Having some difficulty embedding Soundcloud links as it seems they’re not on WordPress’ oembed list. I also saw another thread saying that iframe embedding is disallowed due to security issues (that’s how I usually do it within the WP area of the site)

The way round this *seems* to be to install the Jetpack plugin which provides WordPress.com functionality in your self-hosted blog. And indeed, the shortcodes seem to work fine – e.g. [soundcloud url=”https://soundcloud.com/macgirvin/bittyblue” /]

However, this functionality doesn’t seem to carry through into Simple:Press (you just get a blank post). I guess the Jetpack stuff doesn’t operate under the Simple:Press area (I’m never quite sure where one stops and the other starts).

More info, or to muddy the waters further – the Soundcloud-supplied embed code usually is of the form [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/38463994″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

However, setting iframe to false makes no difference (docs suggest it should give you the Adobe Flash widget rather than the html5 iframe).

As the old saying goes, “any ideas?”