Audio Player Block – Play Audio Beautifully on Any Page

Give your visitors a beautiful listening experience – add a stylish audio player with playlists and cover art to any post or page, no code required. Get Pro Version | Support https://youtube.com/watch?v=D5zMteNPDkI Why Audio Player Block? The default WordPress audio embed is plain and forgettable. Audio Player Block replaces it with a polished, customizable player that fits your design – complete with track titles, artist names, and cover images. Add multiple audio tracks to build a playlist, or select a single file for a simple standalone player. Smart play/pause control plays one track at a time and automatically pauses the others, so overlapping audio never happens. Everything is configured right in the Gutenberg editor, and shortcode support lets you place the same player anywhere on your site. Free Features

• Multiple Audio Management: Easily add or remove multiple audio tracks with full control over your playlist.
• Track Details Input: Set a custom title and artist name for each track to keep your content well organized.
• Cover Image & Audio Upload: Upload audio files along with a cover image for a more engaging, visual player.
• Player Customization: Adjust width and height, and style colors, backgrounds, and hover effects to match your website.
• Smart Play/Pause Control: Play one track at a time while others pause automatically; click again to pause the current track.
• Shortcode Integration: Display the audio player anywhere on your website with a shortcode.

Pro Version Want more themes and playback controls? Audio Player Block Pro unlocks:

• 5 Customizable Themes with different looks and settings.
• Auto Play – automatically start the next song once the current one ends.
• Loop Mode – repeat the current track when it finishes.
• Prev/Next Navigation to move through the playlist.
• Current & Total Time Display for each track.
• Custom Stop Button you can show or hide.
• Playback Speed Control options.
• Download Icon so listeners can save the audio file.
• Forward & Backward Buttons for skipping within a track.
• Deep Style Controls: thumbnail border and radius, seek bar height, radius, thumb width, outline and shadow, controls border and hover border, time display radius, artist opacity, waveform colors, and playlist border and radius.

How to Use

1. Install and activate the Audio Player Block plugin.
2. In the Gutenberg editor, add the Audio Player Block from the "Widgets" block category.
3. Upload your audio files, cover image, and track details.
4. Fine-tune the design from the right-side settings sidebar.
5. Publish – your player is live!

Use Cases

• Musicians & Bands: Share albums and singles as playlists with cover art.
• Podcasters: Embed episodes directly in posts and pages.
• Course Creators: Add audio lessons and narration to learning content.
• Bloggers: Offer audio versions of articles for on-the-go readers.

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From your WordPress dashboard (recommended):

1. Go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for "Audio Player Block".
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.
4. Add the Audio Player Block to any post or page in the Gutenberg editor.

Manual installation:

1. Download the Audio Player Block plugin (.zip file).
2. In your admin area, go to Plugins → Add New and click Upload Plugin.
3. Choose the audio-player-block.zip file and click Install Now.
4. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.

1.6.2 - 13 July, 2026

• Added: Elementor getting started instructions.

1.6.1 - 14 June, 2026

• Updated: Modernized the admin settings dashboard layout.

1.6.0 - 04 June, 2026

• New: Added uninstall data cleanup settings to wipe database configs and post type records on delete.
• Improved: Unlocked previously locked pro fields in the Gutenberg editor and introduced a clean, non-intrusive notices UI to display premium feature requirements.
• Updated: Redesigned the shortcode copy-to-clipboard UI column in the audio player block CPT admin table for a better user experience.
• Updated: Streamlined editor Settings controls for free users, focusing on Default and Slider theme controls.
• Updated: Removed Pro-only theme styling and assets to reduce package footprint.

1.5.2 - 09 April, 2026

• Fixed: Class naming conflict and namespace resolution issue in LicenseActivation.
• Updated: Freemius SDK update new version.

1.5.1 - 19 March, 2026

• Added auto height for all tracks

1.5.0 - 16 March, 2026

• Updated track limit (threshold) control for playlist layouts
• Added new 'Show Less' button and text editing option
• Added new pro features modal

1.4.5 - 25 Feb, 2026

• Added “Help & Demos” quick access link in Plugins page.
• Fix issues in dashboard

1.4.4 - 24 Feb, 2026

• Added brand new dashboard with license activation support
• Extended Download Icon feature to all player layouts

1.4.3 - 04 Nov, 2025

• Update sdk

1.4.2 - 30 October, 2025

• Update controls in all players

1.4.1 - 12 October, 2025

• added buy now button in feature compare section

1.4.0 - 24 Sep, 2025

• added our current dashboard

1.3.7 - 28 July, 2025

• updated admin dashboard

1.3.6 - 13 July, 2025

• update premium feature

1.3.5 - 10 July, 2025

• update shortcode and clipboard

1.3.4 - 2 June, 2025

• input range and track issue solved

1.3.3 - 20 May, 2025

• Optimize dashboard layout and change cover photo some layouts

1.3.2 - 11 April, 2025

• Added loop, auto-play and cutom stop button

1.3.1 - 21 March, 2025

• Update custom dashboard styles

1.3.0 - 5 March, 2025

• Update Full Audio Panel and some styles

1.2.4 - 26 Feb, 2025

• Shortcode improvement

1.2.3 - 27 Jan, 2025

• Updated SDK version

1.2.2 - 26 Jan, 2025

• solving the problem in arrow icons

1.2.1 - 09 Jan, 2025

• Premium issue fixed

1.2.0 - 06 Jan, 2025

• Upgrade to Premium version

1.1.0 - 30 Sep, 2023

• Stop at the end of the album

1.0.9

• Fix the icon visible issue

1.0.8

• Performance Improvements

1.0.7

• Fix the play pause icon not visible on iPhone

1.0.6

• Change audio property update way.

1.0.5

• Pause other audio when playing.
• Not load scripts if block is not used

1.0.4

• Fix responsive issue
• Fix play/pause button accuracy

1.0.3

• Hours feature

1.0.2

• Add translate feature
• Insert file from URL

1.0.1

• readme updated
• fix mirror issues

1.0.0

• Initial Release