We've already covered how to embed your audio files onto a wordpress.com blog, and doing the same on your self-hosted site is just as easy.

Given the fact that you are now self-hosted you have more choices of what audio player to use to embed your audio onto your site. The first step would be to choose what audio player you would like to use on your site. Since you are hosted at libsyn you have 2 choices:

  1. A Wordpress audio player plug-in.
  2. The Wizzard player Although initially built as a video player, it can absolutely be used for audio files

Choosing a wordpress audio player plugin Although audio players abound, generally speaking here are the most popular WP audio player plugins:

  1. audio player
  2. Bluburry Powerpress Podcasting plugin
  3. Degradable HTML5 audio and video Plugin

Each of these players offer varying degrees of configuration and personalization. Take your time checking them out, as well as seeing what kind of support they offer, so if you get in any trouble, you'll have help.

After you've chosen, installed, activated and configured your Wordpress audio plug-in, the next steps are pretty simple:

  1. Write your blog post
  2. Head on over to your libsyn account, and assuming that you have already uploaded your file to libsyn, copy the url for that file.
  3. Input the MP3 url where it's called for within your audio player plugin of choice.
  4. Save your post and/or publish.

Using The Wizzard Player Assuming that you have already uploaded your file to your libsyn account, here's what you have to do to get the Wizzard Player from within the Previous Post section of your libsyn account:

  1. Click on edit for the MP3 file that you would like to go into the Wizzard player.

  2. Go to Destinations

  3. Click on the checkbox next to Wizzard Player.

  4. Publish

  5. After you publish and get to the confirmation page, simply scroll down the page and find your embed code and copy it.

  6. Paste that embed code onto your page/post on your self-hosted Wordpress site!

Please let us know if this tutorial was helpful in the comments as well as other tutorials you would like to see between Wordpress and libsyn.

The libsyn platform isn't solely for podcasting. Yes, that's what we do, but media as we all know can be served in so many different ways, and perhaps you don't want to do just a podcast. Check out this blog post to find out how libsyn can help support you with a ton a different ways to publish your content.

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