u/rednishat

I picked one hard challenge for 2026: no sugar, all year. Wrote about why (it's called Misogi): https://nishat.blog/misogi/

I'm on the team that builds FluentPlayer, a free video/audio player plugin. Wanted to share it here since video player questions come up in this sub pretty often.

The main difference from a standard player: you can drop a real Fluent Forms (free) form inside the video itself, at whatever timestamp you pick, so someone can register, subscribe, or submit an email without leaving the page or getting sent to a separate landing page. If FluentCRM (free) is installed, whatever gets submitted goes straight into your CRM in real time, no Zapier or third-party bridge in between.

What's in the free version:

• Self-hosted video, YouTube, Vimeo, and audio playback
• The Fluent Forms in-video layer and an email capture layer
• Six player presets (Default, Modern, Simple, Minimal, Standard, Floating), plus custom branding (logo, colors, custom thumbnail)
• Picture-in-Picture (HTML5), inline mobile playback, autoplay, speed control, chapters
• A load-strategy setting so a video further down the page doesn't hold up your first paint
• Native Gutenberg block, plus shortcodes for the classic editor and page builders

It's WordPress.org listed (already 1k active installaions), GPL, no account or API key needed to use the free version:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluent-player/

Happy to answer questions here if you run into anything specific.

EDIT: added current active installation number

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