Soundcloud as Audio Post Format

Hi 3T_MJ. Welcome to the Hueman forum. Based on the SoundCloud support page you should be able to add the embed code directly into a standard post content area. Can you post a link to your site? Thanks.

The site is still in production status, so it’s on localhost only.

Not sure if you got me right. Of course, I can add a soundcloud link into the content area of a post but I can’t use the Audio post format then. If I choose the Audio post format without attaching audio files, a non working audio player gets inserted. The Audio post format is only working if I attach .mp3 and .ogg files to the post. That’s why I can’t use it for soundcloud. I’m looking for a workaround for this.

It appears that SoundCloud loads it’s own visual player in an iframe. What happens if you use the SoundCloud Shortcode plugin and select “HTML” player? If you have the standalone audio file from SoundCloud I suppose the other thing you could try is copying /inc/post-formats.php from the parent theme to the same subfolder in a child theme, then modify the audio format section to include the SoundCloud file format.

Thanks for your support but this doesn’t make any difference. The problem is not soundcloud but how the audio post format is set up. I think it would be a good idea for the theme creator if he could add soundcloud support to the audio post format. I know there are themes that do have audio post format support for soundcloud but these have too many other drawbacks for me.

I do not want to modify the /inc/post-formats.php because I fear I don’t have enough knowledge for that.