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Thinking about purchasing, does this theme support MailChimp email signup or any other bulk email platforms?
Hello, thanks for your interest in the theme. Podcaster is not optimised to work with MailChimp, but depending on what you want to do, you can make it work. If you only wish to use their sidebar widget, this can be done. Anything more is not supported I’m afraid.
Looking to just have a newsletter sign up someonenon bottom/footer.
So, you can add a shortcode to the footer area (the place that says “Powered by Podcaster for WordPress.”) and display a form there. CSS would still need to be adjusted, but it should work. I hope helps 
Where I updated the theme it broke my new wordpress installation. to 4.9.1 Please update because I can not post anything.
Hello, may I ask what version of Podcaster as well as WordPress you are currently running? That will make it easier to answer your question.
Yes I am using version 1.6.9 or the newest version on here and wordpress version 4.9.1
Thanks for your reply. May I ask what error you are getting? Are you able to log in at all? Could you please send screenshots of the error you are getting to support@themestation.net. I’ll take a closer look at it.
Hi there, I’d love to know if there is a way to to make a featured photo appear on the category archive pages. Thanks in advance!
Hello, sorry for the delay in responses. It was due to the holidays, I hope you understand. As for your question: do you mean as headers in category pages? This is unfortunately not possible as of now, I’m afraid. Sorry about that.
It’s fine, do not worry and thanks!
Got a couple of more questions I’d like to go straight:
a) some 4 months ago I asked about the child theme (deprecated @import feature) and you told there will be an update soon: will I get notified about this even if my 6 months of support are expiring? Will I be able to upgrade the same?
b) I’m having a problem with theid="*" function for anchors: tried to refer to the anchor with standard <a href="#xyz">...</a> (paragraph on the same page), but none of the following worked:
1. <h3 id="xyz" style="text-align: left;">...</h3>
2. <h3 a="" name="xyz" style="text-align: left;">...</h3>
3. <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="xyz"></a>...</h3>
4. <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="xyz"></a>...</h3>
5. <a name="xyz"></a><h3 style="text-align: left;">...</h3>
I’m starting thinking that probably I’m conflicting with some Podcaster’s feature: can you please tell me if I’m wrong?
Thanks.
Also, just a quick adding on top of that.
Permalinks editing with Yoast SEO Plugin seems to not work properly: if the category base removal is activated your Podcast Archive Page will not show as a grid (which I just tried, don’t know if it does apply also to the “list” option), but as a standard Archive category/tag page.
Which, of course, it is a bit unpleasant as this is maybe the most beautiful Podcaster feature.
Can you help me out solve this one too?
Thanks again.
Hi there, I’ll get right to your questions:
a) The @import issue for child themes was changed in a recent update. You should receive a notice when the theme is updated by email and if you have Envato Market set up to handle your themes, a notification should appear among your WordPress updates as well. Yes, this will continue even after your six months support ends.
b) Just a question: Is this something that is happening when you’re writing posts or pages? Are you trying to link to content within the same document using the id feature? I just tried this out using the #xyz as href and xyz as the id name for a title and it worked on my end. Just let me know, I’d be happy to help make it work on yours.
c) You would like to use the category permalink structure (example.com/category/podcast) but keep the layout from the Podcast Archive Page, am I correct? The Podcast Archive Page is a custom template as you may have noticed, so it follows the page permalink structure. As for now, there is no easy way of doing this, aside from creating a custom category page template. Podcaster will go through a huge update soon, so I’ll keep this in mind.
I am using Castos Seriously Simple Podcasting and therefore when I add episodes of my podcast I don’t have the option to add them to a category. However I want it to be that only my actual podcasts end up in the featured section on the homepage. What is the best way to do this?
Hello, you should be able to select SSP “series” within the theme options as well. Simply add you posts to a series, then head to Theme Options > Podcast and select the series from the drop down menu. That should do the job.
The latest update fixed the header text color issue. Thank you! I have another question – On single posts, images in the sidebar widget are dimmed until you mouse over them. Is this an effect I can turn off from the control panel or perhaps override with a custom style in a child theme? It’s really not the look we want but I haven’t been able to figure out how it works. Thanks again!
Hello, Podcaster works with opacity to manage links. You couild try using
.sidebar a:link, .sidebar a:visited { opacity: 1; }
You could also add the specific widget class, if you want to limit this effect like so:
.sidebar.widget_media_image a:link, .sidebar.widget_media_image a:visited { opacity: 1; }
I hop this helps!
Hey guys, is Theme Options working? Looks like a broken link to me. I installed the theme following the instructions but cant’s access Theme Options! Please help me with that… nothing working…
My link is http://authenticenglishpodcast.com
Every item I try on Theme Options returns me an empty page like that: https://imgur.com/Tc4piNx
Hello, sorry to hear you’ve run into issues while setting up the theme. May I ask if you have installed and activated the “Redux Framework” plugin. It manages the theme options, so if it is not active, you might run into some trouble. Also, what other plugins are you running, while it rarely happens, there is always a chance of plugins conflicting. Just let me know, I’d be happy to help.
I’ve removed all plugins from previous theme and it’s still not working: https://imgur.com/idG1edX
Thanks for the reply, that is strange. Could you create a dummy account with admin rights for me so I can login and take a closer look at what might be happening? Please use the email support@themestation.net when creating it.
Done!!
Also getting this msg on my GoDaddy Hosting: https://imgur.com/TnxgEi9
Thanks! I took a look around and the site seems to be loading unusually slow. From what I can tell the theme options page itself stops loading midway. Since it needs external javascript in order to function, something might be getting blocked there.I’d advise getting in touch with your hosting to find out if there might be some conflict there.
I’ll try to reach GoDaddy Hosting tomorrow morning. But Theme Options seems to be actually down — it doesn’t even load anything. I hope is a problem there otherwise don’t know what I can do with the theme.
Yes, do try that. By the way, I was looking at the page code. The page is blank of course, but the code loads a few lines at the top then cuts off. It could be a server setting on your hosts side, do let me know what they say because this is the first time I’ve run into this as well.
In the end I removed everything and started all over, and it’s worked
The GoDaddy Hosting Wizard installs some pre-stuff that were blocking it, just deleted and started from scratch.
Just a little help, is there a way to keep this podcasts blocks as lines and not as columns?? https://imgur.com/a/guTkn . I couldn’t find how to manage it.
Thanks for the reply, and thanks for letting me know about the Godaddy settings.
As for the blocks, if you are viewing Podcaster in a narrower screen, such as a laptop or tablet smaller than 1198px, it will automatically display columns instead of rows, since it is responsive. So that is actually a feature not a bug. In wider screens, you get rows again. I hope that explains it
I’m having trouble finding which theme option controls the header title text on Pages. I tried adjusting the item “Page Header Title Color” in Theme Options / Colors, but that doesn’t seem to do it. No matter what I set it to the page title in the header area is always black.
Little bit more information – it looks like the color I set in the control panel is making it correctly into a <style> tag when the page is generated, however it’s being overridden by another style that also targets (among other things) ”.page .reg .heading” and sets color to #000000
Thanks for the feedback, this is being looked into!
I am having trouble getting my Contact page to work correctly. I have installed Contact Form 7.
extrausual.com
Hello, thanks for getting in touch. There are currently two Contact Us links on your page. One leads to a 404 page and the other one looks fine. Could you let me know what exactly is giving you trouble? Thanks
As GoldenLassoGirl posted already, there is an error in the search function. Please let me know, when you will provide the fix and how. Will this be an update?
Hello, thanks for getting in touch. There will be an update released by tomorrow with a fix. Thanks for your patience.
Hello, just letting you know that the new version of Podcaster (1.6.9) is on it’s way and should be read for update within the next couple of hours.
Hi! It seems that the search function at the top of the page has stopped working for us. I haven’t changed any of the plugins since it was working last. I tried turning them off anyway but still got the error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting ’,’ or ’;’ in /homepages/41/d102070740/htdocs/happyjacks/wp-content/themes/podcaster/search.php on line 56
Any ideas?
Just checking if this has been read. This is a major problem for our website and we need to fix it… we have about 8 years of podcast content that is impossible to access in a practical way without a search function. Thanks!
Hey there, sorry for the delay in replies. Could you please create a dummy account for me so I can log in and take a closer look. Thanks!
Great! Thanks! I made an account for you but don’t want to post the login here… can you email me at kimi@goldenlasso.net so I can send you the specifics? The email notification I got says not to reply to it.
Oh yes, please never post login details anywhere ever. When making the account, simply use the email address support@themestation.net. I will be notified and will then be able to login. Thanks
Ok. You actually already have an account on there. I will reset the password and you should get a notification. If not, you can probably just reset the password.
THANKS!
Just a heads up that a fix is on it’s way. Thanks for the feedback!
You’re the best! Thank you so much!
Any chance we could get a twitch social media icon added someday too? 
Twitch Icons sounds like an addition that can be made.
Hello, just letting you know that the new version of Podcaster (1.6.9) is on it’s way and should be read for update within the next couple of hours.
Seems like many people are working with multiple podcasts like I hope to do. Personally, I just want the slider to rotate between the podcasts, and I would think that could be done with a hack that made it rotate through categories, and I could specify a different category (in addition to the podcast category) for each show. Anybody have success with such a thing, or want to share how you made this great theme work with your network?
Hey there I’m looking into this, just a quick question, which plugin are you using to manage your podcast? Are your shows simply filed into separate categories?
I’m just using the Podcaster theme as far as I know. I installed the required plugins. I also think this could be controlled by limiting the slider to Featured posts and just making the newest episode “featured” for each feed. Since I have to post the code for each audio episode anyway, I could have multiple podcasts that way. I just need to figure out how to make separate archive pages, subscribe buttons, etc.
Just replied to your email
Haven’t seen it? mbdavis@gmail.com
Yes, that is the email address I responded. I’ve sent it out again just to be sure.
it would appear the update broke the nav my nested nav is now always open www.8bitbros.us
I now know this to be the case my sandbox install is fine with a template that has not been updated
Hello, I’m sorry to hear about that. While it’s being looked into, adding the following hotfix to your child theme should help: #nav .thst-menu li.menu-item-has-children .sub-menu { opacity:0; }
thank you that worked
I wanted to use the yellow sticky header preset but I believe I need to add the css file associated with this preset. It seems to do so, a child theme needed to be created, so I did so, but have no idea where to add the css file that is in the podcaster-child folder. I also might be skipping over a simple option, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hey there, you should be able to make the yellow header sticky, by going to Theme Options > Navigation > Sticky Navigation. You can activate the settings there and edit colors. Do let me know if this is what you meant, or still need help with the child theme.
I apologize I wasn’t very clear. The sticky option is already set to “yes” however, I am unable to adjust any colors associated with the theme. In the theme options it shows that the navigation is supposed to be yellow, but it is grey. I assumed this was because there is not an appropriate css file somewhere which led me down the child theme road. Let me know if I am still being unclear, still new to wordpress.
Could you send me your URL so I can take a closer look? You can also send it to support@themestation.net if you don’t want to post it here. Thanks!
Oh sure, taking in to account that I’ve done the bare minimum to the site because I haven’t figured out how to customize anything yet . http://anhourwithmother.com/
Sorry for the wait and thanks for your patience. An update is on the way that will resolve this issue. The problem is that your host doesn’t seem to support the style.php file that is used to handle the color customizations. This will be taken care of in the next release. It will be out later today
Is this update going to automatically come through on wordpress or do I need to look elsewhere?
If you have the Envato Market plugin installed and set up, you should receive an update notification on your WordPress Update page and should be able to install it right there. In case you haven’t set up the plugin yet, you can find out how to do it here: http://themestation.co/documentation/podcaster/#updates
Okay this seems to have fixed this issue, thanks a bunch! I was also wondering how to edit the Header text on the podcast archive page. For my page I titled it “Podcast” and it shows up on my background in black text which is fairly unreadable, is there a way to edit the color of this, or have it not show up entirely? Also did I setup the archive page correctly? I created a page and used the archive template, then I created a podcast category. I then added the podcast page into the menu system. Thanks for all your help so far. Here is the link to the page in question: http://anhourwithmother.com/an-hour-with-mother/podcast/
Just a heads up that this is being looked into. I’ll get back to you as soon as it’s resolved. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Hello.
I had a problems with child template and I made a changes on bootstrap and CSS. Would be some problems with it?
Hey there, did you make the changes to the themes code directly? If yes, simply copy the files you made into your child theme. (Make sure to create directories if the files you edited were in sub-directories). Then get a fresh copy of the theme, and replace the files you edited in the parent theme. That way your changes will be safe within the child theme when an update rolls around and the parent files will be untouched.
Hello there! Very interested in purchasing. I’ve read you were implementing RTL. Can you confirm this? Thanks!
Yes, Podcaster has supports RTL. The theme can be mirrored and is translation ready. Due to recent updates, there are some hard-coded strings that still need to be added to the translation files though. That will happen soon.
Can we setup a featured video (latest episode) on the homepage? All demos show only audios on top?
Also are grids supported?
Thanks for showing interest in Podcaster. Yes, featured videos are supported as well.
Not sure what you mean with grids, could you elaborate? Thanks.
I need to 1) setup latest episode / or featured episode on top, on homepage. 2) Below it needs to be grid of previous episodes, preferably in 3 column layout.
Hey there, if you wish to make these changes to the theme yourself if you purchase it, you are more that welcome do to this. However, the theme is as presented within the demo. I hope this answers your question.
Is there a way to exclude some posts within the mail list in Front Page, for example the last podcast, which is usually already in the Front Page Header as featured post?
Hi, this depends on the setting you’re using. Under “Theme Options” > “Front Page Header” > “Header Content”, if you selected “Newest”, it will automatically filter out the newest post from the list. If you have selected “Featured Posts”, all posts will be displayed chronologically. If you are not featuring very specific posts in the header, I’d select the “Newest” setting. I hope that helps
I’d rather use featured post, because I only need podcast on the Front Header, if I select Newest I could have unwanted post in the Header (i.e. blog posts). Can you please tell me in which file(s) and row(s) I can edit this function? I’m using a child theme, so I guess I can easily make this kind of editing without crashing everything.
Cheers!
Ok, just a heads up, have you set your podcast archive category already? That should keep the posts limited to that category and exclude unwanted posts from other categories from appearing in the header.
Well, the problem is solved then! There’s a similar issue with the blog though: the last sticky post appears there even if is not in the blog category. So I see now what was your leading idea while designing the theme, however I’d like to receive info on those php functions in order to be able to edit them: can you please help?
The functions for the headers are all found in a file called featured-header.php. They are called pod_featured_header_text(); pod_featured_header_static(); pod_featured_header_static_posts(); and pod_featured_header_slideshow(); respectively. Depending on the setting you are using, you can copy and edit the function you need. I hope this helps.
Hi there,
I have a small issue with my podcast archive page.
I created a category in which I’m putting all my podcast as audio posts, but even if I indicate that category in the form (Theme Option > Podcast) the archive page results as just a normal archive page (with widget sidebar on the right and the writing “Category: category_name on the top), while I was expecting something like this: http://demo.themestation.co/podcaster-yellow/podcast-archive/Can you tell where is my mistake here?
Thanks
Oh no… I just understood I need to create a page with podcast archive format. Sorry!
One problem remains: how can I set a specific category for the blog? The “Theme Option > Blog” section seems to not display a choose form like the one for the Podcast archive.
Thanks and sorry again for this triple message!
This is solved as well.
Happy to see you figured this out. I’ll close this thread for now
thanks
Was there ever a fix for the mobile view scaling issue from 2 years ago? caseyplusnatasha asked the question and I don’t see a response. I’m seeing the same issue in my posts. The page is fine, but the posts are unusable.
Hello, Podcaster has undergone several updates since then, some that have also addressed the scaling issue, but I’d be happy to take a closer look at what may be happening on your end. Could you tell me what version of the theme you are running as well as the device, browser and resolution you are using to look at your website? A URL to your site would be great too. You can send them to support@themestation.net if you don’t want to post them here.
buildingcommunity.today. The issue is happening on the cellphone browser when viewing a post. All pages render perfectly. ver 1.6.7 Using an iPhone, don’t have an Android Browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox (All same result) 1 post example: http://www.buildingcommunity.today/podcast/hardfork-ethereum-bitcoin-musiconomi-133/
Thanks much!
Thanks for the info and the link. Did you make any customizations, CSS or otherwise? Something in the set up of the posts, seems to be breaking the responsiveness. Another thing that could be causing this is a plugin that inserts content into your posts. Do let me know if any of this is the case.
I’m using Seriously Simple Podcasting to manage my podcast..
Seriously Simple Podcasting is supported by Podcaster so this isn’t what is causing the issue. It must be another plugin. Try deactivating your plugins until the responsiveness stops breaking. That way you can find out which one is breaking the layout.
I’m using a Hebrew version of WordPress, but still yet there are strings that are in English. What is the procedure of translating the theme? Which files should be translated and under what name should it be saved for Hebrew? Thank you.
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