Wordpress Plugin To Make A Frame?

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Hi, just wondering if anyone knows of a Wordpress plugin that can make an iframe. There's gotta be one out there, but I can't seem to find one. I want to have my navigation menu bar in a separate frame and have all the pages load separately in the main frame. 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!
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  • 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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    • 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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  • Hi, now I used it
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    • 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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  • 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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    • 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.
  • 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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    • 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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    Hi, just wondering if anyone knows of a Wordpress plugin that can make an iframe. There's gotta be one out there, but I can't seem to find one. I want to have my navigation menu bar in a separate frame and have all the pages load separately in the main frame. 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!