HelixWare – Video Hosting for WordPress vs Spreaker Shortcode

HelixWare – Upload and play beautiful HD video right from your site. HelixWare is a WordPress plugin which integrates with the HelixWare video cloud platform. With this plugin, you can upload videos, organise them using the WordPress Media library and add a shortcode to display them on your site. Installing and activating HelixWare turns WordPress into a powerful integrated streaming platform with the following features: Upload any video file via the familiar WordPress Media screen Videos take zero space and zero CPU on your WordPress hosting We automatically encode your videos to multiple bitrates and formats Stream to any device: PCs, Macs, Linux, iPhones, Androids HelixWare – Registration To use this plugin you need to register on helixware.tv get the application key and secret and add it to the configuration panel.

The Spreaker shortcode plugin is an easy way to embed Spreaker audio player into your WordPress blog. It works for any Spreaker episode, show, or user. Once you install this plugin, it will work on all of your blog posts. A simple example: [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=3331356"] More Options Spreaker shortcode requires the resource play. It can be only of the following: resource="episode_id=X": id of the episode to embed. resource="show_id=X": id of the show, whose latest episode should be displayed. resource="show_key=X": private key of the show to embed. The plugin also supports the following optional parameters: width: player’s width – can be in % or px (ie. 100% or 400px). height: player’s height – can be in % or px (ie. 100% or 400px). theme: player’s UI theme. Supported themes are: light (default) and dark. color: player’s main color. Supported fromats are short and long hex values (ie: F00 or FF0000). This feature requires the podcast author to subscribe to Station plan or above. cover: HTTPS url of an image to display as player’s background. playlist: configures how the playlist should be built. It can be playlist="false" to disable the playlist or playlist="show" to display all show’s episodes in the playlist. The default behavious depends on resource. The playlist is visible only if the player height is greater than 200px. playlist-continuous: enables or disables the playlist continuous playback. When true it continuously plays all episodes in the playlist until the end. playlist-loop: enables or disables loop playlist playback when continuous playback is enabled. When true and playlist continuous playback is enabled as well, it will loop the playlist continuously (defaults to false). playlist-autoupdate: enables or disables the playlist autoupdate, when a new episode is published. This feature is enabled by default. chapters-image: enables or disables the display of chapters images in the player (defaults to true). episode-image-position: when right or left shows the episode image on the right or left (defaults to right) hide-likes: when true the likes button is not displayed in the player (defaults to false) hide-comments: when true the comments button is not displayed in the player (defaults to false) hide-sharing: when true the share button is not displayed in the player (defaults to false) hide-logo: when true the Spreaker logo is not displayed in the player (defaults to false). This feature requires the podcast author to subscribe to Broadcaster plan or above. hide-episode-description: when true the button to open the description of the current episode is not displayed in the player (defaults to false) hide-playlist-descriptions: when true the button to open the description of episodes in the playlist is not displayed in the player (defaults to false) hide-playlist-images: when true the images of episodes in the playlist are not displayed in the player (defaults to false) hide-download: When true, it hides the episode download button (defaults to true) How to get the shortcode Play any track on www.spreaker.com and then click on the share button in the player (bottom-right corner): you can customize the appearance of the player and get the shortcode to copy and paste to your WordPress blog. Help If you need further help, please contact us at help.spreaker.com.