Description
Rare Radio lets you create online radio sites, streaming stations, and band portals in WordPress, with an audio player for live broadcasting, a weekly programming schedule, and show and broadcast management. The theme is built on Elementor, includes three ready-made home layouts, and integrates an events calendar, WooCommerce for selling merchandising, and an Ajax search tool to find episodes and artists.
Key Features of Rare Radio
- Online radio player
Plays live streaming broadcasts, fixed in the footer while visitors browse the site. - Weekly programming schedule
Organizes show times, programs, and DJs in an interactive visual table by day of the week. - Elementor page builder with 750+ options
Edit the header, footer, and inner pages with Elementor, with a typography, colors, and layout panel. - Photo and video galleries
Covers events, behind-the-scenes, and clips with advanced galleries, sliders, and an embedded video player. - WooCommerce integration
Enables a merchandising store, tickets, and albums within the same station or band site. - Events and shows calendar
Lists upcoming performances, festivals, and broadcasts via The Events Calendar with filters by date. - Interactive Ajax search
Finds programs, artists, and episodes without reloading the page, with real-time results. - Lead sign-ups and donations
Collects leads via MailChimp and activates donation campaigns with the integrated Give plugin.
Benefits of Rare Radio
- Ready radio site in hours
Imports one of the three home layouts and adjusts colors, logo, and the programming flow without a developer. - Fidelized audience with the fixed player
Visitors listen to the live radio while browsing the site, increasing average session time. - Multiple monetization options on the same site
Combines streaming, product sales, tickets for shows, and fan donations in a single WordPress panel. - Station identity
Lets you adjust typography, palette, and the style of blocks to reflect the station or band tone.
Who Is Rare Radio For?
- Anyone running an online radio or streaming station and needs a live player, a programming schedule, and a shows area on the same site.
- Bands, DJs, and singers who want to bring together biography, presentation schedule, clip gallery, and merchandising sales in a single portal.
- Artist agencies, music producers, and organizers of cultural events looking for a portal with a calendar, talent profiles, and lead capture.
- Podcasters and audio content producers who need an embedded player, an episode archive, and quick program search.
How to Download Rare Radio
The Rare Radio theme is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install the theme by going to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload theme, select the file, click install, and activate. Then, import one of the demos to load the radio player, the programming schedule, and the configured home layouts.
With native integration with Elementor, WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, and Slider Revolution, Rare Radio covers the main areas of the music niche: live broadcasting, show schedules, product sales, and fan lead capture. The weekly programming schedule and the fixed audio player are differentiators that few multipurpose themes deliver natively, without requiring manual integration with external streaming services. It is the ideal foundation for anyone who needs to publish a complete online radio without building the structure from scratch.
Frequently asked questions
Is Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme is 1.0.15.1, published at Ultrapack on Mar 3, 2025. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Rare Radio | Online Music Radio Station & Podcast WordPress Theme goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
The file on this page is the developer’s full package, with documentation, demos and plugins. Do not upload that file to WordPress. The theme comes ready inside it, as a ZIP of its own, and that is the one you upload.
- Download the file
elements-rare-radio.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
rareradio_v.1.0.15.1/rareradio.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select that file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate.
- There is nothing to zip. The ZIP inside the package is already in the format WordPress accepts.
- Uploading the whole package is the most common mistake when installing a theme: WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, and nothing is installed.
- The rest of the package belongs to the author: documentation, demo files and, in some themes, the plugins it asks for during setup.
- The file
plugins.zipis not an installable plugin: it's a package. Extract this file and upload each plugin inside it to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
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