PlayPress

Some WordPress audio plugins inject JavaScript into every page of your website, even pages that don’t have any audio on them. PlayPress doesn’t need any JavaScript.

Other plugins rely on Adobe’s displeasing Flash technology. PlayPress can fall back or default to HTML5 audio – without any JavaScript voodoo wizardry.

Other plugins can play videos and make you tea. PlayPress has a laser focus on just one thing: it lets you put an audio player in blog posts and pages.

You use a standard WordPress shortcode like this:

[audio mp3="http://example.com/bells.mp3" ogg="http://example.com/bells.ogg"]

Users of most modern browsers will see a native HTML5 audio player. In older browsers, an adequate Flash-based one will be shown.

You don’t even need an Ogg Vorbis file:

[audio…