Agora Video for WordPress Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

The Agora Video for WordPress plugin lets you easily add live streaming or video conferencing functionality to your WordPress posts and pages. You can easily create and configure streaming or communication channels through the WordPress Admin dashboard and embed real time communications without any coding required!

Features Include:
– Live video streaming with Host UI template
– Video calling with group video chat UI template
– Cloud recording directly to Amazon S3
– Screen sharing support
– RTMP support
– Customizable UI
– Customizable configurations (credentials, video profile, Codec, etc.) and much more!

Agora is a leading video, voice and live interactive streaming platform, helping developers deliver rich in-app experiences—including embedded voice and video chat, real-time recording, interactive live streaming, and real-time messaging.

With over 200+ data centers globally, the Agora’s Software-Defined Real-time Network (SD-RTN™) is trusted and widely used by the world’s biggest brands and provides ease of scaling for up to 1 million peak concurrent users (PCU) in a single session with unmatched quality of experience.
Agora fully supports a range of development environments, making it easy to deliver deep integration of high-quality, extreme low-latency video calling across all platforms and channels.

Get started for free! The first 10,000 minutes each month are free, including free starter support through Slack. Agora offer a simple and affordable pricing model including volume discounts. See pricing details: https://www.agora.io/pricing

Terms of Service: https://www.agora.io/en/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://www.agora.io/en/privacy-policy
Acceptable Use Policy: https://www.agora.io/en/acceptable-use-policy
Compliance Policy: https://www.agora.io/en/compliance

Features

Live video streaming with Host UI template
Video calling with group video chat UI template
Cloud recording directly to Amazon S3
Screen sharing support
RTMP support
Customizable UI
Customizable configurations (credentials, video profile, Codec, etc.) and much more!

One-to-One Video Calls

Dramatically increase user engagement with Agora Video calling by delivering high quality, low-latency, one-to-one video call capabilities directly into your own applications.

Group Chat Video Calling

Group chat calls scales to include up to 17 participants – ensuring that you can handle all the use-cases you will ever need.

Live Streaming

Agora’s flexible APIs enable deep integration of high quality, low latency – live video streaming experiences

Quick Start Guide

https://medium.com/agora-io/agora-video-for-wordpress-plugin-quickstart-guide-b8838abd4245

Installation

WP Plugins

1. Go to the Add New section of the Plugins section of your WordPress Admin Dashboard.

2. Search for Agora.io

3. Click the Install Now button

4. Once the plugin status changes to “Installed”, Click the Activate button.

Zip Upload

1. Click the Download button to download the plugin zip.

2. Go the Plugins section of your WordPress Admin Dashboard

3. Click the Upload button and then upload the wp-agora-io.zip through the WordPress Admin Dashboard.

4. The plugin upload screen will load. Once “Plugin installed successfully…” click the Activate button.

FTP

1. Click the Download button to download the plugin zip.

2. Upload the wp-agora-io folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

3. Activate the plugin through the Plugins section of the WordPress Admin Dashboard

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Basic Setup

1. Create or Log into an Agora developer account

2. Create a project, take note of the App ID and App certificate keys

3. Navigate to the plugin’s Settings page and input App ID and App certificate keys

Advanced Setup

1. Create or Log into your Agora developer account

2. Create a project, take note of the App ID and App certificate keys

3. Navigate to “Products and Usage” page. Enable RTMP and Cloud Recording.

4. Navigate to the Dashboard API section of your Agora Console, take note of your Customer ID and Customer Certificate keys.

5. Navigate to the plugin’s Settings page and input App ID, App certificate, Customer ID, and Customer Certificate keys

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why don’t my project credentials (App ID and App Certificate) get saved when I input them on the Settings tab?

This could be occurring for a few different reasons, one of the more common issues is conflicts with plugins. To test if it is a plugin conflict, please disable all plugins except for Agora. Then, try to save your AppID and App Certificate.

If this does not resolve the issue and your App ID and App Certificate are still not getting stored, please file a support ticket

2. What is the purpose of the RTMP and external URL buttons?

The option for RTMP is for the purpose of pushing your Agora stream to a 3rd party service such as Vimeo or YouTube as a way to leverage 3rd party streaming services to increase your reach/visibility. This is an optional feature that does not need to be used if you don’t want it.

The external url is for ingesting a stream from a CDN into the Agora stream. Similar to RTMP, this is an optional feature that does not need to be used if you don’t want it.

3. How can I hide the RTMP and external URL buttons?

You can hide the RTMP and external URL buttons by hiding their container. To do so, add this to your theme’s style.css:
#rtmp-btn-container { display: none !important; }

4. Does communication mode support cloud recording?

Currently only Broadcast mode supports cloud recording, where the broadcaster has to initiate the recording.The decision was made during development to for privacy of users. The plugin allows for setting the cloud recording credentials within the communication channel settings because we want to allow users to extend the plugin based on their needs.

5. Why doesn’t the video work? I see the buttons but I don’t get any prompts for video access.

Browsers require a secure connection (HTTPS) for accessing a device’s microphone and camera. When testing locally, localhost is a whitelisted URL but once you deploy to production you will need to have a secure connection for the plugin to function properly.

6. Why does the video look cropped? How can I set the video to not appear cropped?

A: When embedding a <video> element, the object-fit CSS property specifies how the <video> should be resized to fit its container. (details: W3C – object-fit). The Agora Video for WordPress plugin uses the default setting of cover, as set by the Agora Web SDK. To change this, you can use CSS. Within the WordPress Admin dashboard, click “Appearance” > “Customize” and then click “Additional CSS”. Copy and paste the copy below into the “Additional CSS” input field and click the “Publish” button.

.agora .screen-users video{ object-fit: contain !important;}

Review feed

ekaansh

2/11/2022

Easy to setup

Simple installation to add live streaming or video calling

Screenshots

Changelog

Version 1.0
Initial build of the Agora.io WebSDK implemented as a WordPress plugin.

Version 1.1
Hotfix – for environments where js global scope is limited to local file.

Version 1.2
Hotfix – patch to fix ui button issue caused by UTILS naming collision.

Version 1.3
Hotfix – patch to fix audience uid issue, where the audience uid in joinChannel did not match uid in token.

Version 1.4
Updated to Agora WebSDK v3.0.2, fixed a patch for uid’s.

Version 1.5
Updated to resolves issues with saving Agora Settings that are caused by plugin conflicts. Fixed grammer error. Release resolves issues:
– 43
– 52

Version 1.5.1
Updated to resolves issues with saving Agora Settings. Release resolves issues:
– 52

Version 1.5.2
Updated to resolves issues with saving Agora Settings created by previous hotfix. Release resolves issues:
– 52

Version 1.6.2
Updated to resolves issues with with screen sharing in Chrome browser. Resolves issue with injected stream not displaying in broadcast channel. Release resolves issues:
– 42
– 60

Version 2.0.0
Updated with a new UI, improved screen sharing, multi-host broadcasts, real-time chat, and other features/improvements.
– 47
– 48
– 49
– 50
– 62
– 63
– 65
– 66
– 67
– 71

Version 2.0.1
[Patch] fixes a broken image links in the prompt messages when user denies camera/mic permissions.

Version 2.0.2
Resolves an issue with certain frameworks not enquing the RTM SDK correctly.
– 82

Version 2.0.3
Resolves an issue with certain frameworks not enquing the RTM SDK correctly in full screen template.

Version 2.0.4
Resolves an issue with certain frameworks not enquing the RTC SDK correctly in audience client.

Version 2.0.5
Add a waiting time before total disconnect on Audience views and wait for broadcaster reconnection.

Version 2.0.6
Adds a patch for autoplay policy issues. When remote user joins, if browser autoplay policy blocks video with audio playback, the video will play without audio and the mute icon will appear. The user will need to click each remote video to enable the audio. The requirement for clicking each stream is to support Safari which has the strictest autoplay policy.

Version 2.0.7
Resolves issues with Screen Share (#95 , #96). Resolved an issue with black boxes (#91). Resolves CSS issue causing audience button to be hidden.
– 91
– 95
– 96

Version 2.0.8
Resolves an issue in full screen templates with RTM not loading in the correct order.

Version 2.0.9
Resolves an issue with the UI for channels containing more than 9 streams.

Version 3.0.0
Adds new features, exposes more customizations, and resolves some issues.
– Channel Admin user
– Embed cloud recordings using shortcodes
– Option to enable pre-call/device-test view
– Floating or Grid layout option per channel
– Color customizations for all UI elements
– Cloud recording settings for individual or composite recordings
– Option to limit # of “hosts” within a communication channel (non-user specific)
– Set an Admin Host to allow for moderator controls within a channel
– Improved handling for browser “auto-play” policies
– Auto-mute mic/audio on channel start
– Chat now supports sending and receiving files (limited to specific common file types)
– Resolves issues: 44, 53 , 55, 62, 66 , 94, 101 , 103

Version 3.0.1
Refactored the code to have smaller bundles

Version 3.0.2
Update Agora Web SDK to v3.6.11

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