Player for SoundCloud – share your music without leaving your site

64 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

Popularity is modest at roughly 1,000 active installs, well below the alternatives listed, so real-world adoption is limited.

Update Freshness

25/25

Maintenance looks excellent on paper with a recent update and a future-dated last-updated timestamp, though the tiny install base makes it hard to verify.

User Rating

3/15

The user-ratings component is essentially uninformative: a single rating cannot meaningfully validate quality, which drags trust down despite the perfect score shown.

Support Health

8/15

Support health is a blank slate with zero threads opened and zero resolved, giving no evidence the author responds to user issues.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatibility is strong, requiring only WordPress 6.5 and PHP 7.1, matching the current tested-up-to of 7.0.1.

Scores higher than 13% of indexed plugins

About

Embed SoundCloud tracks, playlists, and profiles in WordPress with a customizable Gutenberg player block – colors, artwork, and more.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-09-03 4:59am GMT

Requires WordPress 6.5+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 7.1+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

This plugin adds a Gutenberg block that lets you paste a SoundCloud track or set URL and render an embedded, playable audio player directly inside the WordPress block editor. It focuses on a single job: making SoundCloud embeds easy to drop into posts and pages without shortcodes or manual iframe code.

Who It's For

It is a good fit for independent musicians, podcasters, and small content creators who use SoundCloud as their primary hosting platform and want a frictionless way to embed tracks on a WordPress site running the block editor. Sites that only occasionally link to SoundCloud will get along fine with the default oEmbed support and probably do not need this.

Who Should Skip It

If you already use a multipurpose blocks plugin like Spectra, or if you rarely embed SoundCloud content, this standalone plugin adds little value. Developers maintaining large or multisite installations should also skip it given the weak community feedback signals.

The Bottom Line

This is a narrowly focused SoundCloud embed block with a tidy codebase and modern compatibility, but the 1,000 active installs and single rating mean there is almost no community signal to lean on. It is a reasonable pick if you publish on SoundCloud daily and want a dedicated block, yet most sites will be better served by a broader blocks suite or WordPress's built-in oEmbed support.

Pick Spectra if you want SoundCloud embeds as one feature among dozens of blocks and prefer a plugin installed on over a million sites.

Breadcrumb NavXT 88/100

Not a direct replacement, but worth considering if your real need is site navigation rather than media embedding.

PDF Embedder 86/100

Choose this if your primary embedding target is PDF documents rather than SoundCloud tracks.

Flexible Table Block 83/100

Use it if you need lightweight table layout blocks, not audio playback.

The Icon Block 83/100

Pick it if you only need iconography inside the editor and have no use for SoundCloud embeds.