Wordpress Plugin To Make A Frame?

jminkler

15 years ago

Let me google that for you

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jminkler

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Sweeney

This is a musician's website, so there will be music playing from a small flash mp3 player in the navigation menu frame. That way, when people browse the site, the music will still play continuously. Any suggestions? Thanks!

It won't work like that, unless you sacrifice SEO. The solutions to this are complex.

But with an iframe the iframe resides on the current page, and will disapear just like the rest of the site when the page is navigated away.

I have a blog dedicated to this

Continuous Play Wordpress Music | Wordpress Music

This states you put the WHOLE BLOG in an iframe, with the mp3 music playing on the index.php/html page with the blog in /blog .. then submit a sitemap... again not very pleasing layout but the least difficult.

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Chris Sweeney

15 years ago

Originally Posted by jminkler

But with an iframe the iframe resides on the current page, and will disapear just like the rest of the site when the page is navigated away.

Thanks for your response

, but perhaps I'm missing something. I think it should actually be really simple. I mean, I could easily code it in Notepad with raw HTML. Of course when the people leave the site the music will stop playing, I understand that. But when people navigate throughout the site, the music should keep playing if the player is in the nav menu frame. When a user clicks a link in the nav menu frame, the page loads in the main frame. Since all the pages are loading in the main frame, and the nav menu isn't reloading at all, the music will keep playing. Also, I'm not really worried about the SEO aspect, but I don't think the simple way I'm proposing would impact SEO much, if at all. Am I missing something?

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Istvan Horvath

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Sweeney

perhaps I'm missing something.
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Am I missing something?

Yes and yes...

You seem to miss how WP plugins work: they are not doing "design"; just adding features and functionality.
You seem to miss the professional designers' aversion of everything that is frame (so 90s...)
You seem to miss to understand how WP themes are built.

Sorry, you asked for it

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Chris Sweeney

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Yes and yes...

You seem to miss how WP plugins work: they are not doing "design"; just adding features and functionality.
You seem to miss the professional designers' aversion of everything that is frame (so 90s...)
You seem to miss to understand how WP themes are built.

Sorry, you asked for it

Thanks for your input Istvan. You seem pretty knowledgeable on the subject. Would you recommend an alternative way to doing what I am trying to do without using an iframe to do it?

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dannycalifornia

15 years ago

Hi, now I used it

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Victor 15 years ago

Hi Chris,

Try the Tierra's Audio (with auto-resume) Playlist Manager plugin:

WordPress › Tierra's Audio Playlist Manager « WordPress Plugins

Once installed, create MP3 playlists using 'Playlist Manager' interface.

Tick the 'Auto-resume' option when adding the widget or use short-codes according to the directions.

You should then have continuous MP3 playback in the site. The music will automatically resume where it left off when the next page loads.
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Istvan Horvath

15 years ago

Honestly, you are trying to use two things that I'd never ever put on a website:
- a frame
- an unstoppable music

I understand it's a musician's website but that doesn't give anybody the permission to throw some loud music at the visitors... Any noise that starts on a website without asking for my permission is offensive.

So I don't really have any alternatives, except "drop the idea"...

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Chris Sweeney

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Honestly, you are trying to use two things that I'd never ever put on a website:
- a frame
- an unstoppable music

I understand it's a musician's website but that doesn't give anybody the permission to throw some loud music at the visitors... Any noise that starts on a website without asking for my permission is offensive.

So I don't really have any alternatives, except "drop the idea"...

Wow, I appreciate your response because, well, I asked for it. However, I'm a little offended that you're assuming that I'd just be blasting "loud music" as soon as the page loads. That's not the case at all. The page will load like a normal homepage, without music playing. Then people will see a music player on the side, and make the decision to listen to that music themselves and press play themselves. Then they may decide to browse the rest of the website, but they still want to listen to the music uninterrupted. It sounds like a great and very logical idea to me, so I think I'm going to stick with the idea and figure out how to get it done.

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Tim Franklin

15 years ago

Things change all the time that is the one thing I have learned about Computers, Software, Internet, When I began to study programming in 1983, you printed out the program on paper and to study how it worked.

As far as an iframe is concerned, someone should tell youtube and google that iframes are obsolete because from what I can see they still use it.

Keep on, I suspect you could use jquery to do what you want you may have to do a little coding, but if you run the player in a "container" think Ajax and jquery, that would be the direction I would look, still every thing changes, in the time it took me to type this someone somewhere in the world discovered a new way to do what I am thinking about doing right now.

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Chris Sweeney

15 years ago

Thanks Tim, you're right. Iframes are all over the place. Here is a website that does basically what I want the site I'm working on to do:

Sarah Peacock Music - Home

The music player is on the very bottom. And you can browse the rest of the site while the music plays uninterrupted. So there's some living proof that this is possible. But I'm still wondering how I can do it.

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Tim Franklin 15 years ago

You should try firebug, with firefox,

Looks like they did it in the CSS, really interesting stuff, you learn something new every day,
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SteveJohnson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Sweeney

Thanks Tim, you're right. Iframes are all over the place. Here is a website that does basically what I want the site I'm working on to do:

Sarah Peacock Music - Home

The music player is on the very bottom. And you can browse the rest of the site while the music plays uninterrupted. So there's some living proof that this is possible. But I'm still wondering how I can do it.

They're using frames and some javascript to fix the external links.

There isn't a plugin that's going to do what you want. You're going to have to have a theme specially created to handle this.

And there IS a downside. Because the site would be within a frame, the separate pages would never be indexed. You may poo-poo that away, but the fact remains that the site would never be found in search engines by users who are searching for something specific.

You would, for all intents and purposes, have a one-page website with some different content in a frame in the middle.

That's gonna suck when people go looking for the band.

The web is a 'stateless' creature. There's no seamless loading of content without breaking the main idea of the internets: a specific address to get to specific content. Many people have tried, but nothing has worked well so far.

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Chris Sweeney

15 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

They're using frames and some javascript to fix the external links.

There isn't a plugin that's going to do what you want. You're going to have to have a theme specially created to handle this.

And there IS a downside. Because the site would be within a frame, the separate pages would never be indexed. You may poo-poo that away, but the fact remains that the site would never be found in search engines by users who are searching for something specific.

You would, for all intents and purposes, have a one-page website with some different content in a frame in the middle.

That's gonna suck when people go looking for the band.

The web is a 'stateless' creature. There's no seamless loading of content without breaking the main idea of the internets: a specific address to get to specific content. Many people have tried, but nothing has worked well so far.

Thanks for your response

. However, I might have to disagree. I googled:

site:sarahpeacockmusic.com

...and all her pages are indexed. When you search for her name on Google, her website comes up. That's how I found her actually. I remembered that she had the audio player frame on her site, but forgot what her site was, so I just googled her name and there it was.

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