Buzzsprout Podcasting

Buzzsprout is the easiest way to host, promote, and track your podcast. This is the official Buzzsprout plugin for WordPress: connect your show once with your RSS feed URL, then embed episodes anywhere on your site using native editor blocks. Buzzsprout Player block Embed any episode with Buzzsprout's audio player.

• Always play the latest episode — set it once and your page updates itself every time you publish
• Or pick a specific episode with a searchable picker covering your whole catalog
• Live player preview right in the editor
• Paste an old [buzzsprout] shortcode and it converts to a Player block automatically

Buzzsprout Episode List block Show your episodes, your way:

• Playlist player — Buzzsprout's multi-episode player; show all episodes or the 5, 10, or 20 most recent
• Simple list — a clean, theme-matching list of titles with dates and durations; visitors click an episode to expand its player in place
• Filter by tags — either display can be limited to episodes with specific tags, so you can build pages per topic or season

Both blocks preview live in the editor, work in the Site Editor and block themes, support wide/full alignment and spacing controls, and inherit your theme's colors. Classic tools, still supported

• The [buzzsprout episode='123'] shortcode from earlier versions keeps working unchanged
• Classic-editor users can still pick episodes from the Add Media window

Setup No API keys, no configuration maze: paste your Buzzsprout RSS feed URL (Settings → Buzzsprout Podcasting) and you're done. Episodes are fetched from your feed and cached for 15 minutes. You can learn more about Buzzsprout and create a FREE account at www.buzzsprout.com.

2.0.4

• Fixed: choosing an episode from the classic Add Media → Buzzsprout Podcasting tab now closes the media window. The shortcode was being inserted behind the window with no feedback, which looked like nothing happened; in the block editor's Classic block that could lead to the insert being discarded.

2.0.3

• Tested up to WordPress 7.1
• Improved: the Buzzsprout player script is now enqueued through WordPress instead of printed inline, so it loads in the footer and follows WordPress script handling
• Improved: embedding the same episode more than once on a page no longer reuses a DOM id
• Fixed: WordPress Plugin Check warnings (explicit script loading position, sanitized admin query args)

2.0.2

• Changed: thematic block icons on the WordPress.org plugin page (the Blocks section supports Dashicons only; editor keeps the Buzzsprout brand icons)

2.0.1

• Fixed: Buzzsprout brand icons now shown for the blocks on the WordPress.org plugin page

2.0.0

• New: Buzzsprout Player block — "always play the latest episode" mode, plus a searchable episode picker with live editor preview
• New: Buzzsprout Episode List block — playlist player (all/5/10/20 most recent) or an expandable simple list, both filterable by episode tags
• New: paste a legacy [buzzsprout] shortcode into the editor and it converts to a Player block; Player and Episode List blocks transform into each other
• Improved: episode feed cached for 15 minutes instead of re-fetched on every request
• Improved: alignment, spacing, and color block controls; refreshed settings page; translation-ready with the standard text domain
• Fixed: feed URLs on the rss.buzzsprout.com hostname are now accepted
• Fixed: hardened input sanitization and output escaping throughout
• The [buzzsprout] shortcode and classic-editor media tab keep working as before

1.8.7

• Fix for shortcode tag insertion bug

1.8.6

• Updated for latest version of WordPress 6.4

1.8.5

• Updated to sanitize shortcodes

1.8.4

• Updated for latest version of WordPress 6.3.2

1.8.3

• Updated for latest version of WordPress 6.1.1

1.8.2

• Updated for latest version of WordPress 5.4

1.8.1

• Fix for episode selection bug

1.8

• Fix for RSS items not loading For older releases, see the full changelog in the plugin repository.