FastPix – Video Hosting, Player and Analytics for WordPress

Description

Host and manage video content directly in WordPress with FastPix. Upload and play videos, add AI-powered captions and chapters, protect content with DRM, and track video and course performance through analytics in wp-admin.

Your videos are stored, encoded to adaptive-bitrate quality and streamed from the FastPix network, so your site stays fast and your content stays free of YouTube ads and outside branding. A FastPix account is required.

Who it’s for

• Online courses : Upload your videos to the media library, then use them to build the lessons for specific courses. A lesson is marked complete only when the video is actually watched, not when a student drags the progress bar to the end. Works with LearnDash, Tutor LMS, LifterLMS and LearnPress, with per-course analytics.
• Live streaming : Broadcast over RTMPS or SRT straight from WordPress. One embed shows a waiting card before the stream, switches to the live player, then serves the recording automatically.
• Membership and paid content : Sell or gate video with private, signed playback and DRM, so it only plays where you allow and cannot be shared or downloaded.
• Publishers and media libraries : Move a large, uncaptioned library to FastPix, auto-generate subtitles, and search across titles, transcripts and chapters.
• Marketing and landing pages : Replace slow self-hosted files with fast adaptive-bitrate video that will not drag down your page speed.
• Multi-tenant platforms : Keep separate video libraries that never collide. A course platform split into divisions – say Architecture and E-commerce, each with its own sections – can run every division as its own site on WordPress Multisite, with its own library, courses and analytics, isolated from the rest.

Features

• Video hosting with resumable uploads, URL import and Media Library migration
• Adaptive-bitrate (HLS) streaming from a global multi-CDN network
• Live streaming over RTMPS or SRT, with automatic recording to your library
• Gutenberg video block and a [fastpix id="…"] shortcode
• Public, private (signed) and DRM-protected playback
• Watermark your videos to brand them and deter re-sharing
• AI captions and subtitles, chapters, summaries and named entities
• Transcript and chapter search across your whole library
• Analytics in wp-admin – per student, per video and per course – with CSV export
• Course completion tracking for LearnDash, Tutor LMS, LifterLMS and LearnPress
• Multi-tenant isolation on WordPress Multisite – a separate library, courses and analytics per site
• VideoObject structured data for public videos (video SEO)

Why FastPix?

• Everything in wp-admin – upload, embed, protect and measure video without leaving WordPress or juggling separate tools.
• Your site stays fast – video is delivered from the FastPix network, not your web host, so pages load quickly and playback does not stutter.
• Open and yours – the plugin is open source (GPLv2), and your videos, embeds and viewer data stay in your own WordPress site.

For developers

The plugin is built to be extended. Here is what you get and how to use it.

Shortcode – use it to place a video anywhere the block editor doesn’t reach: classic editor, a page builder, a widget, or a theme template (via do_shortcode()). The only required attribute is the media ID; everything else tunes the player.

[fastpix id="abc123" autoplay muted accentcolour="#0055FF" starttime="30"]

Common attributes: autoplay, muted, loop, controls, chapters, transcript, captionsdefault, lazyload, accentcolour, poster, starttime, aspectratio. On lesson videos, complete_at sets the watched-percentage that counts as complete and track_viewer records who watched. For a live stream, use [fastpix streamid="…"].

LMS completion hook – use fastpix_video_completed to run your own logic the moment a student finishes a lesson video (award points, send an email, unlock the next module). It fires once, before the LMS credits the lesson:

add_action('fastpix_video_completed', function ($video_id, $user_id, $post_id) { /* your code */ }, 10, 3);

To stop the plugin crediting the lesson automatically and do it yourself, return false from fastpix_lms_auto_complete:

add_filter('fastpix_lms_auto_complete', '__return_false');

Webhooks – FastPix notifies your site through signed webhooks the moment a video finishes processing, a subtitle track is ready, or a live stream changes state, so your library stays in sync without polling. Set the webhook URL and signing secret during setup (see Installation), and every event is verified with an HMAC-SHA256 signature.

Other hooks – filters let you change behaviour without touching the plugin: fastpix_feature_live (turn live streaming on), fastpix_completion_threshold (default watched-percentage for completion), fastpix_lesson_post_types (treat custom post types as lessons), fastpix_structured_data (edit the VideoObject JSON-LD before output). Actions let you react to events: fastpix_media_ready (a video finished processing), fastpix_connected (a workspace was connected). Example – turn live streaming on:

add_filter('fastpix_feature_live', '__return_true');

WP-CLI – manage large libraries and automate maintenance from the terminal or a cron job: wp fastpix status (check the connection, schema and queue), wp fastpix sync (pull in new videos now), wp fastpix reindex (rebuild the transcript search index), wp fastpix doctor (re-run the activation checks when something looks wrong), and more.

Full reference for every setting, capability, hook and command: https://fastpix.com/docs/integrations/wordpress-settings-and-reference

Learn more

New to hosting video on WordPress? Start with our guide to the best video hosting for WordPress in 2026, see how to add video to WordPress without YouTube, and compare the field in the best WordPress video player plugins in 2026.

If you sell or gate content, read how protecting paid video on WordPress with signed URLs and DRM works, and if you run an LMS, see video hosting for LearnDash, Tutor LMS, LifterLMS and LearnPress. Going live is covered in live streaming from WordPress with RTMPS and SRT.

Already have a library? Learn about moving a WordPress Media Library off your server, keeping hero and background video from wrecking your LCP, and what video analytics in WordPress can tell you that a simple view counter cannot.

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