JW Player for WordPress: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is JW Player for WordPress still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 2 months ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Mixed ratings. 3.8 out of 5 from 29 ratings.

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JW Player for WordPress alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Video Players & Embeds. JW Player for WordPress itself ranks #59 of 120. How plugins are grouped.

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Standing

More installed than 85.6% of the directory

Ahead of 40,841 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

85.6% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

40,841 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

6,892 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

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