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Hi kapital3,

Thanks for asking. This is a good overview from wordpress.com: https://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/8tracks/

There’s a bit more here, if it helps:
https://8tracks.com/wordpress

I probably should get some screenshots up… thanks for the reminder. ??

You’re very welcome! ??

Hi gozluklusisman,

You’ll find that you can’t add the code from 8tracks directly to your sidebar. That’s actually why I added the widget code way back when. Try adding an 8tracks widget, and then pasting your mix or collection’s URL into the appropriate field. That should sort things out for you.

Hm. That’s interesting. If you’re using a caching plugin, it’s worth checking whether or not the cache clears on a new post. If not, it might default to a day, and so new posts won’t show up until then?

In any case, I’m glad to hear that things are looking up! ??

Hi Prixer,

When you visit 8tracks, you can click the sharing icon on a mix or collection and choose “wordpress shortcode.” Here’s an example of what it will give you for a single mix:

[8tracks width="300" height="250" playops="" url="https://8tracks.com/mixes/4897022"]

If you’re seeing an empty page, this might mean that you haven’t given the right URL, or that there’s a problem where your browser is blocking the content. Hard to guess for sure, but if the above shortcode results in a blank page, I’d make sure that you aren’t blocking something…

Hope that helps!

Hi, Ellen!

Thanks for writing. That certainly does seem to be some curious behavior. I’m actually traveling for a conference, this week, but I’ll try to work on this as soon as I can. I have a suspicion, but should probably check it before giving you misinformation. Will respond soon! ??

(*sigh* And that, friends, is why you should let the forum take eight hours to post your message at long last, rather than just posting again in the void where your message should’ve been…)

Going to mark as resolved for now. Feel free to let me know if any other problems come up. ??

Hey, they’ve let me know that a fix is in place, and it seems to be working on my end. So, hopefully, that means everything’s working as intended. Thanks so much for getting in touch! ??

Finally got word that a fix is in place, and it does seem to be working for me. Hopefully, that means it’s working for everyone, now! Thanks so much for getting in touch with the original problem… ??

Just a quick update to say that the response I got from 8tracks was: “We may have broken this feature, I’ll pass this over to the developer who worked on it…” Hopefully, good things will happen, soon. ??

No problem, at all. Still waiting for a response… at the moment, it looks like they may have changed some of the backend functionality. Hopefully, it’s a temporary change! ??

Just a small update to say that I’ve contacted 8tracks, and it looks like there is an issue on their end. More when I find out!

Thanks for the heads-up! ?? Let me see if I can see anything here…

Glad to hear it! You’re very welcome. ??

It’s in the visual editor part of the new post page. You can see it in this photo (Link to imgur), just above the first line of text.

Just click on the expanded editor button (the one to the left of my 8tracks button in the photo), and you’ll see it. ??