Continuing work today on my free theme and I’m trying to make it kick some butt. I would like to embed an audio player into the theme. Not a plugin, an embedded player.
The functionality of http://wpaudioplayer.com/standalone/ kicks some serious boo-tay.
However, that player is a bit ugly. I do like the Woo Tumblog audio player (anybody know if I can implement this… people may make commercial themes off this theme so it needs to be legal?). If there’s a great looking player option out there that’s distributable in commercial themes, simple, and well-designed let me know.
I assume I can just replace the .swf file in WP Audio Player… right?
May the force be with you.
I would recommend that you have your theme require the wordpress.org version of the wpaudioplayer plugin. There is a great article about having themes check for and require plugins.
As is well-argued on this WPSE answer, it’s not a great idea to take code from a plugin and include it in your theme because you miss future updates and it might be legally/morally iffy. Best of all, if a person who purchases your theme chooses to switch themes some day, all their audio players will still work and they’ll be very happy and thank you forever.