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Seriously Simple Speakers
Add speakers to your Seriously Simple Podcasting episodes.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 3
- Active installs
- 1k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 29 Apr 2025
- Added
- Jun 2016
- Requires WP
- 4.4
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Downloads
- 19,932
Our analysis
AI-assistedSeriously Simple Speakers is a WordPress plugin designed for podcasters who feature multiple speakers or guests in their episodes. It works as an add-on for Seriously Simple Podcasting, allowing you to add one or more speakers to each episode without needing to create new user accounts for them.
The plugin introduces a new taxonomy for speakers, making them easily searchable and providing dedicated archive pages for each speaker. This is particularly useful for podcasts that frequently change hosts or feature various guests, enabling better organisation and presentation of speaker information.
Best for: Podcasters who regularly feature multiple speakers or guests in their episodes.
What it does well
- ✓Allows multiple speakers per podcast episode
- ✓Integrates with Seriously Simple Podcasting
- ✓Creates searchable speaker taxonomy
- ✓Provides archive pages for each speaker
Where it falls short
- •Requires Seriously Simple Podcasting v1.14 or higher
- •Limited information on additional features
Verdict
Seriously Simple Speakers offers a straightforward solution for managing speaker information in podcasts, but it is dependent on another plugin and has limited details on additional features.
From the developer
Craig Hewitt's own description of Seriously Simple Speakers, lightly tidied.
This plugin is an add-on for Seriously Simple Podcasting and requires at least v1.14 of Seriously Simple Podcasting in order to work.
Does your podcast have a number of different speakers? Or maybe a different guest each week? Perhaps you have unique hosts for each episode? If any of those options describe your podcast then this is the add-on for you!
Seriously Simple Speakers allows you to add one or more speakers to each of your episodes – the speakers are setup as a new taxonomy (not users), making them easily searchable as well as giving them their own archive pages out of the box.
Primary Features
- Allows you to add any number of speakers to your podcast episodes
- Adds a new
speakertaxonomy to all podcast post types - Displays speakers in the episode details with links to speaker archives
- Add speakers without adding a new user for each speaker
How to contribute
If you want to contribute to Seriously Simple Speakers, you can fork the GitHub repository – all pull requests will be reviewed and merged if they fit into the goals for the plugin.
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