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Video Player Block · Version history

Video Player Block changelog and version history

Latest version
2.2.0
Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago)
Releases
10
since 2022
In the last year
4
about one every 51 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20223 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20242 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Video Player Block 2.2.0Latest

    • Update: Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.5.
    • Fix: After activating the plugin, the page no longer says you are not allowed to access it. The Freemius opt-in now opens first, then the first page of the plugin.
    • Fixed: every bundled section showed a black player. The posters were being set, but they are drawn inline as data URIs, and their SVG attribute quotes were left raw. Plyr applies a poster as CSS — background-image: url('...') — so the first apostrophe inside the URI closed that string early, the wh…
    • Fixed: the same raw quotes were in the block’s inserter preview, so hovering the block in the inserter also showed a black player.
    • Fixed: the two-column sections sat at the theme’s content width instead of using the width of the section around them, rendering at roughly half the size intended.
    • New — five ready-made sections. The block used to arrive from the inserter with no video at all, which is a long way from the hero, demo or lesson most people came here to build. Five patterns now ship under Video Players in the inserter: Full-width video hero, Product demo beside its copy, Lesson…
    • Each arrives finished — heading, copy, aspect ratio, corner radius, accent colour and a control set chosen for the job. A lesson turns Restart on, a hero strips the controls back, a podcast episode turns Picture-in-Picture on, so the controls you already had are visible rather than buried in a sett…
    • Fixed: the block had no usable inserter preview. Its example set two attributes that do not exist on the block — preview and sourceType — while the video source itself defaults to empty, so hovering the block in the inserter showed an empty player. It now previews a real one.
    • Pattern posters are drawn inline rather than fetched, so a freshly inserted section renders instantly and can never show a broken poster.

  2. Video Player Block 2.1.1

    • Add custom aspect ratios.
    • UX Improved.
    • Caption Support.
    • Lazy load controls.
    • Responsive design.
    • Fix some bugs.

  3. Video Player Block 2.0.0

    • Add 7 new Pro video blocks: Video Gallery, Video Playlist, Video Lightbox, Video Reels, Video Comparison, Video Testimonial Card, and Video Transcript.
    • Add HLS (.m3u8) and DASH (.mpd) streaming support.
    • Add Mux video integration and external source support (Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, BunnyCDN).
    • Add lazy loading, preloading, and Google Cast / Chromecast support.
    • Improve player styling: custom aspect ratios, glassmorphism controls, advanced shadow and border options.
    • General performance improvements and bug fixes.

  4. Video Player Block 1.0.6

    • Fix multiple render issue
    • Add 3 new advanced video player blocks (React, Video.js, Vidstack)
    • Fix build error

20242 releases

  1. Video Player Block 1.0.5

    • Fix autoplay.

  2. Video Player Block 1.0.4

    • Assets not loading the assets where the block is not added

20231 release

  1. Video Player Block 1.0.3

    • Add translation feature

20223 releases

  1. Video Player Block 1.0.2

    • Reduce PHP Code.
    • Performance Improvement

  2. Video Player Block 1.0.1

    • Reduce PHP Code.

  3. Video Player Block 1.0.0

    • Initial Release.

Questions about Video Player Block’s releases

What is the latest version of Video Player Block?

2.2.0, released on Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Video Player Block updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 51 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2022.

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