Description
This plugin converts all SoundCloud shortcodes into embeddable SoundCloud players. It works for any SoundCloud track, playlist, user, or group. Once you install this plugin, it will work for any of your WordPress posts & pages. I mean, sure you could use oEmbed or the snappy new Gutenberg editor to simply paste in a SoundCloud URL; but we like to keep things old-school 😎
A simple example:
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood[/soundcloud]
More Options
SoundCloud Shortcodes support these optional parameters:
width
height
params
The params
parameter passes additional options to the SoundCloud embeddable player. You can find a full list on the SoundCloud Developers pages: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/html5-widget
An example of a track that starts playing automatically, with hot-pink controls:
[soundcloud params="auto_play=true&color=#F368E0"]http://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood[/soundcloud]
Installation
- Upload
soundcloud-shortcode
to your plugins directory or install it from the WordPress Plugin Repository - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“SoundCloud Shortcode” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate “SoundCloud Shortcode” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
4.0.3
- Caught undefined indexes that might show up when
WP_DEBUG = true
; or environment’serror_reporting
was set to show warnings and/or notices.
4.0.2
- Updated sanitization of potential inputs from both admin and directly within shortcode
- Minor coding-standards tweaks and normalization
- Updated
Supports
version
4.0.1
- Bumped minor version number, removing
trunk
as it’s no longer supported - Added
Requires PHP
version - Updated some option descriptions
- Updated
Update URI
4.0.0
- Hefty sanitization overhaul to address vulnerability raised in CVE-2023-34018
- Major refactor of code, including removing Flash widget option & addressing miscellaneous bugs
- Removed outdated tests
- Added several new default options to reflect available SoundCloud widget parameters
- Updated language on settings page to make options clearer
- Redesigned settings page, now with a shiny new logo
3.1.0
- Update ternary operator to be compatible with PHP8
- Added
soundcloud_shortcode_options
filter - Update readme to reflect SoundCloud docs & API options
- Added icons & banners
3.0.2
- Always load embeds over https
3.0.1
- Minor copy updates in readme.txt
3.0.0
- Make visual player the default player (option to disable in settings)
2.3.2
- Add developer documentation
- Update README
2.3.1
- Add support for permalinks in HTML5 shortcode
2.3.0
- Don’t use oEmbed anymore because of various bugs.
- Standard http://soundcloud.com/ permalinks will always return the flash widget. Use the widget generator on the website to get an API url.
2.2.0
- Improved default options support
2.1.0
- Integrate oEmbed
2.0.0
- HTML5 Player added as the default player, with Flash as an option and fallback for legacy URL formats.
1.2.1
- Removed Flash fallback HTML
1.2.0
- Added options page to allow blog-wide global default settings.
1.1.9
- Fix to support resources from api.soundcloud.com
- Security enhancement. Only support players from player.soundcloud.com, player.sandbox-soundcloud.com and player.staging-soundcloud.com
1.1.8
- Bugfix to use correct SoundCloud player host
1.0
- First version