Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site.
No external tools, no complex software — everything happens inside WordPress.
🎯 Use cases
Audio Editor & Recorder is designed for real-world use cases across many industries:
- Teachers can collect oral assignments, language exercises or student recordings directly on their website
- Musicians can quickly record ideas, demos or share audio sketches
- Podcasters and journalists can capture interviews or voice notes without external tools
- Customer support teams can collect voice messages instead of written forms
- Content creators can enrich their posts with audio content, stories or narration
Whether you need a simple voice recorder or a lightweight audio editor, this plugin helps you centralize everything inside WordPress.
🎙️ Record or upload audio
- Record audio directly from the browser (microphone)
- Upload existing audio files (voice, music, podcasts, sounds)
- Works on desktop and mobile
✂️ Edit audio visually
- Waveform-based editor
- Cut, copy, paste, crop, delete
- Select and modify specific parts of your audio
- Add multiple audio segments
📦 Save & manage audio in WordPress
- Save recordings as a custom "Audio" post type
- Automatically available in your Media Library
- Reuse your audio anywhere on your site
🔗 Display & use audio anywhere
- Insert audio into your content
- Display all audios with shortcode: [audio-editor-list]
- Personal user audio list: [audio-my-list] (page: /my-audios/)
- Frontend editor for users: [audio-editor]
⚡ Flexible shortcodes
- Compact version: [audio-editor mini="true"]
- Customize button labels
- Show or hide specific controls via attributes
⚙️ Easy configuration
Find all settings under:
Settings → Audio Editor
⏱️ Free version limitations
- Maximum recording duration: 5 minutes
- Maximum total audio length: 5 minutes
Try the live demo of the audio editor directly from your browser.
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit Plugins > Add New
- Search for "Audio Editor & Recorder"
- Install and activate Audio Editor & Recorder from your Plugins page
- Update your permalinks to make sure the audio posts are working
- Click on the new menu items "Audios" and create your first audio!
- Click on Settings → Audio Editor for instructions and settings
= 3.3.0
- Complete visual redesign with modern default style and rounded interface
- Settings page moved under WordPress Settings menu (Settings → Audio Editor)
- Reset to Default Settings button in Maintenance tab (useful when coming from Pro)
- Improved loading states: distinct recording state (mic pulse) vs processing state (spinner)
- Captcha aligned and styled for guest posting
- 5-minute recording and total duration limit
- Security improvements: XSS, CSRF, MIME validation, nonce hardening
= 3.1.0
- New shared renderer architecture for consistent frontend rendering
- Smart upload button with progress feedback
- Button text labels (show/hide toggle)
- Re-select, Reload buttons added to toolbar
- Improved audio upload handler
= 3.0.0
- No more recording limit!
- 5 minutes in the free version
- Upload from media library
= 2.2.4
- Patch Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability
= 2.2.3
- Corrected pagination in the lists
- Captcha smaller in the mini editor for guests.
- Added admin notice
= 2.2.2
- Fixed Ajax vulnerabilities
- Adding captcha for guest posting
- Prevent duplicate Editor and Myaudios pages at activation
= 2.2.1
- Background color inside rounded container
- Play/Pause buttons text repaired
- Public audios list shortcode improved: descending order and pagination
- Pro version repaired
= 2.2.0
- Tested on WordPress 6.6.2
- Added Redirect URL parameter
- Translation prepared
- Volume decrease improved
- Single post FSE improved
= 2.1.2
- Tested on WordPress 6.6.1
- Favicon issue corrected
= 2.1.1
Tested on WordPress 6.4.1
= 2.1.0
= 2.0.0
- Complete restyling
- Shortcode attributes added for customizing the frontend
= 1.0.1
- Audio graphic pointer selection corrected
- 1 minute free version limit corrected
= 1.0.0
Working version after security corrections