We’re happy to announce three new things that you can embed into your site!
Spotify
Embed music from Spotify by right-clicking any song, album, or artist in Spotify and selecting “Copy HTTP Link” or “Copy Spotify URI”:

Then paste that into your post editor, making sure that it’s located on its own line all by itself. You’ll end up with something like this when you view your post:
Rdio
If you’re an Rdio user, you can embed music from them too. Copy the URL from your address bar when looking at a track, artist, or playlist and paste that into your post editor. Here are a few examples:
http://www.rdio.com/#/artist/The_Black_Keys/album/Brothers/
http://www.rdio.com/#/artist/Nine_Inch_Nails/album/The_Downward_Spiral_1/track/Hurt/
http://www.rdio.com/#/people/Pitchfork/playlists/13082/Top_Singles_of_2000-2004/
If you use the Mac application for Rdio you can copy URLs from there as well. If you click the “Share” button you’ll see a URL to copy right at the top. Paste that in to your post editor and you’re all set.

GitHub’s Gist
We’re big fans of the code repository website GitHub here at Automattic and many of us use their Gist code snippets website. While we already have a cool way to embed code into your site, we realize many of you want to post Gist-hosted snippets too so starting today you can. Again, just copy/paste the URL out of your address bar onto its own line in the post editor.
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i love this….
Very cool new feature!!!
This could really upgrade my blog! Great share!
Well, I can´t get it to work. Ok, got a link, but no player.
Make sure it’s a plain-text URL and not a clickable hyperlink, i.e. don’t use the add link button and instead just paste the URL into your post.
Alternately you can wrap it in a shortcode, like so:
(orrdioorgist)Thanks Alex, it works great! As an old WordPresser I like it! Well done!
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Is it free or premium/upgrade?
It is a free feature. 🙂
Well done!
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Well done!
Reblogged this on Don Temón and commented:
Interesante. Podré poner música en el blog. Me gusta…
This just made my ability to share songs via wordpress so much more awesome. Thanks!!!
Cool!
Sweet!
thanks for the information…:))
thanks
i still don not understand how to embed GitHub to WordPress.. 😦
You can’t embed GitHub projects into your site, just code snippets that are hosted on their Gist snippet site.
Reblogged this on rachelempowernetwork and commented:
Wow this is such a cool idea I just had to sure with you guys. I’m thinking about adding it myself!
Reblogged this on Neraka69's Blog.
This is amazing!!!!!! Can’t wait to do this.
A nice feature, man! Do not wait to start using it.
Every day is more rewarding in the WordPress blogging!
Congratulations, Alex! Nice work!
And thank you!
Hugs from Brazil!
Great stuff, this should brighten my blog up, kind regards
*its own line
Good catch. Fixed, thanks!
Thank you so much, this are great features 😉
Awesome! One more reason to love WP!
great idea
really really awesome 😀
Awesome, cool dude 😀
Reblogged this on Konstantin on WordPress.com.
Very nice!!!!
Awesome! 🙂 Will use the Spotify one! 🙂
Sweet. Love the Spotify addition.
Any idea how this plays out with the Intellectual Property laws? For instance, does Spotify carry the burden of paying that when you embed their stuff on your site or are you still on the hook for it?
This is a no-cost feature. Spotify handles all of the licensing agreements.
hey thank you this is so good post
Great! Does it work for Spotify playlists as well as for tracks and albums?
Yep!
What an awesome new feature–thanks!
On the Spotify Free Option, you are limited to listening to one song five times in a month . So if the Spotify link is listened to five times in one month, then presumably the link will no longer work, until the next month ?
Any account limitations are per-person, not per embed.
Thank you .
It didn’t quite work with the method provided (copy spotify url and paste as picture indicates), but snatching the real URL and posting — voila! Brilliant. And, thanks for the feature. 🙂
Does this work if I put it on my sidebar or a widget? I’m using the Bueno template and would like to have a playlist static on the side,
Thanks.
Yep, you can use the text widget for this but you’ll need to use the shortcode (
[spotify]url here[/spotify]) rather than just the URL by itself.Reblogged this on cashzilla and commented:
This is great!
Great feature! 😀 it’s not working for me though 😦
This is AWESOME!
Awesome! Definitely using this to share music I work out to.
Well, instead of single songs only, most of us would like to post full playlists. What about?
Playlists are supported. 🙂
very cool!!
interesante!!
amazing
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This is cool – but you need to remove formatting on the code in order for it to work – I have now gone back through my site and added it to all my posts – excellent!
Reblogged this on computermob.
I take it there’s no way of text wrapping around the player, or of embedding the compact, small-artwork version, as seen on Pitchfork reviews e.g. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16534-blunderbuss/. The problem with the embedding on WordPress.com as is, is that the player is a bit obtrusive, attracting the reader’s attention rather than the text.
Tried to download Spotify and it was blocked by Chrome for a possible Win 32 infection. Did this happen to anyone else?
You can download Spotify safely from here: http://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/overview/
If you’re getting a warning about a download from there then it’s a false positive (error).
This is amazing, I love technology!
Wonderful idea since music inspires my artwork Jazz in particular. Thanks for this information.
Does the viewer need to have Spotify installed for this to work on their computer? or will it work regardless?
It will prompt them to install Spotify if they don’t have it installed.
The Spotify integration is a winner!! Very nice!
Ok, I have Spotify on my desktop, but what’s a page editor? Help I’m drowning in technology and can’t find my way out….
Thanks.
The post editor is where you write your posts.
Will we be soon able to embed Deezer ? Thanks 🙂
You can suggest ideas for new features here: https://wordpress.com/forums/forum/ideas 🙂
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Really Looking forward to adding this to my blog page. How do i attract more readers? Any add-ons that would help?
Check out this previous post from this blog: How to get more page views for your blog
That’s a great tip. Thank you. Will look it up now!
Really great
It’s shame Spotify isn’t ready available for non-US peoples. I guess iTunes will have to do.
Very nice
Great features! I learn something new everyday on WordPress.
Reblogged this on unicornivore and commented:
THIS LOOKS AWESOME