Start by adding a bunch of audio files to your media library, making a note of the URL of each MP3 file.
Then add the shortcodes in the text editor as outlined in the plugin’s documentation using the url of the mp3s.
Thanks very much! This worked (at least well enough to do some more trial-and-error work to get most of this working right– you might add something like this to the instructions for rank beginners like me). One thing still isn’t working, though: the “lyrics” links. I’ve tried linking to an HTML file in the same “uploads” directory as the MP3 files, linking to a page, and linking to a blog post page. The “post” link is the only one that (sort of) worked, but that totally screwed up the blog that I have in another section– even though I made the lyrics “post” silent, it shows up right in the middle of the blog (even BEFORE my introductory post), with a big “SILENT” added to the title of the song. I tried several other formats besides “Standard”, and they still show up in the blog, but often not in the audio album. Is there a way to get the “lyrics” function to work without causing this “crosstalk” with other parts of the Web site? Thanks for any more help you can give me.
On the site I originally made the plugin for, I used pages to display the lyrics. I used a custom template for these pages (like a landing page template with no header sidebar or footer).
The site uses a custom menu and these lyrics pages were not added to the menu, so these pages are not linked to on the site except on the audio players.
You mentioned using a “Genesis” theme landing page elsewhere on your site. Was this what you used for the for the “lyrics” popup windows? I’ve tried some other “landing page” plugins, but haven’t found one yet that would work with your plugin. Since the “Genesis” themes are premium-priced, and apparently you can’t try them until you buy them, I’d like to make sure that it would work with your plugin before paying for one of them (and also which specific one to get). The Dave Draper Web site you mentioned, BTW, appears to work just about the way I’d like mine to work, so if that’s what the “Genesis” theme will do for me, I think it would be worth it. Thanks for any further help you can offer.
Unless you are already using a genesis theme, a genesis-specific plugin won’t work for you. I used Genesis as the parent theme and designed and built a custom child theme for Dave’s site — including a custom page template for the lyrics popups, but I could have used a free theme as a starting point to build the same functionality,
Which theme are you using? Your theme may already contain a suitable template, or if you are using a child theme, it would probably be a fairly small job for an experienced developer to make a suitable template. i don’t know whether any specific landing page plugin would help as I have never used one.
