Description
Logicfire Video Player embeds a modern Video.js v10 player anywhere on your WordPress site.
Free features
- Media Library attachments and direct progressive URLs (MP4, WebM, OGV, MOV)
- Dual renderers: HTML (Video.js v10 web components) and React
- Chapters, A–B loop, playback speed, and Picture-in-Picture
- Theming: colors, border radii, aspect ratio, controls inside or outside the player
- Reusable Video custom post type
- Shortcode, Gutenberg block, Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Bricks
Shortcode examples
[lfvp_player url="https://example.com/video.mp4"]
[lfvp_player video_id="123"]
[lfvp_player attachment_id="456"]
Upgrade to Pro
Logicfire Video Player Pro adds HLS adaptive streaming, S3 / CloudFront signed URLs, access control, captions, watermark, resume playback, playlists, analytics, Reels, and WooCommerce product trailers.
Source Code and Build Process
This plugin ships both generated (minified) front-end assets and the human-readable sources used to produce them. Build tooling lives under build/ (sources, package.json, and scripts). node_modules/ is not distributed.
Generated assets and their sources
assets/js/videojs-html/lfvp-html-boot-free.js— built frombuild/html/src/lfvp-html-boot-free.js(andbuild/html/src/lfvp-html-video-player.js, plusshared/features/) with esbuild (build/html/build.mjs).assets/js/lfvp-react-player.jsandassets/css/lfvp-react-player.css— built frombuild/react/src/(entryindex.jsx) with webpack (build/react/webpack.config.js).
Authored (not generated)
assets/js/lfvp-player.js— HTML renderer controller (human-readable; long CSS rule strings for the Video.js shadow tree are intentional).assets/css/lfvp-player-html.css,assets/css/lfvp-video-title-overlay.cssshared/features/*.jsand other small modules underassets/js/
How to rebuild
Requires Node.js 18+ and npm. See also build/README.md.
- HTML boot:
cd build/html && npm install && npm run build - React player:
cd build/react && npm install && npm run build
Third-party libraries
- Video.js v10 (
@videojs/html,@videojs/core, and related packages, version 10.0.0-beta.23) — Apache License 2.0 — https://github.com/videojs/v10 — bundled into the HTML boot and React player builds. - React 18 — MIT — provided by WordPress as the
wp-elementscript (not bundled). The React build includes only the JSX runtime license notice inassets/js/lfvp-react-player.js.LICENSE.txt.
The free plugin does not ship a full hls.js player for progressive playback; HLS adaptive streaming is a Pro feature.
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Logicfire Video Player Embed a Logicfire video player with Media Library, URL, or Video library sources.
Installation
- Upload the
logicfire-video-playerfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip from Plugins Add New Upload Plugin. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
- Go to Video Player Settings to configure the player.
- Create videos under Video Player Videos, or embed with the shortcode, block, or page-builder widgets.
FAQ
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Does the free version support HLS?
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No. HLS (
.m3u8) requires Logicfire Video Player Pro. -
Does it require WooCommerce?
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No. The free player works on any WordPress site. Pro can optionally gate playback by WooCommerce purchase.
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Where are translations loaded from?
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When hosted on WordPress.org, translations for the
logicfire-video-playertext domain are loaded automatically by WordPress. -
What data does the plugin store?
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Player settings are stored as WordPress options. Video metadata lives on the Video custom post type. Optional uninstall cleanup can remove settings when the plugin is deleted; video posts and media files are never removed automatically.
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Contributors & Developers
“Logicfire Video Player” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Progressive player with dual renderers, CPT, and page-builder adapters.
- Extension filters for Pro (
lfvp_source_providers,lfvp_player_bundle,lfvp_can_play,lfvp_admin_tabs). - Plugin Check / WordPress.org readiness: escaping, sanitization, uninstall prefixes, Tested up to 7.0.