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PlayerJS – Free Custom HTML5 Video and Audio Player Builder

PlayerJS – Free Custom HTML5 Video and Audio Player Builder

Design & Customization Video Players & Embeds

PlayerJS is a WordPress plugin for Video Players & Embeds. It ranks #89 of 120 in that group by active installs and was last updated 5 months ago.

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Slug playerjs

900 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
5.0 Rating out of 5 From 5 ratings
5 Releases Since 22 November 2018
Jun 2026 Last release 5 months ago

Maintenance check

Is PlayerJS still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 5 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 84.8% of the directory

Ahead of 40,500 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.

84.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
40,500 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
7,233 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.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
2.25
Requires WordPress
4.6
Tested up to
7.0.8
Requires PHP
5.2.4
Added to the directory
22 November 2018
Last updated
7 June 2026
Contributors
1
Author
PlayerJS
Support threads resolved
0 of 1

Its own tags

  • audio player
  • HLS player
  • html5 player
  • PlayerJS
  • video player

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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