Themestation, the fix actually broke the plugin. See comments above. We need help!

Have you updated the theme (Podcaster) as well, not just the plugin?

Just a heads up, I tried upgrading again. This time manually, and this time it did the trick. I guess something went bad the first time.

Thanks.

Just another thing, it seems that my “podcast archive” page got messed up for some reason.

I tried re-uploading the page-podcastarchive.php but it didn’t help:

Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks

This usually happens when the images aren’t cropped to the exact same size. Even though I’ve set crop sizes in the theme, WordPress sometimes messes them up. I’ll take a look, thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately your developer never contacted me so I never got to find out exactly what problem they were having. Nonetheless, please update both, the plugin and the theme, the issue should be solved.

Fantastic! Thank you very much!

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The first one is the iTunes feed.

As long as you have a sound file that ends with *.mp3 (or other audio files supported by WordPress, you can read more about them here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_Files) the player provided by the theme will be displayed. If you embed something, the embeded player will be used. Unfortunately there is no way around this at the moment.

The front page does not have a sidebar, so your twitter, amazon bar and similar can only appear on the blog page. You can however make use of the social media buttons in the footer area.

Hmm so what’s the purpose of playlists? I’m confused.

The playlists are a native feature from WordPress that exist regardless of whether the the blog is being used to manage a podcast or not. I just made sure that Podcaster is able to support them. In the end it’s up to you how you make use of them. RSS feeds are only able to pick up one media file per post (whether it’s an audio or video file) so I would advise against using playlists when making posts that are part of your podcast. I hope this answers your question!

Gotcha.

You do realize that not having an excerpt on the featured (most likely the most recent) podcast doesn’t really make sense? I’ll look into it customization. Thanks for the reply.

The idea behind leaving the excerpt out was to keep the front page from being too crowded, but this sounds good as an additional feature that can be turned on or off. Thanks for the feedback!

Awesome! Thanks.

Answered your email!

I’ll look into this. Thanks for mentioning it.

Yes, thanks, finally I realized I needed the front page. My mistake.

Also, I’m wondering if there is a way to speed up the front page, as the page is loading quite slow. I know previously you mentioned something about how the mp3 has to load up. I’ll need to make this faster as it’s too slow.

Also this file: batch-icons-webfont.woff takes forever when testing the speed of the site. Any thoughts on that? (Using tools.pingdom.com)

I’ll try to look into how one can speed up the loading of the mp3.

Batch Icons however, is needed to display the icons properly. I can’t give any advice on how to make it load faster. Perhaps hosting it somewhere else might help.

Hi there!

page-frontpage.php is the right place to look, but you must consider that there are multiple loops there, depending on whether you have the seriously simple podcasting plugin active and so on. if you want the text to appear below the player, make sure you paste it above this line ’<?php if ( $pod_nextweek == ‘show’ ) : ?>’ it appears multiple times, so just try until the text appears. Just a bit of advice, if you’re not already using the child theme to make customizations like this, do consider it, so that they are not deleted when the next update comes around.

I hope this answers your question!

Hi! Setup the child theme, thanks for the reminder. I’ve found where you suggested to add the text, and it looks like this: http://cl.ly/image/46431O3r1s0B – Is there are way to actually move the text from being part of the featured player section to the space between the featured player and the episode list? I’m not a fan of it being over the featured image like that.

Thanks!

Try creating a div above the line if ( isset( $pod_front_num_posts ) && isset($arch_category) ) { and putting the text in there. This should do it

Thanks for reaching out! I will send you a message.

Unfortunately not. This is a feature we plan on adding in the future, though.

Thanks for using Podcaster. Unfortunately this theme does not take stats. For that you might have to look around for a separate plugin. Podcaster supports “Seriously Simply Podcasting”, I am not sure to what extent stats are supported by that plugin. Either way, there should be a plugin out there that should help you.

I hope this answers your question

but it would not be able to use the player on your theme though which is why i bought the theme.

Sorry about that. Unfortunately there are no plans of adding stats any time soon. It will be considered as an additional feature in a future update, though.

Thanks for using podcaster first of all. It seems to me that in your test page, the overlaps are happening because you have used unnaturally long words. (especially the 2nd example) The forced excerpt counts words in order to know where to break off. (In this case after 35 words). So if the words are all very long, the excerpt itself will be rather long and overlap. Try putting “natural” text and the overlap issue should go away for now.

I’ll look into the images being displayed in “Set in Post” mode and add a bug fix in the next update if necessary.

I hope this answers all your questions.

That does fix the issue. Thanks for the help!

Hi,

Happy to hear you’re enjoying the theme. To your first question. You could make use of the child theme and edit all the bits of page-front-page.php that need changing. That way you don’t touch the source code and still get your customization.

The first question kind of already answers the second one. Use the child theme for all your customizations, that way they won’t be overwritten by updates. The main theme files will update separately and your changes stay untouched.

I hope this answers all your questions.

At this point, I’ve created a separate template, that mimics page-frontpage.php, but contains all other customization I need. Will the extra files get deleted during update process? Or update tool will merge origin with the working directory?

Hi, Thanks for using Podcaster. If you are running one website (and not a network with individual sites for example) then this is not possible, unfortunately.

I guess the same goes for the header image, right? I really hope I can have at least 1 image per language. That could be:

1 – Using the post’s Featured Image as header for the Front Page. 2 – Using the Front Page’ Featured Image manually. 3 – Any change in Functions that allow to set 1 header image per language.

Please I hope you can help me with this. This theme is fantastic but lacking multilanguage support would be a total letdown at this point and would make the theme impossible for me to use. Thanks!

I’m sorry, but at the point, I am not able to give adequate support on multi-language websites. Might consider making Podcaster multi-lingual in the future, but I cannot promise anything as of now.

Sent an email Sorry again.

Oh man do I feel dumb or what?

It was simply because I didn’t have enough podcasts posted.