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HTML5 Video Player · Version history

HTML5 Video Player changelog and version history

Latest version
2.14.2
Oct 31, 2026 (9 days ago)
Releases
54
since 2019
In the last year
17
about one every 16 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20192 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 20212 releases
  • 202422 releases
  • 202510 releases
  • 202617 releases

202617 releases

  1. HTML5 Video Player 2.14.2Latest

    • Security: Player settings saved in a block are now also checked in the block editor and when a post is saved, not only on the published page. Reported through the Patchstack VDP
    • Security: Subtitle labels are now shown as plain text in the player’s captions menu
    • Security: Hardened the bundled Plyr library’s menu labels and the player’s custom styles
    • Update: Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.5
    • Fixed: The player always loads its own Plyr library and styles, even when HTML5 Audio Player is active on the same site

  2. HTML5 Video Player 2.14.1

    • Security: Player settings saved in a block (download link, ad tag URL, controls, chapter labels) are now checked before they reach the page, so they can no longer load outside scripts or run code. Reported through the Patchstack VDP.

  3. HTML5 Video Player 2.14.0

    • Improved: Much faster pages. YouTube and Vimeo players now show a lightweight thumbnail and load the full player only when the visitor presses play (mobile PageSpeed score 71 → 99 on a YouTube page)
    • Improved: Players further down the page load only when they are scrolled into view — a page with five videos now downloads about 0.5 MB on load instead of 17.8 MB
    • Improved: No more layout shift while players load (CLS 0). Space is reserved for videos, playlists and audio players before they appear
    • Improved: Each video file is downloaded once instead of up to three times, and the player no longer fetches a blank video from cdn.plyr.io
    • Improved: Player scripts no longer block the page from rendering, jQuery and Underscore are no longer loaded on the front end, and the HLS library loads only when an HLS video plays
    • Improved: Playlists load YouTube/Vimeo items only on play, and read video durations after the page has finished loading
    • Improved: The audio player uses far less CPU while playing
    • Improved: Works smoothly with caching and optimization plugins such as WP Rocket (“Delay JavaScript execution”), Autoptimize and WP Super Cache
    • Improved: A “Copied!” confirmation when you copy a player’s shortcode
    • Improved: A copy icon next to the Quick Player shortcode
    • Improved: The admin settings page remembers the tab you were on
    • Fixed: On iPhone and iPad, YouTube videos did not start when tapped; they now also play inline instead of forcing fullscreen
    • Fixed: Captions stayed on screen after being turned off with the CC button
    • Fixed: YouTube live/ links were rejected as invalid
    • Fixed: Entering a Vimeo link or a video ID did not work in some cases
    • Fixed: A playback issue in the single video player
    • Fixed: A PHP warning, and the playlist scrollbar styling
    • Fixed: The download button color
    • Fixed: A narrower, centered player briefly showed at full width while loading (Elementor)

  4. HTML5 Video Player 2.13.1

    • Fix: The Elementor widget did not appear in the Elementor editor.

  5. HTML5 Video Player 2.13.0

    • Added: Video Playlist block — simple list layout, auto-play next with a 5-second “Up Next” countdown, duration badges, custom thumbnails, and Library/YouTube/Vimeo sources
    • Added: Audio Player block with four skins (Modern Bar, Waveform, Podcast Card, Compact Pill), plus playback speed, 10-second skip, volume, download, and title/artist/artwork fields
    • Added: HLS (.m3u8) streaming with automatic quality levels
    • Added: Subtitle/caption support — attach a .vtt track with your own language label from the block editor, the classic metabox, the [video_player] shortcode or Elementor
    • Added: Player alignment (left/center/right) in the block editor, the classic metabox, the Quick Player settings, the shortcode and Elementor
    • Added: Preload option (none/metadata/auto), moved down from the Pro version
    • Added: “Allow Inline Playback on iOS” option, moved down from the Pro version
    • Fixed: the Elementor widget never rendered a player inside the Elementor editor preview
    • Fixed: block-level classes and styles were dropped from the video block’s front-end markup, because the wrapper emitted two class attributes and the browser kept only one
    • Fixed: a poster image passed to the player was ignored unless it was re-applied by hand after the player was created
    • Improved: the block’s “Choose a Video Type” screen now uses icon cards for Video, YouTube, Vimeo and Audio instead of plain buttons
    • Improved: the video block’s start screen now supports drag-and-drop uploads, the media library and pasting a URL, all in one place
    • Improved: player, poster, thumbnail and artwork URLs are now sanitized before rendering
    • Changed: the “Delete data during uninstall” option moved to a new storage key — if you had it switched on, switch it on again after updating

  6. HTML5 Video Player 2.12.0

    • Added: Extensions & Modules manager for managing plugin add-ons
    • Added: Guided setup wizard shown after activation — walks you through choosing an editor, setting player defaults, and creating your first player
    • Added: “Guided Setup” link in the plugin dashboard so you can re-run it any time
    • Improved: Site-wide settings changes now require the manage_options capability

  7. HTML5 Video Player 2.11.4

    • Update: Freemius WordPress SDK

  8. HTML5 Video Player 2.11.3

    • Improved: Updated admin dashboard design
    • Improved: Removed unused code, dead asset registrations, and leftover images
    • Improved: Code quality and general maintenance
    • Fixed: Custom poster not showing for Vimeo player

  9. HTML5 Video Player 2.11.2

    • Fixed: Player does not showing
    • Fixed: Block encounter error

  10. HTML5 Video Player 2.11.1

    • Removed: Locked premium-only fields
    • Improved: Security hardening for video data storage and AJAX request handling
    • Improved: Code cleanup — removed unused code

  11. HTML5 Video Player 2.11.0

    • New: Added 6 Skin (Default, Stacked, Modern, Floating Pill, Classic Minimal, Stacked Dual-Row, Modern Mobile Stack) (Pro)
    • New: Email Capture (Default, Mailchimp, MailerLite, ActiveCampaign, Webhook, FluentCRM) (Pro)
    • New: Save State option in Classic Shortcode Generator
    • Update: Added Popup options in Classic Shortcode Generator
    • Fixed: Watermark issue

  12. HTML5 Video Player 2.10.1

    • Improved: PHP Compatibility
    • Fixed: Security Vulnerabilities
    • Fixed: Video Fullscreen Orientation on mobile (Only the last video works correctly)
    • Fixed: Duplicate caption for vimeo video
    • Improved Code

  13. HTML5 Video Player 2.9.1

    • Fixed: Cross origin issue

  14. HTML5 Video Player 2.9.0

    • New: Integrate Google Analytics GA4 (Premium)
    • Fixed: Duplicate Video Player
    • Update: Help & Demo page
    • Update: Move shortcode area to top

  15. HTML5 Video Player 2.8.1

    • Fixed: crashed the WooCommerce order view page
    • Fixed: Loading your CSS everywhere.

  16. HTML5 Video Player 2.8.0

    • New: Custom Play Button (Premium)
    • New: Display video based on user role — logged-in users, logged-out users, or everyone (Premium).
    • New: Edit Icon in toolbar to change/upload new video
    • Update: Icons before each PanelBody title in the Gutenberg block
    • Update: Help text for control fields
    • Update: Remove Extra menus (affiliate, contact)
    • Update: Move the shortcode area from the top to the right in the classic editor
    • Update: SVG icons now loading from the self-host
    • Improved: Gutenberg Block Settings UI
    • Improved: Classic Shortcode Generator UI
    • Improved: Overall UI consistency and clarity
    • Fixed: Analytics issue and added new information to get accurate analytics
    • Fixed: Play/Pause icon does not work in playlist video list
    • Fixed: hasBtn enable/disable getting error on block (Popup)

  17. HTML5 Video Player 2.7.2

    • Fixed: Stream Video does not play on iPhone (Premium)
    • Update: Dashboard
    • Feature: Change Brand Color

202510 releases

  1. HTML5 Video Player 2.7.1

    • Fixed: Stream video does not play on playlist
    • Fixed: Video does not play when Gutenberg plugin installed

  2. HTML5 Video Player 2.7.0

    • Fixed: Elementor issue
    • Fixed: Box shadow in progressbar
    • New Page: Dashboard
    • New Block: Vimeo Player
    • New Block: Youtube Player
    • Improved: Code

  3. HTML5 Video Player 2.6.2

    • Fixed: Not initialized properly when metadata is set to none
    • Feature: Hide/Encoded Stream Video URL

  4. HTML5 Video Player 2.6.1

    • Fixed: Error on update Ratio

  5. HTML5 Video Player 2.6.0

    • Feature: Index video on google
    • Feature: Autoplay when visible on Screen (Elementor) – (Premium)
    • Security: Improved Security
    • Update: WordPress SDK

  6. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.39

    • Fixed: progressbar does not update
    • Fixed: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly.

  7. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.38

    • Update: Freemius SDK Update

  8. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.37

    • Fixed: Undefined array key “passwordProtectedâ€

  9. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.36

  10. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.35

202422 releases

  1. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.34

  2. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.33

  3. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.32

  4. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.31

  5. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.28

  6. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.27

  7. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.26

  8. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.23

  9. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.22

  10. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.19

  11. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.18

  12. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.15

  13. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.8

  14. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.7

  15. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.5

  16. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.3

  17. HTML5 Video Player 2.5.1

  18. HTML5 Video Player 2.4.9

  19. HTML5 Video Player 2.4.7

  20. HTML5 Video Player 2.4.3

  21. HTML5 Video Player 2.3.7

  22. HTML5 Video Player 1.5.0

20212 releases

  1. HTML5 Video Player 1.4.1

  2. HTML5 Video Player 1.4

20201 release

  1. HTML5 Video Player 1.3

20192 releases

  1. HTML5 Video Player 1.2

  2. HTML5 Video Player 1.1

Questions about HTML5 Video Player’s releases

What is the latest version of HTML5 Video Player?

2.14.2, released on Oct 31, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is HTML5 Video Player updated?

17 releases in the last year, about one every 16 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2019.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in HTML5 Video Player’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.