ChordPress Details

A free WordPress Plugin for ChordPro file rendering

ChordPress

George Lewe 2025-06-06
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ChordPress is a Lewe WordPress plugin that reads and processes ChordPro formatted text, including several content and formatting directives, and renders it for WordPress sites.

What is ChordPro

The ChordPro site introduces the ChordPro text format as follows:

In 1992 Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion developed a simple text file format to write lead sheets, songs with lyrics and chords, and a tool to create neatly printed lead sheets out of these text files. The tool was called chord, and the text files were called chord files. It soon became a popular way to write lead sheets and many users and tools adopted this format for similar purposes. For still unknown reasons people started calling the files chordpro files.

Here is an article that I wrote that explains it in more detail and offers links to other related software.

What is ChordPress

ChordPress is a WordPress plugin that I wrote that will render ChordPro formatted input into readable output to play along to. It has several options to style it to your needs.

Here is an example showing how it can look like.

Installing ChordPress

Login to your WordPress site as admin and go to the Plugins page. Search for "ChordPress" and install and activate the plugin as usual.

Related Links

  • ChordPro Explained

    An article explaining the ChordPro format

  • ChordPress User Manual

    Detailed documentation of the plugin

  • WordPress Plugin Listing

    Plugin page at the WordPress plugin repository

  • WordPress Example Page

    A ChordPress rendered example page

"Thank you. This is so helpful for campfire singing (if you get a signal there 🙂 )."

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Eva
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