Using Soundslides in WordPress

  • elizabethbond · Member ·

    Is it possible to embed a video from the program Soundslides into your blog? Every time I paste the embedding code for my soundslides video into WordPress, it changes it to a link. The link always works, but I would prefer to have the actual video embedded onto the page rather than a link. I’m not sure if this makes a difference, but I’m using the “Twenty-Eleven” theme. Suggestions?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    Please paste the embed code here (between backticks) so we can see if there’s a workaround.

  • marcusod · Member ·

    I too would really like to find a way of using Soundslides in wordpress. It is the professional tool of choice for journalists and I would love to be able to get my students to upload their soundslide projects to wordpress.com blogs. At the moment this forces me to use weebly for student projects.

    A typical soundslides embed is in this format:

    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="620" height="533" id="soundslider"><param name="movie" value="http://thecurrentmagazine.com/multimedia/ODonnell_Childwell/soundslider.swf?size=1&format=xml" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://thecurrentmagazine.com/multimedia/ODonnell_Childwell/soundslider.swf?size=1&format=xml" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="620" height="533" menu="false" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

  • panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    Copy this part of the code:
    <embed src="ETC ETC ETC ETC"></embed>
    and turn it to:
    [gigya src="ETC ETC ETC ETC" ]
    Paste into HTML post or page editor.

    For more on this see here:
    http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

    Note: the SS slideshow isn’t resizable, so it won’t fit in any theme; see here:

    Maximum displayed image width

  • marcusod · Member ·

    Thanks Panos I figured out a few other issues and posted a blog

    How to Embed Soundslides into WordPress.com Blogs

    It would be nice to be able to use the html5 version but this doesn’t seem to work in the same way. Soundslides can generate an html5 embed code which looks like this:

    <iframe src="http://thecurrentmagazine.com/multimedia/ODonnell_ChildwellHTML5/_files/iframe.html" width="480" height="320" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

    When I tried

    [gigya src="http://thecurrentmagazine.com/multimedia/ODonnell_ChildwellHTML5/_files/iframe.html" ]

    or

    [gigya src="http://thecurrentmagazine.com/multimedia/ODonnell_ChildwellHTML5/_files/iframe.html" width="480" height="320" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" ]

    I just end up with a blank space the size of the slideshow!

    Any clues with that one would be the final part of the problem solved – it would mean we could have soundslides on wordpress.com and ios devices at the same time!

    Thanks for your help

  • panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    The gigya shortcode is for flash embeds only (codes with the object or embed tag or both – such as the one you originally pasted here). Iframes are not allowed, and cannot be converted into a working shortcode.

    As for your post,

    a) Here’s your slideshow, with the full-screen mode on:
    http://panosdemos.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/soundslides-slideshow/
    In yours it isn’t working because you have omitted allowFullScreen=”true” from the shortcode.

    b) “WordPress blogs only accept a 420 wide embed”? That’s not correct. As I already noted in my previous reply, your only limit is the width of the main column (which varies from theme to theme).

  • marcusod · Member ·

    Thanks for the further information.

    I did read your post about theme widths and tried to post with a range of different larger themes but kept getting cut off versions because I didn’t realize the need for the additional parameters.

    I have adjusted my post. The allowFullScreen=”true” should be in the code for both small and large versions this activates the full screen display option in the lower right of the frame controls. For the larger version size will be set to 1 and width=”620″ height=”533″ needs to be added. Unless I am missing something the additional parameters in the original embed code is unnecessary.

    Thanks so much for your help on this – there are a host of posts around the web – including on the official SS site which says this can’t be done!

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