Why is WordPress and live streaming rarely talked about at least in this forum? The term “live stream” in WordPress forum has not been spoken about in this forum for about a year. Besides VideoWhipser, has anyone attempted to peace together the functions of a paid live stream platfrom with tips and tokens like Chaturbate using plugins? I have been looking for a plugin that would have a tip function for performers, but I did make it happen using and ewallet plugin. Or what about Woocommerce stores with live feed from the seller? Its been proven in Japan as well as in the US that the concept is taking off yet here nothing about live video in WordPress building. Are there any WordPress developers out there that build live stream WordPress sites?
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Live video is not a function of wordpress, nor will it be. You can embed video players in wordpress but the tech for streaming video is outside of the wordpress stack.
Yes, you could create a system where you could play alerts on screen after a woocommerce transaction. OBS has a feature called browser source that lets you use webpages as overlays. I’ve even setup systems for controlling these sources via websockets. (wrote quickly about it in my blog: – but I use a node websocket server and javascript.
Yes, you could make a membership site and embed live videos on it. I’ve done it for an art school. Would I do it again? Nope.
Because WordPress is just a CMS, you need an RTMP server to do live streaming, which is pretty expensive to do correctly. Most people will use embeds of Twitch, YouTube, Reddit or other sites with this functionality before building their own site with this protocol.