(Almost) exactly – and I mean exactly – what I was looking for. But…

  • alanpaterson997

    (@alanpaterson997)


    2 months, 1 week ago

    Really love this plug in! I wanted exactly this – just a single, simple button, alternating between play and pause, allowing people to play or not as they saw fit, linking to an audio file in the back bedroom. And suddenly, there it was! And even I, a floundering newbie, managed to get it into my (Astra) footer without too much stumbling around. Result!

    And then we reach the ‘but’…

    The music, der, cuts out the moment you leave a page. You can restart it when you get to the next page, but that’s really not ideal, plus you’ll be starting at the very beginning, which isn’t a very good place to start again, and again, and again, whatever warbling Julie Andrews says.

    Now, if anyone knows how this could be setup to play – or pause – site-wide and stay there site-wide regardless of navigation, or of any plug-in with this one’s simplicity & elegance that could, I’d love to hear about it.

    Meantime, like I say, love it! Clean, simple, elegant.

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  • Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    2 months, 1 week ago

    Thank you @alanpaterson997, for your nice 5 star review 🙂 We appreciate this very much.

    Now, if anyone knows how this could be setup to play – or pause – site-wide and stay there site-wide regardless of navigation, or of any plug-in with this one’s simplicity & elegance that could, I’d love to hear about it.

    I am wondering if adding the audio player to a theme’s template file might do the trick. Please refer to the following documentation and especially the following header, “Adding the Audio Player to a Theme’s Template File”. Make sure that you add the following parameter autoplay=”true” to the shortcode.

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-audio-music-player-plugin-4556

    Kind regards.

    • This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by mbrsolution.
    Thread Starter alanpaterson997

    (@alanpaterson997)

    2 months ago

    Wow! Thank you so much for your very helpful reply, which I shall definitely check out. Wanted to apologise for not responding sooner – I was waiting for an email alerting me to any replies…turns out (now I look back at my inbox) I simply failed to spot it. Adding to the template sounds very promising! If I get anywhere with it, I’ll report back…

    Thanks again.

    Thread Starter alanpaterson997

    (@alanpaterson997)

    2 months ago

    Hello again!

    …and again thanks for your help with this.

    Having another think about your suggestion(s), would I be right in thinking the upshot to be a single line of code

    <?php echo do_shortcode('[sc_embed_player autoplay=true fileurl="URL OF THE MP3 FILE"]'); ?>

    …to be pasted into a file which I’ll find here: wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/ directory. 

    Is that right? Will I know the file when I see it? Assuming I manage to open it, does it matter where I put the new code?

    Please bear in mind this is all way north of my comprehension/capability. I’ve never done owt but basic stuff in Elementor, so forgive any dumb q’s/misunderstandings.

    Cheers

    Alan

    PS Oh, one other thing: I assume instituting a solution like this, assuming I could, would result in, as it were, a site-with-sound – no visitor-control possible? So if someone wanted out, their only option would be to kill sound altogether (via volume controls +/-)?

    Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    2 months ago

    …to be pasted into a file which I’ll find here: wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/ directory. 

    Yes that is correct.

    Will I know the file when I see it? Assuming I manage to open it, does it matter where I put the new code?

    It has to be a theme file that gets loaded when someone visits the site.

    PS Oh, one other thing: I assume instituting a solution like this, assuming I could, would result in, as it were, a site-with-sound – no visitor-control possible? So if someone wanted out, their only option would be to kill sound altogether (via volume controls +/-)?

    Yes, that would be the gist of it. The visitor would have to turn off the volume on their device.

    Kind regards.

    Thread Starter alanpaterson997

    (@alanpaterson997)

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

    Hmmm. Like I say, very nearly perfect for my needs! But I’ve decided this is a deal-breaker. The search for something equally clear, classy and elegant but with on-site user-control/choice goes on! Thanks anyway for your responses – very helpful, much appreciated.

    If you should ever run across a plug-in like that, I’m all ears :o)

    Cheers

    Alan

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