Nick Halsey

<p>WordPress supports featured images out of the box, allowing images to represent posts in various ways defined by the theme. This plugin adds similar support for audio, allowing musicians, podcasters, and anyone who publishes audio with WordPress to feature audio files on posts and pages in a structured way. Each post and page gets a featured audio metabox where an audio file can be uploaded or selected from the media library.</p>
<p>By default, featured audio is displayed at the top of posts and pages <code>(within the_content)</code>. Developers can change this by adding theme support for <code>featured-audio</code>, via several API functions listed below.</p>
<p>Why use featured audio instead of embeding audio directly into posts? Featured audio organizes the content in a structured way, alowing infinite possibilities to customize the way users experience audio content on your site. The plugin ships with one example of this – the featured audio playlist widget. Add this widget to your sidebar and it’ll automatically display a playlist of all of the audio files featured on posts shown on the current view, on views with more than one post such as the main blog page or a category page. The plugin also supports a recent audio playlist widget, which behaves similarly to a latest posts widget.</p>
<p>For a more comprehensive way to manage <em>music</em> with WordPress, particularly if you need to include sheet music alongisde audio, see the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sheet-music-library/" rel="ugc">Sheet Music Library</a> plugin.</p>
<h3>Developer API Functions</h3>
<h4>Add Theme Support</h4>
<pre><code>add_theme_support( 'featured-audio' )
</code></pre>
<p>Adding theme support for featured audio tells the plugin not to add the featured audio to the content automatically. Instead, you can add featured audio exactly where you want it with <code>the_featured_content()</code> (see below for details).</p>
<h4>Change Supported Post Types</h4>
<p>By default, the <code>post</code> and <code>page</code> post types are supported. You can use the <code>featured_audio_post_types</code> filter to modify this list. For example:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'featured_audio_post_types', 'prefix_featured_audio_post_types' );
function prefix_featured_audio_post_types( $post_types ) {
    // Add support to the sheet_music post type.
    $post_types[] = 'sheet_music';

    // Overwrite the entire list to remove support on pages.
    $post_types = array( 'post' );

    return $post_types;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>the_featured_audio( $args )</h4>
<p>Display the featured audio, if it exists.</p>
<p>Parameters:</p>
<pre><code>$args                   array   Display options.
$args['id']             int     Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id. 
$args['album_art']      boolean Whether to display the album art for the featured audio cycle. Default: false.
$args['album_art_size'] string  Size to use for the album art picture. Default: thumbnail.
$args['title']          boolean Whether to display the title of the audio attachment. Default: false.
</code></pre>
<h4>get_the_featured_audio( $args )</h4>
<p>Get the featured audio, if it exists, as a string. Has the same arguments as <code>the_featured_audio()</code>.</p>
<h4>get_featured_audio_src( $id )</h4>
<p>Returns the url of the featured audio file, if it exists.</p>
<p>Parameter:</p>
<pre><code>$id int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id.
</code></pre>
<h4>get_featured_audio_attachment_id( $id )</h4>
<p>Returns the id of the featured audio attachment, if it exists.</p>
<p>Parameter:</p>
<pre><code>$id int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id.
</code></pre>
<h4>get_the_featured_audio_playlist()</h4>
<p>Get the featured audio playlist, if there are multiple posts with featured audio in the current query. Used by the featured audio playlist widget.</p>
<h4>the_featured_audio_playlist()</h4>
<p>Displays (echoes) <code>get_the_featured_audio_playlist()</code>.</p>


Featured Audio

Add featured audio to your posts and pages, like featured images.

Rajesh Thanoch

Roland Beaussant

<ul>
<li>
<p>Record or Upload audios, podcasts, voice, music, sounds, etc.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Edit your audios: Copy, Cut, Paste, Crop, delete</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add more audio pieces</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Save / download as mp3 file on your computer</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Save as WordPress audio post</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use in your WordPress Media Library</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Insert audios in your contents</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Find your own private audio list with the [audio-my-list] shortcode and /my-audios/ page</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Display all published audios with the [audio-editor-list] shortcode.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Allow your users to use the editor from the frontend with the [audio-editor] shortcode.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Decide if you let logged-out users post audios with the parameter logged-in-only=”false”</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Customize the editor style with the shortcodes parameters (i.e.: [audio-editor color=”#000″] to change the icons color).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use the shortcode parameter [audio-editor mini=”true”] to activate the compact mini recorder.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Discover all the customization parameters to hide buttons, change button text, publish or review before publish, redirect URL, etc.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Click on this link to test the quick frontend demo of our <a href="https://wp-audio-studio.com/demo-wp-audio-editor-recorder-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">simple MP3 audio editor & recorder</a></p>
<p><strong>Audio Editor Pro includes:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Saving more than one minute audio in your website or your PC.</li>
</ul>
<p>More info on <a href="https://wp-audio-studio.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a><br />
Please don’t hesitate to leave us suggestions for future release.</p>


Audio Editor & Recorder

Record, upload and edit audios from your wordpress website or blog. Use mp3 media files in your contents. The perfect companion for podcast plugins.

Featured Audio vs Audio Editor & Recorder