Until v0.5.0 the audio cut every time you navigated between WP admin
pages — every navigation is a full page reload, which destroys the
<audio> element. v0.6.0 fixes the background-music use case by letting
you pop the player out into a separate browser window that persists
across the parent tab's navigation.
Pop-out window
- Small "↗ Pop out" button beside the Play button on both the main
Radio page and the Dashboard widget.
- Opens a 380×560 standalone window via window.open() with a window
name of `radio_popout` so a second click re-focuses the existing
popup rather than spawning a new one.
- Popup renders at admin-post.php?action=radio_popout&play=1 — a new
admin_post_radio_popout hook outputs a full standalone HTML page
(custom DOCTYPE / head / body, no WP admin chrome).
- Theme follows radio_state['theme'] via body class radio-theme-{...}.
- Includes the full player (now-playing block with dancing bars +
Web Audio visualizer, play, mute, volume, station dropdown, error
slot). Close button calls window.close().
Auto-resume + single-stream invariant
- cfg.autoPlay is true when the popup URL carries &play=1. radio.js
auto-calls audio.play() 200 ms after init. Same-origin user-gesture
popups are exempt from autoplay-blocking on every modern browser.
- On pop-out click, every other audio surface in the parent tab is
paused so there is only ever one stream playing.
State stays in sync
- Popup uses the SAME radio_save_state AJAX + track-logging endpoint.
Station / volume changes persist to user_meta; track history keeps
accumulating from whichever surface is playing.
Edge cases
- Inside the popup, cfg.popoutUrl is '' so bindPopOut hides any
Pop-out button it finds (would be infinite otherwise).
- Popup blocked by browser → clear alert tells the user to allow
popups for this site.
Files
- radio.php (version, popoutUrl in localized config, admin_post
handler + full standalone HTML renderer)
- inc/admin-page.php + inc/dashboard-widget.php (Pop-out button
beside Play)
- assets/css/radio.css (.radio-player__popout styling)
- assets/js/radio.js (bindPopOut function; autoPlay branch in
bindPlayer)
- inc/about.php + CHANGELOG.md (history entries)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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