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Thanks for the very quick response. If I work it out I’ll post it here for others who know as little as me.

I believe the original EDD audio player was developed by, or at least promoted by, EDD themselves. They dropped it and recommended this other. For all I know, this “other” may have been the same player repackaged, but that is only a guess. What I do know is it was 100% database compatible. Anyway, I think my only real hope is to custom maintain the old plugin, which is a shame because your looks much nicer.

Sorry to bother you on a false premise, but I have learned some very important information. I appreciate your responses.

Hello again. I have just uncovered a misunderstanding I’ve held about EDD for at least six years. Since I started I’ve used EDD Players, because audio files are the core of what I supply. When I first installed EDD, a player plugin came with it. It was later discontinued and I started using another. From the outset EDD had fields for me to store audio sample file locations, and when I changed player plugins, those fields persisted. Only now have I learned that these were injected by the plugins, and the replacement plugin emulated the injected fields of the first – it was never EDD supplying these fields.

So you are 100% correct EDD does not store audio sample data, but in history EDD Audio Player plugins have supported storing and playing those stored samples in a compatible way.

Your plugin follows a different strategy and breaks that history of compatibility. If I switch to your plugin I lose all that data, and I can’t afford to do that. Or is this something your paid version supports?

Conflict with Profile Builder by Cozmoslabs, acknowledged within their support forum, and fix offered ahead of next version. Thanks for responding.

I am using the free version of EDD, installed straight from WordPress, and totally standard. It has always allowed sample audio files to be specified, and all other EDD audio players I’ve used have played the sample.

Yes, to users on the front end. Whether they are posts or content blocks on a page that are being re-ordered doesn’t matter. I’m trying to imagine the result before I start building it. I’m imaging a grid of options on a page, where the user can drag and drop options into different positions on the page. They could even be captioned images, so it could be some kind of photo gallery. Or they could be creatively presented posts. Or they could be courses in an eLearning package, if someone has taken this approach.

I worked it out – fabulous!

Thanks for responding, Thomas. I was trying another PDF viewer plugin and got it working with AJAX, so my search is over for now. What learned is that there is no problem using AJAX, and in the PHP code doing do_shortcode(‘[shortcode att1=”value” att2=”value” etc]’); For what it’s worth, this works, however …
If the shortcode doesn’t just produce fully functional HTML, but requires JS processing to get it working, you likely have to call something on return from the AJAX call to make that happen. And, if the shortcode doesn’t appear anywhere on the initial page, the JS supporting the shortcode probably hasn’t loaded – so you’ll have to take some action to make it load. But, if these things can be takrn into account, then hot swapping PDF fles being viewed on a page, without using an iframe, is possible (and very cool).
Of course if you are using an iframe then you don’t need AJAX at all.

@bcworkz, thanks heaps. I followed what you said, learned a ton, and have it working. Still using iframe, but now not needing to hide anything, and loading only what is absolutely necessary. 100% functionality, and looking 100% clean. Now to work out how to load it as a virtual page to avoid the need for adding a page in the database that only my plugin references ??

What I failed to mention is I’m developing a plugin that will go to others with all sorts of themes, so the answer needs to not involve customising the theme.

I made that addition to wp-config.php, along with the suggested change to .htaccess. It now works. I tried it again without the config change, and it worked. Maybe someone cleared a chache for me on the server, or … I don’t know, it’s working now from .htaccess and my javascript hack is removed. Thank you for your help ??

I have looked into it and they are running NGINX on top of Apache. Does that change whether .htaccess will work? Their support is saying that .htaccess will work, and their recommended way of achieving redirection to https is .htaccess.

Now the proper apology. I clicked on a link that told me to post MailPoet questions in <here> and <here> is definitely not the right place to have done this. Hence my question and my responses do not make sense. I shall find the right place & have another go. Sorry to waste your time – feel free to delete this from the forum.

catacaustic, I appreciate your effort, but you’re not addressing my question. I’m not asking why it failed. I’m assuming I tried to send too many in one go and the server timed out. All I want to know is if I choose the “Don’t wait & send it right now” option again, will it resend ones it’s already sent, or will it only send ones it didn’t send before? It is purely a MailPoet question.

Sorry, I misinterpreted the scope of the forum. I’m using MailPoet, so yes, they are emails.