There are short-posts, long-posts, and really very long-posts. So how about making your posts into their Audio-Versions so that your reader now becomes your listener, and can continue to do his work while listening to your post. I thought its a pretty good idea and I have implimented it too, after seeing it in action in at Viveks’s blog
Are you wondering what I am talking about here? well.. do you see that the at the bottom of each post, go ahead, CLICK – OPEN.. this will open my posts in Audio format.
HOW TO ADD THE AUDIO VERSION TO YOUR POSTS
Vivek has given a detailed tutorial here
- Register with Talkr
- Make sure that your SETTINGS – SITE FEED – ALLOW BLOG FEED is set to FULL.
- Type the url (eg www.yourblog.com)at ADD RSS FEED.
- You are allowed to add multiple feeds. Notice that each feeds have unique Talkr feed id
- Clik on “Add Audio link for each entry” link
- Donot fail to test the feeds as per the instructions given
- Once your test feed works up to your satisfaction, then only proceed further. Belive me.. I had enough and more problems for overlooking the test.
- If you are using blogger beta you might want to know the TEMPLATE VARIABLE FOR PERMALINK inorder to make the audio feed work in the posts.Thanks to Vivek for helping me through this.
- This the code directly from my template.
<a expr:href='”http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=22092&;perma_link=” + data:post.url’ target=’_blank’ title=’Listen to this Article’>
<img src=’http://h1.ripway.com/Deepa/audio_1.ico’ style=’border:none;’/></a> - just replace the feed_id= 22092 with your feed id number from Talkr.
UPDATE
Please use the html code given in this image..write it word-by-word ..
The ampersand required for the code is interpreted and written as &
WHERE TO ADD THE LISTEN TO THIS POST LINK
Technically you can add the above HTML code anywhere. But I feel its only natural to add it near the comments /QuickEdit links
- SAVE YOUR TEMPLATE BEFORE PROCEEDING
- Look for <b:include data=’post’ name=’postQuickEdit’/>
- Add the Talkr code immediatly below.
- Save the Template.
- Your posts are now ready to be heard
Hope you liked this.Donot forget to give credit where its due
i am sorry, but these instructions are very difficult to follow. i successfully registered with Talker but i do not understand where i am supposed to put your edited code into my template.
i’ve followed all the other instructions already.
thanks!
welcome daryl
I think u have disabled your “show quick link icon.
Just to make thigs easier…just enable u r quick edit from settings basic…
u can add the code-if all works well.. then u can disble it again
Hope this helps
Deepa
Daryl.. if u are still unable to add the link.. pls try this..
look for
///////////////////////
<b:if cond=’data:post.allowComments’>
<a class=’comment-link’ expr:href=’data:post.addCommentUrl’ expr:onclick=’data:post.addCommentOnclick’><b:if cond=’data:post.numComments == 1′>1 <data:top.commentLabel/><b:else/><data:post.numComments/> <data:top.commentLabelPlural/></b:if></a>
/////////////////////
after this add the talkr code
I postively hope this will help
Deepa
Deepa,
my “quick edit” option is already enabled. adding code is not the problem.
this new section of code that you refer to is NOT inside my template. also, where do i insert < $BlogItemPermalinkURL$>?
sorry to be such a bother!
daryl
///sorry to be such a bother!///
not at all…
dont worry about inserting the BlogItemPermalinkURL$…
u r feed_id will shown in the takr code
(mine is 2209).. just replace that number.. thats all…
copy posate teh template code in my post to a notepad… replace ONLY THE feed _id number…
Dont try to worry with the permalink.. i also went through exactly what u are facing..
so just replace the feed _id number
Good luck
Deepa
Deep,
That error is osmething to do with html and I did it. It works now except that the image I got from you is not seen clear.
Sorry to bother you…. How do you crop the image.
Thank you… I have one more to go with header later.
Priya
Glad that you were able to set it to work
Priya i sayw u r bloghttp://priablog.blogspot.com/
take a look at the link for the icon you have given:
http://h1.ripway.com/priyas/audio_1/ico
audio_1/ico..???
i think u were in a hurry
it must have been audio_1.ico
Deepa
Your instruction appear to be great, however I can’t seem to locate a permalink id. I’m using blogger beta. I’ve looked at html template but can’t locate any permalink id. Also can’t seem to locate anything on TalkR
Any help appreciated.
Welcome Nicky
You need not do anything with the permalink ID.. all thats left for you to do is to replace the talkr code number in
feed_id=22092&;perma_link=” + data:post.ur
You should be able to see the talkr code for u r blog in the talkr admin page..
Hope this helps
Deepa
What I have assumed is the the TalkR id is the 5 digits after id in the Talkr Feed URL which is on my admin page and which linkst to my source feed URL eg:
Talkr Feed URL: http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=27523
I have replaced my id with yours and pasted it into the widget template, however I keep getting the following message “XML error message: The entity name must immediately follow the ‘&’ in the entity reference”
I’ve even tried what Talkr has on their website, however that comes up with even more error messages!
Frustration
Hi nick..i gor the problem.. i have updated wiht a image taht shows the code.. so write it in a notepad wor-by-word & testit
sorry for overlooking it
Thanks Deepa, adding amp did not produce any html errors. The image and link work, however when I test it there is a TalkR 500 internal serve error… so I’ll contact Talkr.
If I was better at html I would have picked this up. So thanks for help. If you are interested the blog is http://alzheimersnswlibrary.blogspot.com/
It’s a corporate blog… so may be a bit dry. I’m only just new to this and hope to get better. Any feedback to improve widgets on site greatly appreciated.
Nicky
Hi nick
I understnad.,..I also had some problem with the talkr feed when the blogger was in the transition phase
Sometimes the feed just refues to work propely. (not for all.. but for some like u and me :D). it took me quite some mails to get it going.. Guess..thay have not fixed the bug yet…Good luck