Livid – Video Hosting

Description

Livid is a video hosting platform. This plugin serves two purposes:

1. Enable Livid embeds — Register Livid as an oEmbed provider so pasting Livid URLs into WordPress automatically creates video embeds, just like YouTube or Vimeo.

2. Migrate from Vimeo — Scan your WordPress post content for Vimeo videos and replace them with equivalent Livid videos via the Livid platform.

Key Features

• Automatic embeds — Paste any livid.com URL and it auto-embeds
• Complete scanning — Finds Vimeo iframes, Gutenberg embed blocks, bare URLs, [embed] shortcodes, and shortcodes
• Background processing — Scan and migration run as Action Scheduler jobs so they won’t time out on large sites
• Safe replacement — Only replaces the specific videos you select through the Livid migration popup
• Revision tracking — Each migrated post gets a revision tagged with the migration run ID
• Permanent install — Keep the plugin active for continued Livid embed support

How It Works

The plugin registers Livid as an oEmbed provider, which is active immediately upon installation. For migration:

1. Go to Settings > Livid and click “Start Scan”
2. The plugin scans post content across all public post types for Vimeo embeds
3. A popup opens where you select which videos to migrate and map them to Livid video IDs
4. The plugin rewrites the selected embeds in the background

Scope

Migration scans and rewrites post_content only. Post meta, widget content, theme settings, and page builder data stored outside post_content are not modified.

External Services

This plugin interacts with Livid in two ways:
1. Video migration
When you initiate a migration, the plugin sends a listing of Vimeo videos found on your site along with basic information about the pages they appear on. This is necessary so that Livid can match the Vimeo videos on your site to the ones you have uploaded to your Livid account. No data is sent unless you actively start a migration.
2. oEmbed provider
This plugin registers Livid as an oEmbed provider in WordPress. When a Livid video URL is embedded in a post or page, WordPress will make a request to Livid’s oEmbed endpoint to retrieve embed information (such as the video title and player HTML). This happens whenever a post containing a Livid embed is edited or its embed cache is refreshed.
Both interactions are in line with Livid’s terms of service and privacy policy.