WP Media Player Dashboard Overview

The WP Media Player dashboard is a single React SPA mounted at WP Media Player in your admin sidebar. It covers four screens — Dashboard, Media, Playlists, and Settings — that together manage every video, preset, and data point in the plugin.

The Dashboard

The Dashboard opens by default after activation. It gives you a read-only snapshot of your video performance before you click into any individual media item.

Four stat tiles appear at the top:

• Total Views: Every time a player has loaded on a page
• Total Plays: Every time playback actually started
• Media Items: The number of distinct videos in your library
• Total Events: The combined count of all tracked interactions — views, plays, pauses, seeks, progress updates, and completions

If analytics are turned off, a yellow banner reads “Analytics Tracking is Disabled” with a link to the Analytics settings tab. Pro adds a Top Performing Media table and a six-card grid covering watch time, engagement, geographic data, device and browser stats, custom date ranges, and real-time monitoring.

The Media Tab

The Media tab is where every video and audio item you have added lives. Each row shows the ID, title, source provider, duration, creation date, enabled or disabled status, a copy-to-clipboard shortcode, where that shortcode appears on your site, and an Edit button with a dropdown for copy and delete.

Use the filters at the top to narrow the list: filter by status — All, Enable, Disable — search by title, sort by created or updated date, and filter by media tags. Bulk select items to delete them in one action. Pagination controls let you view 5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 items per page.

Clicking Edit opens the media editor — the same editor you used when you first added your video. From there you can change the title, thumbnail, preset, aspect ratio, chapters, layers, and every other per-video setting.

The Playlists Tab

The Playlists tab is visible in the admin menu on all builds, but playlists are a Pro feature. On the free version the tab shows a locked state directing you to upgrade. The Pro version opens a drag-and-drop playlist builder where you can reorder items, switch between grid and list layouts, and import a full YouTube playlist by URL.

The Settings Tab

Settings is where global defaults live. Eight tabs across the top of the page separate the controls into logical groups:

• General: Default preset, default aspect ratio, auto-resume playback, site-wide custom CSS
• Branding: Brand color, control bar color, play button colors, logo watermark with position and width
• Email Providers: Connect WordPress email or SMTP in the free tier. Mailchimp, Brevo, ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, GetResponse, Omnisend, and webhook are Pro integrations
• Storage: Add credentials for Bunny Stream, BunnyCDN Storage, Mux Video, Mux Stream, Gumlet Video, Gumlet Stream, and Cloudflare Stream — all Pro
• YouTube: Privacy-enhanced mode — routes embeds through youtube-nocookie.com — and a subscribe button linked to your channel
• Analytics: Turn tracking on or off, enable auto-cleanup of old events, set the retention window
• Export: Back up and restore your full plugin configuration, or export collected emails to CSV, JSON, or ODS
• Appearance: Admin interface color theme and preloader preference

Changes on any tab are saved with the Save Changes button at the bottom.

Where Your Data Lives

WP Media Player stores media configuration, analytics events, and captured emails in custom tables in your own WordPress database. The tables are created on activation and are prefixed with your WordPress table prefix:

• {prefix}ccpwpmp_media: Media items and their settings
• {prefix}ccpwpmp_events: Analytics events
• {prefix}ccpwpmp_email_submissions: Individual email capture submissions
• {prefix}ccpwpmp_email_collections: Collected email records
• {prefix}ccpwpmp_playlists: Playlist definitions

No viewer data is sent to CodeConfig or any third-party analytics service. Analytics, email submissions, and media config stay on your server.

Navigation Between Screens

All four screens share the same top-level WP Media Player menu item in the WordPress admin sidebar. Click any submenu — Dashboard, Media, Playlists, or Settings — to switch without leaving the React SPA. The active submenu is highlighted by WordPress automatically. The media editor opens from the Media tab by clicking Edit on any row.

What to Explore Next

With the four admin screens mapped, you are ready to work with the plugin end to end. See how to use the WP Media Player Gutenberg block to place a player directly in the block editor, or read the shortcode reference for every attribute you can pass to [wp-media-player].