Podlove Web Player
The fast, flexible and responsive podcast player powered by podlove meta data.
3.7(14 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Podlove Web Player is a WordPress audio plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 192K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.6+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are up 38% this week. Top alternative: The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress….
3.7/514 reviews
4.0K+active installs
192K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Podlove Web Player is a HTML5 based web player for audio and video media files that is optimized and extended for the specific needs of podcasters.
It has a native integration with Podlove Publisher, can be used as a shortcode and also plays well with Gutenberg Blocks.
Made for Podcasters
- Podcast Chapters
- Transcripts
- Sharing & Embedding
- Download integrated
- Audio Controls, including playback speed
- Supports multiple audio file formats
- Supports live streams
Theming & Templating
The Player is fully customizable in terms of
- Theme colors
- Font family and weight
- Templates and appearance
Subscribe Button Integration
- Customizable Podcast Clients
- Integration in the Player
Usage
There are basically four ways to use the Podlove Web Player:
1 Manual WordPress Shortcode
Use a simple shortc…
Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Gorgeous Player
by Reed Sutton·1 year ago
Best podcast player for wordpress out there. I’ve tried them all!
Highly Customizable Player
by randals·4 years ago
This is a fantastic plug-in and definitely underrated. As far as free players go, nothing is as flexible and customizable as this and I’ve tried them all.
There IS a learning curve to get it to do what you like. I imagine that is where some of the negative reviews stem from. However, with the customization system in the plug-in’s settings and a little extra CSS you can essentially strip each element down and arrange it how you like.
I’ve used this to create fully custom players on a podcast network website (dealing with multiple podcast series) with dynamically loaded episodes. It took some trial and error BUT it works, I couldn’t achieve the same with other players, and it’s free. 5 stars.
Underrated plugin
by Sven Wagener·4 years ago
In combination wit the Podcast Publisher this is the most underused and underrated plugin for podcast publishing.
Thanks for your work!
Nice Project
by Sven de Vries·4 years ago
166 / 5000
Übersetzungsergebnisse
I’ve been using the player for many years. The project is open source and is maintained very lovingly by only a few people. I am thoroughly satisfied.
Horrible support
by michaellow·5 years ago·1 reply
Next episode plays automatically all the time. No way to stop it. No community, no support. If it breaks, you are alone.
Download Trends
Today: 38Yesterday: 47This week: 310Period total: 20K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.9
80.2%
v5.8
10.1%
Other
9.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
5.9.2
- Improve duration parsing security
Contributors
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