ZoomSounds Portal - Addon for portal functionality buddypress

Portal Intro

Audio portal is the ultimate portal functionality plugin for WordPress. It comes as a addon to the already powerful ZoomSounds and adds support of anything that makes a good portal - playlists, rating functionality, like functionality, playlists, display modes.

Installation - top

There are two ways to install the plugin

Method 1 - Direct WordPress Install

1. Just download the zip from your http://activeden.net/user/yourusername/downloads directory in a folder of your choosing.
2. Unzip it with your preffered unziping utility. On Windows, there can be some warnings while unziping. Those are nothing to worry about if they appear, they are just Mac OS X files that cannot be read by Windows.
3. Then in your wordpress installation, in the Plugins panel, click Add New like in this picture:
   
4. Then click Upload, and select the zip you have downloaded from CC. Then click Activate.

Method 2 - FTP Install

1. Just download the zip from your http://activeden.net/user/yourusername/downloads directory in a folder of your choosing.
2. Unzip it with your preffered unziping utility. On Windows, there can be some warnings while unziping. Those are nothing to worry about if they appear, they are just Mac OS X files that cannot be read by Windows.
3. Then, if the folder dzs-zoomsounds-portal is zipped, unzip that too. Then copy the folder in the wp-content/plugins folder

Quick start - top

If you want to use the shortcode 

1. access / create your post / page
2. insert this shortcode into the post / page

   [zoomsounds_upload]

3. this will render 
4. All done!

Customize - top

[audioportal_playlist]

show a specific playlist on a page

'disable_meta' => 'auto', // -- disable meta information in the player
'author' => 'own', // -- the id of the author if you want a specific author
'from_parent_all_playlists' => 'off', // -- when set to on it will show a link to all author

[zoomsounds_upload]

show the front end uploader
 

[dzsap_charts]

show the charts ordered by number of likes

'disable_meta' => 'auto', // -- disable meta information in the player

FAQ - top

Developer Tips - top

This gallery provides source files ( in the source folder ) so if you are developer you can start customizing it.

Recommended Programs

You can generally use any text editing software to edit most content/code, but this is what I recommend:

• .zip – Normally you could just right click and extract to a folder of choice [ on both Mac and Windows ]
• .html - Notepad++
• .js - Notepad++
• .as - Notepad++
• .fla - Flash CS5
• .xml – Notepad++

Make your own skin

1. duplicate all .skin-wave references in audioplayer.cscs
2. replace skin-wave with your skin-name
3. you have a new skin named skin-name in where you can change any styling
4. with a little css knowledge ,the possibilities are endless

How to disable right controls of audio player

You can disable skin-silver controls by going to Settings > Appearence and in extra css enter

.audioplayer.skin-silver .ap-controls .ap-controls-right{ display:none!important; }