VideoFlowEngine HLS Streaming

1.0.1

• New: Hero add-on for instant-play premium video on one featured video
• New: First-ready toast — encourages copying the shortcode to a page after the first encode completes
• New: Plan unsubscribe button in Settings (Starter / Pro)
• Improvement: Hero shortcode column auto-shows the [vfhls_player id=”X” hero] variant for the assigned hero video
• Improvement: Inline status messages in the Hero video-chooser modal (replaces native browser dialogs)
• Improvement: Readme now documents the Hero add-on with FAQs (homepage hero, course intro, switching the hero video)
• Fix: Stripe checkout buttons no longer redirect the current tab when opening the new tab (window.open + ‘noopener’ returns null on success)
• Fix: Plugin reactivation now correctly records the analytics consent answer + audit log row (previously prior consent state silently carried over)
• Fix: Removed redundant analytics line from upgrade pages (kept only differentiating tier benefits)
• Security: Added capability check to the review-prompt dismissal AJAX

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Video upload with direct-to-CDN transfer
• Multi-resolution HLS encoding (360p, 720p, 1080p adaptive streaming)
• Admin interface with drag & drop upload
• Real-time encoding progress
• Shortcode player and gallery with analytics tracking
• Built-in analytics page (views, watch time, drop-off)
• Visitor analytics opt-in with admin toggle
• View count deduplication (IP-based, 1 hour window)
• API key authentication with free tier