How To Embed Audio on Your WordPress.com Site

by Ray aka @podcasthelper on October 8, 2009

HOW TO EMBED AUDIO ON YOUR WORDPRESS.COM SITE

Learn how to put an audio/mp3 file (i.e. your podcast episode) on your wordpress.com site. (This tutorial was captured in full HD and is best watched using the full screen option by clicking the little tv icon in the bottom right side of this player).

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Billy Sugarfix February 9, 2011 at 7:45 pm

I came to this post from a youtube video about setting up a podcast in wordpress. I installed the 1 pixel plug in and am putting in the audio tag just like this but in the preview I get [audio .mp3]. No player.

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RayAKA@PodcastHelper February 9, 2011 at 9:35 pm

First question I would ask is, are you using wordpress.com or your own hosted wordpress solution?

If you are using wordpress.com which is shown in the video, you need to include the URL into the brackets for example it should look like this [audio Reply

Billy Sugarfix February 10, 2011 at 10:26 am

Hey, I am hosting my own. I actually solved the problem by adding a colon. So, the tag is [audio: .mp3]. I have the latest (to my knowledge) version of wordpress, maybe it now requires the colon? All I know is that it WILL NOT work without it. Thanks for the response though. I'm looking forward to the tutorials on setting up a podcast! Thanks again!

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