Long Play Embeds

Long Play is calm, ad-free video hosting for filmmakers, educators and creators: no algorithm, no autoplay, no recommendations pulling viewers away – just your video, presented properly.

WordPress only turns video links into players for sites on its own built-in list. This plugin adds Long Play to it.

What it does

• Paste a Long Play video link (https://longplayplatform.com/browse/...) on its own line, or into an Embed block, and it becomes the Long Play player.
• Or use a shortcode: [longplay id="abc123XYZ"], with optional width, height and start (in seconds).
• Works with the block editor, the classic editor and page builders that support WordPress embeds.

Moving from Vimeo? Swap your Vimeo players for Long Play

Your site may have years of posts with Vimeo players in them. Instead of editing each one, go to Tools > Swap Vimeo videos:

1. Press “Scan my site”. The plugin lists every Vimeo video in your posts, pages and widgets.
2. Videos you imported into Long Play are matched for you. For anything else, paste the Long Play link.
3. Tick the ones to swap and save. Wherever the Vimeo player was, visitors now see the Long Play player, at the same size and starting at the same point.

Your posts are never edited. The swap happens as each page is shown, so unticking a video, switching the swap off, or deactivating the plugin brings the Vimeo players straight back.

About Long Play

• Ad-free playback on every plan – Long Play never inserts ads into your videos.
• Up to 4K, with adaptive streaming that starts fast and avoids buffering.
• Private sharing, password protection, share links with viewing notes, and domain-restricted embeds so a video only plays on your own site.
• Sell or rent your videos directly to your audience.
• Captions, multiple audio tracks, chapters and transcripts.
• Moving from Vimeo? Long Play can import your Vimeo library for you.
• A free plan that will always exist, and a Creator plan whose price is locked for life.

Create a free account – no credit card required.

External services

This plugin connects to Long Play (longplayplatform.com), the video hosting service whose videos it embeds. It sends nothing until a post or page contains a Long Play video link or the [longplay] shortcode.

• When a post contains a Long Play video link, WordPress asks Long Play’s oEmbed endpoint (https://longplayplatform.com/oembed) for the player code. It sends the video link and the requested player size. WordPress keeps the answer, as it does for YouTube or Vimeo links.
• When you press “Scan my site” on the Tools > Swap Vimeo videos page, the plugin sends the Vimeo video numbers it found (and nothing else) to https://longplayplatform.com/api/vimeo-matches, which answers with any public Long Play copies of those videos. This happens only when you press the button.
• When someone views the post, their browser loads the player from https://longplayplatform.com/embed/.... Long Play receives what any embedded player receives: the visitor’s IP address and browser details, and your site’s address (not the page or the visitor) so videos limited to your website can play.

Long Play Platform Rules (terms of use) and privacy policy.