General Settings

The General section under Fluent Player → Settings sets site wide defaults for every player on your site. Use it to choose the default preset and aspect ratio, enable resume playback, and add global custom CSS. These values apply everywhere unless a preset or a per media setting overrides them.

To open it, go to Fluent Player → Settings and select General from the inner settings sidebar. See Settings Overview for how global settings relate to presets and per media overrides.

Default Preset

The preset grid shows every available player skin. The selected preset has a checkmark and a highlighted border. That choice becomes the default look and behavior for new media items that do not pick a different preset.

Preset	Character
Default	Balanced layout with standard controls
Modern	Rounded corners and floating controls
Simple	Minimal UI, clean and distraction free
Standard	Classic control bar layout
Floating	Control bar floats over the video
Minimal	Bare bones controls
Ambient	Muted autoplay, hidden controls, loop on end — tuned for background video

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Changing the default preset does not update media that already has an explicit preset assigned. It applies to new media and to items with no preset override.

You can create additional skins with custom presets (Pro) and set one of those as the site default here.

Default Aspect Ratio

Use the Default Aspect Ratio dropdown to set how players size themselves site wide. Common options include Original, 16:9, and 4:3.

Individual media items and block embeds can override this under Block tab → General Settings when a specific video needs a different ratio.

Auto Resume Playback

Checkbox: Enable Auto Resume Playback — "Let your users resume watching from where they left off."

When this global toggle is on, FluentPlayer Pro stores playback position in the viewer's browser. The next time they open the page with that video, it starts from where they stopped.

Resume playback works at three levels. All relevant toggles should be on for a given embed:

Level	Where to enable
Global	Settings → General → Enable Auto Resume Playback
Preset	Save play position in the preset’s behaviors
Per embed	Block tab → General Settings → Remember Playback Position

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The global toggle in Settings and the per embed Remember Playback Position control work together. Enable both (plus the preset behavior when you use presets) so resume works as expected on a specific video.

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Playback position is stored in the viewer’s browser. It does not carry over to another device or browser, and clearing site data will reset it.

Custom CSS

A text area for global CSS that applies to every FluentPlayer instance on your site. The UI suggests scoping your rules:

.fluent-player {
  /* your overrides here */
}

Use this for small tweaks that presets do not cover — for example, progress bar height or tooltip colors. For larger visual changes, edit or create a preset instead of relying on global CSS alone.

If the player looks broken after a theme update, check for CSS conflicts here and in your theme before changing other settings. See Common Issues & Fixes for troubleshooting tips.

Saving Changes

Click Save Settings in the top right of the General panel after you make changes. New page loads will use the updated defaults immediately.

Per media and block overrides still take priority. If a video does not reflect a global change, open that media item and confirm it is not overriding the setting at the preset or block level.