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.

Meks

<p>Easily enhance your podcast, music or any audio on the website. Meks Audio Player is first created as a support for our <a href="https://mekshq.com/demo/megaphone" rel="nofollow ugc">Megaphone theme</a> but now it can be used on any WordPres website. The plugin will automatically detect audio inside the content and play it in a full-featured sticky audio player. Several smart options are provided to fine-tune the functionality as you wish. Perfect for personal podcasts, podcasting networks, radio stations or music websites.</p>
<p>Meks Audio Player WordPress plugin is created by <a href="https://mekshq.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Meks</a></p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Color options to style the player to your personal taste and theme design</li>
<li>Player Timestamps block ( Navigate audio with timestamps. Set the timestamp and the equivalent title/name. )</li>
<li>Options to fully customize the player controls that you like to display: play/pause, skip back, jump forward, duration/progress bar, current time, duration time, mute/volume, playback speed…</li>
<li>No setup required, it simply detects your existing audio inside the content</li>
<li>Supports WordPress native audio block and audio shortcode</li>
<li>Works on post and pages as well as all other registered custom post types on the website</li>
<li>Hooks and filters provided for an elegant way to modify the plugin through your own WordPress theme or a plugin</li>
</ul>
<h3>More features?</h3>
<p>By using the plugin with our <a href="https://mekshq.com/demo/megaphone" rel="nofollow ugc">Megaphone WordPress theme</a>, you can also:</p>
<ul>
<li>Get more styling options</li>
<li>Display the post title inside the player</li>
<li>Autodetect third-party embeds (i.e. SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube, etc…)</li>
<li>Run the player from any page on the website (not only from single posts but from archives too)</li>
</ul>


Meks Audio Player

Easily enhance your podcast, music or any audio files with a full-featured and customizable sticky audio player.

Featured Audio vs Meks Audio Player