Polanger VideoHub – Build Your Own Video Platform
VideoHub helps you turn a WordPress site into a clean, responsive video platform. Publish self-hosted videos, embed videos from popular providers, organize content with categories, tags, and playlists, and give visitors a familiar video browsing experience. Use it as a video gallery, video player system, video playlist manager, or full video library for your site.
The free core provides everything needed to publish, organize, and display videos on WordPress. It includes the video content type, playlist support, video categories and tags, a responsive player, comments, reactions, search, homepage sections, shortcodes, and admin tools.
When a site needs more advanced workflows, VideoHub can be extended with optional official addons. Paid addons are sold separately on Polanger.com and are not required for the free core video publishing experience.
What You Can Build
- A video gallery or media library
- A self-hosted video platform
- A modern video homepage
- Category-based video sections
- Playlists and curated video collections
- A searchable video archive
- A community video platform with optional member, upload, channel, monetization, live, and mobile-app features
Core Features
- Video Content Type – Manage videos from a dedicated VideoHub admin area
- Multiple Video Sources – Use YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, self-hosted videos, and supported embed providers
- Responsive Player – Clean video playback layout for desktop, tablet, and mobile
- Playlists – Create playlist pages and embed playlists with shortcodes
- Categories and Tags – Organize videos with dedicated taxonomies
- Homepage Sections – Display hero, latest videos, trending videos, playlists, and category sections
- PVH Comments – Advanced video comments with replies, voting, mentions, moderation, and WordPress discussion integration
- PVH Reactions – Like, dislike, share, and report actions for videos
- PVH Search – Advanced video search with filters for type, date, duration, category, and sorting
- View Counter – Track video views and show view counts on the frontend
- Related Videos – Show related content on single video pages
- Shortcodes – Add VideoHub layouts to pages, posts, and builders
- Template Overrides – Override templates from your theme when deeper customization is needed
- Video Engine API – Let themes and other plugins select, render, and check access for VideoHub videos
- Translation Ready – Built with WordPress internationalization functions
Optional Official Addons
Extend VideoHub only when your project needs the extra workflow:
- PVH Shorts Addon – Vertical short-form videos with fullscreen swipe playback
- PVH Auth, PVH Channels, PVH Uploads Addons Pack – Frontend login/register, user profiles, channels, subscriptions, and user uploads
- PVH Ads Addon – Pre-roll, mid-roll, display, in-feed, and shorts ad placements with analytics
- Premium Content, Marketplace Addons Pack – Sell individual videos through WooCommerce and manage vendor earnings
- Live Streaming Addon – Live stream pages for supported streaming providers and paid live access workflows
- Media Optimizer Addon – FFmpeg-based optimization for self-hosted MP4 videos
- Live Chat Addon – Real-time chat for videos and live streams
- PVH Navigation Panel Addon – Sidebar navigation for a familiar video platform layout
- Progressive Web App Addon – Installable app-like experience for visitors
Shortcodes
[pvh_home]– Display the VideoHub homepage layout[pvh_videos]– Display a video grid[pvh_video id="123"]– Display a single video player[pvh_playlist id="123"]– Display a playlist[pvh_categories]– Display video categories[pvh_search]– Display the VideoHub search interface
Addon shortcodes become available when the related addon is installed and active.
Developer Documentation
VideoHub includes developer documentation for hooks, filters, addon development, template overrides, shortcodes, and the Video Engine API.
VideoHub manages videos so other plugins do not have to. A third-party plugin can save a VideoHub video ID and render it safely:
echo pvh_render_video( 123, array( 'context' => 'lesson' ) );
Developers can also query videos for custom layouts:
$videos = pvh_get_videos( array( 'category' => 'education', 'limit' => 12 ) );
For admin integrations, add a VideoHub picker to your custom post type:
add_filter( 'pvh_video_picker_post_types', fn( $types ) => array_merge( $types, array( 'lesson' ) ) );
Documentation: https://polanger.com/polanger-videohub/docs/ Developer documentation: https://polanger.com/polanger-videohub/developer/