Is there a reason why you don’t allow multiple Episode Lists on one page?

  • Resolved baboehm

    (@baboehm)


    1 year, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m basically trying to use your plugin for a use case which it isn’t made for, so I do understand if you can’t help me here. ??

    Still, here goes:
    We have a page with multiple audio files in different sections, which can be freely played or downloaded.
    We now wanted to know how often the files were played/downloaded and apparently this is a feature not present in most audio-plugins – I couldn’t find any.

    When I saw your stats plugin I thought this could be the thing we needed, since it’s providing the exact stats we’re looking for.
    So the idea was to add a podcast per section, with the audiofiles as episodes and display these on the media page.

    It worked perfectly with the “Episode List”-block, but only for the first section/podcast on the page.

    Now I can’t add another episode list block , as it’s greyed out.

    I also can’t seem to add the players for each episode manually, as the “Castos Player” block also gets greyed out after one has been put on the page.

    Is there something I overlooked or can this just not be achieved with your plugin?

    Thanks!

    Bastian

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  • Plugin Author Serhiy Zakharchenko

    (@zahardoc)

    Hi @baboehm,

    Thank you for reaching out, and I apologize for the inconvenience caused by the limitation in functionality. We have restricted the usage of multiple “Episode List” blocks due to pagination concerns. If multiple blocks were allowed and a user navigated to the previous page, it would alter the content of all the blocks simultaneously, leading to confusion.

    Perhaps we can consider implementing this improvement in the future, and I’ll make sure to add it to our ToDo list. However, for the time being, I would suggest using a parent page that contains links to each individual Episode List. Alternatively, if you have a developer available, you can duplicate the code of the current Episode List block from our plugin and modify it to support multiple instances. You can find the code in our GitLab repository at this link: https://gitlab.com/castos/Seriously-Simple-Podcasting/-/blob/master/src/index.js#L129

    I hope this information is helpful to you. If you require any further assistance or if there’s anything else we can provide to help you achieve your goal, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

    Best regards,
    Sergiy, development team.

    Thread Starter baboehm

    (@baboehm)

    Hi,

    no need to apologise, as I said, this is not what your plugin is meant for ??

    I know enough about JS and React to be able to change that setting in the index.js file, and it works – great, thanks!

    I don’t suppose there is a way to keep this change update safe?
    But I guess changing the index.js once in a while is less of a hassle than everything else I’ve come across so far ??

    Especially since changing the multiple-attribute back to !1 won’t affect the frontend as far as I can tell.

    So thanks a lot, you’ve helped me out perfectly!

    Best wishes,

    Bastian

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by baboehm. Reason: marked as resolved
    Plugin Author Serhiy Zakharchenko

    (@zahardoc)

    Hi @baboehm,

    That’s great to hear!

    I’m glad you were able to make it work according to your preferences. If you want to ensure that it continues functioning correctly even after plugin updates, you can consider duplicating that specific block into a separate plugin. By doing so, you can update its settings and possibly assign a different ID to avoid conflicts. However, implementing this solution would require some knowledge of JavaScript and PHP.

    Of course, you can just stick with your current solution as well.

    Best regards,
    Sergiy.

    Thread Starter baboehm

    (@baboehm)

    Ah yes, indeed.
    I’ll look into duplicating the block, that should work then.

    Thanks again and best wishes!

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