wordpress audio player plugin problem

  • hi,

    i recently switched themes on my website, from “demar” to “clean minimal,” and in the process broke martin laine’s audio player plugin, which i have been happily using for the last year and a half. after a day and a half of troubleshooting, uninstalling and re-installing, and pouring over forum discussions from a year ago, i thought i would raise the issue here, as i no longer know what to do about this issue.

    despite the fact that i have flash 10, every time i try to post an audio player onto my website i get the following error on the page where the audio player should be:

    “Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.”

    i have uninstalled and re-installed flash 10 several times, and no matter what i get this error message. does anyone have any idea what im doing wrong, or is the plugin not working, or what?

    going crazy over this here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
    casey

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  • I have been using Version 2.0b6 for some time now with no problems. If you upgrade, read the installation instructions. I think the directory structure has changed a little from the last stable version.

    Narrow the possibilities down if you can.

    1) If you go back to the other/another theme, does the player resume operation?

    2) Can you duplicate the symptom from more than one computer?

    3) Can you test it in more than one browser, and are the results the same?

    4) Disable all plugins and test the audio player plugin by itself. If it works, you can search for the conflict.

    5) Lastly, are you viewing from Windows Vista, and have you noticed that some internet flash videos will play fine, while others will not?

    Thread Starter caseythomasanderson

    (@caseythomasanderson)

    i started on the other theme and had no issues. i only switched themes yesterday, and that was the first time i had this problem. i just went back and forth from “clean minimal” to “demar,” and it works on demar. id really like to keep using clean minimal, as i like the way it looks a lot, so im hoping there is a solution to this that is not simply switching themes again.

    i have duplicated this symptom from more than one computer.

    i have also tested this on safari, as well as firefox (my main browser, i almost never use safari), and the results are the same.

    tried disabling all the plugins and leaving audio player…same result.

    im viewing from a intel mac osx in firefox.

    is there a way to make some sort of switch in the code that will enable this plugin to work with the theme? is it really likely that the theme is what is breaking the plugin?

    This is a shot in the dark, but I finally found what I was looking for.
    Open header.php of the clean minimal theme, and:

    It is very likely that wp_head() function is missing in your theme’s header. To fix this, put the following code into your WordPress theme’s header file right before the </head>:

<?php wp_head(); ?>

    See if <?php wp_head(); ?> is missing from the header.php file.

    Thread Starter caseythomasanderson

    (@caseythomasanderson)

    it looks like it is. i can pop that back in, im just not one hundred percent sure where that is supposed to go.

    Thread Starter caseythomasanderson

    (@caseythomasanderson)

    looks like it is missing, i mean.

    put it right before the closing head tag, like this

    <?php wp_head(); ?></head>

    Thread Starter caseythomasanderson

    (@caseythomasanderson)

    oh wow. that fixed it! thanks so much for your help. just out of curiosity, why would missing that head function affect the plugin? i have a fairly strong programming background, but im new to web stuff, and im still kind of teaching myself this stuff.

    I just installed that theme, confirmed your symptom,

    Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.”

    I added this to header.php just as I instructed above:

    <?php wp_head(); ?>

    and audio player is now working for me.

    Cool…

    ??

    just out of curiosity, why would missing that head function affect the plugin?

    I believe it is a plugin API hook.

    Thanks so much for ClaytonJames – I had been looking for the solution to this issue for a while!

    Wow! – You helped me out! … At least for the half of the problem:

    Now it works perfectly within blog posts – but still not working within article pages. That’s strange. Include the wp_head tag under the </head> tag in header.php. Shouldn’t it work now as well in posts as in article pages?

    Stefan

    Still having the same problem: the player shows off within blog articles, but never within pages. The point ist: I need the player only within pages, only seldom within blog articles. Any ideas?

    Good to have those forums. I’d never make it to set up my blog software completely without :-(. Thanks a lot!

    Stefan

    please can someone help ?

    since i upgraded my wordpress and installed audio player, i receive the error “You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser” next to my flash player.

    I have flash installed. And when this page is viewed in IE or Firefox I don’t see this error. When it’s viewed in Safari it appears.

    View Link below:

    https://www.deanjon.net/PodcastCentral/wp/?p=3070

    it’s strange… how do I remove this ? Pain as when you click play the rss window appears too.

    Hi,
    For some reason my audio player shows up when you click the post but on the main page I only see the code that I typed in [audio:filename]. My website is https://www.themisseducation.com. Does anyone have any ideas what the issue could be. I tried adding “<?php wp_head(); ?>” but that didn’t solve the issue.

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