Easy Video Player is a free WordPress video player plugin that lets you embed local or online movies onto your website, much like WordPress YouTube Embed, FV WordPress Flowplayer, and Brid Video Easy Publish. You can quickly load one of your MP4 videos onto a page without too much hassle, presenting it in a plain frame with optimal performance. It works well for both desktop and mobile devices.

The only catch to this video plugin is that you’ll need to know how to work with shortcodes if you want to play around with the settings. For example, you can have the player autoplay movies when visitors appear on the page. However, there’s a settings section where you can configure some of the options.

Embed videos on your site

Since WordPress doesn’t have a default video platform to load local files from your hard drive, it helps to have a plugin to assist. Not only can you upload files and embed the movies for your audience to enjoy, but you can also insert videos from external online sources, such as YouTube. Of course, WordPress already does this for you when you paste a video link, but it doesn’t work for all sources.

Change the settings 

If you need to configure some settings, you’ll need to activate “Enable jQuery” to make it possible. It lets Easy Video Player the jQuery library, and then you can play around with some options to improve the playability of the video. It also ensures that the videos play at the best performance on mobile devices and desktops.

What you can do with shortcodes

As soon as you’re ready to place your video in your post, you’ll need to work with shortcodes. Not only can you embed the videos, but you can place some rules. For instance, you can enable autoplay, control the dimensions, alter the default ratio, or create a loop.

Show videos to your audience

While Easy Video Player doesn’t come with high-tech software applications, it’s an easy-to-use plugin that will set you on the path of displaying movies to your visitors. The top benefit is that you can load video files directly onto the player to embed on your site without working via YouTube.