How to Create a Custom Player Preset

A custom preset in WP Media Player lets you define exactly which controls appear, which items sit in the right-click context menu, and what skin wraps them. Once saved, the preset is available in every media editor and can be set as the global default.

Create the Preset

Go to WP Media Player > Settings > General. Scroll to the presets section and click Create New Preset. The modal opens with four fields:

• Preset Name: A label you will recognize in the media editor dropdown.
• Slug: Auto-generated from the name. Only editable when creating.
• Player Skin: Choose from Classic, Modern, Simple, Standard, Floating, or Minimal. The skin controls the CSS layout of the control bar.

The first accordion, Skin & Controls, opens by default. It contains a toggle for every button the player can show.

Toggle Individual Controls

Twelve controls can be switched on or off:

• Backward / Forward: Skip buttons on either side of the play button
• Play: The main play/pause button
• Progress Bar: The scrubber showing playback position
• Current Time: The elapsed time display
• Volume: The volume slider and mute toggle
• Settings Menu: The gear icon that opens quality, speed, and caption options
• Playback Speed: The speed selector inside the settings menu
• Fullscreen: The expand-to-fullscreen button
• Picture-in-Picture: The PiP button for floating the player
• Captions Toggle: The captions on/off button
• Chapters: The chapter marker navigation

Every toggle updates the live control bar preview immediately, so you can confirm the result before saving.

Configure the Context Menu

The second accordion, Context Menu, controls the items that appear when a viewer right-clicks the player. Toggle the master Enable Context Menu switch to turn the whole menu on or off, then configure each item individually:

• Copy Link: Copy the current page URL to clipboard
• Copy Link at Current Time: Copy a URL with a time parameter pointing to the current playback position
• Loop: Toggle looping on and off from the menu
• Playback Speed: Open the speed selector
• Captions: Open the caption language selector
• Picture-in-Picture: Open the PiP option

Apply the Preset

Click Save Changes. The new preset appears in the Preset dropdown on every media editor and in the Default Preset dropdown under WP Media Player > Settings > General. Set it as the global default there to apply it to every new video automatically.

What to Check

• The preset name appears in the media editor Preset dropdown
• The control bar in the live preview shows only the controls you enabled
• The context menu shows the correct items when right-clicking the player

Next Steps

A preset controls the player chrome. To add your brand color, logo watermark, and custom CSS on top of it, see how to brand your video player.