Media Playback Speed
Add speed controls to audio and video hosted from your WordPress blog.
5(9 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 3 years agoAs of April 2026, Media Playback Speed is a WordPress ARIA plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Better Aria Label Support.
5/59 reviews
300active installs
6.5K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
This short, handy plugin will add playback buttons to your audio, video & playlist elements added via the built-in WordPress shortcodes for media using mediaelement.js.
Each set of buttons is configured for it’s corresponding element on the page, so you can adjust the speed of multiple files independently.
There is currently no persistence implemented in this plugin. It just scratches an itch to be able to broadly adjust media playback speeds using the HTML api.
NOTE: This uses the HTML5 media Element API. Any browser not supporting these or using the Flash Player fallback will miss out on this functionality.
Developers
Two hooks are provided within this plugin.
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media-playback-speed-generate-controlsprovides a single argument which is a boolean. If you return this as false, t…
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Ratings & Reviews
59 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.2
- compatibility with WordPress 6.0
Contributors
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