Difference between revisions of "Soundcloud - WordPress"

Revision as of 15:27, 30 September 2015

SoundCloud is the world's largest community of sound creators and let's you create, record and share the sounds you create anywhere with friends, family and the world.

Using SoundCloud in WordPress

Links to Soundcloud.com will automatically embed an audio player when added to pages/posts of your WordPress site.

Setup your SoundCloud account

Go to http://soundcloud.com and setup your free account. The free accounts give you 120 minutes of uploaded audio. File formats can be aiff, wave, mp3, AAC, WMA +

upload your audio file
navigate to your audio file's individual page and copy the URL

Add the SoundCloud LInk

Edit the post or page where you want to embed the sound clip
Paste the SoundCloud link to your audio file

View your site

Visit your site to see how SoundCloud embedded the file
Viewers can play directly from your site
To comment on the clip they will need to go directly to soundcloud.com

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 ===Using SoundCloud in WordPress===
-Blogs.evergreen.edu uses the '''[http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/soundcloud-shortcode/ SoundCloud Plugin]''' to embed audio files hosted in your [http://soundcloud.com/ SoundCloud] account.
+Links to Soundcloud.com will automatically embed an audio player when added to pages/posts of your WordPress site.
 ====Setup your SoundCloud account====
 Go to http://soundcloud.com and setup your free account. The free accounts give you 120 minutes of uploaded audio. File formats can be aiff, wave, mp3, AAC, WMA +
-====Activate the plugin====
+* upload your audio file
-#From your Dashboard go to the '''Plugins''' menu
+* navigate to your audio file's individual page and copy the URL
-#'''Activate''' the SoundCloud Shortcode plugin
-====Add the SoundCloud Shortcode====
+====Add the SoundCloud LInk====
 #Edit the post or page where you want to embed the sound clip
-#Add the shortcode with a link to your audio file
+#Paste the SoundCloud link to your audio file
- [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/LINK_TO_TRACK_SET_OR_GROUP[/soundcloud]
-''See: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/soundcloud-shortcode/ SoundCloud docs] for more paramteres that can be included.''
 ====View your site====