Add Spotify, Rdio, and GitHub’s Gist Embeds To Your Site
We’re happy to announce three new things that you can embed into your site!
Spotify
Embed music from Spotify by right-clicking any song, album, or artist in Spotify and selecting “Copy HTTP Link” or “Copy Spotify URI”:
Then paste that into your post editor, making sure that it’s located on its own line all by itself. You’ll end up with something like this when you view your post:
Rdio
If you’re an Rdio user, you can embed music from them too. Copy the URL from your address bar when looking at a track, artist, or playlist and paste that into your post editor. Here are a few examples:
If you use the Mac application for Rdio you can copy URLs from there as well. If you click the “Share” button you’ll see a URL to copy right at the top. Paste that in to your post editor and you’re all set.
GitHub’s Gist
We’re big fans of the code repository website GitHub here at Automattic and many of us use their Gist code snippets website. While we already have a cool way to embed code into your site, we realize many of you want to post Gist-hosted snippets too so starting today you can. Again, just copy/paste the URL out of your address bar onto its own line in the post editor.
Apr 18th at 11:22 pm
i love this….
Apr 18th at 11:37 pm
Very cool new feature!!!
Apr 19th at 12:13 am
This could really upgrade my blog! Great share!
Apr 19th at 12:27 am
Well, I can´t get it to work. Ok, got a link, but no player.
Apr 19th at 12:30 am
Make sure it’s a plain-text URL and not a clickable hyperlink, i.e. don’t use the add link button and instead just paste the URL into your post.
Alternately you can wrap it in a shortcode, like so:
[spotify]URL here[/spotify](orrdioorgist)Apr 19th at 12:40 am
Thanks Alex, it works great! As an old WordPresser I like it! Well done!
Apr 19th at 12:52 am
Reblogged this on danielbachhuber.
Apr 19th at 1:13 am
Is it free or premium/upgrade?
Apr 19th at 5:32 am
It is a free feature.
Apr 19th at 1:25 am
Well done!
Apr 19th at 2:08 am
Reblogged this on pravinchn.
Apr 19th at 2:30 am
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Apr 19th at 2:34 am
Well done!
Apr 19th at 2:36 am
Reblogged this on Don Temón and commented:
Interesante. Podré poner música en el blog. Me gusta…
Apr 19th at 3:12 am
This just made my ability to share songs via wordpress so much more awesome. Thanks!!!
Apr 19th at 3:17 am
Cool!
Apr 19th at 3:30 am
Sweet!
Apr 19th at 3:34 am
thanks for the information…:))
Apr 19th at 3:42 am
thanks
Apr 19th at 4:37 am
i still don not understand how to embed GitHub to WordPress..
Apr 27th at 12:29 am
You can’t embed GitHub projects into your site, just code snippets that are hosted on their Gist snippet site.
Apr 19th at 4:41 am
Reblogged this on rachelempowernetwork and commented:
Wow this is such a cool idea I just had to sure with you guys. I’m thinking about adding it myself!
Apr 19th at 6:40 am
Reblogged this on Neraka69's Blog.
Apr 19th at 7:09 am
This is amazing!!!!!! Can’t wait to do this.
Apr 19th at 7:27 am
A nice feature, man! Do not wait to start using it.
Every day is more rewarding in the WordPress blogging!
Congratulations, Alex! Nice work!
And thank you!
Hugs from Brazil!
Apr 19th at 7:54 am
Great stuff, this should brighten my blog up, kind regards
Apr 19th at 8:10 am
*its own line
Apr 19th at 9:56 am
Good catch. Fixed, thanks!
Apr 19th at 8:13 am
Thank you so much, this are great features
Apr 19th at 8:32 am
Awesome! One more reason to love WP!
Apr 19th at 9:02 am
great idea
Apr 19th at 9:11 am
really really awesome
Apr 19th at 10:00 am
Awesome, cool dude
Apr 19th at 10:44 am
Reblogged this on Konstantin on WordPress.com.
Apr 19th at 11:02 am
Very nice!!!!
Apr 19th at 12:21 pm
Awesome!
Will use the Spotify one! 
Apr 19th at 4:10 pm
Sweet. Love the Spotify addition.
Apr 19th at 4:55 pm
Any idea how this plays out with the Intellectual Property laws? For instance, does Spotify carry the burden of paying that when you embed their stuff on your site or are you still on the hook for it?
Apr 27th at 12:30 am
This is a no-cost feature. Spotify handles all of the licensing agreements.
Apr 19th at 6:12 pm
hey thank you this is so good post
Apr 19th at 7:16 pm
Great! Does it work for Spotify playlists as well as for tracks and albums?
Apr 19th at 10:15 pm
Yep!
Apr 19th at 9:45 pm
What an awesome new feature–thanks!
Apr 19th at 10:53 pm
On the Spotify Free Option, you are limited to listening to one song five times in a month . So if the Spotify link is listened to five times in one month, then presumably the link will no longer work, until the next month ?
Apr 27th at 12:31 am
Any account limitations are per-person, not per embed.
Apr 27th at 7:33 am
Thank you .
Apr 20th at 3:04 am
It didn’t quite work with the method provided (copy spotify url and paste as picture indicates), but snatching the real URL and posting — voila! Brilliant. And, thanks for the feature.
Apr 20th at 8:23 am
Does this work if I put it on my sidebar or a widget? I’m using the Bueno template and would like to have a playlist static on the side,
Thanks.
Apr 27th at 12:50 am
Yep, you can use the text widget for this but you’ll need to use the shortcode (
[[spotify]url here[/spotify]]) rather than just the URL by itself.Apr 20th at 8:51 am
Reblogged this on cashzilla and commented:
This is great!
Apr 20th at 12:18 pm
Great feature!
it’s not working for me though 
Apr 20th at 9:45 pm
This is AWESOME!
Apr 21st at 9:15 pm
Awesome! Definitely using this to share music I work out to.
Apr 22nd at 1:09 am
Well, instead of single songs only, most of us would like to post full playlists. What about?
Apr 23rd at 9:17 pm
Playlists are supported.
Apr 22nd at 2:29 am
very cool!!
Apr 22nd at 6:33 pm
interesante!!
Apr 22nd at 7:19 pm
amazing
Apr 22nd at 9:06 pm
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Apr 22nd at 9:19 pm
Reblogged this on ifcindylouonlyknew.
Apr 22nd at 11:10 pm
This is cool – but you need to remove formatting on the code in order for it to work – I have now gone back through my site and added it to all my posts – excellent!
Apr 23rd at 10:53 am
Reblogged this on computermob.
Apr 23rd at 11:02 am
I take it there’s no way of text wrapping around the player, or of embedding the compact, small-artwork version, as seen on Pitchfork reviews e.g. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16534-blunderbuss/. The problem with the embedding on WordPress.com as is, is that the player is a bit obtrusive, attracting the reader’s attention rather than the text.
Apr 23rd at 11:34 am
Tried to download Spotify and it was blocked by Chrome for a possible Win 32 infection. Did this happen to anyone else?
Apr 27th at 12:26 am
You can download Spotify safely from here: http://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/overview/
If you’re getting a warning about a download from there then it’s a false positive (error).
Apr 23rd at 2:27 pm
This is amazing, I love technology!
Apr 25th at 5:41 am
Wonderful idea since music inspires my artwork Jazz in particular. Thanks for this information.
Apr 25th at 6:57 pm
Does the viewer need to have Spotify installed for this to work on their computer? or will it work regardless?
Apr 25th at 7:01 pm
It will prompt them to install Spotify if they don’t have it installed.
Apr 25th at 7:44 pm
The Spotify integration is a winner!! Very nice!
Apr 26th at 3:28 am
Ok, I have Spotify on my desktop, but what’s a page editor? Help I’m drowning in technology and can’t find my way out….
Thanks.
Apr 27th at 12:23 am
The post editor is where you write your posts.
Apr 27th at 10:14 am
Will we be soon able to embed Deezer ? Thanks
May 10th at 7:04 pm
You can suggest ideas for new features here: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
Apr 27th at 11:25 am
Reblogged this on makeyourmarkonlife.
Apr 28th at 2:37 pm
Really Looking forward to adding this to my blog page. How do i attract more readers? Any add-ons that would help?
May 10th at 7:02 pm
Check out this previous post from this blog: How to get more page views for your blog
Apr 29th at 5:23 pm
That’s a great tip. Thank you. Will look it up now!
Apr 30th at 1:21 pm
Really great
Apr 30th at 1:37 pm
It’s shame Spotify isn’t ready available for non-US peoples. I guess iTunes will have to do.
May 1st at 4:02 pm
Very nice
May 2nd at 1:44 am
Great features! I learn something new everyday on WordPress.
May 2nd at 6:14 pm
Reblogged this on unicornivore and commented:
THIS LOOKS AWESOME