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Getting Started with WPS Player

A complete introduction to WPS Player, the most powerful video player for WordPress.

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1. How to use WPS Player​

WP-Script Player is a WordPress plugin that brings to your site the most powerful WordPress video player on the market. So basically, you only need a website running WordPress.

How to install WPS Player​

WPS Player can be installed like any other WP-Script plugin.

Check out how our guides to learn:

Themes Compatibility​

WPS Player works with any WordPress theme, including:

2. WPS Player features overview​

Once you have installed WPS Player, it will automatically replace the native WordPress video player on your site.

Main features​

WPS Player finds any video in your content and uses its own video player to render it.

  • The player is responsive. So your videos will fit perfectly inside your site on mobile and desktop.
  • No CSS style can alter the player. Therefore videos are perfectly rendered in any situation.
  • The player can render vertical videos by adding black background automatically.
  • The player can embed your own ads.
  • You can customize the player with your own colors and logo.
  • The player can even render video iframes from any adult tubes or youtube like site.

Common video player features​

WPS Player offers all features that every good player can offer:

  • 16/9 video format
  • Play/Pause buttons
  • Autoplay videos
  • Timeline seeker
  • Sound mute/volume slider
  • Video duration
  • Video speed (x0.5, x1, x1.5, x2)
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Keyboard control
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All those features work with mp4 videos only.

Exclusive features​

The strength of WPS Player comes from its exclusive features:

Features with mp4 work with mp4 videos.

Features with iframe work on iframes videos.

  • Custom logo (image, position, size, opacity, grayscale) mp4 iframe
  • Many ads slots
    • over the video before it is played mp4 iframe
    • over the video on pause mp4
    • on pre-roll in-stream before the video when it is played mp4
    • on mid-roll in-stream whenever you want in the middle of the video mp4
  • Custom colors
    • on timeline seeker mp4
    • on play/pause buttons mp4
  • Custom texts
    • on video loader mp4 iframe
    • on ads buttons to close ads mp4
  • Quality switcher
    • when multiple resolutions are defined for the same video mp4
  • Nice video loading animation with custom color and text mp4 iframe
  • Shortcode to display a video anywhere on your site
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Check out the WPS Player options documentation to learn more about each feature.

3. When to use WPS Player?​

WPS Player will be perfect in all situations. And more specifically as soon as you need to display videos with a professional and customized look. That said, here are the 3 best situations where WPS Player will save you like no other video player on the market:

Branding​

You want a video player with many options to reflect your site identity, including:

  • custom colors according to the graphic charter of your site
  • your own logo
  • customized texts

Advertising​

You want to display your own ads inside your videos, including:

  • iframes based ads from advertising networks
  • javascript scripts ads provided by advertising networks
  • simple images with links to any site or resource you want
  • VAST ads tags
  • VPAID ads tags

Advanced Control​

You want a video player to play any video found on your site, including:

  • mp4 videos
  • iframe videos
  • WordPress video shortcode videos

You want a video player at a specific page on your site:

  • on any content page like posts and pages
  • inside any WordPress widget slot