So this is my first time working on building a podcast player into a website, and am a bit lost as to how to fit our new sonaar player into what we have a featured episodes section that has a listen now button, that I want to have launch your sticky player and play the episode. What's the best way to do that?
That featured section is showing because of a plugin called super carousel (below screenshot), that I figured I could just change that button to launch your player but I'm not making it work and could use some ideas
Once MP3 Player plugin is activated, please go to wp-admin>mp3 player>setting>general And select "Podcast oriented" as the website type (see here).
Go to wp-admin>mp3 player>episode And create your first episode post.
Once it is done you can now add an sonaar audioplayer to play your episode(s).
If you are able to insert a shortcode to your slides contents, you will probably be able to add a sonaar player into your slider. Here the documentation about how to use shortcode. https://sonaar.io/docs/add-audio-player-with-shortcode/
Thanks Alexandre, my hope when we bought and installed the plugin is I could take a bit of short code and add it to my pre-existing slider, so that when a user clicks our listen now button
it would then pop up at the bottom of the screen your cool sticky player for that specific episode
but what we are doing on our site is taking multiple podcasts shows from various sources and building one rss feed for all of those shows and bringing it into our website and displaying it via that super carousel slider.
Looking at the documents from your reply, I couldn't tell if there's a way to do that without having to add the different podcasts to the mp3 area first, or if I could just build a player to use what we already have in place.
"my hope when we bought and installed the plugin is I could take a bit of short code and add it to my pre-existing slider, so that when a user clicks our listen now button."
Yes you can add the [sonaar_audioplayer] shortcode to your preexisting slider. (See shortcode documentation). But the shortcode have to be linked to a podcast episode. You have to create them first. Here the article about how to create your first podcast player. I didnt have share this on on my last message. https://sonaar.io/docs/setup-your-first-podcast-player/
"it would then pop up at the bottom of the screen your cool sticky player for that specific episode"
Yes, this is exactly what we are talking about. Just dont forget to set the sonaar_audioplayer shortcode parameter "sticky_player" to "true". eg: [sonaar_audioplayer sticky_player="true"]
"but what we are doing on our site is taking multiple podcasts shows from various sources and building one rss feed for all of those shows and bringing it into our website and displaying it via that super carousel slider."
Ok, but what part you can't do.
"Looking at the documents from your reply, I couldn't tell if there's a way to do that without having to add the different podcasts to the mp3 area first, or if I could just build a player to use what we already have in place."
Thanks for the info, we've made some progress but have a question.
Can we add {item link} to the sonor_ts code? Because that item link code references the episode displaying on the page. Item link is a url that we want the player to display/play.
Hi,
So this is my first time working on building a podcast player into a website, and am a bit lost as to how to fit our new sonaar player into what we have a featured episodes section that has a listen now button, that I want to have launch your sticky player and play the episode. What's the best way to do that?
That featured section is showing because of a plugin called super carousel (below screenshot), that I figured I could just change that button to launch your player but I'm not making it work and could use some ideas
Hi,
Once MP3 Player plugin is activated, please go to wp-admin>mp3 player>setting>general
And select "Podcast oriented" as the website type (see here).
Go to wp-admin>mp3 player>episode
And create your first episode post.
Once it is done you can now add an sonaar audioplayer to play your episode(s).
If you are able to insert a shortcode to your slides contents, you will probably be able to add a sonaar player into your slider.
Here the documentation about how to use shortcode.
https://sonaar.io/docs/add-audio-player-with-shortcode/
Please let me know if you need more assistance.
Thanks,
Alexandre from the Sonaar.io Crew
Thanks Alexandre, my hope when we bought and installed the plugin is I could take a bit of short code and add it to my pre-existing slider, so that when a user clicks our listen now button
it would then pop up at the bottom of the screen your cool sticky player for that specific episode
but what we are doing on our site is taking multiple podcasts shows from various sources and building one rss feed for all of those shows and bringing it into our website and displaying it via that super carousel slider.
Looking at the documents from your reply, I couldn't tell if there's a way to do that without having to add the different podcasts to the mp3 area first, or if I could just build a player to use what we already have in place.
Thanks for the quick response!
Hi Brad,
"my hope when we bought and installed the plugin is I could take a bit of short code and add it to my pre-existing slider, so that when a user clicks our listen now button."
Yes you can add the [sonaar_audioplayer] shortcode to your preexisting slider. (See shortcode documentation).
But the shortcode have to be linked to a podcast episode. You have to create them first.
Here the article about how to create your first podcast player. I didnt have share this on on my last message.
https://sonaar.io/docs/setup-your-first-podcast-player/
"it would then pop up at the bottom of the screen your cool sticky player for that specific episode"
Yes, this is exactly what we are talking about. Just dont forget to set the sonaar_audioplayer shortcode parameter "sticky_player" to "true". eg: [sonaar_audioplayer sticky_player="true"]
"but what we are doing on our site is taking multiple podcasts shows from various sources and building one rss feed for all of those shows and bringing it into our website and displaying it via that super carousel slider."
Ok, but what part you can't do.
"Looking at the documents from your reply, I couldn't tell if there's a way to do that without having to add the different podcasts to the mp3 area first, or if I could just build a player to use what we already have in place."
The mp3 file have to be add somewhere, but this part can be done automatically if you are using the import RSS tool.
Please read the article here https://sonaar.io/docs/setup-your-first-podcast-player
Thanks,
Alexandre from the Sonaar.io Crew
Thanks for the info, we've made some progress but have a question.
Can we add {item link} to the sonor_ts code? Because that item link code references the episode displaying on the page. Item link is a url that we want the player to display/play.
You cant insert the audio url through the [sonaar_ts] shortcode or the [sonaar_audioplayer] shortcode
Thanks,
Alexandre from the Sonaar.io Crew