This is one of those problems that doesn't appear to have a simple solution so I'm reaching out in the hope somebody can point me in the right direction.

I built a site in WordPress for a Client last year and they wanted a soundboard built to demo their skills - here's the page.

The Client emailed me yesterday to say the soundboard isn't working however, the page hasn't been touched in a while and was working perfectly, so I've got a sneaking suspicion that the plug-in used to deliver the soundboard functionality has been deleted - my problem is I don't remember which plug-in it was, or indeed if this is the actual reason the soundboard has stopped working.

Here's an example code snippet to display each 'sound' on the page...

<h5>CALIFORNIAN GIRL</h5>
<audio id="1" src="/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/californiangirl.mp3"></audio>
<button id="button-play"></button><button id="button-pause"></button>

 

It's a long shot but looking at the formatting of the code snippet (and the ID) does anyone recognise which audio plug-in might have been used or am I missing something more obvious that's broken?

I've tried installing all of the following plug-ins but to no avail...

• Audio player
• Blubrry PowerPress
• Compact Audio Player
• HTML5 jQuery Audio Player
• JW Player 6 Plugin for Wordpress
• mb.miniAudioPlayer
• MediaElement.js - HTML5 Audio and Video
• PB oEmbed HTML5 Audio
• Wp Music Player

I can't imagine that when I found the original plug-in, I spent too long searching through the WP plug-in repository so it has to be one of the more popular plug-ins.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

you can ask the host to restore the old backup.. which should include all wordpress files including plugins

I've done a quick scan. It's possibly the Powerpress plugin.

 

EDIT: I've just noticed you've tried this already. Do you have any backup anywhere?

Edited July 30, 201412 yr by Jack

I don't host the site unfortunately so no back-up either.

I'm not familiar with a lot of WP. Are there any database tables that give an indication? It may have its own table, or something inside wp_options.

That might be worth a shot Jack so thanks for the suggestion.

I don't host the site unfortunately so no back-up either.

hello i know u don't host the site.. i told you to ask the client to contact his host or you can contact the host on his behalf to restore old backup to the date... just.before u deleted the plugin files

I agree, contact the hosting company to restore the backup or dig into phpmyadmin area.

 

After you have fixed it maybe it is best to download and install a good file/database backup plugin.