Discussion on Megaphone - Podcast WordPress Theme

Discussion on Megaphone - Podcast WordPress Theme

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i would be really helpful if you would include a guide to sizing post and featured images as to best replicate the demo. It seems you use a variety of images for one post (ie. https://mksdmcdn-9b59.kxcdn.com/megaphone/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/vanveenjf-OAZBeiDJGRM-unsplash-1920x500.jpg + https://mksdmcdn-9b59.kxcdn.com/megaphone/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/vanveenjf-OAZBeiDJGRM-unsplash-526x296.jpg), could you include a list of the recommended image sizes?

Also could you provide further details as to the theme option relating to image dimensions?

​Hello, ​ ​Thank you for contacting us.

​You should try to upload full HD image size 1920×1080 and WordPress will automatically generate proper image sizes for all layouts.

Hope this will be helpful.

​If you have any further questions, our support team is there to help you. You can reach out to them on this link here: https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

​Best regards, Meks team

Is there any way to create an embed feature for audio files? Or does your support teams provide customization to offer this feature? I would love for the audio player to allow listeners to embed the episode on their website. Thank you!

Hi, this is just a pre-sales question. My question is above. Do you provide customizations? If so, how much? Would love to have an embed feature included in the audio player if I purchase your theme. Thank you!

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your patience during this weekend delay.

Megaphone is not a podcasting service, it is a WordPress theme that you can use on your website, so you’re embedding the audio files as well.

Our player does have a Share option, and your users can share the audio on their social media. It also has a download option, which would lead them to the file source, and they can easily embed the audios if you’re using a podcasting service. So, I’m afraid that you can’t do that with the WordPress theme, because that is not the theme purpose in general, but you can allow your users to share the audios and you can allow them to share them by copying the iframe from your podcasting service.

Regarding the customization – We do cooperate with customization service. You can always reach out to them on this link here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#services

Note that sending theme customization request is completely free of charge and you can later decide whether you want to accept the offer or not.

I would also like to invite you to test drive our theme for free, just follow this link here:

http://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive

Feel free to share any feedback or ask just about anything theme related. :)

Best regards,

Meks team

Hi, I am trying to upload the Megaphone theme on GoDaddy.com – I have the domain name I want; the hosting package; wordpress account etc and when I tried to upload the theme, here is the error message I got

Installing Theme from uploaded file: themeforest-5zvR79yo-megaphone-audio-podcast-wordpress-theme.zip

Unpacking the package…

Installing the theme…

The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

Theme installation failed.

Some of your translations need updating. Sit tight for a few more seconds while we update them as well. Updating translations for WordPress (en_CA)…

Translation updated successfully.

Can someone PLEASE help me so I can successfully upload the theme and complete my website?

Thank you so much, Tanya

Also, I am not a techie or a webmaster – so I need the feedback to be clear and easy to understand Thanks again Tanya

Hello Tanya,

Thank you for contacting us.

You need to unpack the package you’ve downloaded from Theme Forest, and upload megaphone.zip file that is located inside that package.

Please read this procedure and follow the instructions:

https://envato.com/blog/install-themeforest-wordpress-theme/

You can find our Megaphone documentation on this link here:

https://mekshq.com/documentation/megaphone/

And you can find our video guides, on this link here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2acA3M-2dSRMStcbI04Di0BtEDYpbN6Q

If you have any further questions, our support team is there to help you.

You can reach out to them on this link here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards,​

Meks team

Please remove the Force Regenerate Thumbnails plugin from those included via TGM as it hasn’t been updated for more than 4 years, thx.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.

Force regenerate thumbnails has a fairly simple purpose, and currently, it is working properly, regardless of the updated date.

We’re currently searching for an adequate replacement. Of course, you can always disable it, and delete it in your plugins panel.

If you have any further questions, our support team is there to help you.

If you have any further questions, you can reach out to them on this link here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards,​

Meks team

Of course, thanks for the quick reply.

Can i use this app for an audio book website does it support downloads for users

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your patience during the weekend.

Of course. It does supports downloads for users. You can enable it by navigating to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Podcast > Player > Player special elements, and enabling Download option.

I would also like to invite you to test-drive our theme for free, just follow this link here:

http://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive

and enter your email address. ​ Feel free to share any feedback or ask just about anything theme related. :)

Best regards,

Meks team

Here’s a suggestion… add the social media platform Parler to the choices for icons options

Hello, ​ Thank you for contacting us and thanks for the suggestion.

We will pass this request to our Product team and maybe that might be included in some update in the future.

Thanks for understanding.

​If you have more question feel free to contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards, ​Meks team

I was referring to the captivate player at the bottom.

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

The player at the bottom of the demo page(https://demo.mekshq.com/megaphone/) is our product – Meks Audio Player plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/meks-audio-player/

It comes with Megaphone by default, and it can play audio files from various sources.

If you’re referring to some other product, please share some URLs or additional information with us.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to our support team through this link here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Feel free to share all info you may have with them, to attach some additional files or URLs, etc.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you,

Meks team

I would like to jump on the „integrate Captivate Player“ band wagon if that‘s possible. Once that‘s integrated its an instant buy. And please do let me know once it‘s integrated, please : )

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your interest.

I’m not entirely sure that I understand the question, but you can easily create Megaphone test drive site, and try our theme for free on this link here:

http://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive

After that, you can reach out to us, and ask us to install any plugin you want on your test drive, so you can test it with our theme. You can reach our to our support team through this form here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

We’re looking forward to hearing from you,

Meks team

Another user already asked: “Is is possible to support Captivate.FM podcast hosting platform? The player does not seem to be picking up my audio files.”

To which you replied:

“Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your feedback.

You can see the list of our supported services in Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Podcast > Player > Player supported services. I’m afraid that Captivated.fm is not supported yet, but this feedback is already forwarded to our product team, and they’ll surely consider it for the next update.”

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

I’m sorry, but Captivate FM podcast hosting is not really the same as Captivate Player. It is an online source from which our player should pick up the audio.

Captivate FM is not in our list of supported sources yet. As I can see, Captivate does support embedding their episodes with an iframe, so there is a good chance that our player can pick up the audio if you remove the div tags around the iframe while embedding the episode.

I’ll forward your message to our product team, so they can go through it once more because there is an interest.

If you want, you can test the theme as described previously, and try to embed your Captivate FM episodes inside the posts.

I hope that brought some clearance on this.

Best regards,

Meks team

Hello,

I have a pre-sales questions;

I would like to create a membership site where only my members can read & listen to my contents, I read in other comments that this could be done using Simple Membership plugin​

Can I use other membership plugins? I already have ARMember and I was wondering if I can achieve what I am looking for using it? https://codecanyon.net/item/armember-complete-wordpress-membership-system/17785056

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your interest. :)

This is a premium plugin, so we can’t really test it without the files, but there is no reason why Megaphone would be incompatible with any widely tested plugin on the market.

If you have the plugin files, you can create a Megaphone test drive, and we can install the plugin for you, so you can test it with our theme.

Just follow this link here: http://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive and you’ll be able to create the test drive site.

I hope that helps.

Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions, and feel free to send us a regular support ticket through this form here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards,

Meks team

Thank you for your prompt reply!

I signed up for test drive site but I am not sure how to install the plugin. I sent a message to your team about this through the chat box though.

Thanks!

Hello,

Our test drive users have the editor permissions on our test drive, and they’re not allowed to install any plugins for themselves, because of the security reasons.

If you want to test this plugin with our theme, feel free to send us this plugin on the ticket through this form here:https://mekshq.com/contact/#support, and we’ll install it for you.

Best regards, Meks team

Hello, I purchased the theme but I am having trouble understanding how to add soundcloud episodes. I post the link and the player does not detect it. I can post it via iframe on a page or in a post but I can not get the player to recognize it at all. So my question is, What exactly do i need to post the link in or to , to make the player recognize soundcloud?

Hi,

First of all, thank you for purchasing our theme and for contacting us, we really appreciate it. ​ ​Regarding the Soundcloud podcast, you should try to use Sondcloud embed block and embed the link of your episode like in our demo site https://www.screencast.com/t/I6vatBtmr, https://www.screencast.com/t/xQVkvJ31HgY​ ​ ​Hope this will be helpful. ​ ​If after this you still have a problem, feel free to contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

​Best regards, ​Meks team

Hi, Is this theme compatible with Easy Digital Downloads? I would like to have the Audio player on EDD custom post types, including product archives.

Thanks

Hello,

First of all, thank you for showing interest in our theme and thanks for contacting us, it’s really appreciated. ​ ​There aren’t any known issues with Easy Digital Downloads plugin that we are aware of, so we believe the plugin will work fine with our theme We’re building our theme by taking special care on WordPress Codex and WordPress recommendations, so there is no reason why our theme should be incompatible with any well-tested plugin on the market. ​ ​I would also like to invite you to test drive our theme for free, just follow this link here: http://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive and enter your email address, and you’ll receive access to fully featured theme version with demo content imported so that you can evaluate the theme and see if it suit your needs.

If you have more question feel free to contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

​Best regards, ​Meks team

Hi Meksteam, is the theme compatible for translation to multiple languages, including different language versions of the podcasts, with plugins such as WPML?

Can the homepage, next to featuring podcasts or blogposts, also include a welcome message that introduces the website and explains its purpose?

Thank you !

Also, is it possible to change the order of the episodes for the show previews on the homepage, so that the first episode is at the top instead of the last? Thx !

Also, could you please explain the ‘built-in translation from the theme options panel’ functionality? It is the first time I have seen this in a theme. Does this make it easier to create a multilingual website? Thx!

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out, it’s highly appreciated.

1. ​Yes, the theme is compatible with WPML plugin

2. ​Yes, we have a Welcome section for that purpose. ​You can try our theme for 7 days for free by subscribing on this link https://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive

3. No, we don’t have that option, but our support can help you.

4. The built-in translation isn’t for multilingual sites, it just for one site, and allow you to translate theme strings to one language.

​If you have more question feel free to contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards, Meks team

The audio player is not working for me. It keeps saying that it “couldn’t recognize and retrieve audio data. Please help. I have exhausted your documentation which I feel is lacking in some annoying areas. For instance, there isn’t any info on removing the megaphone branding in the header / footer. If I pay $70 for a theme, I don’t think its asking too much to have an easy way to switch out the branding. I shouldn’t have to edit theme template files to add in a logo.

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out, it’s highly appreciated.

You can change site branding in the header in Customize -> Theme Options -> Header -> General and remove our logo from all logo slots and upload your own.

For the footer logo, we add it through the widget in Appearance -> Widgets -> Footer Column 1 -> Custom HTML but you can use Image widget.

For the problem with loading your audio file on the player please contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support and send them some temporary login credentials so they can inspect that problem on your side.

Best regards, Meks team.

Does this theme support embedding from Mixlr

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out, it’s highly appreciated. ​We don’t have support for that platform right now, but it can be added very easily.

​Let us know if you decide to buy our theme and we will help add it. ​Contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support and they will help you with that.

​Best regards, ​Meks team ​ ​

hello.. this looks great. a few Pre-sale questions:

1- Does the theme support RTL format? 2- Does it support translation? 3- I noticed that audio player stops when navigating to other pages.. can I keep it playing while exploring other titles and pages?

thanks

Hello,

First of all, thank you for showing interest in our theme and thanks for contacting us, it’s really appreciated. ​ ​1) Yes, sure. You should go to the Appearance > Customize > Theme options > Miscellaneous > https://www.screencast.com/t/W8Qxk1KtTI 2) Yes. You have a theme translation ​option in Appearance > Customize > Theme options > Translations. Also, you could install some of the multilingual plugins. ​3) Currently, we don’t have this option in the theme. ​ ​I would also like to invite you to test drive our theme for free, just follow this link here: http://demo.mekshq.com/?theme=megaphone&testdrive and enter your email address, and you’ll receive access to fully featured theme version with demo content imported so that you can evaluate the theme and see if it suit your needs.

If you have any further questions or issues, our support team is available for you on this contact form here: https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

​Best regards, Meks team

PRE-SALE QUESTION:

I seei you offer multi-show in this theme. But I also read a comment from another buyer complaining that the subscribe buttons are not prepared for this multi-show thing, because all point to the same url.

My question is: do the subscripe buttons can be ajusted to point to different URL accordin to the show?

What I mean (example): I want the subscribe buttons of the show A, pointed to spotify.com/A, itunes.com/A… and the subscribe buttons of Show B pointed to spotify.com/B, itunes.com/B and so on…

Can you tell me if your theme do that, cause it is really important to have that when we talk about multishow

Well, I bought it and now it seems that this is right.. we can only have one set of subscribe buttons (and the spotify one don´t work if we use the url spotify:show: wich is used to open the app itself). Maybe this is something to think about when the theme is “Multishow”... would be nice if we could also change some settings for each category, for example: show episode counting in only one show, or order the episdes differentely in wich show and so on…

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.

Shows, as a feature, don’t have such a purpose in general. People can use it how they want, of course, but they’re not designed to imitate the multisite configuration. They’re designed as podcast categories.

This should be an interesting feature through, and it could be beneficial. I will forward your message as feedback to our product team so they can implement it in one of the next updates.

If you have any further questions or issues, our support team is available for you on this contact form here:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards,

Meks team

Can the play be ajax so when u loading other pages the play still plays and 2.can u have a playlist or queue list so add other sounds in queue

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your patience during the weekend.

Your feedback is highly appreciated.

I’m afraid that we don’t have such an option in Meks Audio Player and Megaphone.

Of course, I will address your request to our product team and we will consider adding such a possibility in some of the next updates.

Please let us know if you have any other questions, We would be happy to help.

Best regards,

Meks team

Hi, Is it possible for the episodes to keep playing one after the other? when one episode finished, another episode should auto play.

Hello, ​ ​Thank you for reaching out, it’s highly appreciated. ​ ​Currently, in the Megaphone theme, we don’t have this functionality, but thanks for the suggestion. This request will be passed to our Product team and maybe that might be included in some update in the future. 

If this is something crucial for your website, we offer customization services through our partnership with Codeable so you may consider submitting a customization request and see what’s the best offer they can give. Submission is completely free of charge and you do so via this form on our website: https://mekshq.com/contact/#services

Thanks for understanding.

If you have any further questions, feel free to contact our support team on this link https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

​Best regards, ​Meks team

Hello,

I sent you an email via your support form on your website. Hopefully you can get back to me asap!

My issue is that the site is setup properly and when listening to the podcasts on my macOS in Firefox or Chrome, I can listen to them without any issues. However when trying to listen to them on Safari or iPhone nothing happens.

Normally on a Podcast page, it shows for example, the podcast is 23mins, etc. I can see those times when viewing a Single Postcast page link in Firefox and Chrome, but can’t see that in Safari or ios.

Looking forward to your reply back on this asap!

Ray

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out, it’s highly appreciated.

That can be some specifically related problem on your side. ​If you play our demo site on IOS everything works without a problem.

​I see that our support responds to you and it will help you with that.

​Best regards, Meks team​ ​

PPQ – Is the theme compatible with WP-Bakery or any other builders or is it reliant on Blocks? Thanks.

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting us and thank you for your interest.

Megaphone is Gutenberg friendly theme, it is self-sufficient, but you can use any page builder you want. Recently, we have added a power add option with which you can add any page or posts on the front page, so you can use page builders content on the front page as well:

https://mekshq.com/docs/megaphone-change-log/

Feel free to send us a new ticket if you have any further questions, and we will be there to help you:

https://mekshq.com/contact/#support

Best regards,

Meks team

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