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Spreaker Shortcode

by Spreaker · Admin & Utilities

A simple and easy way to embed Spreaker player into your WordPress blog.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
52 Health · D
Maintenance 27/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

69 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 36/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 712 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+38% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

413

now · peak 3.7K

40530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Spreaker Shortcode · #3452 you Advanced iFrame · #837 Insert Pages · #927 Compact WP Audio Pla · #1172

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

101per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.0y ago

latest release · v1.8.3

33

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8.3 · 2.0y ago1.8.2 · 2.0y ago1.8.1 · 3.6y ago1.8.0 · 5.2y ago1.7.10 · 5.6y ago1.7.9 · 7.1y ago1.7.8 · 7.2y ago1.7.7 · 7.5y ago1.7.6 · 7.5y ago1.7.5 · 7.9y ago1.7.4 · 7.9y ago1.7.3 · 7.9y ago1.7.2 · 8.1y ago1.7.1 · 8.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 95%
Older / other versions 5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “4K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
4K–5K ≈4.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-04-30 · 1,437 observations

4KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.8.3
Last updated
2.0y ago
Added
2011-11-23 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
2.5.0
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. organicsulfur4health
    4.4y ago

    Unable to activate plugin. I get an invalid header error message when doing so. I suspect it’s because the plugin has not been updated to be compatible with WordPress 5.9.3, which I run on my website.

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  2. seppp
    4.6y ago

    The “Start play automatically” option doesn’t work or doesn’t exist anymore and the support never respond even though you are paying for a pro plan. Don’t waste time with this rubbish.

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  3. Earl_D
    9.2y ago

    Over a year ago I began using the spreaker platform for podcasting. The service itself is great, the folks were responsive and helpful. I came to see spreaker as the WordPress of podcasting. However integrating in my existing WordPress site was cumbersome and time consuming. So I suggested plugin to Spreaker support. Now I don’t know if they were responding to my suggestion but a few month later the spreaker short plugin appeared. It works phenomenally well. The process of embedding podcasts that took multiple steps before is now just a couple steps. Now visitors to our site visit our site to listen to our podcasts driving traffic there. Listeners are presented with an attractive and highly functional player for individual podcasts as well as podcast playlists. If you are looking for a great podcast platform and an excellent plugin to share your podcasts on your site look no further than this plugin in conjunction with the spreaker service. FIVE STARS! This topic was modified 9 years ago by Earl_D.

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  4. Stewart
    9.6y ago

    Great plugin, does what it says and offers a good alternative to using iframes

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  5. Francisco Fernández
    9.9y ago

    Aunque el plugin está muy bien, muchas de las funciones se pueden usar creando un código embed y usando el widget de texto de WordPress o el del tema.

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  6. Michael
    10.9y ago

    Very easy to use and install. Love how it looks on my site!

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  7. Spreaker
    11.7y ago

    The plugin works fine.

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  8. der_pilgrim
    12.3y ago

    It works perfectly.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.8.3 Tested with WordPress 6.6 Removed support for user resource 1.8.3
  2. Version 1.8.2 Tested with WordPress 6.5 1.8.2
  3. Version 1.8.1 Tested with WordPress 6.1 1.8.1
  4. Version 1.8.0 Tested with WordPress 5.6 10 Bugfixes 1.8.0
  5. Version 1.7.8 Added color attribute support 1.7.8
  6. Version 1.7.7 Tested with WordPress 5.1 1.7.7

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.2

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-10-03 5K+ → 4K+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-30 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-09-29 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-09-28 4K+ → 5K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-09-26 5K+ → 4K+ down after 483 days in tier
  6. 2024-05-31 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-05-30 5K+ → 6K+ up after 16 days in tier
  8. 2024-05-14 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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