Featured Audio
Add featured audio to your posts and pages, like featured images.
5(3 reviews)
·500 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Featured Audio is a WordPress audio plugin with 500 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress….
5/53 reviews
500active installs
0%resolved
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
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.
By default, featured audio is displayed at the top of posts and pages (within the_content). Developers can change this by adding theme support for featured-audio, via several API functions listed below.
Why use featured audio instead of embeding audio directly into posts? Featured audio organizes the content in a structured way, alowing infinite possibilities to cust…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.2
- Declare compatibility with the block editor in WordPress 5.0.
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