Hello, to do this go to Theme Options > Blog > Blog Excerpts and select the “Force Excerpts” setting. This will only show excerpts on the blog page, just like it does on the category page.

Thanks for that, now I have 2 links going to the individual blog posts, one that says “Continue Reading” left aligned just below the excerpt text and then a “Read More” that’s under that and right aligned in another container. It looks like it part of the “entry-meta”. Any easy way to turn one of those off in the theme?

You can use a bit of CSS to hide that section. Just let me know if you only want to hide the link or the entire bottom part of the post including the author link, I’ll post the CSS.

Hello, thanks for the screenshots. Are you able to select Series from the dropdown menu?

So, SSP changed up their code in their most recent update, meaning that how Podcaster detects whether the plugin is active, isn’t doing that anymore. A fix is on the way. And sorry for the inconvenience.

Hello, sorry about that. Could you send me a URL or screenshot of what you are seeing? You can send it so support@themestation.net if you don’t want to post it here in a public forum. Thanks.

Hello! If you are using SSP, you should have an additional drop down menu within the theme options to select “Series”, since that is the taxonomy used with that plugin. Which version of Podcaster are you currently running?

Hi,

I’m using the last version (1.8.3). I do use a “serie” in SSP, all my episodes are in the said serie, but it doesn’t appear in the “Podcast Archive” settings !

Edit: Please disregard the my reply above, the SSP plugin was changed recently, which is why Podcaster is not displaying the correct fields in the theme options. An update for Podcaster is on the way with a fix. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Hello, thanks for your quick reply. Could you send me a screenshot of your Theme Options > Podcast page, just so I can see what options you have in front of you? You can send the image to support@themestation.net. Thanks!

Hello, have you selected the template called “Front Page (New)” for your front page? After that please make sure you’ve gone to Theme Options > Front Page > Hosts and Theme Options > Front Page > Donate to activate the sections. Let me know if this helps.

Hey there, just a heads up that this is being looked into.

Hello, the videos work on my end, what kind of error are you getting? Are they buffering for a long time or not playing at all?

Btw, the second link is mislabled, that will be renamed. Thanks for the feedback.

Not working at all. The error displayed is: Media error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not foundmejs.download-file: http://podcaster-new.development.thst/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/03/livealohamp4.mp4?_=1

Thanks for the reply, it’s all been fixed now. You should be able to view the videos.

Hello, sorry to hear about that, I actually did reply to your message three days ago. Maybe check your junk folder, my reply might have gotten lost in there. I’ll also send my message out again just in case it got lost on the way.

Hello, thanks for getting in touch. This happens fairly often with WordPress, and might not be linked to the theme. I recommend, logging out and logging back in again. You can also try deleting your cookies to start a new session. Do let me know if this helps.

Hello. I tried deleting the cookies and re login in. I also tried multiple browsers. The issue is still there.

Hello, I’m really sorry about that. Could you send me a screenshot of the the exact error page you are getting, as well as all the plugins (screenshot of your plugin page should be enough) you are currently using. Please send it to support@themestation.net And since you said a re-install of WordPress still keeps the error, could you also let me know what version of WordPress, PHP and MySQL you are using. Thanks.

Hello, thanks for getting in touch. Just a little thing before I get to your question. You don’t appear as having purchased this theme or support using this account. Maybe you’re logged into another account? Could you log into your account you used to purchase this theme and post your support request again? Sorry for the inconvenience, but I need to be able to verify the purchase. Thanks!

Sure!

‘Popular’ / ‘recent’ / ‘commented’ on the blog-page (on the right, above the widget): manmanmandepodcast.nl/blog/

And ‘ago’ at the bottom of the frontpage (under ‘Nieuws’, it says ‘5 dagen ago’).

Thanks, just a heads up that this is being looked into.

Hey, just letting you know that there is an update for Podcaster. It includes a translation ready version of the Podcaster Widgets plugin. You can go ahead and translate it into your language just as you did with the theme. Just make sure to name the translation file podcaster-widgets-”language code”. So for french for example it would be called podcaster-widgets-fr_FR.mo. Hope this helps, do let me know if it works!

Hello! Sorry about that, the changes to changelog/documentation were still in the course of being made. You can now find the updated changelog at the bottom of the page here: https://themeforest.net/item/podcaster-multimedia-wordpress-theme/6804946 or in the documentation: http://themestation.co/documentation/podcaster/#changelog

Hello, Thanks showing interest in Podcaster. Yes, you can make archive pages using the SSP series taxonomy. Just create a new page, select the “Podcast Archive – Grid” or “Podcast Archive – List” template and you will be able to select the SSP series from a drop down list. This will enable you to create multiple pages, each with a series of your choice being displayed.

I hope this answers your question, do let me know if you have any other.

Hello,

Unfortunately there is no video tutorial on how to set up Podcaster. But following the documentation (http://themestation.co/documentation/podcaster/) should help. The main things that need to be done:

- set up front page & blog page - select podcast category - make podcast archive

You shouldn’t have to make adjustments to your PHP unless you are importing data. Importing data can be needs more memory than other operations, although a good host should grant you enough memory to perform a basic demo by default. I have run into this issue a handful of times, though.

If you run into any issues while setting up, just let me know and I’d be happy to help. Either here, or even better, just send in a request: https://themeforest.net/item/podcaster-multimedia-wordpress-theme/6804946/support

And just a heads up, Podcaster isn’t compatible with Essential Grid out of the box. Not sure what you want to do with it, but if you let me know, I could give you some pointers.

That’s fine; I’m just going down the list and making changes as I go along. I added my own CSS to make the necessary adjustments.

As for Essential Grid, I had to drop it. It’s a resource hog and slows my site down regardless of how well it’s optimized; including caching plugin and CDN. My last theme that’s been discontinued is a grid format and worked well but it’s no longer supported.

I have a 12 year old podcast, over 800 episodes and a wide variety of categories for my genres. Hence, I need to display a vast amount of content on the front page, which this theme makes a bit difficult to do. I’ll follow up with those questions later as I move along.

Right now, I wanted a larger logo centered and my category menu centered just below that. I’ve achieved that but how do I make the container larger so I can make the font a little larger for the categories? Right now, I have them set at 14px. Anything larger will force them to the 2nd line.

Also, no matter if I stick with your default template or not; the search in the header interferes with the categories. When you click on it, it overlaps one of the categories and you can’t type in it. Instead, you end up clicking on the category and it takes you to that page. If I can’t work that out, I’ll just add search to the sidebar that I will add to the front page shortly but it would be nice to have in the header and be functional.

Here’s my code (probably not great, but it works):

.above .logo.with-img img { max-width: 200%; max-height: 200%; margin-left: 100%; margin-top: 10px; }

nav#nav.toggle { width: 100%; }

nav {

z-index: 200; position: unset; }

nav .thst-menu {

list-style: none; margin-left: -350px; margin-top: -33px; margin-bottom: -20px; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; }

And here’s an image of what I’ve done so far:

Just a heads up, replied to your email.

Hello,

This issue is currently being looked into. Could you send me a screenshot of your your Theme Options > Podcast page and your Theme Options > Front Page Header page just so I can take a look at your settings: support@themestation.net.

Thanks!

Hey! I did some experimenting last night. It seems that it was automatically featuring anything that was in the “uncategorized” category. I went through and disabled all my plug-ins and it was still happening.

I installed the new update last night and it seemed to fix the issue! Not sure if that was the intent, but great work!

Yes, a couple of minor changes were made. Happy to hear this solved the issue!

Actually, disregard, I found that when I imported my podcast entries that there was a space before and after the url and it wasnt working. So, as a note for anyone else, if you are having the same issue where the url either isnt saving in the featured Audio section or isnt showing on the page make sure there are no spaces before or after the url

Hello,

Yes, small things like stray blank spaces can cause an issue, especially in URLs unfortunately. I’m glad you managed to figure it out.

Thank you and happy new year to you too! Update is on the way, still has to be approved by Themeforest staff. Sorry about the link, but you can always include the player within the post as a regular embedded player. This should work since it’s a Soundcloud player. Just so your post has a player at all.

I see that the latest update was January 2nd, but I don’t see the audio field still. Not when I create a new post in “audio” format, not in the previous posts where we only see the soundclound link in “custom” fields but it’s not editable.

Hello, Sorry about that. Are you using Gutenberg or the classic editor? Could you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? support@themestation.net Thanks!

Hello,

are you currently using the old editor or Gutenberg?

I’ve done a little of both but mostly using classic.

Ok, Podcaster received a new update (1.7.9) and the metaboxes should be working now for both classic and Gutenberg. Please make sure to install the CMB2 plugin, because it’s not rolled into the theme anymore (new WordPress requirements). After the update and activating the plugin, you should be fine.

Hello,

Thanks for getting in touch, and sorry to hear about that. A Gutenberg update is on the way.

However, the audio metabox should not disappear completely when you close the tab. The link to open the tab should still be there. Are you using other plugins that might be interfering with the Gutenberg editor?

I haven’t been able to recreate this bug on my end, but would like to take a closer look on your end. If you are okay with this, please get in touch by dropping a short message at: support@themestation.net

Thanks

Hello, thanks for getting in touch, I’ll get right to your question. This can’t be done with the theme options, only two buttons are set for this section. However, this customization can be done by making edits using the child theme. Let me know if you would like some pointers on how to go about doing this.

I will be more than happy if you can share some pointers on how to go about doing this. And I have installed the parent theme for my website. You are saying that I need to make changes in the child theme. So how can this work if I make changes in the child theme and my website is built using the parent theme.

Thanks

Sure, so a child theme is used to make changes without touching your parent theme code. Your child theme is basically a blank folder with a basic style.css and functions.php file. If you want to make a customization, instead of making it to the file directly, you make a copy of the file you want to change and paste it into your child theme. After making the changes, upload and activate the child theme. WordPress will then load both your parent theme and the changes stored in the child theme.

Essentially, it gives you a way to make changes to your theme without actually touching the parent theme code. It also keeps your changes safe from being overwritten, when the parent theme is updated.

Could you send me a message to support@themestation.net so I can send you the pointers. It’s a bit long, so I think it’s better this way.

Thanks!