Are you a musician looking to share some of your work with your fans? Do you already have a WordPress blog and you wish there was an easier way to integrate audio files without complex coding? The Haiku plugin for WordPress could be a good fit.

It is not hard to insert multimedia files into blog posts using WordPress, since there are already icons in place in the WordPress dashboard when you add a new post for that kind of functionality. However, the way that these files are inserted may not be suitable to your needs. The critical difference with Haiku is that the media controls are displayed as simple text links.

This helps with browser compatibility, since it drastically simplifies the interface. The HTML5-based audio player for WordPress was coded with jQuery and jPlayer. You can insert the audio files into your posts using a simple shortcode format: [haiku url="http://www.example.com/song.mp3" "title="song title here"]. The title field is optional, but you should probably include that for SEO purposes.

You can see a short demo on the developer’s site, which is also where you can find the free download link.