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Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.

How I’ve Been Using GitHub For WP Audio Player

For many, the nicest thing about GitHub is not just the open source nature of the site, but the social aspects of the site. And although I admit I’m not particularly fond of following my friends on yet-another-network, I do enjoy following the status of projects and being able to monitor them.

This morning, I spent some time cleaning up the issues that have rolled in for WP Audio Player. Granted, there aren’t many, but I want to make sure that there’s some organized vision, scope, and plan for the project.

As such, I thought I’d share my method for scoping issues, requests, and bugs as well as how I organize milestones while using GitHub for WP Audio Player.

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WP Audio Player Now on GitHub

Earlier this week, I released WP Audio Player – a simple plugin that makes it easy to embed audio files into your WordPress posts.

The plugin was graciously evaluated by Pippin Williamson on his personal blog, and several people on Twitter asked that I place the plugin on GitHub so that they can contribute.

As much as I am a fan of the open source model, I’ve never actually placed any of my plugins on GitHub – I just stick with the Subversion repository and managed bug reports and feature requests as they come in.

But I thought placing WP Audio Player on GitHub would be a fun – it’s helped my Boilerplates, so I figured it’d bode well for this plugin, too.

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WP Audio Player – Easily Embed Audio in Your WordPress Posts

As we’ve begun regularly publishing Hello Dolly and I’ve started running a few podcasts on Yet Another Blogging Podcast, I was finding the process a bit cumbersome for regularly embedding podcasts into our posts.

To be clear, I’ve been using the jQuery plugin by Codrops to embed audio, but it requires that I hop back and forth between the visual and the text editor when drafting posts.

In order to streamline the process a bit, I wrapped the jQuery plugin to make an easy to use WordPress audio player plugin.

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