thanks in advance

For instance, at first I was self hosted on my own website, this means that my iTunes feed, as well as all my embeds relied on the mp3 files on my server. Once I decided to host externally, I came upon the question of how to do this only once more without ever having to manually edit each page again.

So now let’s say you move to Buzzsprout, they give you the ability to embed their beautiful custom player into your posts. But if you ever leave their service, then its bye bye embed. It will break. Say you move to podbean, well, now you have to go and edit each post to reflect a new embed for that episode. If you have a lot of posts, that’s just very painful and there had to be another way.

Believe me, I tried this manual way, but it was just too painful, and then I realized, wait a minute, what if I switch yet again? I’ll have to repeat this laborious process once more!

At that point I had given up and decided that I would not create a specific post for each episode, but rather one page where I’d display all the episodes together. Then someone mentioned this plugin to me in a facebook group. I decided to check it out and I think this plugin actually meets my need.

See, like the builtin wordpress audio player, this plugin is a standalone plugin. The plugin itself uses the “feed” to pull in the episode embeds. So if you were to leave or switch to another service, you could just setup a redirect, which in theory should keep that existing embedded “feed” link intact and functional. Since you are not embedding from any specific site’s tool, but rather from a feed, as long as the feed works or properly redirects, your embeds should function.

I’ve tested this plugin using different feeds that all go to the same place to see if it still works and it really does. Since it pulls podcast episodes from the feed info itself, regardless of where you are hosting, the embed doesn’t break. That’s is fantastic!

Of course, you are now married to the plugin, but hey, it works great, it’s free and even if it were not free, I think its worth it.

There are a few things you have to configure every time you use the plugin on a page or widget as it doesn’t “remember” any of your configuration settings such as iTunes link, spotify link, social media links, etc. But it’s fairly easy to setup and works really great.

The only improvement I’d like to see would be if you could save those aforementioned settings so that you don’t have to look them up every time you setup the widget again. But that aside, I’m a really big fan of this tool and I highly recommend it. Also, it looks really good and is highly customizable. I love it. Great job Vedathemes, this is a winner!

Anyway, I’m absolutely delighted to tell other Canvas users who find themselves in the same boat that I DID find a replacement that not only works quite a bit like Canvas but is much BETTER. In short, it’s the GeneratePress theme. I use it with CSS Hero to do stuff that GP can’t do straight out of the box – little things like centering items in main nav menus. CSS Hero is incredible – you highlight the element you want to format, click the Edit Item button, and fill in the blanks for margins, padding, alignment, paragraph spacing, etc. I’m also using Elementor, but only very rarely, for “fancy” pages (e.g., a story about our school’s trip to the now-apparently defunct Google Science Fair).

Anyhow, I would HIGHLY recommend that Canvas users give these products a look. I was stunned when I read the comments on the WooCommerce announcement – there were devs who were facing the need to convert 200+ websites, and I can tell you, they were NOT amused. I created a page with links to some useful demo videos and tutorials for all three products. I included some affiliate links there (feeling, why not make a few bucks for the school?), because frankly I don’t give a s*&^t if I make a single penny for myself, but the school is doing fantastic work, with 40 years of showing how kids can be inspired and happy AND successful in school. The page is www.convertingwoothemescanvas.com. Cheers – George

We now plan on creating a new website and replacing the existing one using WordPress (for many obvious reasons).

How do I create a new WordPress site and, when it’s ready, replace the existing one? I’ve found an old thread that suggests installing WordPress locally and then uploading the site when ready.

Is this advice still relevant? Does this advice match my scenario? Does anyone know if this work with BT hosting the site?

Thanks for reading.

What is the procedure for upgrading from Postman SMTP? I’d like to keep the settings for my installations if at all possible. Or do we have to remove the old plugin, install Post SMTP and re-enter the settings?

Thanks for any help.

I have a client who wants a new website, on the same domain. Is it possible (and how?) to have the current website live until the new one is finished and ready to be launched/live?
I’d appreciate if you could give me ideas on how this could be done.

Thank you!

I was wondering if there is an easy method of replacing an image file, without losing it’s metadata, and without requiring the updating of img links in my posts.

For example – I have an image with a problem, and I want to replace it with a file after photoshoping it, but without having to go on all the posts and change the image link to the new image, and without losing the descriptions and other information linked to the original file.

Thank you.

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I had applied for adsense approval twice but did not get approved. I am thinking the images i have used might be the reason.

Although I have used royalty free images, i am trying to replace them with my own images. While doing so i want to keep my Image URL same.

How that can be achieved or is it possible or not?

Thanks in advance.

I activated this plugin today and have followed all instructions to the T but, I still see the old WP default comment style and not each comment with detailed comments, like button etc. I did not paste the short code but used the option replace default WP comment form but, it doesn’t seem to work.

Please let me know what can I do to fix this? Will prefer options that don’t involve editing codes or CSS as I don’t know how to do that. Website is blogsbypash.com and the comments widget is being used as a footer on each page. Thank you.

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