Since I’m an avid Wikiloops user I created a plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to embed a track on Wikiloops on any WordPress powered website. Wikiloops.com is a meeting place for musicians and music lovers.
Those who play and record an instrument are invited to collaborate by adding to each others jam tracks – and everyone else is welcome to enjoy the free music streams, or to use our backing tracks as play-alongs for home practise.
The plugin leverages the capabilities of WordPress to embed objects automatically using the oEmbed protocol. Wikiloops is not yet part of the recognized list of oEmbed providers for WordPress, and the plugin does nothing more than registering Wikiloops as a known provider, so that the automatic embedding logic also works for Wikiloops track links after installing and activating the plugin. Once the plugin is activated, a link to a Wikiloops track can be added into any post or page by putting it on a separate line by itself, or by explicitly embedding it by putting the Wikiloops jam track link between embed tags.
Here’s an example: if you insert https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-67141.php on a line of its own, it will render like this:
https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-67141.php
Alternatively, you can embed it like this: [embed]https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-67141.php[/embed]
The plugin that makes this all possible is called Wikiloops-Track-Player, and can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory. To install the plugin you just need to put the plugin files into the wp-content/plugins directory. Once a plugin is installed, you may activate it or deactivate it from the Plugins menu in your WP administration panel. Removal is also straight-forward. Simply remove the directory for the plugin and it will be automatically deactivated.