638 comments found.
Hello, How can I add a search button/bar/feature in the header of the theme?
To add a search button to the header, you will have to customize the code. Unfortunately we don’t currently offer customization services, sorry about that. If you do edit the code, please make sure to use the child theme, so your changes don’t get lost in a theme update.
hello, I am having trouble inserting spaces between my paragraphs in the Podcast show notes. Everything on the back-end seems good. caseyplusnatasha.com
Hi there, I just looked at your markup and for some reason your paragraphs are being wrapped in tags. Could a plugin be active that is causing this? Or are you pasting your text from a place that automatically wraps tags around paragraphs instead of
tags?
the text was pasted from Evernote How can I remove the tags?
Click on “Text” in the right top corner of the text area. Then replace the tags with
tags. That should do the trick!
I just bought your theme and this happened:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare compiler_action() (previously declared in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas05_data02/00/2884000/html/wp-content/plugins/redux-framework/sample/sample-config.php:2271) in/home/content/p3pnexwpnas05_data02/00/2884000/html/wp-content/themes/podcaster/options-config.php on line 1725
http://thephoenixproject.co/Hi there, sorry to hear about this. Could you create a dummy account for me so I can take a closer look at what is happening? Please use the support email support@themestation.net. Thanks!
I can’t upgrade to the new 1.5.1 update. It keeps saying
“Destination folder already exists. /home/discoveringdad/public_html/wp-content/themes/podcaster/
Theme install failed.”
I’ve been able to update it in the past using the plugin like you told me to install. why is it not working this time? i can’t delete that folder as i’d lose all the formatting and stuff i’ve set up. what am i doing wrong?
Hi there,
Envato is currently changing their API, which means there will be some hick-ups in the update system. For now, you can install the update manually. Your theme option settings will not be lost, but to be on the safe side, you can create a back-up of your settings. To do this, go to Theme Options > Import/Export and click on “Download Data File”. This will create a back up of your settings that you can import in case your settings do get lost.
After that, simply deactivate and delete Podcaster, then download a new copy of the theme and install it. Please keep in mind that changes made directly to the code will get lost in this process.
I hope this answers your question, we hope to get the updates back to automatic as soon as possible.
This pisses me off. I just did exactly wha you said. I exported the backup of my stuff. I did everything exactly as you said…and you know what? I still have to fix all the settings, the colors, some of the plugins, the logos. I have now spent 3 hours trying to get it back to where it was and it’s still not right. thanks for the not help.
Sorry to hear about this. The theme option settings are saved in the database, so they don’t get deleted when theme files are. Strange that the theme option backup didn’t work either. How did you go about importing your theme option backup file if I may ask? I just tested it on my end and it worked.
On my blog page it is displaying entire blog posts but I want it to show only the excerpts. I can’t figure out how to change it. Is there a way to do this?
Hi there, at the moment, the only way to create excerpts is by setting them in the post individually. An upcoming update will include a theme option to turn this on or off however. I hope this answers your question.
Great, thanks for the info!
Hello, My home page will not display featured posts, or any posts at all, for that matter. It will only display the “Blog” section header/title.
I have selected the “Featured Post” box on my posts, set to “Audio” post type with “Featured Audio” added underneath the text/HTML box. I have also set my Podcast Archive category to be Podcast.
My URL is http://shotgungriot.com/
Many thanks! Robin
Answered your email! 
AWESOME! Thank you so much for the quick response. All set.
Hi I’ve sent a few emails to support@themestation.net over the last 3 weeks but I haven’t heard anything back from anyone so not sure if I’m messaging the wrong place?? Rather than send multiple emails back and forth I will just ask all of my questions in one go to hopefully make it easier for you. Thanks so much in advance. (The first question is quite time sensitive)
1) On the podcaster theme, how is it possible to have a thumbnail/featured image for a blog post so that it appears on the podcast archive or on social media when sharing a blog post but that is it. I don’t want a massive image appearing right at the top of each post or on the blog post at all, I just want it as a thumbnail/featured image without it being inserted into my blog post.
2) How can I upload the new updated Podcaster theme without it overriding all of the customisation and options currently selected on the current Podcaster theme?
3) When Blurbrry tries to embed it’s plain black audio player into my blog posts this gets overridden and it uses the ThemeStation bigger audio player instead. How can I not have this happen and just use the smaller more discreet Blurbrry player?
4) I have just removed my comments option on my blog as I don’t currently want these enabled. It now says at the bottom of every page: ‘comments section has been closed’. How do I get rid of this as I don’t want to draw attention to this fact?
5) On podcast library/archive page it only displays the first few words of each podcast title, can I get rid of the bit that displays the category ‘podcast’ to allow me more room to show the whole title?
thank you so much in advance,
best wishes,
Duncan
Hey there Duncan,
Sorry about that, support is currently undergoing some changes so your emails might have gotten buried. On to your questions:
1) Unfortunately, there is no way of doing this without going into the code. This sounds like a good idea for a new feature. I’ll try to see how this can be included in a future update.
2) Your settings will be kept, when you delete the theme and install the theme afresh. If you want to be sure, you can create a backup of your settings by going to Theme Options > Import/Export and create an export file. This file can be imported back just in case your settings do get lost.
3) There is no way of doing this without editing a lot of code. But this sounds like a good idea for a feature, too. I’ll get back to you about this.
4) You can hide it by using a bit of CSS:
.single .post .nocomments { display:none }
5) The title is truncated to keep the grid layout intact. Changing this would mess with the grid, which I would advise against. If you really want to change it use:
.page-template-pagepage-podcastarchive-php .entries.grid .podpost .entry-footer ul li,
.post-type-archive-podcast .entries.grid .podpost .entry-footer ul li {
white-space: normal; }
Another word of advice: use your child theme when making customizations, so they are not overwritten when updates are made to the parent theme. I hope this answers all your questions 
when i try to import demo content it’s showing internal server error – is this something that you’ve seen before?
Hi there, sorry to hear you’re having issues with the imports. Haven’t seen this error before. Could it be that your server has security settings that might be causing the error? Try getting in touch with your host to find this out.
Hello, I love the theme so far! I have one issue that I can’t figure out. I can’t see my logo on the header. I uploaded it but I still can’t see it. Is there an option where by clicking on it it goes to the home page?
thank you, veronica.
Hi there, sorry to hear you’re having issues with this. Could you send me a URL so I can take a closer look? Thanks!
Hello, Here is the link: http://d34.33b.myftpupload.com/
Hey I just took a look at your link, and the logo is displayed. Did you manage to resolve this issue? Could it be something that’s only happening on your end? What browser are you using?
Hello, Yes, the website changed, yet I find that the changes take a long time to take place. Is that normal? I use google chrome as a browser. I am also on two computers every day so sometimes changes that I see on my mac, I can not see on my PC.
Normally changes should be immediate. However, if you are running a caching plugin changes can take minutes or even hours to appear, depending on how you’ve set your caching. That’s the only thing I can think of that might be causing this. If it is, I’d advise turning off the caching plugin while you’re doing all your edits and then turning it one when your website goes live.
Hi, Team! Thanks for the development of Podcaster!!! I updated to 1.51 and love it! The Google-Fonts-Section is a great start, please extend it, so that each Headline can be adjusted. Three things I want to mention: 1) Once the header is sticky and only shown half: Can it then be transparent, too? Now the header starts transparent end becomes grey, once onde scrolls down. 2) In the Section Podcast – Single Header Display there is no default-setting, what cause empty headers in the Podcast-Pages. 3) In the Social-Section Skype still doesn’t work (“skype://MySkypeName?call”
Great stuff, keep on Rockin’! OLAF
Thank for your feed back, Olaf! Could you explain what you mean in point 2 exactly? Either way, these points will be looked into.
Point 2: Once I updated, no post had a headerpicture any more. The mentioned section in the settings wasn’t set at all. once set, the headerpictures came back. To me this was a bit disturbing, so I beleive a default-setting would reduce the stresslevel after the update.
Thanks for your reply! Fix is on the way!
Hi are you any closer to implementing featured images for categories. My categories look so bland next all the the beautifully featured content in this great theme.
Claire
Hi there,
thanks for the feedback! It will be looked into, unfortunately I can’t say how or if it will be implemented at this point.
Hi,
Just installed this theme. Awesome.
Is there a way to hide the word Downloads: if you allow downloads of your podcasts showing on a podcast single page?
Kind Regards
Claire
Hi there,
At the moment this is only possible by adding a bit of customization to your child theme style.css. Add this:
.single-post #mediainfo .download-heading {
display: none;
}
Hello. I selected one of the available templates to check it out, but would prefer to return back to the original default look/feel when the theme is first installed. Unfortunately, none of the presets are the original default styles/colors, etc. I have tried deleting/reinstalling the theme, but the preset template selection seems to be permanent. Is there a way to undo the preset?
Answered your email 
Hi, when I go into the Dashboard, theme options, and upload an image for the ‘header background’ no header image appears. How do I get a header image to appear?
Note, when I upload an image as my ‘Blog’ image, it appears, but even though the image is the recommendation dimensions, it only shows about half of it.
This is an image of it not displaying correctly (sorry I’m a newbie, if I have to edit some .css files etc can you please be quite specific? Cheers http://s10.postimg.org/qyjrhr9rt/headerproblem.jpg
Sorry this is driving me a little mad, I’ve played around but still cannot get it to work http://imgur.com/wrbfB57 <— this image is significantly smaller than the recommended size, too but still looks too big?
Hi there! Sorry to hear you’re having issues with this. Make sure you have set up your front page and blog page and set your podcast category. You can find more about this in the documentation under “Getting Started” and “Set Up Podcast Archive”.
What is the recommended pixel resolution for the image on front page headers?
1920px in width and the height depends on the settings you’ve selected for your front page headers. 500px is a good start. Add another 100 – 200 px in height if you’re displaying excerpts and the scheduled posts. If you’re using parallax, add another 150px. I hope this helps!
Since the new version of the theme release this theme no longer shows as being installed in my Envanto Toolkit and when I try to upgrade to the latest version the error I get is the folder already exists. Anyone else see this? I would like to update my site!
Hmm, I don’t know what could be causing this. Have other themes disappeared from your list as well, or only Podcaster? In anyway, it’s being looked into.
Okay, found a workaround that got it working for my test account! This is an issue with the Envato Toolkit plugin that is currently undergoing some changes/being moved into another plugin entirely. The API is still working for now, all you need to do is generate a new key and you should be able to run the update.
Right on – thanks for the super fast support!
Hmmm still no workie – will give it a bit as the help on the Envanto side says it might need a cache refresh before it shows
Same issue on my end – I see the template in my list but it does not show it as being currently installed. When I do try to install in the error message says the directory already exists and the upgrade terminates.
This is currently being looked into, since this is an Envato plugin there is nothing much I can do at the moment. In any case, if the automatic update doesn’t work after generating a new API key, simply download a fresh copy of the theme and re-install it manually via FTP. Sorry about that.
No worries – Its not your template that is causing the issues. I am seeing this on other sites I oversee as well. I am worried that I will loose my customization if I update via FTP though
The customizations you did with with the theme options, will not be reset by re-installing. To be on the safe side you could always export them (Theme Options > Export) and keep them as a backup. If you made changes to the code, you might want to create a backup of your customized version.
I updated to 1.5 and have a couple issues with the podcast single pages. As already posted, the player has an ugly box around it. I want it to be transparent like the main page. The text color in the header for the title episode is also too dark and hard to see. I want it to be the same color as the front page too.
Hi there! Could you post a URL so I could take a closer look? Thanks!
So the main page would be here: http://www.thepastcast.com/ and then the episode page here: http://www.thepastcast.com/2015/09/action-movies-part-ii/
Notice how the player in the episode page has the white border instead of transparent like the main one and the title text is dark gray instead of the white like the main page.
Thanks for the links! A fix is on the way and should be out within the next couple of hours.
Any word on this?
Update is on it’s way, has just been submitted. Sorry for the delay!
No worries. Just got it. Exactly what I was looking for.Thank you. As a side note, I had the same issue as ITLGuy. 1.5 didn’t recognize my previous version and gave the same error. I manually updated it instead of using the Toolkit. This recent update to 1.5 worked fine after that though.
Hi. I’ve installed the new 1.5 version and though it looks great I’ve detected small bugs.
1 – When you select post type “audio” the “featured audio” box does not appear anymore. This means I can’t add the explicit tag or the download button. Actually the only post type working fine is “Gallery”.
2 – The podcast player shows an ugly box around it ONLY on podcast single pages. In the front page the player is fine. See image: http://i.imgur.com/zlcxojX.png
3 – I’m not sure if it’s a bug or if I’m doing something wrong but the featured post also appear listed on the front page (before it didn’t until I’ve launched a new post). http://i.imgur.com/A9aX28z.png
Any idea how to fix this?
Hi there, thanks for the feedback!
1. Have you tried opening the “Screen Options” menu on the top right of the editing page? The audio box should be there and if you tick the box it should appear.
2. Could you post a URL so I could take a closer look at the markup? Thanks!
3. As for your featured posts on the front page, it depends on your settings. As it stands, if you have marked a number of posts as featured, they will still appear in the list of posts below, to avoid confusion. Say you select Episode 4,6 and 12 to be featured, they will appear on the header, but will also appear in the list. If you select to display the newest posts, they will be filtered out of the list, since it’s a chronological in this case. Not bug, but it will be looked into as well!
Hi,
1 – I’ve tried that but Featured Audio is not an option. Do you think I’m missing a plugin or something?
2 – Yes! http://vidasonora.org/
3 – Got it. Actually that will solve my problem anyway. Good you guys are listening! Thanks!
BTW the wordpress version is 4.3.1 (if it helps)
To your first question: Are you running a plugin to manage your podcast, like BluBrry PowerPress. In that case the boxes are disabled, so they don’t conflict with the 3rd party plugin. Could it be that? 2. A fix for this is on the way. Will be out in a couple of hours! 3. Happy to hear that!
Yes I am. I’m using PowerPress and tried the settings but couldn’t find it. Any idea of what box should I check?
And I tried disabling PowerPress and it worked! Any idea how to use them together. I have another podcast and it works fine with PowerPress.
When you activate PowerPress, Podcaster overrides the default audio meta boxes and replaces it with the PP one, in order to prevent conflict. So unfortunately there is no way of using both boxes at the same time. I just took a closer look at the PP metabox and it seems like they do not offer a way of marking posts as explicit. We’ll look into how this can be solved on this end of things, but can’t vouch for 3rd party plugins. Do keep in mind that if you are using a third party plugin that doesn’t support explicit posts, this might not be reflected in your RSS feed either (and thus not in iTunes or Stitcher).
Hi!
Thank you for your fast replies. I sent you an email with the screenshots
In order to get around with the dowload problem, I installed the plugin “Easy Media Download”. But I am getting the same problem. I don’t know what to do to allow downloads now… You say that the download system is currently being updated. Any idea about when the update will be ready? Will this be fixed in the next update? Any idea about how I can fixe that?
Thanks,
YP
Hi everyone!
I solved the download problem by following this procedure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwNwFZyrss http://youngdigitalgroup.com.au/tutorial-force-download-mp3-file-streaming/Good luck to all and thanks to Themestation for the nice theme,
YP
Hi there, happy to hear you figured it out! This fix was actually included in the most recent update, so you should be covered now!
Having big issues with Windows phone 8.1, the theme is all messed up. Did you hear about that? Any fixing on the way?
Hi there, sorry to hear about that. Could you send screenshots or image of what you are seeing to support@themestation.net. That way a closer look can be taken. Thanks!