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dropbox on wordpress
i feel stupid for asking.. but i just cant seem to get the dropbox on my wordpress blog..
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the wordpress.com hosting doesn't support customized code but if youre hostng it yourself it shouldn't be a problem.
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Inappropriate?the wordpress.com hosting doesn't support customized code but if youre hostng it yourself it shouldn't be a problem.
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Sorry - this doesn't answer the question as the following comments make clear. Surely it's not asking too much to ask for a piece of simple code? -
Inappropriate?I'm afraid that doesn't help me. I tried adding a Text widget to a sidebar, and pasting the embed code into it. The Dropbox didn't show up on my site, so I assume it either needs a different container for the code, or the code needs some html tags around it. Or something else!
Could you give specific instructions on how to embed the dropbox graphic into a Wordpress sidebar?
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Inappropriate?I have the same problem. I'm trying to embed the code on my Wordpress self-hosted blog: http://www.netmix.com. I'm not sure if that weird Microsoft code your using to display the background is acting funky. You should have a flat jpg to point to. Trying to get fancy with some weird MS script might not work for everyone.
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Inappropriate?Hi, I have the same question. I would like to install a soundcloud.com plugin in my self-hosted blog. Could you give us some instructions? Thanks in advance.
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proboke.com
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Inappropriate?Hey guys, thanks for reaching out. Could I point you out to our blog posts about WordPress integration, I'm sure you'll find more details there:
http://blog.soundcloud.com/?s=wordpress
Let me know if that helps,
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Inappropriate?Actually David, unless I am misunderstanding the whole thing (entirely possible) this allows you to embed your music on a Wordpress blog - not embed a Dropbox (which is what I want to do - and others ...)
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Oh, ok right. I saw Proboke mentioning a plugin and your comment below so I thought that was the same. Sorry about that. You should be able to embed the Dropbox on a self-hosted WordPress blog, unfortunately it doesn't work on Wordpress.com blogs. I assume you have a self-hosted blog, right? Do you maybe have a screenshot of how that looks? I'll pass this over to our developer taking care of widgets.
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Inappropriate?David,
You can see from the screen shot I originally posted that the Widget just says "Drop Me Your Track" but does not show the surrounding container. My images is in this thread. I know you are busy answering questions, but it's a bit disconcerting to actually have already taken the time to post an image of the problem and have you not address that at all. Let's get with the program. We are all having the same problem. When you try to embed a Drop Box on a Wordpress SELF-HOSTED blog, the widget wrapper disappears and it's just the text. This should have been tested against, but it seems that it was not. Unless there is a reason for this. Please let us know.
Besides, I posted my comment FIVE MONTHS ago! That's a long time not to get an answer to a question.
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Inappropriate?Hi Tony,
thanks for your comment and for getting back to me.
Let me start by apologizing for the delay on this. I joined the team 8 weeks ago and it looks like this thread has been neglected and wasn't on the top of the thread views in our GetSatisfaction admin panel. Sorry about that.
My above comment was originally directed towards Peter to confirm with him that we're speaking about a self-hosted blog to avoid any confusion.
I have passed this thread onto out developer in charge for all things widgets and will try to get an answer to this asap. I assume the problem still persists?
Thanks :)
David
I’m hopeful to be able to get back with a solution soon
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Inappropriate?Understand the growing pains of SoundCloud. Great they are using this service and brought you on the team. Thanks for your kind reply and we look forward to the dev's answer to our inquiry. This will allow us to finally promote SoundCloud effectively on our sites, for sure.
I've added the Wordpress Plug-In you suggested. That's great to add a DropBox to a post, but not to sidebar.php. We need a Wordpress plugin that allows you to add the DropBox as Wordpress plugin, not an embed code. If it must remain an embed, then not sure if you want to go with Flash instead of javascript for that. That could be the issue. But I'm not expert.
Tony
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Perfect, thanks for the update, Tony. My guess is that it is a Flash embed but I will check back with the devs to get the experts involved :)
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Just to endorse Tony's comments: I want a dropbox on a Wordpress 'hosted' blog; Wordpress will not accept javascript in the text/html box - just text/html. Tweet etc have managed this without to much bother .......
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Inappropriate?Quick update on this one after speaking to our developer:
The problem looks like it is caused by WordPress directly (other blog platforms seem to work fine) and we will need to use Filebug to see why the widget gets blocked. To do so, we'd need to see the widget/problem in a live environment.
Could you please try and embed the code again and post the link so we can go and try to detect the issue?
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Inappropriate?David: Here's the site: http://peterdcox.me.uk/
Here's what it looks like. Please let me know when I can remove it!! Thanks.
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Thanks, Peter. Sorry for the delay. Was away over the weekend. Have forwarded to our Flash/widget dev.
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hi Peter,
please try to paste the code into the HTML tab (not into visual editor field)
if that doesn't work, try going to Appearance/Editor, then select sidebar.php from the Templates, and paste the dropbox code right before the last -
Matas
I think you may be looking at Wordpress on a server - not the Wordpress.com template for 'freebie' users.
- The Text/html widget only has one view - there's no html tab (unlike on a blog entry page)
- with a free account you can't edit the CSS (and save) the alterations - even then, if you pay extra, it only allows access to the main css sheet - and not the sidebar.php template. -
well, free account on wordpress.com is very limited. the only option I can offer you is to paste something like this into widget:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXb...
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Peter D Cox's comment below (the part after "this code works") solved my problem (WordPress-hosted sidebar dropbox) Thanks!
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Inappropriate?Ok just to be clear this code works:
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<b><a href='http://soundcloud.com/matas/dropbox' class='soundcloud-dropbox'><img src="http://a1.soundcloud.com/images/dropbox_small_white.png" /></a> </b>
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<b><a href='http://soundcloud.com/matas/dropbox' class='soundcloud-dropbox'><img src="http://a1.soundcloud.com/images/dropbox_small_dark.png" /></a></b>
--> remove this comment tag
Change "matas" for your soundcloud name - the first paragraph of code gives the coloured drop box the second (after "or") gives a black and white one.
Simple.
Perhaps this could be put on the main website
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Hey JD, thanks but that is a different Dropbox - it's acutally the service called Dropbox while on SoundCloud, it is a feature. Thanks for checking in though
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Inappropriate?Hey everyone, this just came in via email by Mike, I'll just copy and paste his email here:
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Nick,
I have just put a Soundcloud Dropbox in my (self-hosted) Wordpress sidebar by pasting the embed code into a "text" widget.
Remove all the introductory code so you just have this:
(find the embed code by clicking the link to the Google doc):
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATA...
In the first line you'll note you use your name (obviously) and I wanted my box to be left-aligned so I replaced "block" with "inline-block" (I don't know CSS but researched variations and this worked).
Hope it works for you. After reading this incredible thread and all the suggestions it boggled my mind how easy it was for me.
Good luck.
Mike
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Please let us know here if that worked
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Inappropriate?For you who have a blog on WordPress.com (not a self-hosted blog) Here's a link that tells how easy it is to change the html of the thingy
on WordPress-com.
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/...
I'm totally code illiterate myself and totally daft and new here on
Soundcloud, but that thread was what made me interested to put a
dropbox on my blog and come here to get one in the first place.
I'm not even sure yet were I can find this dropbox, hehe. Is it free or do I need a payd account?
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Inappropriate?Now I've set up a dropbox on my blog. Easy, very easy. Just take the special text in the thread and customize it to your address here and put it into a text widget on your Wordpress.com-blog.
You can see mine in the bottom of the right sidebar here:
http://paddytheflea.wordpress.com/
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