FluentPlayer – Video Player With Forms & Lead Capture

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129 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 83 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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

Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 2K.

At the current install trend, crossing 3K+ in roughly 85 days.

1. ★★★★★ deepcookieflavor

   4mo ago

   Another excellent product from this team. Respect.

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2. ★★★★★ Mateusz Obuchowicz

   4mo ago

   Fluent Player is hands down one of the best WordPress video plugins I have ever used. It’s fast, lightweight, and incredibly easy to set up, even for more advanced use cases. The UI is clean, playback is smooth and the customization options give you full control without unnecessary complexity. What really impressed me is how stable and well-optimized everything feels in daily use. Videos load quickly, work flawlessly across devices, and the whole experience just feels polished from start to finish. This is clearly another flagship product from the Ninjas team. If you have used their other plugins, you already know the level of quality to expect. It’s a new plugin but highend product. Definitely worth it. Go and get it – PRO features are just crazy awesome.

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3. ★★★★★ dmccan

   4mo ago

   This is a very nice video player. One of the features I like is that you have the option to not load your YouTube videos until the user clicks play. This is good for privacy, as I think with the regular core embed YouTube cookies are loaded when the page loads. The team has always been very responsive and helpful.

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4. ★★★★★ aguolo

   4mo ago

   We were looking for a better way to display videos on our clients’websites without the big Youtube logo and we are not deceived. A large panel of parameters for setting eveything from chapters to CTA and overlays.As ususual with WPManageNinja, we are not deceived and FluentPlayer integrates very well, either with the current Fluent products, but also via the builders. We use Breakdance and the shortcode system is just perfect.And there’s an already very nice and generous FREE version, just have a try.

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5. ★★★★★ Paal Joachim Romdahl

   4mo ago

   I have been testing out FluentPlayer for a while now and I really like it!One can control the appearance of the video player.One can remove Youtube embed ads.The UI UX works well. There are a lot of additional aspects I look forward to exploring.

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6. ★★★★★ Jimmy Tavares

   4mo ago

   After trying out Fluent Player during the Beta version, it’s clear that the team has worked hard to make this plugin simple, reliable and very innovative. If you are looking to embed your Youtube videos but have full control of the look and use the different features proposed by the plugin to develop your marketing, this plugin is for you!

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7. ★★★★★ Arif Hossain

   4mo ago

   I’ve been genuinely impressed with FluentPlayer so far. Considering that it’s still in its early stages, the pace of development has been outstanding. The team is consistently releasing updates, introducing new features, and actively improving the plugin based on user feedback. That level of commitment is something I really appreciate. Performance is another area where FluentPlayer shines. It’s fast, lightweight, and runs smoothly. What’s even more impressive is that many features that would typically be locked behind a premium plan in other video player plugins are available for free here. In my experience, FluentPlayer isn’t just another video player plugin-it’s a modern, well-designed solution with a lot of potential. If the team continues developing it at this pace, I believe it has every chance of becoming one of the best video player plugins for WordPress. Great work by the entire team, and keep up the excellent work!

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8. ★★★★★ gouterra

   4mo ago

   If you’re a “VIP customer” here, you get the kind of offers companies usually reserve for their enemies. I can’t tell if they think their customers are completely delusional or if they actually believe their own nonsense. You’re forced to sit through an hour-long videostream, only to be hit with an offer that makes you wonder why you wasted that time listening to a highly aggressive, out-of-touch sales pitch. They’ve churned out so many products by now that they don’t even know which roadmap to prioritize. Anyone who follows the community and reads some of those arrogant, tone-deaf responses quickly regrets ever investing a single penny in their ecosystem. I’d bet there are people out there wrestling with the dilemma: do I leave and try my luck elsewhere, or stay locked in because I’ve already bought ten other plugins from them? An $800 video player for “valued customers”—coming from a shell company based in a tax haven that employs staff somewhere where labor costs 50 penny an hour… quite the achievement. That’s not exactly something I’d go on YouTube to celebrate myself for.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.4.0 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 1.4.0
2. — Version 1.3.1 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 1.3.1
3. — Version 1.3.0 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 1.3.0
4. — Version 1.2.0 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 t 1.2.0
5. — Version 1.1.0 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 1.1.0
6. — Version 1.0.9 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 ac 1.0.9

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-08-31 1K+ → 2K+ up after 67 days in tier
2. 2026-06-25 400+ → 1K+ up

Competes with

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