Flowplayer Video Player

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Add a video file to WordPress with Flowplayer style. Embed a self-hosted, external or HTML5 compatible responsive video into a page with flowplayer.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 52/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

900+

≈990 estimated

Momentum

+1%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “embed”, “html5” and “mobile” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

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How scoring works →

52 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 73/100

Support 70/100

Security 98/100

52 health vs 62 average across 3,278 Media plugins

900+

Active installs

≈990 estimated

47.2K

Total downloads

since 2015 · 1.9% still active

3.9/5

Rating

4.0 on wp.org · 6 reviews

+1%

249

Downloads · 30d

category median +11%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.9%

of downloads still active

At least 900 of 47.2K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,317 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

Long abandoned. No update in 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.16.

Ratings · 6 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.5
Last updated: 4.0y ago
Added: 2015-06-13 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP: 4.2
Tested up to: 6.1.16
Requires PHP: —

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

50 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 9/100

Updated 1447 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 46/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.1.16; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 57/100

4.0★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.09★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 1447 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Search visibility

How it's tracked →

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

Keyword	wp.org	On merit	wp.org move, 90 days
flowplayer your tag	#2	#3	0
embed your tag	Not in the top 24
html5 your tag	Not in the top 24
mobile your tag	Not in the top 24
video your tag	Not in the top 24

1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

“embed”, “html5” and “mobile” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+1% vs prior 30d

1131 Oct 2026

150750

1131 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 928 · peaks are release surges

25531 Oct 2026

1K5000

25531 Oct 2026

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Flowplayer Video Pla · #7135youEasy Video Player · #1155Videojs HTML5 Player · #2498Advanced Responsive · #1182

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

431 Oct 2026

52.50

431 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

5231 Oct 2026

604530

5231 Oct 2026

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

28331 Oct 2026

5002500

28331 Oct 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year

from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

releases in the last 12 months

4.0y ago

latest release · v1.0.5 · 14 Nov 2022

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.5 · 14 Nov 20221.0.3 · 8 Aug 2017

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “900+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

900–1K ≈990

Crossed into this band 4 months ago and the previous band took 3.2 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 1K.

Install history since 15 Dec 2015

90031 Oct 2026

3K1.5K0

90031 Oct 2026

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.0.5). Sites still on an older version should update.

Patched Medium · 6.4 Flowerplayer Video Player <= 1.0.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗

2022-11-22 CVE-2022-3984 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.0.4 Patched in 1.0.5

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 6.1

✓ Low memory footprint

✓ Low page-speed impact

✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP

✓ No PHP errors

✓ No JS errors

✓ Activates cleanly

✓ No resource errors

✓ No external HTTP errors

✓ Optimized database use

✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 48 languages, 6 at 90% or more · development strings

English (Australia) 100%

English (Canada) 100%

English (New Zealand) 100%

English (South Africa) 100%

English (UK) 100%

Swedish 100%

Azerbaijani 25%

Afrikaans 12%

Albanian 12%

Basque 12%

Croatian 12%

Czech 12%

Dutch 12%

Esperanto 12%

Finnish 12%

French (Canada) 12%

French (France) 12%

German 12%

German (Formal) 12%

Greek 12%

Hebrew 12%

Hindi 12%

Italian 12%

Japanese 12%

Plus 24 more locales with partial translations.

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

6 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Add a video file to WordPress with Flowplayer style. Embed a self-hosted, external or HTML5 compatible resp..."
✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 1 list.
✓ Enough to quote 2,753 characters of description.
✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

2026-06-29 1K+ → 900+ down after 1181 days in tier
2023-04-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2023-04-04 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
2023-04-03 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2023-04-02 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
2023-03-31 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2023-03-30 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
2023-03-27 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Flowplayer Video Player: 900+ active installs, 4.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/flowplayer6-video-player

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