Hi, can anyone tell me how this is possible. A site called BandCamp created a flash music player widget that is embeddable into a hosted wordpress blog. An example is here. As far as I can tell they're not using any shortcode to allow the widget to work. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks a lot. Mike
Not sure if it will work on a wordpress.com blog. If it has any js in it, you may be out of luck. Can you show the code ?
It appears to be undocumented as there's no mention of such on their support site. I found a single usage in their forums: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sourcecode-cant-handle-long-code-file Code (markup): 2nd post. Hope this helps, -drmike
Yeah, this shouldn't be possible on wordpress.com. Bandcamp doesn't have a shortcode of their own like Youtube or Flickr, so I am wondering how they are bypassing this?
You didn't even bother reading the link that I gave, did you? *sigh* They have a short code. It's undocumented like a number of others they have. It looks like from here: http://codetest.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/bandcamp-shortcode/ Code (markup): that you can replace album= with track= if you want.
Thank you and sorry about before. I guess my next question would be how do you create a short code? Can you do it without wordpress' consent/ helping you? Thanks again.
I know you can use the shortcode api for wordpress.org but I didn't think any of those shortcodes could work on wordpress.com without Wordpress themselves allowing it?
Corrected usage in the text just to keep things straight. 'Wordpress' is defined to be the regular wordpress.org software that you download and host yourself. You would have to get the Automattic folks to add in support for a new feature for it to be allowed on wordpress.com. Automattic calls in their Partner program and for the life of me, I can find lots of mention about it but no link to give you.
Awesome thanks, this has been a huge help, so you're saying that Bandcamp the makers of the widget must be in this Partner program then?
They don't have to be as the Wordpress developers could have added in themselves. A lot of the times when a 3rd party site is in the program, you'll find embedding instructions on that 3rd party site on how to do it alongside the other embedding instructions. Considering that I still haven;'t found any real mention of this elsewhere in the forums or on their support site or in fact on the bandcamp site, it may have just been something a wp developer threw in there themselves for their own personal enjoyment. That's actually how the latex support came about. One of the video sites as well although I can't remember which one.