Version 3.1.0 is Here! This update brings a mix of new functionality and key fixes that improve your overall experience. Let’s take a closer look at what’s included in this release:

Vertical Video Support

New setting to adjust the aspect ratio of your videos. Perfect for making every frame just the way you like it! Take the viewing experience for your audience to the next level by tweaking the aspect ratio to perfectly match your preference, whether you’re chasing a cinematic widescreen, a vertical YouTube short, square social media-ready view, or anything in between.

We’ve fine-tuned things to give you a more seamless and enjoyable experience. Your feedback has been key in making this happen. So go ahead, give it a spin, and let us know what you think!

• New: Setting to adjust the aspect ratio of the videos (vertical video support).
• Fix: YouTube playlist item video playback issue on iOS devices.
• Fix: Select media dropdown spacing issue on initial load.

In our last major update we shared that our focus will be going on improving playlists, and we are about to deliver in a big way.

We have completely rebuilt playlists from the ground up to make the experience:

• Fully Immersive
• Completely Customizable
• Lightning fast

We hope to release this big update early January.

We’re excited to announce the release of Presto Player 3.0.1, bringing you even smoother control over your media content!

Effortless Media Management:

Take charge of your workflow with our new setting that lets you define the default sync behavior for new media hub blocks. Enjoy a seamless experience as you add fresh content to your site.

Enhanced Visibility for Seamless Editing:

We’ve made it even easier to edit your synced media hub items! You’ll now find a clear “Edit Original” option right in the inspector sidebar, providing quick access to modify your content.

Enjoy these enhancements and keep those videos playing flawlessly!

New:

• New: Setting for changing the default Media Hub sync behavior for new blocks.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Add “Edit Original” to inspector sidebar for synced media hub items to increase visibility of new feature.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue with private bunny.net private video not signing urls correctly when synced with media hub.
• Fix: Making CSS more specific on instant video page to prevent conflicts with themes.
• Fix: Wrong textdomain on some translations.

We’re thrilled to announce major updates to Presto Player, designed to make your video pages more beautiful and easier to manage than ever before!

Create Stunning Video Pages in a Flash

Our new Instant Video Pages feature lets you create dedicated pages for your videos with a single click! No more tedious setup – just beautiful, engaging video content.

Effortless Video Management

We’ve streamlined your workflow with powerful new features:

• Seamless Synchronization: Sync your video blocks with your media hub items for effortless content management.
• Unified Video Experience: We’ve combined all Presto video blocks into a single, powerful block, simplifying your editing experience.
• Enhanced Media Selection: Our new video placeholder lets you easily select existing media hub items and the improved admin media hub selector now displays video types and poster images for better organization.

Behind-the-Scenes Enhancements

We’ve also made significant under-the-hood improvements, including updating our web components library dependency, to ensure Presto Player remains blazing fast and reliable.

Update today and experience the future of video pages!

New:

• New: Instant video pages. Create beautiful video pages with a single click.
• New: Sync video blocks with media hub items.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Combine all Presto video blocks into a single block.
• Improvement: New video placeholder lets you select existing media hub items.
• Improvement: Admin media hub selector now shows video type, poster image.
• Improvement: Update web components library dependency.

Fix:

• Fix: Presto Player admin menu icon sometimes being altered by problematic 3rd party plugins.
• Fix: Issue where adding provider override to a shortcode was not working for audio player.

We are excited to announce the next version of Presto Player!

Our team has spent the last 8 months building this new version of Presto Player which is a complete under the hood refactor to open up new possibilities with Presto Player and set us in a new direction.

While we have upgraded all of our sites to this new beta version, we wanted to have a public beta release before we push the update out to the 120,000 websites currently using Presto Player.

Here is the direct download link to Presto Player 3 Beta. Version 3 is now live.

Fix:

• Fix: Custom css box sometimes losing focus during typing.

Fix:

• Fix: Ensure new media items can be created on playlist block when no media items are present.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Add new media selector for use in playlist component.

This is a maintenance release.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Multiple security improvements.

This is a maintenance release.

Improvement:

• Accessibility: Better keyboard focus states for player controls.

Fix:

• Fix: PHP deprecation warning for PHP 8.2+