Preparing to do some work on this blog today I noticed again that I had not yet uploaded a banner image.
With the help of Irfanview and Photoshop Elements, I was able to adapt a picture I had taken of some surfers at the famous Snapper Rocks break at our local Rainbow Bay beach.
For the banner, the original image, included here, has been cropped and resized and the name of the blog incorporated.
This morning I had an email from ShareThis, about their new and apparently improved button.
I’m interested in this, because another such “sharing” tool I am using on various sites is taking too long to download and thus slowing the total time for the page download.
I’m now trying out the ShareThis button, using the option which places code in the header.php file.
(Checked this: no sign of the button)
(Update: I used the WordPress plugin and now the button works)
In my continuing search for a plugin which will show an MP3 player – with download button ideally – within the post, I’ve now installed Martin Laine’s Audio Player.
One of the tricks is not to install the audio link within a paragraph. So I am going to put the link below here, not in the middle of a paragraph.
The MP3 is of an interview I did with David Holloway, Editor of the Metaverse Journal.
It is interesting trying to find an alternative player to the BYOAudio one, which has been giving me some grief in the past 24 hours. Up till now, it has always worked perfectly well, but with a couple of WordPress sites BYOAudio has been uncooperative.
On one site, we found we could not make the player work if we chose to use the optional MP3 download link as well as the player. On another, the player would appear in the preview, then disappear some time between then and publishing. Some conflict with the most recent WordPress versions, perhaps.
Unfortunately, I left it about an hour too late to call BYOAudio – timezone differences can be a challenge. I’ve sent a support email, but of course am not holding my breath on that.
In my search today for other options, I’ve come across a few references to the One Pixel Out player and have installed the plugin for that.
I’ve taken the code from an MP3 file stored on BYOAudio and will now see how that goes.
This is an interview with Peter Evans-Greenwood of Capgemini: I published it previously on my Social Media Show site.
According to the information provided with the plugin, my setting of the options should mean that a player appears at the bottom of the post. That does not appear in the preview, so I’m going to publish the post now and see what happens with the player. Or doesn’t!
Update: I can’t see any player here
Update 2: I’ve now followed the instructions and enclosed the link with [audio:http://www...(absolute path, ie. full url] with the result that in the preview at least I see and can use a player button, but the url shows up – progress, but more figuring out to do.
Update 3: as soon as I re-posted, I saw that I’d not completely changed the link to the new [audio:http://...] format.
Update 4: looking at some of the other posts here as part of today’s experimentation, I see that each now has a player button – so I’m changing the coding of the link above, back from the [audio: etc] format to a “regular” URL link
Update 5: I’ve decided that to provide a link for people to download the audio file to their own mp3 player, the easiest course of action at the moment is to do it manually, i.e. just type in Download MP3 and give that a hyperlink to the file – have just done that at it works in preview mode.
Download MP3
The trailer for International documentary film maker Tan Siok Siok’s upcoming Boomtown Beijing, a film for this Olympic Year. I posted about the film yesterday on my deswalsh.com site.
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