Audio Editor & Recorder
Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site.
Use with caution
Audio Editor & Recorder works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 3/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 53/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- Only tested up to WordPress 6.9 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Audio Editor & Recorder stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| audio | #23 |
| editor | >100 |
| music | #83 |
| podcast | #76 |
| recorder | #2 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 3 from 2 reviews
About Audio Editor & Recorder
From the official readme · v4.1.6Description
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.
Free vs Pro
The free (Lite) version is a complete recorder and single-track waveform editor.
Audio Editor Pro turns it into a full multi-track audio studio — a mini audio
workstation inside WordPress — built for storytelling, podcasts and sound design.
Free (Lite) version
- Record from the microphone and upload audio files
- Single-track waveform editor: cut, copy, paste, crop, delete
- Gain +/- and Undo / Redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y)
- Frontend editor with [audio-editor] and a compact mini recorder
- Save as a WordPress “Audio” post and reuse it anywhere
- Up to 5 minutes per recording
Pro version — the multi-track montage studio
- Multi-track mixing: up to 4 tracks with per-track volume, mute, solo and automatic mixdown
- Cursor-precise montage: drop an uploaded file, a Sound Library pad or a new recording exactly where the cursor is, in the active track — place a jingle, a sound effect or a narration line at the right instant
- Sound Library: one-click jingle and music-bed pads prepared in the settings (radio-style mixing)
- Audio effects: fade in/out, normalize, silence
- Live waveform while recording, with REC indicator and timer
- Unlimited recording, plus reliable export of long audio (15–30+ minutes) to a clean MP3
- Download audio as MP3 for your users
- Guest (logged-out) submissions and re-editing of existing audio ([user-audio-edit])
- 7 design templates + full color customization (20+ shortcode attributes)
🚀 Upgrade to Pro
Build audiobooks and tales with narration, sound effects and music beds, produce
podcasts with intro jingles, or layer voice-overs — everything in the browser,
then mix and export in one click.
Turn the editor into a multi-track studio with Audio Editor Pro.
💬 Feedback
More info on our website
Please don’t hesitate to leave us suggestions for future release.
Have an idea or suggestion?
We’d love to hear from you to improve future versions.
Installation
From your WordPress dashboard
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Visit Plugins > Add New
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Search for “Audio Editor & Recorder”
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Install and activate Audio Editor & Recorder from your Plugins page
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Update your permalinks to make sure the audio posts are working
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Click on the new menu items “Audios” and create your first audio!
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Click on Settings → Audio Editor for instructions and settings
Frequently asked questions
Can users record audio from the frontend?
Yes, using the shortcode [audio-editor].
Can I upload my own audio files?
Yes, you can upload and edit existing audio files.
Where are audios stored?
Audios are saved as a custom post type and in the WordPress Media Library.
Is there a recording limit?
Yes, the free version is limited to 5 minutes per recording.
Shortcodes
– Frontend Editor: [audio-editor] (Editor page is automatically created, or insert it anywhere you want) – Customize your editor with the parameters: mini: transform the editor into a mini recorder for simple usage ([audio-editor mini=”true”]) color: change icons color (e.g.: color=”red”) button-text: change the Submit button label (e.g.: button-text=”Send file”) hide-record: set to 1 to hide the record button hide-upload: set to 1 to hide the upload button hide-play: set to 1 to hide the play button hide-waveform: set to 1 to hide the waveform area hide-draft-btn: set to 1 to hide the Save…
IMPORTANT
The first time you record, you must allow your website to access the microphone when your browser prompts you. After creating from the frontend editor, you are redirected to the audio list page and you can re-edit audios from there. Frontend audio creation and edition are restricted to logged-in users. Guest access is available in Audio Editor Pro. The Audio Editor settings page is located under Settings → Audio Editor in your WordPress dashboard. Recording and total audio duration are limited to 5 minutes. Upgrade to Pro to remove this limit.
Upgrade to Pro
Audio Editor Pro adds: – Multi-track mixing (up to 4 tracks: volume, mute, solo, automatic mixdown) – Sound Library pads: preload jingles and music beds for radio-style mixing – Audio effects: fade in/out, silence, normalize – Live waveform while recording – No recording or duration limit (5 min in free version) – Guest / logged-out user audio submission – 7 visual templates + full color customization (toolbar, buttons, waveform, form) – Shortcode design attributes: template, toolbar-bg, icon-color, btn-radius, form-bg, and 20+ more – [user-audio-edit] shortcode to re-edit existing audio…
Upgrading from v2.x?
Version 3 introduces a free Lite edition alongside the Pro version. If you used v2.x, here is what changed: What improved (free): – Recording limit increased from 1 minute to 5 minutes – Improved audio editor UI with modern design – More reliable upload and better mobile support – New toolbar buttons: Re-select, Reload What moved to Pro in v3: – [user-audio-edit] shortcode — re-edit existing audio posts from the frontend – Guest / logged-out user audio submission – MP3 download button for end users – Redirect URL shortcode attribute after submission – Full color and design customization…
Changelog
= 4.1.6
- Fixed (long-standing): selecting right up to the very beginning or the very end of the audio was hard — the selection stopped a few pixels short even while holding the mouse down. Dragging past the edge of the waveform now extends the selection cleanly to the start / end.
= 4.1.5
- Fixed: Undo / Redo now works for Cut, Paste and Delete (these edits were not recorded in the undo history).
- Fixed: editing while zoomed in (delete / cut) no longer zooms the waveform back out — the zoom level is preserved.
= 4.1.4
- Housekeeping: shared-core MP3 encoder now strips per-segment headers before joining long-audio pieces (prevents wrong duration in players). Shared fix with the Pro version; not user-facing in the Lite (5-minute cap).
= 4.1.3
- Fixed: the “maximum 5 minutes” popup could appear right after loading a single audio well under 5 minutes (e.g. 3-4 min). The duration check was counting the freshly loaded audio twice. It now measures the real audio length, so a normal load under 5 minutes is never blocked.
= 4.1.2
- Fixed: hardened the MP3 encoder so it always receives the right buffer type (prevents a silent fallback that could fail on longer audio). Shared fix with the Pro version.
- Fixed: after cut/delete, the waveform could keep showing a faint “ghost” of the removed audio; the display now always redraws only the real audio.
= 4.0.19
- Undo / Redo buttons (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) and Gain +/- controls.
- Security: hardened guest-posting authorization (server-side) and file handling.
- Fixed: recorded MP3 saved with an empty file name — filename is now derived from the post title (client, server and Gutenberg WP 6/7).
- Fixed: ffmpeg worker path now works whatever the plugin folder is named.
- Fixed: the shortcode button-hiding attributes (hide-record, hide-upload, hide-play, remove-buttons) work again.
- Redesigned audio lists and single audio page.
- Preview of the Pro settings (Design, Visibility, Sounds) and Premium features list in the settings page.
= 4.0.0
- Undo / Redo toolbar buttons with Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y keyboard shortcuts
- Gain +3 / -3 dB on selection or whole audio
- Fixed: undo history corrupted for cut/delete operations
- Faster script cache refresh on plugin updates
- New in Pro: multi-track mixing (up to 4 tracks with volume/mute/solo), one-click Sound Library jingle pads, fade in/out, silence and normalize effects, live recording waveform, unlimited recording duration
= 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
- New website https://wp-audio-studio.com to replace https://wp-audio.editor.com
- License system removed from settings for validating premium version.
= 2.0.0
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Complete restyling
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Shortcode attributes added for customizing the frontend
= 1.0.1
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Audio graphic pointer selection corrected
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1 minute free version limit corrected
= 1.0.0
Working version after security corrections
Screenshots
![My audios list with status badges ([audio-my-list])](https://ps.w.org/audio-editor-recorder/assets/screenshot-5.png?rev=3605012)
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FAQ
Audio Editor & Recorder: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 26, 2026
Is Audio Editor & Recorder free?
Yes. Audio Editor & Recorder is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Audio Editor & Recorder safe to use in 2026?
Audio Editor & Recorder works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 3/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 53/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Audio Editor & Recorder?
Audio Editor & Recorder is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 7,136 times since it launched in May 2022. It was downloaded 153 times in the last 30 days.
Does Audio Editor & Recorder work with WordPress 7.1?
Audio Editor & Recorder is officially tested up to WordPress 6.9.9, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does Audio Editor & Recorder need?
Audio Editor & Recorder requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Audio Editor & Recorder last updated?
The latest version, 4.1.6, was released on July 17, 2026 (2 months ago).
Who makes Audio Editor & Recorder?
Audio Editor & Recorder is developed and maintained by Roland Beaussant.
What are the best alternatives to Audio Editor & Recorder?
The most popular alternatives to Audio Editor & Recorder are Presto Player (100K+ installs), Seriously Simple Podcasting (30K+ installs) and Compact WP Audio Player (20K+ installs).
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