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<p>Smooth Music Gallery helps you turn ordinary image galleries into rich, interactive experiences with background music, animated effects, and modern presentation styles.</p>
<p>Whether you are building a landing page, an artist portfolio, a wedding gallery, a travel story, or a product showcase, the plugin gives you an easy way to make galleries feel more alive and memorable.</p>
<p>You can use it in two simple ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg block for native block editor workflows.</li>
<li>Shortcode Builder for classic editors and third-party page builders.</li>
</ul>
<p>What you can do with Smooth Music Gallery:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add your own images and background music in a few clicks.</li>
<li>Choose from ready-made gallery themes to match different styles and moods.</li>
<li>Add animated overlay effects and dynamic background effects for a more engaging look.</li>
<li>Create audio-reactive visuals that move with the music.</li>
<li>Adjust gallery size and slide timing to fit your layout.</li>
<li>Build galleries visually and generate a shortcode for any page or builder.</li>
<li>Use media from the WordPress Media Library or optional Smooth CDN assets.</li>
<li>Optionally serve gallery frontend assets through Smooth CDN.</li>
</ul>
<p>Perfect for creators, photographers, musicians, agencies, event sites, and anyone who wants a gallery that feels more premium than a standard slider.</p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The source code for this plugin is publicly available in the repository:</p>
<p>https://github.com/Miro0/smooth-music-gallery</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>Smooth Music Gallery can optionally connect to Smooth CDN to let administrators browse sample assets in the editor.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: Smooth CDN Asset Picker (<code>https://cdn.smoothcdn.com</code>)</li>
<li>Purpose: Browse and select optional sample image/audio files.</li>
<li>Trigger: Requests are sent only when an administrator selects the <strong>Smooth CDN assets</strong> source and opens the picker dialog.</li>
<li>Data sent: Standard browser request data (IP address, user agent, referrer) and picker query parameters (for example file type, project slug, version).</li>
<li>Frontend behavior: If a gallery uses external Smooth CDN URLs, visitor browsers request those media files directly from Smooth CDN.</li>
<li>Service: Smooth CDN Gallery Asset Delivery (<code>https://music-gallery.smoothcdn.com</code>)</li>
<li>Purpose: Optional delivery of this plugin’s frontend gallery scripts/styles.</li>
<li>Trigger: Requests are sent only when an administrator enables <strong>Serve gallery assets via Smooth CDN</strong> in plugin settings.</li>
<li>Data sent: Standard browser request data (IP address, user agent, referrer) when the frontend gallery loads those assets.</li>
<li>Terms of Service: <code>https://smoothcdn.com/terms</code></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <code>https://smoothcdn.com/privacy</code></li>
</ul>
<p>The external service is optional. The plugin works without it by using only the WordPress Media Library.</p>


Smooth Music Gallery

Create immersive photo galleries with music, stylish visual effects, and Smooth CDN integration for Gutenberg and shortcodes.

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.

Smooth Music Gallery vs Featured Audio