Want to add a music player to your WordPress site? AudioIgniter is a full featured, customizable and free audio player plugin for WordPress.
AudioIgniter allows you to create music playlists and embed them in you WordPress posts, pages or custom post types so your website visitors can listen to audio on your site.
AudioIgniter is the first WordPress plugin from CSSIgniter. While CSSIgniter have been building high quality premium WordPress themes for years now (including some awesome music themes) they’ve now expanded into the plugin market with this freemium audio plugin.
The AudioIgniter plugin is a solid and flexible audio player that aims to simplify the task of playlist and track management within the WordPress dashboard and provide a fully customizable and easy to use audio player for the end user.
The AudioIgniter plugin supports all the features you need in an audio player to showcase your music, podcasts and radio streams on your website. You can play, pause, skip, adjust the volume, add cover images for tracks, show buy links etc. It offers unlimited number of playlists with unlimited tracks. A custom post type stores all the playlists, and with every playlist you create there’s a set of options you can adjust that’s specific for each playlist. Uploading tracks is managed via the native WordPress media upload interface.
For tech nerds you’ll be interested to know that the AudioIgniter player is powered by React – the popular, open source Javascript library for building user interfaces created and maintained by Facebook. The release blog post goes into detail about the technical specifications under the hood as well as the future development plans for the plugin.
The AudioIgniter plugin is free while an extended paid pro version is also available.
The free version offers: unlimited playlists, unlimited tracks, playlist settings and a shortcode for integrating the player in your site.
AudioIgniter Pro is a set of premium addons that extend and enhance the AudioIgniter plugin. The pro version includes: SoundCloud integration, bulk upload functionlaity, visual composer control, custom widget, customizer color / styling options, rearrange track functionality, and more.
AudioIgniter Features
- Unlimited playlists
- Unlimited tracks
- Responsive layout
- Embed through shortcode
- Flexible settings per playlist
- Show / hide track listing
- Show / hide track numbers in tracklist
- Show numbers in reverse order
- Show / hide track covers in playlist
- Show / hide active track’s cover
- Show artist name
- Custom “Buy track” URL field
- Limit track listing height
- Maximum player width
- Heavily tested on the 150 most popular free themes on WordPress.org
AudioIgniter Pro Features
- Includes all the features of the free version plus
- Bulk upload functionality
- Total color customization control
- Visual Composer support
- Widget & Shortcode available
- Rearrange tracks functionality
- Internal taxonomy for archiving purposes
- SoundCloud integration
You can download the AudioIgniter plugin for free in the WordPress.org plugin directory. AudioIgniter Pro is included with a CSSIgniter developer membership that costs only $59 and gives you access to all CSSIgniter premium WordPress themes and plugins.