[Plugin: podPress] Podpress player not acting "normal"

  • I’m having some difficulty figuring out exactly how to go about fixing a problem with the podpress player within my posts.

    When the page/post first loads everything looks fine, but once you click the play button you get a weird blocked looking thing that sort of works but has no visual references (i.e. play, pause, stop).

    Also the “play in popup” and “Hide player” options just make the page jump down a bit, moving the player to the top of the page.

    I know a bit about code and stuff, but not that much. (read “painfully little..:) Any help would be appreciated.

    https://bethelmennoniteonline.org/ – its my church’s blog/podcast/website…

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter NodleRedoy

    (@nodleredoy)

    I did forget to mention that it seems to be a Chrome issue… (at least it works fine in Firefox…) At lest the playing functions work fine. The “play in popup” and “hide player” options still don’t work correctly.

    but once you click the play button you get a weird blocked looking thing that sort of works but has no visual references (i.e. play, pause, stop).

    Well, the player you see after the click is the HTML5 player which is part of Chrome. The player of the Safari webbrowser or Internet Explorer looks different.
    But as far as I know the HTML5 player of CHrome has got play, pause and stop buttons. Are you sure that you have the current version of Chrome?

    If you really don’t like these HTML5 players then you can deactivate this in the player settings of podPress. (deactivate “Use HTML5 tags”) When you do that then podPress will show one of the Flash players in all browsers again.
    But note that iPods, iPads and iPhones don’t have Flash.

    The “play in popup” and “hide player” options still don’t work correctly.

    You are right and it is the same in all browser.
    “play in popup” and “hide player” call Javascript functions with a lot of parameters. If you look into the source code of this page you will see that these calls behind the URL of the media file a double quotation mark where a single quotation mark should be and that disables the function of these links.

    I’m not sure what us causing that. But it seems not to be a general bug of podPress. I have tested a lot of combinations of the options for this line with the links (below the player). But I could not reproduce that.

    But I have seen a comparable problem in the past and in that case it was a different plugin which also filtered the post content and produced such a problem.

    That is why I think you should find out whether or not is caused through an interference with another plugin. In order to do that deactivate the other plugins temporarily one by one and reload every time the front page and try whether or not it made a difference.

    If it is an interference with another plugin and if you can tell me which one then I can try to find out what the reason for that problem is and maybe fix it.

    Regards,
    Tim

    My experience with this issue was that with “Enable HTML5 Tags” checked, the feature only worked in Firefox. Neither Chrome nor Safari would open the pop-up player. After unchecking this option, the pop-up player worked in all three browsers. Here’s my version info:

    WordPress 3.2.1
    Podpress 8.8.10.9
    Firefox 3.6.19
    Chrome 14.0.835.109
    Safari 5.1

    @lividsquirrel:
    As I have written above: this is no general problem of podPress and it is probably connected to Javascript errors during the page load in your blog and the blog of NodleRedoy.
    To solve this problem it is necessary that you try to find whether there are JS errors and which ones or not. Or that you let me see the problem.

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