Description Length

Hi there,

Have you tried “catalogue (legacy) player layout” from customization options. The layout is slightly different, but it displays the whole description. You can check a demo at https://vedathemes.com/pp-demo/.

Please inform if you need more help on this OR if any other help is required with podcast player.

Thanks,

Yeah that would kinda work, but my problem with that is that it changes the position of description. I like it placed under the title, while it goes under the player if I change to legacy layout.

Hi there,

I understood your problem. Generally people use very long episode description (show notes) for there podcast. Showing the whole description will make podcast player very long. Therefore, it becomes really uncomfortable to use.

However, I will add an option to customize excerpt length in next update (I have noted down in my to do list). You should be able to change excerpt length to a very high number to show whole description.

Kindly wait for the next update. Inform if any other help is required.

Thanks,

On a second thought, even with very high excerpt length you will loose all HTML markup (excerpt strip all HTML and only plain text is allowed). which means there will only be a big single para of whole content. Which might not be the best thing.

Is it ok, if we just hide the description on top (which needs to be clicked to toggle the full content) and display full content (below the player) by default? Please inform if I do not sound very clear.

Thanks,

Yeah, I guess that would do it. But what is the difference between doing that and using the legacy layout? Because it seems to me that your solution = the legacy layout?

In legacy layout, episode list is on left side of player and the description. However, on above solution the episode list will be at the bottom of the player and description. It is as if you have clicked the excerpt link (on default layout) and full description has appeared. However, in above solution, excerpt link will be hidden and full description is visible by default.

Thanks,

Ok, so that will be implemented in the next update?

Do you have a time frame on that?

Hi,

That can be done with simple CSS tweak
1. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Customize
2. Click on “Additional CSS” tab on left sidebar
3. Copy & Paste following CSS

@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  .pod-content__episode {
    display: block !important;
  }
  .ppjs__episode-excerpt {
    display: none !important;
  }
  .episode-single__close {
    display: none !important;
  }
/* Use following CSS is you want to hide top title. */
  .ppjs__episode-title {
    display: none !important;
  }
}

I hope it should work for you.

Thanks,

Hi there,

Do you need more help on this ticket? Can I help you in anyway?

Thanks,

Hi there,

I hope the issue above has been resolved. Therefore, I am closing this ticket. However, feel free to comment on this ticket if you still have any issues with Podcast player.

Thanks,

Oh, I’m sorry for not responding.

It was fixed with CSS code, so thank you very much for the quick fix!