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audio plugins
205 plugins in the directory carry the audio tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
205
plugins
238,780+
combined reach
60
released in 90 days
47%
quiet 18 months+
2
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Aug 2026 | Easy Waveform Player | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 07 Aug 2026 | Buzzsprout Podcasting | 5,000+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presto Player A modern video and audio player for courses, landing pages, marketing, and testimonials — with captions, branding, and page-builder support. | 100,000+ | 4.8★ | 5 days ago |
| Seriously Simple Podcasting Podcasting the way it's meant to be. No mess, no fuss - just you and your content taking over the world. | 30,000+ | 4.7★ | 26 days ago |
| Compact WP Audio Player A Compact WP Audio Player Plugin that is compatible with all major browsers and devices (Android, iPhone, iPad) | 20,000+ | 4.1★ | 21 days ago |
| AudioIgniter Music Player AudioIgniter lets you create music playlists and embed them in your WordPress posts, pages or custom post types and serve your audio content in style! | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 months ago |
| HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 & Audio Player Maximize your WordPress site's potential with our versatile HTML5 Audio Player plugin. Seamlessly play .mp3, .wav, .ogg, and more audio files. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 days ago |
| WP Photo Album Plus This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia cms and display system. | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 days ago |
| rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress Add albums, photo, audio/video upload, privacy, sharing, front-end uploads & more. All this works on mobile/tablets devices. | 7,000+ | 3.7★ | 11 days ago |
| ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech ResponsiveVoice the leading HTML5 text to speech synthesis solution, is now available for WordPress. Over 51 languages through 158 voices. | 7,000+ | 3.9★ | 21 days ago |
| Cue by AudioTheme.com Delightful and reliable audio playlists. | 6,000+ | 4.7★ | 17 months ago |
| Buzzsprout Podcasting The official Buzzsprout plugin. Embed your podcast episodes with editor blocks that always stay up to date with your show. | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 days ago |
| Audio Album Displays a collection of audio tracks as an audio album using the native WordPress audio features. Includes a customizer section. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 14 months ago |
| Podlove Web Player The fast, flexible and responsive podcast player powered by podlove meta data. | 4,000+ | 3.7★ | 8 months ago |
| Spreaker Shortcode A simple and easy way to embed Spreaker player into your WordPress blog. | 4,000+ | 3.6★ | 1.5 years ago · quiet |
| Podlove Podcast Publisher The one and only next generation podcast publishing system. Seriously. It's magical and sparkles a lot. | 3,000+ | 4.4★ | 9 days ago |
| mb.miniAudioPlayer – an HTML5 audio player for your mp3 files Transform your mp3 audio files into a nice, small light HTML5 player. | 3,000+ | 4.5★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| FluentPlayer – Video Player With Forms & Lead Capture Get a video player for WordPress that captures leads and collects emails on play. | 2,000+ | 4.7★ | 12 days ago |
| Magyar Video Embed This plugin helps different hungarian online video service provider videos to be embeded just like youtube links. So, this is not intresting to you un … | 1,000+ | — | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Meks Audio Player Easily enhance your podcast, music or any audio files with a full-featured and customizable sticky audio player. | 1,000+ | 4.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Podbean Shortcode A simple and easy way to embed Podbean player into your WordPress blog. | 900+ | 4.2★ | 9 years ago · quiet |
| Themify Audio Dock An slick and simple sticky music player. | 900+ | 3.5★ | 13 months ago |
| BeyondWords – AI audio for publishers Turn WordPress articles into audio as you publish, with tools for distribution, monetization, and analytics. | 800+ | 3.6★ | 3 days ago |
| Karma Music Player by Kadar Karma is a responsive music player plugin for WordPress with which you could insert multiple players in your website. | 700+ | 4.7★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| GamiPress – Multimedia Content Add activity triggers based on multimedia content creation and interaction | 500+ | — | 9 months ago |
| Quran multilanguage Text & Audio Quran plugin with 30 languages, 32 reciters, and customizable interface. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Audio Story Images Add a new dimension to your images by using audio. This plugin let you link images with audio. | 400+ | 4.9★ | 5 months ago |
| Featured Audio Add featured audio to your posts and pages, like featured images. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Transcoder Transcoding services for ANY WordPress website. Convert audio/video files of any format to a web-friendly format (mp3/mp4). | 400+ | 3.6★ | 13 months ago |
| WaveSurfer-WP Customizable HTML5 Audio controller with waveform preview (mixed or split channels), using WordPress native audio and playlist shortcode. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 7 months ago |
| Able Player, accessible HTML5 media player Accessible HTML5 media player | 300+ | 4.7★ | 3 months ago |
| Background Music Menu Adds background music to website as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area. | 300+ | — | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Real Voice – Text to Speech Real Voice is a text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that supports the Web Speech API, Google Text-to-Speech AI, and Azure Text to speech. | 300+ | 1.0★ | 16 months ago |
| Voice Audio Widgets – Voice recorder with Forms, AI Powered STT, TTS, Transcriptions, Language Teaching Voice Message Recorder for Forms, Forums. AI Powered. Speaking Test - Language Learning. Speak to users. Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Voice Search | 300+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| Background Music for Elementor Add customizable background music to your Elementor-powered WordPress website with an elegant player interface. | 200+ | — | 17 months ago |
| EsAudioPlayer This is a simple, cross-browser, accessible audio player (MP3 player) plugin. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Knight Lab SoundciteJS This plugin lets you easily use Knight Lab's SoundciteJS tool to embed audio clips on your WordPress site. | 200+ | — | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| MMWW Media Metadata Workflow Wizard: Integrate your media metadata workflow with WordPress's Media Library | 200+ | 4.5★ | 7 months ago |
| Music Player for Easy Digital Downloads Music Player for Easy Digital Downloads includes the MediaElement.js music player in the pages of the downloads with audio files associated. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 23 days ago |
| Music Store – WordPress eCommerce Music Store, online store for selling audio files (Ex. music, speeches, narratives), that supports PayPal, Stripe, Square, and other payment gateways. | 200+ | 4.1★ | 6 days ago |
| Audio Preview for WooCommerce Add professional audio previews to your WooCommerce products. Let customers listen before they buy with support for all major audio formats and CDN se … | 200+ | 5.0★ | 14 months ago |
| Kaltura All-in-One Video Plugin for WordPress Easily add full video capabilities to your blog. | 100+ | 1.1★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player Add short-form talk-audio to your blog or website. Highlight your own podcast or enrich blog post with bursts of relevant short-form audio content. | 100+ | — | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Audio Editor & Recorder Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site. | 100+ | 3.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Audiomack Audiomack plugin allows you to add the audio player from Audiomack.com into your WordPress site using shortcodes. | 100+ | 4.0★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Audio Player Widget Audio Player Widget is a small plugin that provides support for using the Audio-Player plugin in WordPress sidebars. | 100+ | 3.0★ | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Audio Widget Add Audio to your website with audio widget Simply. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Easy Voice Mail Provides a simpler, more efficient way for your client to contact you and express their needs via voice mail. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Easy Waveform Player Add Waveform players easy and fast to your WordPress. | 100+ | — | 7 days ago |
| hearthis.at Embed hearthis.at audio players with shortcodes. Supports tracks, playlists, profiles with customizable colors, themes, and waveforms. | 100+ | 3.7★ | 7 months ago |
| Piano Block Can play a variety of tones using the piano keyboard. | 100+ | 4.5★ | 1 month ago |
| Libsyn Podcast Quick Embed This plugin adds a button in your editor to add a Libsyn Podcast Embed Player in your post or page. | 100+ | — | 9 years ago · quiet |
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