I’ve made and released a couple WordPress Plugins. I went looking for solutions to these problems, but, not finding any, decided to do it myself. After all, if not me, then who?
Email verification. Pretty basic, but most if not all of the plugins that I found were gateways to services that would try to sell you access to an API to figure out if an email was valid or not. They didn’t actually have the user verify their email. So, now we have a plugin that does just that!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/argentwolf-email-verification/
For videos, an issue came up when I posted a video: family across the country on a slower connection mentioned that it did not stream very well. Apparently posting raw cell phone video, while very high quality, is too high for the internet. So, now introducing the ArgentWolf Video Processor plugin. This plugin processes your videos on server, no APIs, and implements HLS, which allows your browser or devices to choose the appropriate resolutions for streaming based on your Internet connection.
And while yes, you can render it all before hand, that is a much more unfriendly workflow. This, all you have to do is load and go. Great for self hosted sites or a VPS, shared hosting may be more of a mixed bag depending on the hosting policies. Version 2.0 is in the works with PeerTube support, which will offload the processing to a PeerTube instance instead of the blog host!