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Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player

Name: Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player
Author: Matt Lawhead

A polished RSS podcast player with themes, layouts, search, sticky controls, and Podcasting 2.0 support—free forever.

Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player ranks #47,096 among WordPress.org plugins with 10+ active installations, is #2,976 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 22, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.6.0 Current Version v1.6.0

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 22 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#2,976 of 6,651 in Media Top 50% by installs

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KW Avg Position

58.7

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Downloads

288

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.6.0
Last Updated: Sep 22, 2026
Requires WP: 6.3+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Matt Lawhead

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player

Yes. Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player is and will remain free, without a premium edition, feature paywall, subscription, license key, or required account. Updates and new features are available to everyone.

Feeds are cached for performance. Choose Refresh feed now under Podcast Player in the dashboard.

The settings screen stores one site-wide feed. A block or shortcode can override the feed URL for an individual embed.

No. Playback only starts after a visitor selects an episode.

No. Search and season filtering happen locally in the visitor's browser against the episodes already on the page.

The episode remains visible, but its action is labeled "Audio unavailable."

Podcasting 2.0 chapter files are hosted separately from the RSS feed. Loading them only after a listener chooses avoids hidden third-party requests and keeps the initial episode list fast. If browser access is unavailable, the original chapter file can still be opened directly. Chapter requests time out after 15 seconds and accept files up to 1 MiB (streamed byte limit in modern browsers). Up to 250 visible chapter markers are displayed.