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Sticky Video for Mobile Phones

The mobile screen sizes are steadily increasing and showing a floating video is not uncommon. From now FV Player lets you show sticky video on mobile too.

Change Available Video Qualities for Your Viewers

Change which video qualities are available for your viewers without having to re-encode the videos.

How to improve Ajax pagination in WordPress

WordPress posts pagination does not work properly if you stay on the page for longer. The last article on the page might appear on the second page again if a new article was published in the meantime.

How to Create a Custom Report of FV Player Video Playback Stats

Full export of all the video playback stats might sound nice but in the end it's impossible to work with. Here's how to create reports you need.

How to troubleshoot a WordPress membership website

The goal of these steps is to solve issues fast and ensure that troubleshooting causes as little pain as possible to the publisher.

How to Show Recently Watched Videos with Elementor

FV Player can be used to show videos which the user has started watching right in your Elementor theme.

Safe upgrades for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0

WordPress is dropping security updates for versions pre-4.0. What if you want to move to a version before 5.8? With our BusinessPress you can.

How to setup fail2ban for WordPress with CDN

The key is to configure fail2ban to use `DROP` with iptables instead of just `REJECT`. REJECT allows the IP to keep using an open connection.

Video not playing? How to check if Vimeo video hosting is down or if the issue is with your own website

Are your Vimeo hosted videos not playing back on your website? Here's what to check first to determine it it's a Vimeo issue or your own infrastructure.

Recent WordPress Update Breaks Custom Upload Folders

Are you getting the "Unable to create directory ../images/2019/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?" error?

FV Player Database

Our plugin quickly outgrew the whole concept of shortcodes and it was clear it can't use shortcodes forever. It's time for database storage of your videos.

Preventing Mobile Video from Overheating Android Phones

Hidden animated SVG graphics increase the CPU load too much. Flowplayer made a mistake in their version 7 skins. Here's how to fix similar issues.

Usability and streaming improvements in FV Player

FV Player 7.2.5.727 brings new skin settings, playlist next/prev buttons, fullscreen button in bottom right corner and improved HLS streaming.

FV Player adds S3 Browser and lightbox autoplay

FV Player 7.2.0.727 now lets you pick files from Amazon S3 buckets directly and also plays videos in lightbox automatically.

FV Player 7 is out

The new version has been available as beta for licensed users for a while. Then it was introduced to all the new users installing FV Player – both free and licensed. Now are are happy to announce that FV Player 7 is the new stable version!