Music Tracks

Manage a complete music collection from the WordPress admin and publish it anywhere with a modern Plyr-powered audio player. Categorize your tracks, share them on WhatsApp and Instagram, and keep your pages fast: assets load only where the shortcode is.

Download free from WordPress.org Features

100% free GPLv2 or later Requires PHP 7.4 Translation ready

Features

Your music library, inside WordPress

Music Tracks keeps your audio in the WordPress Media Library and your pages fast. Everything below ships with the free version — all of it fully functional, nothing locked.

Track management

Custom post type "Music Tracks"
Artist, album, cover image and audio file
Upload via the native Media Library

Automatic duration

Duration detected in the browser on upload
Saved via AJAX, no manual entry
Displayed next to every track

Modern audio player

Plyr-powered HTML5 player
One-at-a-time playback
List and grid layouts

Share buttons

WhatsApp share for every track
Instagram via Web Share API with profile fallback
Accessible inline SVG icons

Developer API

Filterable shortcode attributes and layouts
Overridable track markup
Theme-overridable templates

Screenshots

See it in action

Music Tracks admin list table with search, filters and bulk actions — Admin list table with bulk actions and search

Music Tracks track editor with Track Details meta box, categories and cover image — Track editor — Track Details meta box

Music Tracks frontend output grouped by category with Plyr players and share buttons — Frontend shortcode output, grouped by category

Installation

Live in under a minute

InstallFrom Plugins → Add New, search for "Music Tracks" and click Install Now.
Add a trackOpen Music Tracks → Add New, upload the audio file and fill in artist and album.
Embed itInsert the shortcode [music_tracks] into any page or post.

For developers

A small, stable extension API

Custom layouts

Resolve your own layout with music_tracks_layout and ship its template via music_tracks_template_path — no core edits needed.

Custom track markup

Filter music_tracks_shortcode_atts for new attributes or reuse the whole container output with music_tracks_after_render.