Give your blogs a voice

I installed this wonderful addon which lets users listen to posts on this blog. Just click on the “listen to this article” at the top and you will be redirected to a window in which you can listen to the post in quicktime player. You can download quicktime here.

With few simple steps you can add this feature on your blog

1. Go to http://www.talkr.com/ and register. Input your site feed. This will generate the Talkr Feed URL. Something like http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=25409

2. Edit your blogger or wordpress template to include the code generated. It should be easy for blogger. For wordpress users they have to edit their ‘the_loop’ file. Paste the code generated

<p><img style=”border:none;” src=’<a href=”http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif’”>http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif’</a> alt=’Listen to this article’ border=’0′ /><br><a href=’<a href=”http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=25409&perma_link=[template">http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=25409&perma_link=[template</a> variable for permalink]‘><br>Listen to this article <br></a></p>

in the non-aside loop.

<p><?php } else { // Non-Aside loop ?><br><div class=”entry”><br><div class=”meta”><br><h2 class=”title” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”<?php _e(’Permanent Link to ‘, ‘tarski’); the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2><br><p class=”metadata”><?php echo mysql2date(get_settings(’date_format’), $post->post_date);<br>if(!get_option(’tarski_hide_categories’)) { _e(’ in ‘, ‘tarski’); the_category(’, ‘); }<br>if($multipleAuthors) { _e(’ by ‘, ‘tarski’); the_author_posts_link(); } <p>if($post->comment_status == ‘open’ || $post->comment_count > 0) { echo ‘ | ‘; comments_popup_link(’No comments’, ‘1 comment’, ‘% comments’, ”, ‘Comments closed’); }<br>edit_post_link(’edit’,’ (’,')’); ?></p><br></div><br><?php ajax_comments_link(); ?><br><?php ajax_comments_div(); ?><br><img style=”border:none;” src=’<a href=”http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif’”>http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif’</a> alt=’Listen to this article’ border=’0′ /><br><a href=’<a href=”http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=25409&perma_link=”>http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=25409&perma_link=</a><?php the_permalink() ?>’><br>Listen to this article <br></a></p>

You have to edit this line perma_link=[template variable for permalink]  and replace the text in the bracket (with the brackets) with <?php the_permalink() ?>

I am using Tarski theme and hence the code shown above is of that. In other themes you need to paste the code above the <div class=”entry-content”>.

Now you can subscribe to the feed in itunes