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

<p>Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site.</p>
<p>No external tools, no complex software — everything happens inside WordPress.</p>
<h4>🎯 Use cases</h4>
<p>Audio Editor & Recorder is designed for real-world use cases across many industries:</p>
<ul>
<li>Teachers can collect oral assignments, language exercises or student recordings directly on their website  </li>
<li>Musicians can quickly record ideas, demos or share audio sketches  </li>
<li>Podcasters and journalists can capture interviews or voice notes without external tools  </li>
<li>Customer support teams can collect voice messages instead of written forms  </li>
<li>Content creators can enrich their posts with audio content, stories or narration  </li>
</ul>
<p>Whether you need a simple voice recorder or a lightweight audio editor, this plugin helps you centralize everything inside WordPress.</p>
<h4>🎙️ Record or upload audio</h4>
<ul>
<li>Record audio directly from the browser (microphone)</li>
<li>Upload existing audio files (voice, music, podcasts, sounds)</li>
<li>Works on desktop and mobile</li>
</ul>
<h4>✂️ Edit audio visually</h4>
<ul>
<li>Waveform-based editor</li>
<li>Cut, copy, paste, crop, delete</li>
<li>Select and modify specific parts of your audio</li>
<li>Add multiple audio segments</li>
</ul>
<h4>📦 Save & manage audio in WordPress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Save recordings as a custom “Audio” post type</li>
<li>Automatically available in your Media Library</li>
<li>Reuse your audio anywhere on your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔗 Display & use audio anywhere</h4>
<ul>
<li>Insert audio into your content</li>
<li>Display all audios with shortcode: [audio-editor-list]</li>
<li>Personal user audio list: [audio-my-list] (page: /my-audios/)</li>
<li>Frontend editor for users: [audio-editor]</li>
</ul>
<h4>⚡ Flexible shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Compact version: [audio-editor mini=”true”]</li>
<li>Customize button labels</li>
<li>Show or hide specific controls via attributes</li>
</ul>
<h4>⚙️ Easy configuration</h4>
<p>Find all settings under:<br />
Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Audio Editor</p>
<h4>⏱️ Free version limitations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Maximum recording duration: 5 minutes</li>
<li>Maximum total audio length: 5 minutes</li>
</ul>
<p>Try the live demo of the audio editor directly from your browser.</p>
<h3>Free vs Pro</h3>
<h4>Free (Lite) version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Record and upload audio</li>
<li>Edit audio (cut, copy, paste, crop)</li>
<li>Frontend editor with [audio-editor]</li>
<li>Mini recorder available</li>
<li>Maximum recording duration: 5 minutes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited recording duration</li>
<li>Download audio as MP3</li>
<li>Guest (non-logged-in) submissions</li>
<li>Edit existing audio recordings</li>
<li>7 design templates + full color customization</li>
<li>Redirect users after submission</li>
</ul>
<h4>🚀 Upgrade to Pro</h4>
<p>Unlock advanced features and remove all limitations with Audio Editor Pro.</p>
<p><strong>Upgrade to <a href="https://wp-audio-studio.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Audio Editor Pro</a> to unlock all features.</strong></p>
<h4>💬 Feedback</h4>
<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>
<p>Have an idea or suggestion?<br />
We’d love to hear from you to improve future versions.</p>


Audio Editor & Recorder

Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site.

Featured Audio vs Audio Editor & Recorder