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.

Gerasimos Tsiamalos

Vassilis Mastorostergios

Anastis Sourgoutsidis

The CSSIgniter Team

<p>Looking for an MP3 music player? AudioIgniter lets you create music playlists and embed them in your WordPress posts, pages or custom post types. By using the standard WordPress media upload functionality, you can create new audio playlists in minutes. Oh, you can use AudioIgniter to stream your radio show too!</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AmRDYlVW_3M?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.cssigniter.com/preview/audioigniter/" rel="nofollow ugc">the demo</a> now!</p>
<p><strong>Selling digital music?</strong></p>
<p>You can combine <a href="https://www.cssigniter.com/sell-individual-tracks-using-audioigniter-with-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">AudioIgniter with WooCommerce to easily sell individual tracks</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Supports audio and radio streaming</li>
<li>Unlimited playlists</li>
<li>Unlimited tracks</li>
<li>100% Compatible with Elementor</li>
<li>100% Compatible with Visual Composer</li>
<li>100% Compatible with Gutenberg Block Editor</li>
<li>Responsive layout</li>
<li>Embed through shortcode</li>
<li>Flexible settings per playlist</li>
<li>Show/Hide track listing</li>
<li>Show/Hide track numbers in tracklist</li>
<li>Show numbers in reverse order</li>
<li>Show/Hide track covers in playlist</li>
<li>Show/Hide active track’s cover</li>
<li>Show/Hide artist name</li>
<li>Custom “Buy track” URL field</li>
<li>Custom “Download” URL field</li>
<li>“Full” or “Simple” player mode (Great for podcasts)</li>
<li>Limit track listing height</li>
<li>Repeat track listing option</li>
<li>Maximum player width</li>
<li>Automatic ID3 Tag extraction from MP3 files</li>
<li>Heavily tested on the 150 most popular free themes on WordPress.org</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Supported Services:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Acast</li>
<li>Amazon S3</li>
<li>Anchor</li>
<li>Art19</li>
<li>AudioBoom</li>
<li>Castbox</li>
<li>Captivate</li>
<li>Icecast</li>
<li>Podbean</li>
<li>Radiojar</li>
<li>Shoutcast</li>
<li>Speaker</li>
<li>Stitcher</li>
<li>Libsyn</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>But wait, there’s more!</strong></p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.cssigniter.com/plugins/audioigniter" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> is also available! Here’s what you get if you decide to upgrade:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bulk upload functionality</li>
<li>Rearrange tracks functionality</li>
<li>Stop Tracks From Other Players (Multiple Players In One Page)</li>
<li>Track skipping functionality (You can adjust the number of seconds)</li>
<li>Playback rate (1x, 1.5x, 2x)</li>
<li>Lyrics per track</li>
<li>Individual Track Repeat Mode</li>
<li>Non-continuous playback (Stop each track after playing)</li>
<li>Optional customizable delay between tracks</li>
<li>Shuffle playlist mode</li>
<li>Starting track option</li>
<li>Default track timer to countdown mode</li>
<li>Fixed position player (Continuous play must be supported by your theme)</li>
<li>Internal taxonomy for archiving purposes</li>
<li>Customize the colors through the Customizer</li>
<li>Custom block for the Gutenberg Block Editor (With the ability to change colors per player)</li>
<li>Widget & Shortcode available</li>
<li>Streaming service button links</li>
<li>Sync download URL with audio URL automatically</li>
<li>Standalone shortcode for single tracks (without the need to create a playlist)</li>
<li>Remember last played track and position</li>
<li>Per-playlist and per-track analytics</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>PREMIUM SUPPORT</strong><br />
You can expect the same level of support for both the free and pro version of our plugin. Average response time: 24 hours.</p>
<p><strong>JOIN OUR COMMUNITY</strong><br />
Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2601788933169108" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook group</a> to discuss new features and stay up to date on our latest releases.</p>
<p><strong>Contribute</strong><br />
Visit the <a href="https://github.com/cssigniter/audioigniter" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a> for full source code and to report any bugs.</p>


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!

Featured Audio vs AudioIgniter Music Player