Embed audio player in featured image?
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I am new at this, and not sure whether this would be impossible or extremely difficult but I’m wondering if there is any way to embed the WP audio player where the caption or description would usually go for the featured image on my posts. Simply pasting [audio URL] did not work.
The blog is a music blog, and I’m trying to get it so visitors don’t have to click through to individual posts in order to access audio.
Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Blog url: http://blackboxbeach.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It is absolutely not going to be possible to put it in your Featured Image. You might be able to use a Manual Excerpt to put it on the front page, but in general media on the front page of a blog that truncates posts does not show. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/
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It’s not possible via a manual excerpt either: custom excerpts support regular coding (so you can display links, formatted text or images), but they don’t support shortcodes such as the audio player shortcode.
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Yeah, I’m thinking there is no way to do it. It’s kind of shocking to me how hard it is to get audio onto the home page of a WP blog (or any other, as far as I’m able to see), aside from buying a premium theme and using one of the .org accounts. A portfolio theme with a grid of images/audio players paired together just seems like the most obvious way to do it, but this is the only one I’ve seen:
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I definitely would if I were able to find one that had audio players and images on the blog’s main page. I’ll take another look, but I’ve been through them and didn’t see anything like that.
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It’s not possible in any free grid-layout theme (because they all display excerpts or just images). You need a conventional-layout theme that displays full posts (can be turned to posts truncated via the read-more tag). A possible compromise might be Under the Influence: it displays posts in two columns.
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Okay, thanks, I’ll definitely check that out. And good to know about the grid themes, generally.
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You can also use a grid-layout theme that supports custom excerpts if you use third-party audio players instead of the WP audio player, but that’s a bit complicated. See here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/alternative-audio-players/ -
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