how do I add audio?

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November 1, 2018 at 12:56 am #164793 Resolve

Bart W Balint MD

just new to all of this! I would like to have some of my original music play in the background as folks open the page. I can upload the files, but I dont see any way to have this happening.

thanks for the help.

Bart
The blog I need help with is acimembodied.com

November 1, 2018 at 5:50 pm #164797

David

Hi Bart,

Before I begin, since your site has a Premium plan, you’re entitled to live-chat and email support, accessible here:

https://wordpress.com/help/contact

You’re welcome to still post in these forums, but those other support avenues may be faster, and you’ll always get a staff reply.

I would like to have some of my original music play in the background as folks open the page.

With your current theme, you would be able to add an audio player in the footer with a text widget.

https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

To add the player, first go to My Site > Media, and click on the audio file. Next, click the blue Edit button near the top of the Media area. You’ll see a pop up that has a COPY button in it. You can use that to copy the link to the file.

Once you have it copied, you can create a shortcode like the one below:

[audio src=https://your-file-link.mp3 autoplay=1]

You’d just replace https://your-file-link.mp3 with the link that you copied from the Media area.

Finally, you’ll add the Text Widget to your site’s footer, and paste the code into the Text tab of that widget.

November 3, 2018 at 11:45 am #164802

Bart W Balint MD

David, thanks so much for your reply. With your help, and with the help of WordPress chat I was able to identify the widget area. And I was able to add some audio, and next I will add the shortcode to have some autoplay.

Thanks again!

Bart

November 5, 2018 at 6:24 pm #164804

David

Happy to help!
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