Jimmy Baum

Hi @bbjustine,

This is a CSS conflict between Thrive themes and Seriously Simple Podcasting. It will be fixed in the 3.6.0 plugin update.

Hi @ohliza,

Thanks for pointing this out to us

I believe we changed some playlists around on our YouTube channel. We’ll look into fixing that in an upcoming plugin release.

We have a new getting started video here that might be useful to you. While this is focused on using Seriously Simple Podcasting along with Castos hosting, you can continue to use the plugin to self-host a podcast.

Let us know if you have further questions and thanks again.

Hi there @daverudge

Thanks for your message.

I see the email address in the RSS feed but no episode. This is a requirement for any RSS feed to be submitted to any directory. When you publish your first episode (which could also be a trailer/intro episode), you can re-submit the feed.

Hi there @josheprovoedu,

Thanks for reaching out.

W3 isn’t designed as a podcast RSS feed validator so you’ll get a lot of unnecessary errors. When I tried Cast Feed Validator, everything looks correct but when accessing the RSS feed directly in Chrome I get a timeout error (as well as the website provo.edu).

Likewise, I tried playing the last episode from five days ago via Apple Podcasts and also get an error since it’s not able to read the RSS feed.

You might want to reach out to your web host/school district webmaster to investigate this issue.

I hope this helps point you in the right direction, but let us know if you’re still having trouble after the website timeout gets resolved and you’re still having trouble.

H there @tntnews,

You might want to check out the HTML5 Video Player plugin.

You can either use a live video URL or upload via the Media Library.

The plugin then gives you a shortcode which you can add to any other post/page on your website.

There’s a few other video players that do similar things so you might want to check out the video tag on the WP.org plugin directory

We hope that helps but let us know if you have any other questions and have a good day.

Hi there @mtnweekly,

Seriously Simple Podcasting uses a custom post type Podcast by default and shows an episode archive page at ...com/podcast.

For a landing page, you can:

• use Elementor Pro to create a landing page, or
• use the Episode List block on a new Page and stylize it how you’d like

I hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other questions about this and have a good one.

Hi there Giovanni,

The setting to increase the number of episodes to show in the RSS feed isn’t in SSP’s Feed Details but (core WP) Settings → Reading → Syndication feeds show the most recent ___ items

Let us know if you have any other questions or issues and have a good day.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by Jimmy Baum.

Hi there, jumping in for @zahardoc.

You can use tags to organize episodes just as you would any other WordPress post. Since tags are part of core WordPress, they aren’t exclusive to episodes.

For example, if you have the tag “Dawood” added to this episode, any other non-podcast post with the tag “Dawood” (maybe this one) would also show in the tag URL (hypothetically https://www.theonlywayoflife.com/tag/dawood”)

I hope that clarifies things but let us know if you have further questions and have a good day.

Hi there @cvd6262,

Sorry you’re having trouble here. As @zahardoc mentioned, please feel free to send us an email at [email protected] or right from the help beacon when signed in to Castos and we can look into this further.

Hi there @agauberti,

Thanks for contacting us.

Seriously Simple Podcasting doesn’t update automatically when new episodes are found from an RSS feed. From the plugin page:

Castos is specifically designed to sync with Seriously Simple Podcasting to save you time. This means anytime you update your podcast’s information or upload a new episode file, the changes automatically sync with your Castos hosting account. You only have to do the action once, saving hours each week. Read more about how?Castos and Seriously Simple Podcasting work together.

With other podcast providers, you’ll need to make updates to your podcast’s RSS feed via your hosting provider account and again on WordPress to manually sync the information. Seriously Simple Podcasting is also unable to read a few metadata fields (like episode duration and publish date) from 3rd party hosting providers. For each episode, you’ll manually add that information as well.

The import is meant as a one-time process to migrate an existing podcast over to a WordPress page with Seriously Simple Podcasting activated.

For all new episodes that publish to your RSS feed, you’ll need to create a new episode on WordPress and paste the audio file URL from Megaphone into the episode file field under the Podcast Episode Details tab.

I hope that helps but let us know if you have any other questions and have a good day.

Hi there Adrian,

Jumping in for Sergey here. Thanks for your message.

The plugin isn’t able to automatically fetch links from Anchor (or any other podcast hosts) to add it to the Podcast episode details for the episode file.

As Sergey mentioned, the import is meant as a one-time process to migrate an existing podcast over to a WordPress page with Seriously Simple Podcasting activated.

So for all new episodes that publish to Anchor, you’ll have to manually create a new episode on WordPress and grab the audio file URL from Anchor (you can also open your RSS feed https://anchor.fm/s/e171a3cc/podcast/rss in Chrome, and search for the first enclosure URL found in the feed to quickly get this audio URL).

You could consider using Seriously Simple Podcasting along with Castos (though still publishing from WordPress). When connected to Castos using an API key, this will upload audio files over to Castos and pass back a Castos-hosted audio file. This means you could manage your podcast directly from WordPress while still safely hosting your podcast somewhere.

I hope that helps but let us know if you have any other questions about how the plugin might work with your Anchor podcast.

También no dudes en contactarnos en castellano si prefieres.

Thanks and have a great day.

Hi there @labto,

Thanks for your message. If you’re already deleted a podcast from WordPress, but it’s still showing on Castos, you can head over to that podcast’s Settings → Danger Zone, then click Delete This Podcast.

Removing Download audio and play in new window isn’t possible on your RSS feed. However, RSS feeds aren’t meant for humans to read and are for podcast directories.

Does removing some of those options on the WordPress frontend on Podcasting → Settings → Player help you achieve what you’re looking to?

Hi there @rghedin,

Thanks for contacting us.

Custom post types do not show categories by default. You can check our resource hub guide on adding some gists to enable categories on the Podcasting custom post type. You’ll need to provide the post type instead of podcast:

add_action( 'init', 'ssp_add_categories_to_podcast', 15 );
function ssp_add_categories_to_podcast () {
   register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'myposttype' );
}

I hope that helps. Let us know if you have any other questions and have a good day.

Hi there @snappysites,

Thanks for contacting us and good question.

Seriously Simple Podcasting auto-updates from Castos hosting plans, but third-party hosts like SoundCloud will have to be added manually. From our plugin page:

Castos is specifically designed to sync with Seriously Simple Podcasting to save you time. This means anytime you update your podcast’s information or upload a new episode file, the changes automatically sync with your Castos hosting account. You only have to do the action once, saving hours each week. Read more about how Castos and Seriously Simple Podcasting work together.

With other podcast providers, you’ll need to make updates to your podcast’s RSS feed via your hosting provider account and again on WordPress to manually sync the information. Seriously Simple Podcasting is also unable to read a few metadata fields (like episode duration and publish date) from 3rd party hosting providers. For each episode, you’ll manually add that information as well.

I hope that clarifies things but let us know if you have any other questions and have a good day.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Jimmy Baum.

Hi there @rafszr

If you’ve added your RSS feed’s description to Podcasting → Settings → Feed Details, regardless of what post type it is, either post or podcast.

I see from Spotify this description for UniqueSEO:

`Agencja Performance Brand Marketing & Ads. Czyli ??czymy marketing efektywno?ciowy (CPL, CPC, MQL, SQL etc.) z budowaniem rozpoznawalno?ci. Dzi?ki temu mo?esz jak najtaniej pozyskiwa? klientów w czasach kiedy ci??ko jest mierzy? atrybucj?. W tym podka?cie znajdziesz najlepsze strategie, porady i konkretne taktyki, które dzia?aj? najlepiej DZI?. Wprost od marketerów, którzy faktycznie to robi?. Tre?? jest mieszank? indywidualnych odcinków, a tak?e wywiadów i rozmów z ekspertami od e-commerce, sprzeda?y us?ug, B2C i B2B.
Sprawd? nasz? agencj?: https://uniqueseo.pl`

Is that the correct one? There might have been a delay when adding it. Changes to the RSS feed are immediate, but all directories need to crawl your feed again to notice the changes and correct them.

I hope that helps but let us know if you have any other questions and have a good day.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Jimmy Baum.