Flowplayer Video Player
Add a video file to WordPress with Flowplayer style. Embed a self-hosted, external or HTML5 compatible responsive video into a page with flowplayer.
4(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 years agoAs of April 2026, Flowplayer Video Player is a WordPress embed plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 45K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
4/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
45K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Flowplayer Video Player adds a video shortcode to your WordPress site. This shortcode allows you to embed a video file and play it back using the Flowplayer HTML5 player.
Features
- Embed MP4 videos
- Embed webm videos
- Embed videos which can be viewed from a mobile or tablet device
- Video playback support for iOS (ipad, iphone) and android devices
- Embed HTML5 videos which are playable across all major browsers
- Embed videos with poster images
- Embed videos and allow it to loop to the beginning when finished
- Customize the video player using modifier classes
- Automatically play a video when the page is rendered
- Embed videos using three different skins
- Automatically calculate the height of a video based on its width
- Flexible resizing of a video (true responsiveness)
- Embed a video with various aspec…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Stopped site working in Chrome on Mobiles
by daddyoftwo·5 years ago
Worked okay on on desktop but on Chrome on mobiles the front page did not download photos and FAQ Responsive plugin stopped expanding.
Decent – but
by tayloedcq·6 years ago
For the web page from a PC this worked really well.
But the autoplay didn’t work for iPhone (safari or chrome)
Secondly, it puts a “FlowPlayer” logo onto the screen that is very intrusive for mobile devices.
Going to look for another plugin.
Best and simplist, Love it
·8 years ago
More useful and beautiful UI than almost every other similar plug-in, only one thing how can I get rid of the watermark, is there a pro version to purchase 🙂
Beginner WordPress user "Likes"
by goldcountry·9 years ago
As an old aged WordPress beginner, getting most plugins/widgets to work is the same as banging my head against the wall. This was the first video player I got to work, as soon as I figured out to replace the sample in the shortcut with my own URL.
Works exactly as I want it to! Thank you!
Carry on…..
Very easy & flawless
by sgasson·10 years ago
Works well with little config. I have used this for a number of different format videos with no problems. The only slight niggle I have is that the video ratio is entered counter-intuitively as a fraction, rather than a width/height ratio. So 16:9 video is set up using a ratio of 0.56 rather than 1.77. It’s a small thing – and I did not have any problems once I realized how to calculate this. It’s just that video ratios are normally expressed the other way around … 🙂
Having said that, this is unintrusive and has worked for everything I have thrown at it so far. So may thanks for the plugin!
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 7This week: 43Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.5
- Made some security related improvements suggested by wpscan.
Contributors
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