Comments on: How to Embed a Soundcloud Sample in a WordPress Blog

By: Karen Commins

Karen Commins — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:47:38 +0000

In reply to Rebekah Downing.

Hi, Rebekah! I’m so glad you found the info to be helpful.

Please let me know once you get your site going. I love to interview audiobook bloggers!

Karen

By: Rebekah Downing

Rebekah Downing — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:35:21 +0000

Thank you so much Karen! You are such a great help and inspiration to those of us looking to start up a site.

By: April Holgate

April Holgate — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:16:48 +0000

In reply to William Peck.

Hey William,

I have a WordPress.org as well. I have discovered you can use the WordPress Code, just paste it into the View section when composing your post. No alterations needed. They have the cover as Karen described. I am not sure why they don’t translate to the WordPress.com sites, but .org looks fine.

Cheers!
April

By: Karen Commins

Karen Commins — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:20:34 +0000

In reply to William Peck.

Wonderful! Thanks for coming back and sharing the info about the site differences and the solution. I’m sure somebody else will run into the same problem and will be glad you’ve already figured it out!

Karen

By: William Peck

William Peck — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:07:38 +0000

In reply to Karen Commins.

Hi Karen:

Problem solved! I have a wordpress.org site for which the code that is created when you click on the WordPress Code box does not work. This is only used for the wordpress.com site as you have outlined in this blog.

However, if you have a wordpress.org site and follow the steps above in this blog and DO NOT click on the WordPress Code box and simply copy the IFRAME line of code into the TEXT [not Visual] area of the post then it works.

Thanks for your overall excellent listing of steps!

William

By: William Peck

William Peck — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:45:18 +0000

In reply to Karen Commins.

Well I followed your advice to the letter of the law and am still getting the same results. I noticed in your example within the Permalink area you highlighted the ending of it [i.e. 3448.html] is that significant?

Thanks again!

William

By: Karen Commins

Karen Commins — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:14:12 +0000

In reply to Lee Ann Howlett. Lee Ann, thank YOU for taking the time to leave me this nice comment!

By: Karen Commins

Karen Commins — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:10:01 +0000

In reply to William Peck.

Greetings, William! Thanks for the note. I’ll bet that the embed code is displayed rather than the player due to a missing element in the code.

You can click on the picture of the embed code in my post and see it full-screen for comparison. Check your code carefully to ensure that it:

— is inserted on the VISUAL tab, not the TEXT tab of your WordPress screen
— has the opening and closing square brackets on either end of the line [ ]
— has opening and closing quotation marks ” around the url and each individual element of params, width, height
— isn’t missing any ampersands & in the middle of the the params element

Once your code looks exactly like my example, I have confidence that the player will be displayed on your page. Good luck!

Karen

By: William Peck

William Peck — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:29:35 +0000

Hi Karen – perfect article addressing exactly where I am right now in my work process as I wanted to embed the Soundcloud player in a post on my website. I have a page in draft mode right now to which the respective posts are attached. I placed the embed code from the respective Soundcloud player and when I click on “view post” [on the permalink line] it shows the post with the actual Soundcloud embed line of code versus the Soundcloud player depiction. I tried several approaches and wondered what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

By: Lee Ann Howlett

Lee Ann Howlett — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:41:19 +0000

As always, Karen, you are so helpful with info the rest of us can use! Thanks for taking the time to post these instructions!