Comments on: Help me make a popout music player with WordPress

Question: Help me make a popout music player with WordPress

fake — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:31:38 -0800

Wordpress help. I am using this theme with this music player. How do I make one of the links at the top (like Home, Categories, About, Contacts) popout a window properly sized for the player?

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:41:19 -0800

Hardcode a link at the end of the WP-generated nav called Player or whatever and make sure the header includes the JS/foo for the pop-up window? I'm all about the path of least resistance so that's what I would do.

By: taz

taz — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:45:46 -0800

This may help: How To Create a Popup Music Player Using the Simple Popup Plugin and XSPF Player for WordPress.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:46:46 -0800

DarlingBri's got the right idea. Here's a code generator. It's pretty ancient, but it works.

Assuming that theme uses WP 3's menu feature and not some homebaked alternative, you'd go into Appearance: Menus. If you haven't already created a custom menu, you'll need to create it and use it as the theme's menu. Give one of the items the title "player" or whatever, and the code javascript:... (whatever the generator gives you