Best audio plugins for WordPress
The most popular audio plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Presto Player leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Seriously Simple Podcasting (20K+) and Compact WP Audio Player (20K+). All 234 plugins tagged “audio” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 audio plugins
- 1.
Presto PlayerThe most installed audio plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 348 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
Seriously Simple Podcasting20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 330 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Compact WP Audio Player20K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 69 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
AudioIgniter Music Player10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 64 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 5.
HTML5 Audio Player10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 169 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.WP Photo Album Plus
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 199 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech
7K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 34 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 8.
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress7K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 152 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 9.Cue by AudioTheme.com
5K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 36 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 10.Buzzsprout Podcasting
5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 234 plugins tagged “audio”

Presto Player
Down in the last 7 days:2#378by Andre Gagnon24 days ago
A modern video and audio player for courses, landing pages, marketing, and testimonials — with captions, branding, and page-builder support.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(348)
- Downloads
- 846/day

Seriously Simple Podcasting
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,084by Craig Hewitt20 days ago
Podcasting the way it's meant to be. No mess, no fuss - just you and your content taking over the world.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(330)
- Downloads
- 431/day

Compact WP Audio Player
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,164by mra13 / Team Tips and Tricks HQ2 months ago
A Compact WP Audio Player Plugin that is compatible with all major browsers and devices (Android, iPhone, iPad)
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.1(69)
- Downloads
- 63/day

AudioIgniter Music Player
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,502by The CSSIgniter Team26 days ago
AudioIgniter lets you create music playlists and embed them in your WordPress posts, pages or custom post types and serve your audio content in style!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(64)
- Downloads
- 133/day

HTML5 Audio Player
#1,581by bPlugins7 days ago
Maximize your WordPress site's potential with our versatile HTML5 Audio Player plugin. Seamlessly play .mp3, .wav, .ogg, and more audio files.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(169)
- Downloads
- 343/day
WP Photo Album Plus
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,068by Jacob N. Breetvelt12 days ago
This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia cms and display system.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(199)
- Downloads
- 251/day
ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,487by ResponsiveVoice1 month ago
Text to speech for WordPress. Add a Listen button or an article player that reads posts and pages aloud, in 51 languages through 158 voices.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.9(34)
- Downloads
- 88/day

rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
Down in the last 7 days:10#2,575by rtCamp11 days ago
Add albums, photo, audio/video upload, privacy, sharing, front-end uploads & more. All this works on mobile/tablets devices.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.7(152)
- Downloads
- 176/day
Cue by AudioTheme.com
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,939by AudioTheme1 year ago
Delightful and reliable audio playlists.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.7(36)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Buzzsprout Podcasting
Up in the last 7 days:2#3,207by Buzzsprout23 days ago
The official Buzzsprout plugin. Embed your podcast episodes with editor blocks that always stay up to date with your show.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 59/day

Spreaker Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,465by Spreaker2 years ago
A simple and easy way to embed Spreaker player into your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.6(8)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Audio Album
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,546by cubecolour1 year ago
Displays a collection of audio tracks as an audio album using the native WordPress audio features. Includes a customizer section.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Podlove Web Player
#3,581by gerritvanaaken1 month ago
A fast, flexible and responsive podcast player with chapters, transcripts and customizable themes.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.7(14)
- Downloads
- 53/day
mb.miniAudioPlayer
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,635by pupunzi5 years ago
Transform your mp3 audio files into a nice, small light HTML5 player.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(57)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Podlove Podcast Publisher
Up in the last 7 days:1#4,021by Eric Teubert25 days ago
The one and only next generation podcast publishing system. Seriously. It's magical and sparkles a lot.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.3(45)
- Downloads
- 84/day
FluentPlayer
Up in the last 7 days:34#4,527by WPManageNinja2 months ago
Get a video player for WordPress that captures leads and collects emails on play.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.7(14)
- Downloads
- 46/day

Meks Audio Player
Down in the last 7 days:9#5,742by Meks2 years ago
Easily enhance your podcast, music or any audio files with a full-featured and customizable sticky audio player.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(5)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Magyar Video Embed
Down in the last 7 days:15#6,611by DjZoNe11 years ago
This plugin helps different hungarian online video service provider videos to be embeded just like youtube links. So, this is not intresting to you un …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day

Podbean Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:21#7,101by podbean9 years ago
A simple and easy way to embed Podbean player into your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Themify Audio Dock
Down in the last 7 days:5#7,168by themifyme1 year ago
An slick and simple sticky music player.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 3.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BeyondWords
Up in the last 7 days:6#7,459by BeyondWords (formerly SpeechKit)1 month ago
Turn WordPress articles into audio as you publish, with tools for distribution, monetization, and analytics.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.6(27)
- Downloads
- 35/day

Podigee for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:9#8,066by podigee15 days ago
Turn your Podigee podcast episodes into WordPress posts in one click: title, show notes and the Podigee Podcast Player, ready to publish.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Karma Music Player by Kadar
Down in the last 7 days:16#8,123by Kadar Claudiu8 years ago
Karma is a responsive music player plugin for WordPress with which you could insert multiple players in your website.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.7(40)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Quran multilanguage Text & Audio
Down in the last 7 days:16#9,283by karim421 month ago
Quran plugin with 30 languages, 32 reciters, and customizable interface.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(17)
- Downloads
- 23/day

GamiPress
Down in the last 7 days:80#9,363by Ruben Garcia11 months ago
Add activity triggers based on multimedia content creation and interaction
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Featured Audio
Down in the last 7 days:47#9,457by Nick Halsey2 years ago
Add featured audio to your posts and pages, like featured images.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Audio Story Images
Down in the last 7 days:62#9,467by Jordy Meow6 months ago
Add a new dimension to your images by using audio. This plugin let you link images with audio.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.9(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Transcoder
Up in the last 7 days:22#9,547by rtCamp1 year ago
Transcoding services for ANY WordPress website. Convert audio/video files of any format to a web-friendly format (mp3/mp4).
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.6(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WaveSurfer-WP
Down in the last 7 days:38#9,735by X-Raym9 months ago
Customizable HTML5 Audio controller with waveform preview (mixed or split channels), using WordPress native audio and playlist shortcode.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Able Player, accessible HTML5 media player
Up in the last 7 days:102#10,309by Joe Dolson4 months ago
Accessible HTML5 media player
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Background Music Menu
Down in the last 7 days:66#10,344by glanit7 years ago
Adds background music to website as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Voice Audio Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:64#10,469by QuantumCloud1 month ago
Voice Message Recorder for Forms, Forums. AI Powered. Speaking Test - Language Learning. Speak to users. Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Voice Search
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(16)
- Downloads
- 30/day
Real Voice
Up in the last 7 days:8#11,420by DAEXT1 year ago
Real Voice is a text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that supports the Web Speech API, Google Text-to-Speech AI, and Azure Text to speech.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Background Music for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:73#11,727by IJONIS1 year ago
Add customizable background music to your Elementor-powered WordPress website with an elegant player interface.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Music Store
Up in the last 7 days:61#11,920by codepeople3 days ago
Music Store, online store for selling audio files (Ex. music, speeches, narratives), that supports PayPal, Stripe, Square, and other payment gateways.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.1(52)
- Downloads
- 35/day

MMWW
#12,035by OllieJones9 months ago
Media Metadata Workflow Wizard: Integrate your media metadata workflow with WordPress's Media Library
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
EsAudioPlayer
Up in the last 7 days:3#12,048by aueda9 years ago
This is a simple, cross-browser, accessible audio player (MP3 player) plugin.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Knight Lab SoundciteJS
Up in the last 7 days:8#12,239by NUKnightLab6 years ago
This plugin lets you easily use Knight Lab's SoundciteJS tool to embed audio clips on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Music Player for Easy Digital Downloads
Down in the last 7 days:41#12,518by codepeople2 months ago
Music Player for Easy Digital Downloads includes the MediaElement.js music player in the pages of the downloads with audio files associated.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Audio Preview for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:79#12,656by wbcomdesigns1 year ago
Add professional audio previews to your WooCommerce products. Let customers listen before they buy with support for all major audio formats and CDN se …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Audio Player Widget
Down in the last 7 days:67#13,220by Corey Snow15 years ago
Audio Player Widget is a small plugin that provides support for using the Audio-Player plugin in WordPress sidebars.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Voice Mail
Up in the last 7 days:31#13,291by Phoenix Studio8 months ago
Provides a simpler, more efficient way for your client to contact you and express their needs via voice mail.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Say It!
Down in the last 7 days:16#13,571by dadipaq5 years ago
Text to speech plugin helping your website easily say something !
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Audiomack
Down in the last 7 days:19#13,841by audiomack5 years ago
Audiomack plugin allows you to add the audio player from Audiomack.com into your WordPress site using shortcodes.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Audioburst Podcast Highlights Player
Down in the last 7 days:2#14,051by galklein5 years ago
Add short-form talk-audio to your blog or website. Highlight your own podcast or enrich blog post with bursts of relevant short-form audio content.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Audio Editor & Recorder
Up in the last 7 days:105#14,355by Roland Beaussant3 months ago
Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Audio Widget
Up in the last 7 days:94#14,431by Sina Yazdi10 years ago
Add Audio to your website with audio widget Simply.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
hearthis.at
Up in the last 7 days:77#14,867by hearthis9 months ago
Embed hearthis.at audio players with shortcodes. Supports tracks, playlists, profiles with customizable colors, themes, and waveforms.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Kaltura All-in-One Video Plugin for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:54#14,943by kaltura10 years ago
Easily add full video capabilities to your blog.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 1.1(10)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Piano Block
Up in the last 7 days:75#15,269by Aki Hamano4 days ago
Play a variety of tones using the piano keyboard.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day