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Livid – Video Hosting

Livid – Video Hosting

5/5 (3 ratings) 300 active installs Updated Nov 5, 2026
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Download v2.2.1

Livid is a video hosting platform. This plugin serves two purposes:

  1. Enable Livid embeds — Register Livid as an oEmbed provider so pasting Livid URLs into WordPress automatically creates video embeds, just like YouTube or Vimeo.

  2. Migrate from Vimeo — Scan your WordPress post content for Vimeo videos and replace them with equivalent Livid videos via the Livid platform.

Key Features

  • Automatic embeds — Paste any livid.com URL and it auto-embeds
  • Page builder ready — Native Livid Video elements for Elementor, WPBakery, Avada Builder, and Bricks, a Livid video type in Slider Revolution, plus a [livid_video] shortcode
  • Avada playback — Click-to-load previews, existing on-page iLightbox galleries, container video backgrounds, and playback controls for supported post/portfolio FlexSlider embeds
  • Divi playback — Native Video, Video Slider and Slide modules retain layouts, overlays and enabled responsive sources; native Text embeds receive Player.js lifecycle hooks. Saved Library, Theme Builder and Overlay sources are included in migration.
  • ACF scanning (opt-in) — Top-level text, textarea, URL, oEmbed and WYSIWYG values, preserving rich text and [embed] wrappers
  • Sensei LMS ready — Required-video completion, automatic lesson completion, and tab-away pausing; repeated required Livid embeds are tracked separately and mixed-provider lessons wait for all required videos
  • LearnDash ready — Livid lesson and topic embeds support LearnDash video progression, resume tracking, and completion
  • Supported-format scanning — Finds Vimeo iframes, Gutenberg embed blocks, bare URLs, [embed] and shortcodes, Elementor widgets, WPBakery elements, native Divi shortcode video fields, supported Avada elements and video fields, Bricks elements, and LearnDash lesson/topic progression URLs
  • Background processing — Scan and migration run as Action Scheduler jobs so they won’t time out on large sites
  • Safe replacement — Only replaces the specific videos you select through the Livid migration popup
  • Rollback data — Every changed source gets an immutable pre-write snapshot; main-content edits also retain tagged WordPress revisions when enabled
  • Permanent install — Keep the plugin active for continued Livid embed support

How It Works

The plugin registers Livid as an oEmbed provider, which is active immediately upon installation. For migration:

  1. Go to Settings > Livid, enable “Also check ACF custom fields” if needed, then click “Find Vimeo videos” (or “Search again”)
  2. The plugin scans supported post content, page-builder data, and LearnDash lesson/topic progression settings for Vimeo embeds
  3. A popup opens where you select which videos to migrate and map them to Livid video IDs
  4. The plugin rewrites the selected embeds in the background

Scope

Migration scans and rewrites post_content, supported page-builder data for Elementor (_elementor_data) and Bricks (_bricks_page_content_2), Avada’s _fusion.video_url, iframe sources in _fusion.video, active Slider vimeo_id fields and their verified legacy pyre_* equivalents, and LearnDash’s lesson_video_url setting for lessons/topics. It includes public post types, registered Divi Library, Theme Builder and Overlay sources, and registered Avada saved elements, templates, layout sections and Off Canvas records, in published, scheduled, draft, pending and private statuses. With “Also check ACF custom fields” enabled, it also scans top-level text, textarea, URL, oEmbed and WYSIWYG values using each post’s field reference. Iframe sources receive player URLs; links and [embed] URLs receive watch URLs, with HTML and closing shortcodes preserved. Number controls, nested/group/repeater fields, options-page, user and term fields are excluded. Global theme options, widget content and other post meta are not modified.

External Services

This plugin interacts with Livid in these ways:
1. Video migration
When you initiate a migration, the plugin sends a listing of Vimeo videos found on your site along with basic information about the pages they appear on. This is necessary so that Livid can match the Vimeo videos on your site to the ones you have uploaded to your Livid account. No data is sent unless you actively start a migration.
2. oEmbed provider
This plugin registers Livid as an oEmbed provider in WordPress. When a Livid video URL is embedded in a post or page, WordPress will make a request to Livid’s oEmbed endpoint to retrieve embed information (such as the video title and player HTML). This happens whenever a post containing a Livid embed is edited or its embed cache is refreshed.
3. Video playback and previews
The visitor’s browser loads Livid players and preview images where they are embedded. For Avada click-to-load facades, WordPress requests public oEmbed thumbnail metadata and caches successful lookups for an hour and failures for five minutes. The browser loads the returned preview image before the player is opened; the player iframe is created when the visitor clicks the play button. Live Builder preview lookups use an authenticated same-site endpoint.
These interactions are in line with Livid’s terms of service and privacy policy.