WordPress 4.1 Screws Up The Flow Player

I spoke with a WordPress core developer and the issue appears to be no styling for .mejs-offscreen. Their suggestion is to check that you’re including both mediaelements CSS and wp-mediaelement’s css and not overriding it.

Flow Player has been removed from PowerPress permanently. Flash based players have been a problem for a while now, earlier this week we found problems with Flow Player specifically. The next update (coming out today) is a major release of PowerPress, we now recommend in the plugin only using the HTML5 based players from this point forward.

I would suggest switching to the MediaElement.js player, it is the player officially distributed in WordPress, has flash and silver-light fallback support and can be styled with CSS. The correct mejs includes should be included in your pages once you select that player under “audio players”.

Ok, I changed the media player back to MediaElement.js and I see the same thing. There’s a bunch of accessibility text showing up in the player.

I am not seeing this issue with my dev version 6.0. If you can wait a few hours, I will have 6.0 released, if you still have the problem then I’ll work on it in that version.

Thanks for the update. I upgraded to 6.0 today and switched to the MediaElements player and the issue persists. If you want to see it in action, take a look at the player on this page. Again, this started once I upgraded to WordPress 4.1.

https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-175-new-years-resolution-slider

I also disabled every plugin except PowerPress and that didn’t solve the problem either.

Ok, I’ve switched to a couple of default themes and the media player looks fine in them so I believe it’s an issue with my theme. For now, I’ll mark this thread as resolved.

I think your theme is filtering the powerpress_playerm, replacing all the content with self coded. A quick fix would be to find that filter and comment it out. If it’s a well coded theme, it will be in your functions.php file in the theme’s folder.

Though I like custom players, you may want to just check out the latest player in PowerPress, the big thing is the new subscribe links, this ties in with the new subscribe sidebar and subscribe page shortcode embed. The idea is to create a “subscribe to this podcast” page that is then inter-linked with the episodes. You can see it in action on the sidebar of the powerprsspodcast.com web site, and the player links in this example episode: https://www.powerpresspodcast.com/2014/09/14/powerpress-6-0-news-pro-hosting-info/

Actually, my theme didn’t have the necessary updates added in 4.1 to the MediaElements player which is why the accessibility text was showing up.

https://github.com/justintadlock/theme-mediaelement/issues/5
https://github.com/justintadlock/theme-mediaelement/issues/6

I replaced the updated mediaelement.css and mediaelement.min.css files with the ones in my theme and now the media player is usable again. In a nutshell, I believe my issues actually had nothing to do with PowerPress.

Okay got it, that’s a sharp looking player!

Don’t forget to check out the new subscribe features, it will add another row below your player with subscribe with iTunes, rss and more subscribe options links, and a sidebar subscribe widget as well as the subscribe page embed. With the shows we’ve tested on before releasing it’s helped modestly with increasing podcast subscriptions.