arcain6

Hrm.. well, i’d really like to help, but i’m not sure i understand what exactly the issue you are having is. Like what do you mean by “crash”. Does the site simply fail to load, loads a blank screen, loads garbled, or jumbled text etc…

Unfortunately, without more information, there’s really no way for me to tell what’s causing the issue.

If you are having issues with the plugin causing stability with your entire site, that’s a cause for concern, you should really put your site into debug mode, and log the exact errors, and report them. My guess, is that something else on your site, perhaps a custom theme, or other plugin is causing a conflict. Detailed debugging output will go a long way for helping us resolve that issue.

If you have spare time, go through a disable your plugins except NGS Same Integrator, and one by one enable them and check the site until it breaks, that should show you what plugin is conflicting.

If however, the site still has issues once all plugins are disabled, and a custom theme is in use, you can almost bet that there is a funciton within the theme that has the same name of scope of those of this plugin/.

Does your web server have support for the language?

As for translation, you may need to manually translate the strings. I don’t recall if they are stored in database, or functions file.

If you are having issues showing the art from the album art folder, be sure that you have sam set to upload the images to that folder, each image name for each album needs to be unique.. i.e. you can’t have “folder.jpg” set as the image for multiple albums, as they will overwrite each other upon upload.

The NGS Sam Integrator doesn’t actually handle streams. It is informational display only. You’ll need to provide your own player if you wish to embed a player into your site.

Currently, there is no “Now Playing” page shortcode.

However, all is not lost. There are multiple plugins available which allow you to include a widget within posts and pages.

One such example is:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/

However, i cannot attest to how effetual that plugin is, as i have not tested it. Please feel free to reply with any success / failure you have, so i can document it for future use.

I am unsure as to what issue you are having. The playlist, and request pages are working for me. Be sure you don’t accidently have multiple iterations of the playlist/request pages. it’s a known issue when the settings update, it sometimes adds the pages to the site again. I’m still working on fixing this errant behavior.

To check if you have multiple,

Go to your site’s admin dashboard > Pages
Make sure you don’t have multiple copies of the following pages:
Requests
– Top Requests

If you wish to incorporate the shortcodes in other pages, or a custom page, they are:

Requests Page: [samplaylist]
Top Requests Page: [samtoprequests]

However, if you are using this plugin outside of wordpress, this is not supported.

Your best bet is to instead put the player on a split page, where the actual WP site is nested in an iframe, or use a separate window / popup for the player, This will allow the site to function as it normally would, without the need to reload the player info every page load.

Hope this is helpful.

Glad you found a workaround.

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Be sure to check your settings. You’ll need to upload your album art to the folder setup in the plugin settings. The default image is na.gif check to make sure the file is there.

As for resizing the widget, you shouldn’t need to, as the table used in the widget is set to use 98% of the widget area width.

If you need to, you can edit the widgets.php file and replace the width information in this line:

$output = '<table border="0" width="98%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">';

I hope that helps

Glad we could get it solved for you ??

Also, on a side note, the samHTMLweb pages are static, and are uploaded by sam, they don’t actually connect to the database that sam is using to store information.

Updated the plugin, now there is a “Now Playing” widget, here are some options you can use to tailor a custom page and embed the widget where you wish.

Custom Page Creation:
WordPress Forum Topic

Plugins:
Currently there are quite a few plugins that allow you to embed a widget within a post, or a page.

here is one such example:
AMR Shorcode any Widget

NOTE: I have not tested these methods for embedding widgets into pages, your results may vary.
I have also not tested nor am i specifically endorsing the AMR plugin, it was simply the first one i came across, so again, results may vary.

I will be spending the next few days away from the office, so i may not respond as quickly, but rest assured, i am still looking at adding features to the plugin.

it is assumed that wordpress is stored in the rootdir of the domain / website.

If it’s not, yes, you’ll need to manually edit the location of the album art folder to reflect your environment.

If you aren’t using any other scripts, or pages that use the album art where it currently is stored, then you can simply move the art to the correct place, and update your sam broadcaster to upload future images to that folder. Be sure to change to the correct folder permissions if you do this.

Give me a couple of days, i’ll cobble something together i’m sure.

the plugin isn’t really theme specific by design. This way the plugin easily fits into as many themes as possible, if however you need to edit it to better fit your theme, you can edit the CSS file to better reflect your theme.

Also, over the past week i have updated the plugin to add a bit more customization through settings. This will give you the freedom to tailor the way the widgets look to a certain degree.

There could be several reasons why this is happening:

1) If your web server is on the same network as your sam, your router may be using NAT to translate incorrectly.

Ping the domain name from shell / command prompt, if the IP shown is a local lan IP address, then you’ll need to reconfigure your router, or purchase one that correctly handles NAT translation.

2) If however your web server and sam are not on the same network, then you will need to open the correct ports to allow communication between your website and sam.

3) If however you are using the built in sam database rather than MySQL, or a database on your webserver, then you will need to open ports to allow your website to connect to the samDB, as well as allow your sam database pass through the firewall on your PC running sam.

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It is advised that you use a database on your webserver rather than the built-in sam database, this will reduce traffic to your PC from the website, as all queries, and website information is loaded from the local database, rather than contacting your PC for the information.