Whyp is audio hosting with an embeddable, customizable player. This plugin makes WordPress treat whyp.it as a trusted embed provider, so pasting a track or collection link on its own line turns it into the player – in the block editor, the classic editor, and the Embed block.
Why a plugin is needed at all
WordPress can already find Whyp’s player on its own. But it treats providers it discovers differently from ones on its built-in list: their markup is sanitized and the player is wrapped in a restrictive sandbox. Inside that sandbox the player cannot load its own styling or scripts, so what you see is a black box with a dead play button.
Registering Whyp as a known provider is the fix, and that is all this plugin does. There are no settings.
What you get
- Paste
https://whyp.it/tracks/...orhttps://whyp.it/collections/...on its own line and it becomes a player. - Private tracks work too – paste the share link, token and all.
- Set a default preset on Whyp and turn on Apply my default preset to my existing embeds in your Whyp dashboard, and every plain-link embed follows it – restyle every player on your site without editing a single post.
- Links you pasted before installing the plugin are refreshed automatically.
If you want per-embed customization – colours, controls, size – copy the embed code from Whyp’s Share Embed dialog and paste it into a Custom HTML block instead. That route carries the settings in the code and needs no plugin.
External service
When you embed a whyp.it link, your site asks https://api.whyp.it/api/oembed for the player markup. This is the standard oEmbed exchange and it is the only request the plugin causes; it sends the link you pasted and nothing else. See Whyp’s terms of service and privacy policy.