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Hearald Publisher

Name: Hearald Publisher
Author: fatherearthdev

Automatically turns your articles into natural-voice audio editions. Publish the article — Hearald handles the audio.

Hearald Publisher ranks #68,162 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #251 of 626 in the Accessibility category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v0.4.0 Current Version v0.4.0

Updated 4 days ago Last Update on 14 Sep, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.4.0
Last Updated: Sep 14, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: fatherearthdev

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Hearald Publisher

Everything already narrated stays in your Media Library and keeps playing — it is your file, served by your site. Your key simply moves to the Free plan's 5 articles a month.

In your Media Library, attached to their article, named like hearald-your-post-slug-1a2b3c4d.mp3. Regenerating an article replaces its old Hearald MP3; your own media is never touched.

No. Synthesis happens on the Hearald service. Your site sends text, polls in the background via WP-Cron, and serves a small CSS/JS player only on pages that show one.

The plugin hashes what would actually be spoken. Fixing a typo in a shortcode attribute or re-saving changes nothing; changing the words marks the audio "needs updating" so you decide — or regenerates automatically if you enabled that.

Free is 5 articles a month, Publisher is 50 and Publisher Pro is 500. Hearald → Settings and the Hearald dashboard both show your plan and how many you have used this month, so the limit is never a surprise. Counts reset on the 1st (UTC), and regenerating audio that already matches an article is free.

An old writing trick with a payoff. Set a few words large through an article — [hearald_mark]kept[/hearald_mark] — so their first letters spell a phrase, then drop [hearald_hidden_message id="..."] at the end. A reader types what they found, your site checks it, and only a correct answer gets your code back. The answer is never sent to the browser, so the hunt can't be skipped by viewing the source. Set the messages and codes under Hearald → Settings. Readers stay anonymous: the site keeps two counters and a one-way hash of a guesser's address for one minute so nobody can machine-guess it.

Yes. Settings has an accent colour, a light / dark / follow-the-reader choice, and an option to use your theme's font instead of Hearald's. Everything else is plain CSS custom properties on .hearald-player, so a theme can restyle it completely.

Yes — the Hearald Audio box in the editor has a per-article voice override. Changing the voice for an article with existing audio marks it "needs updating," exactly like a content edit.

No. Without analytics enabled, nothing is counted at all. With analytics enabled, your site keeps three aggregate numbers per article (plays, completions, seconds listened) — no identifiers of any kind.

Yes. The editor integration is a standard meta box; it behaves identically in the block and classic editors.