More features needed

Hey @digiboom,

Thanks for using our plugin!

A couple of things regarding your comments –

1) Featured images – The plugin already supports automatically importing featured images for the posts. Usually a podcast feed has either 1 main image for the entire channel or a custom image per episode, and in either case those images would be imported.

If you need a different solution, it would be best to use a plugin to modify your images in bulk, for example –
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/quick-featured-images/

2) Audio player – The plugin currently supports an embed audio player with multiple podcast hosts. This really depends on the hosts – we’ll add as many as possible, as long as there is compatibility.
Currently those are the only two options, but you can use any plugin that overrides the default WordPress audio player instead.

3) Cron control – The continuous import process runs once an hour, which should be sufficient for most people. If you need to alter that, you can use the WP Crontrol plugin to change the intervals.

4) Multiple categories – This is already on our radar and we’ll try to add it soon. We’ll look into adding tags as well.

5) When the episode number is available within the podcast feed, it should always work as expected. We find that adding the show name before the episode name might create long titles, so at this point it’s not available.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi, in terms of an alternative audio player I have unfortunately not found a solution to this. For the featured images I am using the following code in functions of my template as a work around because importing every single episode image is going to eat up my server storage.

function default_category_featured_image() {
global $post;
$featured_image_exists = has_post_thumbnail($post->ID);
              
if (!$featured_image_exists)  {
$attached_image = get_children( "post_parent=$post->ID&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image&numberposts=1" );

if ($attached_image) {
						  
foreach ($attached_image as $attachment_id => $attachment) {
set_post_thumbnail($post->ID, $attachment);
}}
else if ( in_category('60') ) {
set_post_thumbnail($post->ID, '27597');
}
						   }
							   
                           }
                        
      }
add_action('the_post', 'default_category_featured_image');

Regarding the episode number automatically being added, sometimes it works but for the most part I see my posts don’t have it. Also if possible I would love to see the ability to edit a feeds settings after it starts posting. Like tags, if I want to add the name of the podcast show since some don’t include it in their feed, etc.

The audio player can be replaced with any plugin that replaces it by default, such as PowerPress, Seriously Simple Podcasting, Simple Podcast Press and so on.

We’ll look into other options as well for possible future updates.

In regards to the featured images – If your podcast has the same image for all episodes, it would only be imported once, however if there are separate images in the feed, they would all be imported by default. Your solution would work too.

The episode number only works for RSS feeds with the <itunes:episode> tag. The numbers are based on the value within that tag so that’s the only option to add those at this point.

Hi there!

I’m having a similar need. I need to have automatic tags added on my WordPress website.
I found many large podcasts doing this: 1st category on the feed is a “Category”. 2nd category on the feed is “tags”. Something like that:

<category>Podcast</category>
<category>subject 1, tag2, abc, whatever, more tags, etc</category>

My question is: Could you assist me in telling me what should I change in order to have this second category as tags on my WordPress blog post?

My second question is about the excerpt. What should I change to only my first <p> inside of <description> goes to my excerpt?

Thanks!

Hey @mouwb,

Thanks for reaching out!
I’m afraid the plugin currently doesn’t support tags or custom excerpts.
With that said, you can change the default excerpt by creating a function in your theme’s functions.php file (unrelated to the plugin) and try to make it work for your needs.

Tags can be either added manually (there are bulk post editor plugins available too) or by changing the plugins code to pull tags like how we pull in category.