Aparat for WordPress

47 Quality Score

Active Installs

16/30

3,000 active installs is a modest but real audience, almost entirely concentrated in the Iranian and Persian-language market, which is why the popularity score sits at 52.

Update Freshness

5/25

Last updated January 3, 2025 and tested against WordPress 6.7.5, which is reassuring, but the maintenance score of 31 suggests infrequent releases and limited recent development activity.

User Rating

12/15

A rating of 82 from 9 reviews is high, though the very small sample size means the score carries limited statistical weight.

Support Health

8/15

With zero support threads opened and zero resolved, there is essentially no track record of help being provided or requested, leaving the 50-point support health score resting on assumptions rather than evidence.

WP Compatibility

8/15

WordPress 4.0 minimum and PHP 7.0 are very old baselines, so the plugin runs on legacy environments, but the 50-point compatibility score reflects no modern feature integrations like block editor support or REST API usage.

Scores higher than 2% of indexed plugins

About

Displaying Aparat videos on website content, along with a widget for showing a list of channel videos.

Active Installs 3k+

Rating ★★★★ 4.1/5

Last Updated 2025-01-03 10:07am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.0+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

Requires PHP 7.0+

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: March 25, 2024

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What It Does

Aparat for WordPress lets you embed Aparat videos directly into posts and pages using shortcodes, and provides a widget that displays a recent video list pulled from a specified Aparat channel. It is purpose-built for the Aparat platform, the dominant video hosting service in Iran, so it does not work with YouTube, Vimeo, or other providers.

Who It's For

This plugin is best suited for Persian-language site owners, Iranian news outlets, educational platforms, and entertainment blogs that publish content around Aparat videos and want native embedding plus a channel feed widget. If your audience is primarily Farsi-speaking and your video source is Aparat, this tool does the narrow job well.

Who Should Skip It

Skip this plugin if you publish in English, run a general-purpose site, or need a multi-source video embedder, since it only supports Aparat and offers none of the broader compatibility of alternatives like EmbedPress or Presto Player.

The Bottom Line

Aparat for WordPress is a niche, single-purpose plugin that does one job for a specific audience and shows a recent update, but the overall quality score of 50.71/100 is held back by thin support evidence and a narrow feature set. If your site is a Persian-language project built around Aparat content, it is a reasonable lightweight choice; otherwise, a broader embed plugin will serve you better.

Pick EmbedPress if you need to embed Aparat plus YouTube, Vimeo, PDFs, and other sources from a single plugin with a much larger install base.

Presto Player 84/100

Choose Presto Player if you want advanced video player features like analytics, playlists, and branding controls, though Aparat support would need to be verified.

Featured Image from URL (FIFU) 83/100

FIFU is a different category of plugin focused on external thumbnails, so only consider it if your main pain point is featured images rather than video embedding.

Interactive Content – H5P 83/100

H5P makes sense if your goal is interactive learning content rather than simply embedding Aparat videos into posts.

Insert Pages 83/100

Insert Pages is unrelated to video; it is worth mentioning only because the category matching picked it up, and you should not choose it for video embedding.