Video Share VOD – Turnkey Video Site Builder Script
Build your own VOD platform with Video Share VOD, featuring extensive video management, monetization, and HTML5 support.
Solid choice
Video Share VOD is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 50+ sites, is rated 2.3/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 65/100 on our health check.
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Small user base (50+ active installs)
- Mixed reviews — 2.3/5 from 12 ratings
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Video Share VOD stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| ffmpeg | #4 |
| pay per view | #57 |
| video gallery | >100 |
| video hosting | #39 |
| Video-On-Demand | #10 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 2.3 from 12 reviews
About Video Share VOD
From the official readme · v3.1.8Description
Launch a fully featured video on demand (VOD) platform with the Video Share VOD plugin. This turnkey solution for WordPress allows users to upload, manage, and publish videos effortlessly. From live streaming integration to advanced video management with FFmpeg support, this plugin offers everything needed to create a modern VOD service like Netflix or Hulu. Enhance your site with capabilities for playlists, ads, and video monetization, ensuring a rich viewing experience on any device.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Video Management: Upload, import, and manage videos with powerful tools and user-friendly interfaces.
- HTML5 and HLS Support: Ensures compatibility across all devices and browsers, including mobile platforms.
- Ad Integration: Monetize your videos through HTML5 VAST support for ads, including Google DoubleClick and AdSense.
- Custom Playlists and Taxonomies: Organize videos into playlists and categories, enhancing discoverability and user engagement.
- Interactive Video Features: Allow viewers to rate and review videos, integrating with the Rate Star Review plugin for community feedback.
- Monetization Options: Set up creator subscription models, pay-per-view, and ad-supported structures to generate revenue from your video content.
- Advanced Video Processing: Utilize FFmpeg for video conversions, thumbnail generation, and video previews, ensuring high performance outputs.
- Seamless Integration: Works with BuddyPress for social media capabilities, and other plugins like MicroPayments/FansPaysite for advanced monetization.
- Customizable Access Control: Define who can view or upload content based on user roles or subscription levels, with detailed access lists.
Special Requirements: This plugin requires FFmpeg access on the web host. Main features including generating video snapshots, preview clips, video watermarks, custom HTML5 video conversions, HLS segmentation are not possible without FFmpeg.
Key Features
- adds video post type to WordPress site
- shortcodes, pages with video site features: browse videos, upload, import
- extracts thumbnail, generates feature image
- generates thumbnail sized short video preview (play on mouse hover)
- extracts info: duration, resolution, bitrate, file size
- multiple playback methods
- playlist taxonomy, listing of videos with rest of posts in categories, tags, searches
- shortcodes for listing videos, displaying player, upload form, import form
- HTML5 VAST (video ad serving template) support for video ads
- HTML5 Google IMA support: DoubleClick & AdSense support
- premium users that don’t see ads
- mass video upload
- mass video import (from server)
- setup user types that can share videos
- pending video / approval for user types that can’t publish directly
- conversion queue for server load control
- configure codecs and encoding options, formats, bitrate
- BuddyPress activity for adding video
- see more Video Share VOD Features …
Listings
- AJAX display and update of video list (does not reload site for filter, sort, next page)
- video preview in list (play on hover)
- Filter by category, tags, name search
- Sort by date, views, recently viewed, random, rating, rating number, rate popularity
- integrates Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings
VOD Access Control : Membership, Sales
- define global video access list (roles, user emails & ids)
- role playlists: assign videos as accessible by certain roles
- exception playlists: free, registered, unpublished
- show preview and custom message when inaccessible
- read more about Video On Demand …
- integrates MicroPayments – Content, Membership, Downloads plugin to allow selling items
Players
- HTML5 video conversion and playback support
- HLS playback support
- HD video support (player adapts to video size)
- HTML5 native tag player
- Video.js player (8.x) with VAST support
- MediaElement.js (WordPress default video player)
PLupload / HTML5 Video Uploader
- Drag & Drop
- AJAX (no Submit, page reload required to upload more videos)
- multi video support
- status / progress bar for each upload
- fallback to standard upload for older browsers
- mobile video upload (iOS6+, Android 3+)
- backend multi upload menu
- read more about Video Uploader …
Plugin Integrations
- Paid Videochat turnkey pay per minute cam site builder: publish streaming recordings, videos on room profile, teaser loop video
- Broadcast Live Video turnkey live streaming site builder: publish channel streaming archives
- MicroPayments Content and Membership: sell videos as WooCommerce products or with MyCred Sell Content
- Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings: allow users to rate videos and leave reviews
Broadcast Live Video – HTML5 Live Streaming Plugin
- integrates with Broadcast Live Video – HTML5 Live Streaming channels plugin
- import archived video streams (previous broadcasts)
- upload additional videos for each channel
- list videos on channel page
- channel button on video page (if channel exists)
- read more about Live Streaming …
- see Broadcast Live Video turnkey solution …
Webcam Recording Plugin
- integrates with VideoWhisper Video Posts Webcam Recorder for video recording
- integrates with VideoWhisper Video Comments Webcam Recorder for video recording comments (including in BuddyPress activity)
- recorder access shortcode “videowhisper_recorder” integrates VideoShareVOD sharing permissions
- read more about Video Posts Webcam Recorder …
External Service Dependencies
Google Interactive Media Ads libraries are required to load from Google domains when feature is enabled, to prevent “Error: IMA SDK is either not loaded from a google domain or is not a supported version.” .
Service terms: https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/html5/client-side/terms
Special Hosting Requirements
- FFmpeg and HTML5 codecs are required to generate snapshots, preview clips and convert videos to HTML5 formats. Latest FFmpeg is recommended with video & audio codecs for HTML5 & video types you plan to upload.
- Conversions require important resources like CPU time, memory, long process time (not available on budget shared hosting). These must be available and enabled for the account processes.
- High upload size and script timeout limits on web host to allow uploading bigger files. Importing videos (uploaded with FTP or other tools) is recommended for very big files.
- CloudFlare or similar services are not recommend due to upload limitations. Will usually break bigger uploads.
- Optionally, to deliver videos as live streaming a server like Wowza SE is required that will provide access at a HLS address from video path.
- Optionally, plugin can also generate static HLS segments, using extra disk space and initial processing resources.
- read more about Video Share VOD Hosting …
Security Warning: Hosts that include FFmpeg access should also have specific security configuration in place. That can include CageFS and other restriction/isolation tools.
Documentation
- Video Site Plugin Homepage
- Turnkey Video Site Installation Tutorial
- Developer Contact
- Recommended Hosting
Shortcodes
- videowhisper_videos playlist=”” perpage=”” perrow=”” – Video list.
- videowhisper_upload playlist=”” category=”” owner=”” – Upload form.
- videowhisper_player video=”0″ – Video player.
- videowhisper_preview video=”0″ – Preview only.
- videowhisper_player_html source=”” source_type=”” poster=”” width=”” height=”” – HTML file player.
- videowhisper_embed_code source=”” source_type=”” poster=”” width=”” height=”” – Embed code HTML player.
For more details see Video Share VOD – Documentation menu after installing plugin.
Demo
Frequently asked questions
Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?
Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Video Share VOD plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.
Changelog
3.1.6
- The generated Record Webcam page now uses the selected VideoWhisper recorder
app when available, while retaining legacy recorder compatibility. - Moved screenshots to SVN assets and updated WordPress.org support metadata.
3.1
- Updated Video.js from 7.5.0 to 8.23.7 – latest stable release with improved HLS, performance, and accessibility
- Updated Fomantic UI (Semantic UI fork) from 2.8.8 to 2.9.4 – improved components, dark mode, and compatibility
- Updated videojs-contrib-ads to 7.5.2
- Updated videojs-playlist to 5.2.0
- Updated videojs-playlist-ui to 5.0.0
- Updated videojs-contrib-quality-levels to 4.1.0
- Improved video listing layout: responsive flexbox grid replaces legacy row-break approach
- Smooth hover card effects (lift and shadow) on video thumbnails in listing
- Removed redundant data-setup attribute from Video.js player elements to prevent double-initialization
- Playlist shortcode: player config moved from data-setup HTML attribute to JavaScript initialization options
- Modernized upload progress bar CSS: replaced 5 vendor-prefixed gradient blocks with standard linear-gradient
- Removed obsolete -webkit-border-radius and -moz-border-radius vendor prefixes from upload form styles
- Improved drag & drop upload zone: dashed border, flexbox centering, hover transition for better usability
2.7
- Increased security and compatibility with PHP 8.2
2.6
- PHP 8 compatibility
2.5
- Plupload integration for more reliable uploads
- Uploaded videos and conversions can be imported to Media Library to quickly include as content in posts, pages
- Menu in listings with categories, order
2.4
- BuddyPress activity support: add new videos as activities
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Video Share VOD: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 17, 2026
Is Video Share VOD free?
Yes. Video Share VOD is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Video Share VOD safe to use in 2026?
Video Share VOD is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 50+ sites, is rated 2.3/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 65/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Video Share VOD?
Video Share VOD is active on 50+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 87,886 times since it launched in June 2014. It was downloaded 256 times in the last 30 days.
Does Video Share VOD work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Video Share VOD up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 5.7 or newer.
What PHP version does Video Share VOD need?
Video Share VOD requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Video Share VOD last updated?
The latest version, 3.1.8, was released on September 9, 2026 (1 month ago).
Who makes Video Share VOD?
Video Share VOD is developed and maintained by videowhisper.
What are the best alternatives to Video Share VOD?
The most popular alternatives to Video Share VOD are Open Beacon MP4 Conversion… (60+ installs), Spreebie Transcoder (30+ installs) and ArgentWolf Video Processor (<10 installs).
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