Hello, thanks for getting in touch. Could you open a support ticket here: https://themeforest.net/item/podcaster-multimedia-wordpress-theme/6804946/support and include the <iframe> embed code from your acast player? I can then look into it and would be happy to let you know.

Hello, at the moment, the stretched parallax mode is only available for audio posts unfortunately.

However, if it’s merely the look you are going for, you can select the audio post format, without adding an audio file to your post. That way you’ll still get the look of the audio post header. Sorry about that, I hope this helps.

Hello there! You should be able to turn it transparent in the theme options: Podcaster > Theme Options > Front Page Header > Media player. Make sure the custom colors are active and the the transparent player setting is on. Hope that helps!

Hello, Sorry about that, this will be looked into. Just a few questions, have any customizations been made to the site (plain CSS or using a child theme for example)? Or is a caching plugin currently active (such as wp super cache, w3 total cache or something similar?) What other plugins are active, besides the recommended ones? Just let me know. Thanks!

Hi there, no CSS or child themes, but I am using W3 total cache yes. Also running yoast / jetpack / askimet

Thanks for your reply. Have the caching plugins been flushed since running the update? Look into the plugin settings to make sure they load the newest files. You can also try deactivating, checking your site and then re-activating the plugins. This is to make sure the caching plugins fetch the newer/updated theme files. My suspicion is that the caching plugins are still serving the older theme files.

Hello, sorry to hear about that, there is a fix on the way correcting the title displays/menu links.

As for child themes and customizations, are you using a child theme, if yes, which files did you customize, I’ll look into it for you.

Hello there, have you activated the “Redux Framework” plugin. You should be able to activate it by going to Appearance > Install Plugins. Select it from the list and make sure it’s installed and activated. That should bring the theme options back. Let me know if this helps!

Hi there, just a bit of follow up, you want to display links to your blog and feed in the navigation menu or on the header in the front page?

If you wish to display a sidebar on the front page, you can do that by editing your designated front page (you’ll find it by going to Pages > All Pages). On the right side under Page Attributes, switch the template to either Front Page (Left Sidebar) or Front Page (Right Sidebar)

Please keep in mind that this is an earlier version of the front page template that doesn’t support the host, newsletter or donate button section as of now.

I hope this answers your questions, and let me know about the links.

Thanks for the reply! I’ll try these other templates, or wait for the new version to have sidebar widgets (if you’re planning on adding support for those?) My first question was actually about adding a <link rel=”alternate”> element to the HTML head. Is there a way to do that without editing templates by hand?

Thanks for your reply. New features are added every now and again, so they will be included in a future update.

As for adding additional HTML tags to the header, if you need to customize that, you can do it by using a child theme and adding them by hand. I recommend using a function that you can add to your child themes functions.php and hook to wp_head. That way, you don’t need to actually change any template files.

Hello,

Thanks for getting in touch. After importing the demo data, please make sure you followed all the steps found in the “Getting Started” section of the documentation. http://themestation.co/documentation/podcaster/#getting-started

Specifically it looks like you still need to set the static front page and install the plugins (Redux Framework in particular). After installing Redux, you will be able to activate the “Golden” preset within the theme options. That should do it. Let me know if it helps.

Thanks for the response, i however find the documentation not to be straight forward. From my experience with WordPress themes, the standard this days is for all that needs to be imported and configured to have a replica of the demo site requires nothing from the user. Having users do some technical work before they can see the demo site up and running is discouraging.

At the moment i’m still trying to figure out how i’m to display content on the homepage just the way we have it on the demo site. I have updated my site thou.

A step by step approach to your documentation would have been better and will also reduce the number of support requests. Is there a Video tutorial for recreating the demo site on a clients website ?

Hello,

Thanks for your constructive feedback. Podcaster is currently undergoing some changes which includes the documentation. So will be changes to that soon.

As for installation videos, there are none as of now, however, if you let me know what exactly about figuring out how to display content on the homepage you’re stuck at, I’d be happy to help. Have you already imported the demo data?

Hello! That space only supports adding two buttons, as seen in the demos. I recommend setting up a seperate subscription page with more buttons that you can link to from the front page instead. I hope that helps!

Hi, you can change the that text within the theme options. Go to Podcaster > Theme Options > Front Page Header > Header Title . Just replace the text there with your own.

As for the menu, you can delete the menu from the demo and create your own. Just make sure to tick the boxes at the bottom of the menu creation page under Menu Settings > Display location. Otherwise the new menu you create won’t appear on the page.

Unfortunately, the size of the logo will always be reduced to 90px in height so it fits into the navigation menu properly. You are of course free to make your own customizations, but there is no way of increasing the size of the logo, I’m afraid.

I hope this helps!

Hello, a video can be embedded, as seen in the video demo: http://demo.themestation.co/podcaster-video/

But using a video as a header background is not possible right now. It is something that is planned for the future, though.

Hello, I responded to your support ticket a couple of hours ago. Please check your junk mail, sometimes support replies land in there unfortunately.

As to your question, it looks like the additional typewriter code you added might be breaking the theme. If you add your own code, you have to make sure the code you add is responsive as well, otherwise it might mess up the theme.

Hello, happy to see you figured the first part out. About the audio/video I have a couple of questions: which plugin are you using for your podcast? Blubrry PowerPress, Seriously Simple Podcasting or Podcaster Media?

Also, are you changing posts that were previously had the the audio post format to be video, or are these new posts you are making? In other words, are you including video with your audio episodes or are these separate posts? Are you inserting video into the body of the post or do you wish to make the video featured player? Lastly, what version of Podcaster are you using and are you using Gutenberg? Thanks.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Happy you figured that out!

Please send a message from this page: https://themeforest.net/item/podcaster-multimedia-wordpress-theme/6804946/support

Include the code and your issues and a support ticket will be opened for you.

sent the email. thanks

Thanks! Responded

Hello,

I’m really sorry for the inconvenience, a fix is on the way. Do you have any way to revert to the previous version? If yes, please do that for now.

Hi there, just a quick add up on this (I’m sorry, but I’m realizing only now that many small features work differently after the updates I listed above).

For example I notice that excerpts work in a different way:

- Front Page > Type of Excerpt > Force Excerpt: before it was actually the very first lines of post text truncated automatically, now it print the post’s “Excerpt” (which is actually better, but I thought it is worth noting: https://radiovanloon.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/front-excerpt_back.png; also because after Gutenberg the tag <!-more-> doesn’t work properly, which means it forces you to split your paragraph in two)

- Front Page Header > Excerpt: even if you set it (with selected style and everything) on theme option backend (https://radiovanloon.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/postlist-excerpt_back.png) nothing appears on home (https://radiovanloon.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/front-excerpt.png)

Thanks to add this on your fixing todos! A.

Hi there, Thanks for your feedback. I’ll look into the Gutenberg issue.

As for the excerpt not appearing: what Header Type are you using? If it is set to Static Post or Slideshow, you will have to set the excerpt within each individual post, in the Featured Post box. Do let me know if that helped.

Yes, it’s Static Post. Also, I just noticed the Featured Post box had a ‘Display Excerpt’ option to be ticked and it now shows something. However, it shows the ‘Excerpt’ and there’s no possibility to choose between first words of the post, excerpt and/or captions. Before the update that was set by default to first words (and in fact the following option seems to go in that direction: «Excerpt Word Count – Enter the amount of words you want to display in your excerpt. Leaving it blank with default to 55 words»). Now it might seem a bit redundant, as one has already the excerpt on the lists of last episodes that follows immediately after the featured post.

Thanks a lot for everything and for the tag ‘more’!

I replied to this in your other comment, hope this is okay.

Thanks very much!

Thanks for your reply, the front page is currently being looked into and will be fixed.

New update installed, everything looks good. Thanks!

Happy to hear

I could know how much time more or less? Thanks.

The update has been delayed a little, but should be out by mid next week.

ok, thanks!

Hello, Thanks for getting in touch and sorry about that. An update will be out this week that corrects the bug.

Thanks. I’ll wait for this update. In time: Is it possible have the translation function of some parts of the site? Like “Read More” and “Previous Post – Next Post” to other language? Portuguese in my case.

Thank you. Translation files are included in the theme, let me know if that helps.