Title: Featured Audio Author: Nick Halsey Published: July 12, 2016 Last modified: July 12, 2024 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/featured-audio/assets/icon.svg?rev=1453109) # Featured Audio By [Nick Halsey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-audio.1.2.zip) * [Details](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-audio/#description) * [Reviews](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-audio/#reviews) * [Installation](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-audio/#installation) * [Development](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-audio/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/) ## Description WordPress supports featured images out of the box, allowing images to represent posts in various ways defined by the theme. This plugin adds similar support for audio, allowing musicians, podcasters, and anyone who publishes audio with WordPress to feature audio files on posts and pages in a structured way. Each post and page gets a featured audio metabox where an audio file can be uploaded or selected from the media library. By default, featured audio is displayed at the top of posts and pages `(within the_content)`. Developers can change this by adding theme support for `featured-audio`, via several API functions listed below. Why use featured audio instead of embeding audio directly into posts? Featured audio organizes the content in a structured way, alowing infinite possibilities to customize the way users experience audio content on your site. The plugin ships with one example of this – the featured audio playlist widget. Add this widget to your sidebar and it’ll automatically display a playlist of all of the audio files featured on posts shown on the current view, on views with more than one post such as the main blog page or a category page. The plugin also supports a recent audio playlist widget, which behaves similarly to a latest posts widget. For a more comprehensive way to manage _music_ with WordPress, particularly if you need to include sheet music alongisde audio, see the [Sheet Music Library](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sheet-music-library/) plugin. ### Developer API Functions #### Add Theme Support ``` add_theme_support( 'featured-audio' ) ``` Adding theme support for featured audio tells the plugin not to add the featured audio to the content automatically. Instead, you can add featured audio exactly where you want it with `the_featured_content()` (see below for details). #### Change Supported Post Types By default, the `post` and `page` post types are supported. You can use the `featured_audio_post_types` filter to modify this list. For example: ``` add_filter( 'featured_audio_post_types', 'prefix_featured_audio_post_types' ); function prefix_featured_audio_post_types( $post_types ) { // Add support to the sheet_music post type. $post_types[] = 'sheet_music'; // Overwrite the entire list to remove support on pages. $post_types = array( 'post' ); return $post_types; } ``` #### the_featured_audio( $args ) Display the featured audio, if it exists. Parameters: ``` $args array Display options. $args['id'] int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id. $args['album_art'] boolean Whether to display the album art for the featured audio cycle. Default: false. $args['album_art_size'] string Size to use for the album art picture. Default: thumbnail. $args['title'] boolean Whether to display the title of the audio attachment. Default: false. ``` #### get_the_featured_audio( $args ) Get the featured audio, if it exists, as a string. Has the same arguments as `the_featured_audio()`. #### get_featured_audio_src( $id ) Returns the url of the featured audio file, if it exists. Parameter: ``` $id int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id. ``` #### get_featured_audio_attachment_id( $id ) Returns the id of the featured audio attachment, if it exists. Parameter: ``` $id int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id. ``` #### get_the_featured_audio_playlist() Get the featured audio playlist, if there are multiple posts with featured audio in the current query. Used by the featured audio playlist widget. #### the_featured_audio_playlist() Displays (echoes) `get_the_featured_audio_playlist()`. ## Screenshots * [[ * Featured audio metabox on the post edit screen in the admin. * [[ * Default featured audio dislpay with the Twenty Fifteen theme. * [[ * Custom featured audio display using `the_featured_audio( array( 'title' => true,' album_art' => true ) );` in a theme. * [[ * Featured Audio Playlist Widget display with the Twenty Fifteen theme. * [[ * Featured Audio Playlist Widget display in the customizer. * [[ * Example of a [Chromeless Widgets page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chromeless-widgets-page/) featuring all of the audio on a site (also via the Sheet Music library plugin), with playlist widgets. [See the live page here](https://celloexpressions.com/music/playlists/). ## Installation 1. Take the easy route and install through the WordPress plugin adder OR 2. Download the .zip file and upload the unzipped folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 4. Add featured audio to your posts and pages, and optionally add the featured audio playlist or recent audio playlist widget to a sidebar. 5. Developers can add support for additional post types and customize the display of featured audio in themes. You can also customize the display with custom CSS in the customizer. ## FAQ ### How do I change where featured audio is displayed? See the “Developer API Functions” section for information on how to change where featured audio is displayed in your theme’s code. ### How does the playlist widget work? The featued audio playlist widget pulls in the featured audio associated with all of the posts displayed on the current view (auch as the blog index, a taxonomy archive, or an author archive). It won’t display on single post or page views or on archive views where none of the posts have featured audio selected. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5e8e9b66b13766cd3129ad2f50e6a447f93d7b3fa62151ffae3450b32c1118d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[A great idea!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-great-idea-5/)󠁿 [Gin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rawdolphe/) February 16, 2024 Thank you Nick, would love to see a Gutenberg Block for it! Featured Audio should be part of WordPress Core. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a1c6d2af4d0f2658112a6fa5a1fd4b2ef8d2eb4c7f01bb20677e1b033c2472ba? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very useful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-963/)󠁿 [aicart](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aicart/) September 3, 2016 It is very useful! Thanks a lot. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5954a9f0b16f0328b4e07453044c7db44fa6ad32b235bd6baf4a9200511da32d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Nice tools to organize audio](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-tools-to-organize-audio/)󠁿 [Midwest_Bob](https://profiles.wordpress.org/midwest_bob/) September 3, 2016 Like the description states, this is a clever way to organize and offer audio content on a website. [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Featured Audio” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Nick Halsey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/) [Translate “Featured Audio” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-audio) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-audio/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-audio/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-audio/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-audio/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.2 * Declare compatibility with the block editor in WordPress 5.0. #### 1.1 * Introduce a recent featured audio playlist widget. * Fixes and improvements to the `get_the_featured_audio()` function, props @jangeekho. #### 1.0 * Initial public release. ## Meta * Version **1.2** * Last updated **2 वर्षाः ago** * Active installations **500+** * WordPress version ** 4.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.6.5** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-audio/) * Tags * [audio](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/audio/)[media](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/) [music](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/music/)[podcast](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/podcast/) * [Advanced View](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-audio/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Nick Halsey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/) ## Support Issues resolved in last two months: 0 out of 1 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-audio/)