FluentPlayer changelog and version history

20268 releases

1. FluentPlayer 1.4.0Latest

   Aug 26, 2026
   • Feature: Vimeo provider — privacy mode, quality and playback-speed menus, and chapters
   • Feature: Single Playback settings — starting one player pauses or keep playing every other player on the page (on by default)
   • Feature: Deferred third-party embeds — YouTube and Vimeo players do not initialize the provider or send tracking requests until they’re released, via the fluent_player/defer_player filter (for cookie-consent and privacy workflows)
   • Feature: Muted Preview autoplay mode — the video autoplays muted loops with no analytics, layers, or resume running
   • Improvement: Presto Player migration now maps Muted Autoplay Preview settings
   • Improvement: Compatible with WordPress 7.1 — removed the deprecated block-editor control usage that logged warnings on every editor loaded
   • Improvement: The block editor and media picker no longer run one database query per private media item
   • Improvement: Public media pages can be switched off with the fluent_player/media_pages_enabled filter
   • Improvement: Autoplay with sound recovers muted when the browser blocks it, instead of freezing on the first frame
   • Security: Tightened permission checks and stripped credentials from block editor and player output
   • Fix: Resume position is saved on pause, tab switch, and single-page-app teardown, so progress is no longer lost
   • Fix: The same media placed twice on a page now renders two working players instead of one
   • Fix: YouTube branding no longer appears over the block editor preview, and portrait Shorts no longer zoom
   • Fix: Vimeo qualities the video cannot actually deliver are removed from the menu instead of silently failing
   • Fix: FluentCommunity lesson pages regain full player behavior, including analytics
   • Fix: Block editor styles are scoped so they no longer leak into core WordPress admin UI
   • Fix: The media and playlist list tables keep their pagination controls after choosing a large page size, and remember your page and page size

2. FluentPlayer 1.3.1

   Jul 28, 2026
   • Improvement: Player assets are cache-busted after a plugin update, so browsers load the new version instead of a stale one
   • Fix: Playback resumes where you left off for fluent community
   • Fix: The Bunny Stream CDN token is forwarded to editor preview segments, so protected media preview correctly in the editor
   • Fix: Fluent Player shortcodes now render inside the Breakdance builder canvas
   • Fix: YouTube and Vimeo embeds keep their referrer
   • Fix: The Divi and Elementor builder media and playlist pickers work again, and wp-admin typography issue in builder canvas

3. FluentPlayer 1.3.0

   Jul 23, 2026
   • Feature: Add any media by pasting a URL — the provider is detected automatically, and same-site upload URLs resolve to their library attachment
   • Feature: Configurable media shortcode — playback-override attributes and an optional dynamic source (id is no longer required)
   • Feature: Elementor widgets for the player and playlist, with full block-parity player settings
   • Feature: Divi 5 Visual Builder modules for the player and playlist
   • Feature: Audio playback support for CDN media providers
   • Feature: Editors can now author media, layers, and presets (previously admin-only); adjustable via the fluent_player/authoring_capability filter
   • Feature: FluentCRM integration — watched milestones and layer interactions are tracked and logged to the contact timeline
   • Feature: Private media now play wherever they are embedded (pages, courses) while their standalone page returns 404 and stays out of sitemaps and search — so course videos are never publicly exposed
   • Feature: Media created from a FluentCommunity lesson defaults to Private, so it never gets a public standalone page
   • Improvement: Unconfigured Pro sources collapse behind a More sources toggle, and disconnected providers link to their setup
   • Improvement: YouTube posters are served as WebP for faster loading
   • Improvement: The block editor player preview is lazy-loaded
   • Improvement: A branded loading backdrop covers the block editor’s white boot phase
   • Improvement: Cmd/Ctrl+S saves settings, and a keyboard shortcut creates new media from the admin pages
   • Improvement: Locked providers are announced to assistive technology
   • Improvement: The block editor media and playlist pickers are now searchable and load results in pages, so libraries beyond the first 20 items are reachable
   • Improvement: FluentCRM timeline events and layer pickers now show block-editor labels (form title, provider name), and the media picker lists newest first
   • Fix: Chapter files with umlauts and other non-ASCII characters render correctly in the block preview
   • Fix: Audio players show all controls without scrolling
   • Fix: Per-video audio normalization is saved reliably
   • Fix: Overlay layers (forms, CTAs) no longer fail to appear on sites that load animation libraries such as GSAP
   • Fix: Editing a media from a page or lesson where it is embedded no longer changes the media’s visibility
   • Fix: The Modern preset’s mobile control bar no longer crowds the seek bar
   • Fix: The Elementor and Divi builders no longer show a blank canvas for the timed-content and playlist blocks
   • Fix: Portrait (9:16) YouTube Shorts fill the frame instead of being letterboxed
   • Fix: Page-builder panel colors apply on the front end, and the Divi media module is selectable in the builder

4. FluentPlayer 1.2.0

   Jul 8, 2026
   • Improvement: Resume playback can now be set per video, overriding the preset
   • Fix: The frontend language switcher button is now clickable
   • Fix: The selected hotspot icon stays visible in the picker preview
   • Fix: The admin top-nav dropdown is no longer hidden behind the WordPress admin bar
   • Fix: The media-select search icon no longer overlaps the input text

5. FluentPlayer 1.1.0

   Jul 6, 2026
   • Feature: Use a FluentPlayer video as a FluentCommunity lesson’s feature media
   • Improvement: The YouTube paused cover button now uses your brand color and hides YouTube’s default play button
   • Improvement: Refined the player vignette overlay
   • Improvement: Hide in-video form layers when a video plays inside a FluentCommunity lesson
   • Fix: Players now re-initialize correctly when switching lessons in FluentCommunity
   • Fix: The loading overlay no longer blocks clicks before the player is ready
   • Fix: YouTube subscribe button styling now survives aggressive theme CSS

6. FluentPlayer 1.0.9

   Jun 30, 2026
   • Feature: Customize the confirmation message shown after someone submits the email-capture form
   • Feature: Set a custom color and background for the play button
   • Feature: FluentCRM Double optin email support
   • Feature: Bulk actions in the media list — trash, restore, and change the status of multiple items at once
   • Improvement: Honor WordPress’s built-in password protection on the player — protected videos and audio now unlock right on the page
   • Improvement: Honor WordPress’s native scheduling for media — set a future publish date and see a clear Scheduled status and time
   • Improvement: Cleaner, more compact media list and a thumbnail with the media type shown in the title
   • Improvement: Refined, more compact media editor — unified setting cards
   • Improvement: Show or hide columns in the media list to fit the table to what you need
   • Improvement: Redesigned player right-click menu with item icons and a refreshed look
   • Improvement: Spot overlapping timed content at a glance and edit each item inline
   • Improvement: Clearer permanent-delete confirmation so media isn’t removed by mistake
   • Improvement: Faster-loading admin dashboard
   • Security: Hardened the player’s styling output against injection
   • Fix: The video preview now shows while you scrub in the layer, overlay, and chapter editors
   • Fix: On-screen layers such as email capture now correctly hold keyboard focus
   • Fix: Audio tracks in a mixed playlist now play in the audio player
   • Fix: The playlist player now fills the available width and its menu toggle works reliably
   • Fix: YouTube playback and lesson settings now work correctly inside FluentCommunity
   • Fix: Restored the YouTube and Analytics toggles on the settings page
   • Fix: Reliability and rate-limiting improvements for the FluentCRM double opt-in flow
   • Fix: The Default Aspect Ratio option now displays correctly in settings
   • Fix: Renamed “Poster Image” to “Thumbnail” in the media block for clarity

7. FluentPlayer 1.0.8

   Jun 23, 2026
   • Maintenance: Internal improvements, compatibility, and stability updates

8. FluentPlayer 1.0.7

   Jun 22, 2026
   • Feature: Migrate media, per-video color, thumbnails, YouTube no-cookie settings, and email submissions from Presto Player
   • Feature: Update Playlist flow for the playlist block
   • Feature: Back button in the media editor header
   • Feature: Unsaved changes guard on the settings page
   • Improvement: All Media and Settings quick links in the plugins row
   • Improvement: Skeleton loaders across the settings and analytics pages
   • Improvement: Sortable columns and refined visibility controls in the media and playlist tables
   • Improvement: Accessibility pass across the admin — accessible names, keyboard navigation, and AA contrast
   • Improvement: Throttle player time-update handlers to reduce per-frame work and improve smoothness
   • Fix: Let the assigned preset control resume-playback
   • Fix: Make YouTube Privacy-Enhanced Mode actually toggle the embed and poster hosts
   • Fix: Load the timed-content frontend script once across all render paths
   • Fix: Pro-gate the Google Analytics gtag enqueue
   • Fix: Honor |fallback on contact smartcodes when no CRM contact is present
   • Fix: Neutralize spreadsheet formula injection in email exports