Playlist not working

The PowerPress playlist is designed to work primarily with information from PowerPress RSS feeds. I don’t think PowerPress can access the playlist IDs you’ve created outside of PowerPress. Regardless, I have alerted the developer of PowerPress to your question, so he will respond as soon as he’s available.

Thanks!

Hello John,

We never added an ids=”” attribute for the [powerpress_playlist] shortcode. It is a good idea and I’ve added it to the feature TODO list.

Here is the full documentation for the shortcode: https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/advanced-tools-and-options/powerpress-playlist-shortcode/

I am curious why you want to specify specific episodes in the playlist? I can imagine use cases but would love to know yours.

Thanks Angelo! I want to play a specific list of files (mp3) that are all related to talks that I gave on a retreat. This functionality is part of wordpress.

Here is an example: https://crossrivermeditation.com/wisdom-1-0-retreat-dhamma-talks/
(scroll down a bit) As you know [powerpress_playlist] will only grab the most recent audio posts.

I use powerpress to play most of my recordings and was hoping to use it for creating specific playlists. There are a few plugins that will do this (Cue, Soundy) but I would like to avoid another plugin, if possible, and I am very happy with powerpress.

Since we are having this conversation a few features that I hoped for:
Create playlist and generate shortcode within powerpress (Cue can do this)
Provide a download link (Cue cannot do this)
A way to style the player (Cue cannot do this, Soundy can – quite complicated though)

Thanks for a great product and your interest in possibly improving it!

I think I got this feature added to PowerPress, but there is one problem at the moment. Episodes are ordered by the date in descending order rather than in the order the id’s are specified. Does that pose a problem for you? If not, then plan on it being in PowerPress 7.0 next week.

Re “generate shortcode within powerpress”, PowerPress does this. Go to the appearance tab, we list all of the shortcodes for the specific podcast. We have a shortcode for subscribe options as well as the playlist player.

Re “Provide a download link “, this will be a challenge for the current playlist. Keep in mind we are simply using the WordPress play list for podcasting, maintaining all of the fields and CSS that way as the WordPress playlist player updates you get the latest updates automatically from WordPress (not PowerPress). I will keep this in mind though if/when we build our own playlist player.

Re “A way to style the player”, yes! Some folks do not know this but the playlist player is mediaelement.js, which is what is built into WordPress. Many themes style this player and the playlist. The playlist specifically is built to be styled with CSS as well. the style=”” attribute allows you to apply your own CSS style name when you can then put in your theme’s CSS and style how you like. I’ve seen many themes and some plugins style the player itself, but I actually have barely seen the WordPress playlist player used unfortunately so I cannot point to any examples. I know the default base class for the playlist player is wp-playlist-light, and if you set the style=”dark”, then the class wp-playlist-dark is used. If you make up your own style like “awesome”, then the playlist class will be wp-playlist-awesome. Then it is just a matter if applying your own styling to the children classes.

Hope this helps!

Happy Memorial day!

Also, see the bottom of this page for a more detailed example how to style the playlist player with CSS: https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/advanced-tools-and-options/powerpress-playlist-shortcode/ Example on this page styles the player with a blue background.

John Haspel, this option is now in PowerPress 7.0. Please read my last reply though for limitations. Is this option working out for you now?