Lewe ChordPress
Lewe ChordPress for WordPress pretty-prints ChordPro formatted text and chord diagrams on your pages or posts.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.5★ from 11
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 13 Oct 2025
- Added
- Dec 2018
- Requires WP
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Downloads
- 12,268
Our analysis
AI-assistedLewe ChordPress is a WordPress plugin that formats ChordPro text files for display on your pages and posts. It allows you to use shortcodes to pretty-print song lyrics and chords, making it suitable for musicians and bands looking to share their music online.
The plugin includes features such as interactive chord transposition and the ability to print the formatted output directly from the page. It also supports SVGuitar for visual chord representation, making it a useful tool for those who work with ChordPro formatted text.
Best for: This plugin is best for musicians and bands who want to display song lyrics and chords on their WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Formats ChordPro text for web display
- ✓Supports interactive chord transposition
- ✓Includes TinyMCE editor integration
- ✓Allows printing of rendered output
- ✓Displays guitar chord diagrams
Where it falls short
- •Requires valid ChordPro formatted text
- •Limited information on additional features
Verdict
Lewe ChordPress is a practical solution for formatting and displaying ChordPro text, particularly for those involved in music. Its interactive features enhance usability for musicians.
From the developer
George Lewe's own description of Lewe ChordPress, lightly tidied.
Lewe ChordPress pretty-prints ChordPro formatted text files on your pages and posts. You can configure output and formatting options. With ‘interactive’ mode on, you can transpose the chords up and down and also print the output right from the page.
Lewe ChordPress supports SVGuitar for visual chord representation.
Your input to Lewe ChordPress needs to be a valid ChordPro formatted text. ChordPro is a simple text-based syntax used to write lead sheets, the lyrics and chords of a song. ChordPro also comes with a command line tool that pretty prints that text into other formats like PDF.
You can read all about ChordPro here:
ChordPro
The Lewe ChordPress plugin allows to put ChordPro text inside its shortcode tags on a page or post and will pretty print it when the web page is displayed.
Simply insert a ChordPro text inbetween the [chordpress] and [/chordpress] tags and it will be rendered based on the default options of the plugin. You can change output and formatting settings on the plugin’s admin page.
A TinyMCE editor integration is also included, providing an editor menu button to insert the shortcode for you with its default paramaters, e.g. wrapping it around selected text.
The [chordpress] shortag allows specifying custom options for rendering ChordPro texts. For example:
[chordpress transpose="1"]will transpose the chords rendered by one semitone.[chordpress interactive="yes"]will allow you to transpose the chords up and down and also print the output right from the rendered page.
Check out this example:
Lewe ChordPress Demo
The [chordpress-chord] shortag allows you to display a guitar chord as a diagram. For example:
[chordpress-chord chord="112"]will show the guitar chord post with ID 112 as a diagram.[chordpress-chord barre="5,1,1" fingers="(3,2,'2'),(4,3,'4'),(5,3,'3')" title="F# Major" tuning="E,A,D,G,H,E"]will show a custom guitar chord.
Check out this example:
Lewe ChordPress Guitar Chord Demo
If not from the WordPress marketplace, get the plugin here:
Lewe ChordPress Homepage
Features
- renders the lyrics/chord format of ChordPro
- configure output and formatting
- transpose up and down on the fly from the rendered page
- print the rendered output
- show chord diagrams
Lewe ChordPress supports the following ChordPro tags: