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The Nuevo plugin for WordPress allows you to use one of the most advanced video players on your WordPress blog.

The video player can be inserted into a WordPress blog in two different ways: through a standard WordPress video block or through a custom [nuevo] shortcode. The WordPress video block allows you to insert a player with a poster and a source of the .mp4 and/or .webm type. From WordPress version 5.9, the user can also define video tracks for subtitles, chapters or VTT-based thumbnails over the progress bar.

The [nuevo] shortcode allows you to insert a player with video of any supported format, including HLS and MPEG-DASH types. It also allows you to define some unique parameters like video title and description, and like WordPress video block supports multiple video tracks with subtitles, chapters, or VTT thumbnails.

The plugin features an advanced settings page divided into 3 sections: basic player options, video.js plugins and video ads.

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The basic options settings section allows you to define multiple player options, including license, skin, language, context menu details, brand logo, and end action. It allows to enable or disable the settings button, settings menus, forward and rewind buttons, picture-in-picture button, mirror button, snapshot button, and video info.
The Plugins section allows to enable or disable player plugins: video filter, the AirPlay plugin, the Chromecast plugin, and the alternative HLS.js plugin for HLS streams.
The Video Ads section allows you to define and choose ads served through one of the ad systems: VAST, Google IMA, Vroll ads, or Banner on Pause ad.

While embedding a player using the video block in WordPress is simple, the [nuevo] shortcode usage requires some explanation.
To insert a player with HLS video and a poster, the basic shortcode is like this:

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[nuevo poster="url-to-poster-image.jpg" source="src=hls-playlist-url.m3u8" type=application/x-mpegURL"]

Video title and optional video description are useful for sharing and casting purposes and to display video info over the player if the appropriate option is enabled.

Code snippet

[nuevo poster="url-to-poster-image.jpg" source="src=hls-playlist-url.m3u8 type=application/x-mpegURL" title="Video title here" description="video description here"]

Multiple subtitle tracks must be separated by a vertical bar "|" sign.

Code snippet

[nuevo poster="url-to-poster-image.jpg" source="src=hls-playlist-url.m3u8 type=application/x-mpegURL" tracks="src=track-url1.vtt kind=subtitles srclang=en label=English default=1|src=track2-url.vtt kind=subtitles srclang=de label=German|src=track-url3.vtt kind=subtitles srclang=es label=Spanish]

The same way you can add chapters and/or VTT thumbnails track.

Code snippet

[nuevo poster="url-to-poster-image.jpg" source="src=hls-playlist-url.m3u8" type=application/x-mpegURL" tracks="src=chapters-track-url.vtt kind=chapters|src=vtt-thumbnails_url.vtt kind=metadata]

Of course, you can set any other video format than HLS, e.g., .mp4, .webm, or .mpd playlist for MPEG-DASH video. You just need to set the appropriate video type. It is even possible to define multiple .mp4 variants with different resolutions. You can define up to six different video sources.

Code snippet

[nuevo poster="url-to-poster-image.jpg" source=1"src="url-to-video1.mp4" type=video/mp4 res=360 label=360p source2="src="url-to-video2.mp4 type=video/mp4 res=480 label=480p default=1" source3="src="url-to-video3.mp4 type=video/mp4 res=720 label=720p]

In the WordPress admin you can set multiple player options and enable several plugins. The plugin settings page allows you to define details for multiple ad systems as well. The changes will affect every instance of the player across your website. Most of the options and settings can also be applied via the nuevo shortcode for a single video. The full list of available parameters is described in our WordPress blog post.

By default the player inserted through the [nuevo] shortcode is 100% width of the parent element. The height is automatically adapted to the video aspect ratio. There are also a few other player size formats that you may choose like 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 and 9:16, if you know video aspect ratio.

The plugin has been tested in a wide range of WordPress versions, from 5.0 to the latest 7.1 version. The plugin is pretty easy to install. You will only need to upload plugin files and manually edit one file (just add one line of code). After activation the plugin is ready to use.

Visit our official WordPress blog to review the plugin's capabilities and learn specific player setups.

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Upon initial order of the Nuevo software WordPress plugin is free of charge. It can also be ordered separately in the admin area at any time later. Please note that Nuevo software is licensed per domain. Only 2 domains are free to register.