Comments on: Getting Voicethread and Wordpress to play nicely

By: Math247 » What is a mathcast?

Math247 » What is a mathcast? — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:58:39 +0000

[...] A huge thank you goes to Sol Lederman of Wild About Math! (a great blog for math enthusiasts and would-be math enthusiasts) for blogging about mathcasts, honoring my long work in this area, and for sharing how to embed VoiceThreads in WordPress blogs (see the plug-in for Voicethread which is here. Sol discovered it at this blog article: Getting Voicethread and Wordpress to play nicely). [...]

By: The first ever Wild About Math! mathcast » Fun Math Blog

The first ever Wild About Math! mathcast » Fun Math Blog — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:59:15 +0000

[...] there’s a plug-in for Voicethread. It’s here. I discovered it at this blog article: Getting Voicethread and Wordpress to play nicely. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The first ever Wild About Math! mathcast”, url: [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:50:14 +0000

@shareski: When I embedded the code, it totally borked my blog. I’m not sure why Voicethread tore my theme up, but boy did it. Animoto did not, and their embed code is not significantly different. Being an old coder, I tried to work the code out a different way and it still wrecked it. Must be something with my theme, although it’s just object and embed codes, so not sure what the deal was.

Anyway, that’s why I needed the plugin. I don’t know if others who self-host Wordpress can use the default embed code, I just know I couldn’t. Also there were issues with the visual editor trying to clean up the code. Naturally I disabled the visual editor and tried again only to get a borked blog.

Kudos for animoto working without issue though!

Chris

By: John Krueger

John Krueger — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:38:33 +0000

I don’t know but it’s good to know that there IS a plug-in should there be any snags… I was just about to attempt to embed a voice thread on my own blog for the first time and was wondering if I would have any trouble. Thanks for these tips!

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:21:25 +0000

Chris,

Did I miss something? Can’t you just embed the code? I’ve done that with previous voicethreads. WHat’s the advantage of the plugin?

By: Jamie Hide

Jamie Hide — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:48:56 +0000

Another way to post a VoiceThread to a learnerblog or edublog is to use the flash video address from the code generated by the “To Go” button. It looks like this:

http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=5469

Then you add it as a flash video with the second last button on the toolbar when you are writing your post.