). Paste any ad network tag into a Custom HTML widget.
• Filter tabs and rankings - browse by All, Featured, Categories or Tags, with load-more infinite scroll.
• Watch page - star rating, share buttons, related videos sidebar and a 300x250 ad zone.
• Indexes, blog and photos - archive, single, taxonomy, author, categories and tags templates included.
• SEO built in - clean markup, Open Graph and Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data.

Compliance tools included

• Optional age-restriction gate for sites with restricted content, configured in the Customizer and remembered via cookie.
• GDPR consent modal with a "Cookie settings" footer link.
• Ready-to-edit DMCA and Terms page templates.
• Content moderation - block restricted search terms with an automatic 403 and demote flagged posts to draft.

Works with your existing setup

• No plugins required - add videos by hand with the built-in "Video information" meta box, or use optional import plugins (WPS Mass Embedder, WPS Single Embedder, WPS Mass Grabber, WPS YouTube Importer, WPS Player) which work out of the box with zero configuration.
• Embeds any iframe or embed code, including YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Native MP4s play in the theme's own player.
• Translation-ready with 300+ strings (text domain: blacktubepro) - use Loco Translate or WPML, or edit the bundled .pot file.
• Standard child-theme support and 25+ documented filters for developers.

What's included for $24.95

• The complete theme (v1.3)
• The full user guide (documentation/USER-GUIDE.md)
• Demo content (12 sample video posts, four categories and tags) to populate a fresh site
• Updates and email support

Requirements

• WordPress 5.8 or later (tested up to 6.6)
• PHP 7.0 or later
• Any evergreen browser

Performance

• Single stylesheet plus one small script - no jQuery, no webfonts
• Lazy-loaded images with fetchpriority high on the first card, zero layout shift
• WCAG AA contrast, passes axe-core with zero violations
• Fully responsive from desktop to mobile with a hamburger navigation