podcast/podcasts slug

Hi @clintonpratt,

Yes, you are right, podcast URL is reserved for our Podcast post type. It means, all your episodes by default have the following URL pattern:
https://mysite.com/podcast/my-episode.

But you can easily change it by adding the following code snippet in your functions.php file (you can also change ‘episode’ to anything you want):

add_filter( 'ssp_archive_slug', function () {
	return 'episode';
} );

After that, all your episodes could be found by the following URL pattern:
https://mysite.com/episode/my-episode.

Regarding the second part of your question, podcasts URL is reserved for your podcasts archive page:
https://mysite.com/podcasts/my-first-podcast.

Hope this helps and best regards,
Sergiy, development team.

@zahardoc thanks for the response! I’m still a bit confused. What exactly is the setting “podcasts slug?” Its says “Podcast permalink base. Please don’t use reserved slug podcast.” But it auto populates with “podcasts” plural. Is the podcast slug different than the podcast page? What is a “podcast archive page” to which you refer?

Hi @clintonpratt,

You can check how podcasts slug setting works by following these steps:

1. Go to Podcasting -> All Podcasts, check one of the podcasts if you have multiple, and click View. You’ll probably get to the podcast archive page with a URL similar to this:
https://castos.loc/podcasts/first-series/

2. Change the podcasts slug setting to “my-podcasts”, go back to the Podcasting -> All Podcasts, and click the View again. Now you’ll probably get to the archive page with a URL similar to this:
https://castos.loc/my-podcasts/first-series/

I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if you needed more explanations here.

Best regards,
Sergiy.

@zahardoc I’m so sorry for not understanding. Please forgive my ignorance. Can you please answer these specific questions individually?

1. What’s the difference between “podcast” and “podcasts” with an “s”?
2. Is a podcast archive page the same as a podcast page?
3. When I type in the URL of my website “/podcast” I get the list of podcast episodes. But when I type in the URL “/podcasts” with an “s” there’s no page to be found even though in the settings for the plugin it defaulted to “podcasts” with an “s” for the podcast slug.

Please help! Thanks.

Hi @clintonpratt,

podcast is reserved because it is the post type that Seriously Simple Podcasting uses for each episode post. When you go to yoursite.com/podcast it lists the episodes because this is an archive page of your posts using the podcast post type, ie: your podcast episodes. This page will also list all episodes, regardless of the podcast they are assigned to. Further, /podcast is in each episode link, yoursite.com/podcast/my-episode-title

As @zahardoc mentioned, you can change this if you were already using /podcast for something else. This would mean your new episode archive would be found at yoursite.com/new-slug/ and your new episode URLs would be yoursite.com/new-slug/my-episode-title

podcasts is used when you have your podcasts (Shows) listed under Podcasting -> All Podcasts. These used to be called Series and how we manage multiple podcasts (shows) in SSP. For example, if you have two podcasts, you would get to each shows specific episode archive by going to yoursite.com/podcasts/my-first-podcast and yoursite.com/podcasts/my-second-podcast respectively. This can also be named, to something like shows if that makes more sense. So the show-specific archive URL would be yoursite.com/shows/my-first-podcast

Now, that said, yoursite.com/podcasts (or whatever slug you choose to use there) will return a 404 but it might makes sense for us to return an archive page of all of the podcasts (shows, not episodes) that are managed within the SSP. So the /podcast archive page and /podcasts are two different pages.

yoursite.com/podcast = episode archive page, lists all episodes regardless of what podcast (show) they’re assigned to.

yoursite.com/podcasts= will 404 in this form, but precedes the show-specific episode archive URL yoursite.com/podcasts/my-podcast-title

I hope that helps clarify a bit more. ??