Best multimedia plugins for WordPress
The most popular multimedia plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress leads with 7K+ active installs, ahead of Transcoder (400+) and Icecast Now Playing (60+). All 13 plugins tagged “multimedia” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 multimedia plugins
- 1.
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPressThe most installed multimedia plugin, with 7K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 152 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Transcoder400+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Icecast Now Playing60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 4.
Noembedder30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 19 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.2.
- 5.
Floating Video Widget20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.
Harmonia20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 7.
Interactive Longform Articles10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 8.
FancyBox for Multimedia Blocks10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Pandora Feeds for WordPress10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.3.1.
- 10.
WpMultimediaBridge10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 13 plugins tagged “multimedia”
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
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
Icecast Now Playing
Down in the last 7 days:3#19,306by wgalway7 years ago
Displays Icecast current song playing, number of listeners, and a link to play the audio stream.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Noembedder
Up in the last 7 days:314#25,049by dalziel19 years ago
Adds noembed tags to any embeded object that doesn't have them
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Floating Video Widget
Down in the last 7 days:332#26,111by transformdigitalnz1 year ago
Add a customizable floating video widget to any page or post using a simple shortcode.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Harmonia
Down in the last 7 days:122#28,678by Ned Zimmerman13 years ago
Harmonia turns any link to an MP3 or M4A file into a minimalist inline audio player.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Interactive Longform Articles
Down in the last 7 days:962#31,530by clickonmedia6 years ago
Interactive multimedia articles for longform journalism, with a background scroll effect.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
FancyBox for Multimedia Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:8,807#36,750by StanisLaw.ru2 months ago
The plugin automatically makes standard blocks of the WordPress Block Editor using the latest FancyBox without any additional actions of a web master.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pandora Feeds for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:5,663#42,535by Erunafailaro19 years ago
Inspired by and building upon the great work of Jean-Paul Franssen, who developed a wordpress-sidebar-widget to display feeds coming from Pandora, I h …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WpMultimediaBridge
Down in the last 7 days:4,449#47,546by bigmizar14 years ago
WpMultimediaBridge converts video URL into a visual interactive element. Soon completely redesigned and renamed to WpVib.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
[凹凸曼]多集播放视频
Down in the last 7 days:6,368#60,491by apoyl10 months ago
提供了强大的多集视频集成播放功能，专为内容创作者设计，使其能够轻松地在文章中嵌入完整的系列视频内容。通过这一功能，创作者可以有效整合多个关联视频，构建连续播放的观看体验，帮助观众无需跳出页面即可依次观看全部剧集，从而显著提升用户观看的连贯性与沉浸感。
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Scrolling Overlays
#68,127by jconsidine7 years ago
This plugin allows you to insert "Scrolling Overlays" into your posts and pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day