Whyp Audio Embeds

Description

Whyp is audio hosting with an embeddable, customizable player. This plugin makes WordPress treat whyp.it as a trusted embed provider, so pasting a track or collection link on its own line turns it into the player – in the block editor, the classic editor, and the Embed block.

Why a plugin is needed at all

WordPress can already find Whyp’s player on its own. But it treats providers it discovers differently from ones on its built-in list: their markup is sanitized and the player is wrapped in a restrictive sandbox. Inside that sandbox the player cannot load its own styling or scripts, so what you see is a black box with a dead play button.

Registering Whyp as a known provider is the fix, and that is all this plugin does. There are no settings.

What you get

• Paste https://whyp.it/tracks/... or https://whyp.it/collections/... on its own line and it becomes a player.
• Private tracks work too – paste the share link, token and all.
• Set a default preset on Whyp and turn on Apply my default preset to my existing embeds in your Whyp dashboard, and every plain-link embed follows it – restyle every player on your site without editing a single post.
• Links you pasted before installing the plugin are refreshed automatically.

If you want per-embed customization – colours, controls, size – copy the embed code from Whyp’s Share → Embed dialog and paste it into a Custom HTML block instead. That route carries the settings in the code and needs no plugin.

External service

When you embed a whyp.it link, your site asks https://api.whyp.it/api/oembed for the player markup. This is the standard oEmbed exchange and it is the only request the plugin causes; it sends the link you pasted and nothing else. See Whyp’s terms of service and privacy policy.