Audio Player in Book Archive

Kyle,
Can you post a link to one of your archive pages, so we can take a look for you?

Thanks!
Kelli

Hi Kelli,

I haven’t implemented the plugin properly because I’m still working out how to make it function the way I need it to, but I do believe I will be soon. For now, the beginnings of it are at https://KyleMcCarley.com/books. I did manage a workaround to get the player to show in archive view by changing archive.php’s <div class="entry-content"> to say <?php the_content(); ?> instead of <?php the_excerpt(); ?>. This would mean that any text I put for a description of the book will have to be rather short, because archives are going to be showing everything instead of just the first X number of words or characters, but I can live with that if I can’t find a better fix.

My next step is figuring out, ideally, a way to have the archives displayed in two columns and fill up the whole page, instead of just the right half. I suspect the current display has to do with the way the plugin is interacting with the site’s theme

Turns out the workaround I found introduces another interesting problem. Any text links I try to include in the description (where the audio player code is going) aren’t clickable unless I put them in above the player. Nor are any Reader Extras clickable, in addition to displaying oddly behind the player. I can live without that, though, and links above the player actually works just fine for my purposes for now. Just thought I’d update in case anybody else is curious.

I’m no longer on the original topic of this thread, so if I should start a new one, please let me know. I’ve tinkered with my theme code enough to fix the issue I was having with everything being confined to the right side of the page. I’m having trouble figuring out a way to make the books show up in two columns, though. Any thoughts?

Starting a new thread for the two column question; this issue’s been resolved for me.