Red Dirt Radio Mini-Player

Red Dirt Radio Mini-Player is a small project that I completed for Red Dirt Radio owner Andrew.

The brief was the need for a simple online player module which can stream the station from any website that it can be dropped into, in this specific case designed for WordPress with very little to get it up and running.

The player uses no more than 280px of available screen real estate on the website and it can be placed by either using a shortcode block within WordPress or by placing the [red-dirt-radio] shortcode block within a page to activate the player.

Visually the player keeps things simple with a logo and short description, along with a Play button which changes to a Stop control when you want to stop playing the stream. The player will also indicate the stream loading process while your browser is executing the request.

To install the plugin:

• Download the plugin from this project page to your computer
• Navigate to your WordPress CMS admin console.
• In WordPress: Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin.
• Select red-dirt-radio-mini-player.zip, install and activate.
• To ensure that the player works correctly on your installation, edit a test page and add the Red Dirt Radio Mini-Player block. Alternatively add a Shortcode block.
• Publish and test the live page. The editor shows a static placeholder which is non functional.