by Craig Hewitt 5 (3 reviews)

Seriously Simple Speakers

Name: Seriously Simple Speakers
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)
Author: Craig Hewitt

Add speakers to your Seriously Simple Podcasting episodes.

Seriously Simple Speakers ranks #6,631 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #274 of 3,308 in the Social & Sharing category, a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated Apr 29, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)

v1.2.0 Current Version v1.2.0

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 29 Apr, 2025

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#274 of 3,308 in Social & Sharing Top 10% by installs Downloads -10.8% this week No update in over a year

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#6,631

-7 this week

Active Installs

1K+

-17.8%

KW Avg Position

19.2

0.2 better

Downloads

18.8K

+6 today

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100%

Review 5 out of 5

5 (3 reviews)

Next Milestone 2K

Total Progress 6.6%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2.0
Last Updated: Apr 29, 2025
Requires WP: 4.4+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Craig Hewitt

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 3
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for Seriously Simple Podcasting users who have multiple speakers, guests, or hosts on their episodes. It solves the problem of associating speakers with episodes by adding a dedicated searchable taxonomy instead of requiring a WordPress user account for each speaker.

Add multiple speakers per episode
New speaker taxonomy for podcasts
Speaker archive pages
Links to speaker archives in episode details
No new user required per speaker

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Seriously Simple Speakers

In order to use this plugin you need to have at least v1.14 of Seriously Simple Podcasting. If you do not have Seriously Simple Podcasting active or you are using a version older than v1.14 then this plugin will do nothing.

If you want to get a list of speakers for an episode to use in your templates then this function will return an array of the episode speakers, along with their ID, display name and archive URL: SSP_Speakers()->get_speakers( $episode_id );. If you do not specify the $episode_id then the ID of the current post will be used.

This plugin has filters that allow you do this easily by adding the following snippet to your themes functions.php file (or a functionality plugin): https://gist.github.com/hlashbrooke/5fec98f84426534f02a7dc656f8f1d5e. In this example I have renamed the 'Speakers' to 'Guests' in both the plural and singular instances - you can make those labels anything you want by editing the labels in the code.

If you would like to add speakers to your episodes, but not have them displayed in the standard episode details location then simply add this code to your theme's functions.php file (or a functionality plugin): add_filter( 'ssp_speakers_display', '__return_false' );