Serhiy Zakharchenko

Hi @preshit,

I’ve checked your feed, and it currently points to https://www.rangabhoomi.com/podcasts/myrangabhoomi-podcast/, which is working fine on my end. However, if you prefer to use rangabhoomi.com/series/myrangabhoomi-podcast instead, you can change this by going to Podcasting -> Settings -> General and updating the Podcasts slug. Just set the slug to “series.”

Best regards,
Serhiy.

@mournival

If you’re using the standard WordPress editor for your episodes, you’ll need to add the “Castos Player” block to your episode content. If you’re using Elementor, you can use the Castos Player widget for Elementor.

Hi @astevens93,

Sorry to hear you encountered this issue. Did you try updating to 3.5.0 and updating permalinks after that?

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by Serhiy Zakharchenko.

Hi @noonenowhere,

1. I’ve tested the source for the publish date settings, and they seem to be working correctly for me. Could you double-check that you’re adjusting the right feed settings? Make sure you’re on the correct feed settings tab when making the changes.

2. Thanks, we’ll check it.

3. It works well for me:
– Change the podcasts slug to stories
– Go to Podcasting -> All Podcasts and click view on your podcast – the URL will be https://your-site.com/stories/your-podcast-name.

Best regards,
Serhiy.

Sorry to hear you’re experiencing this issue.

Could you try navigating to Podcasting -> Settings -> Player -> Media Player Locations and ensure all the checkboxes are selected?

If that doesn’t resolve it, could you try manually inserting the player in the text instead of relying on automatic insertion?

Hope this helps,
Serhiy.

Hi @bandara98,

If you want to edit SSP episodes with Elementor, you can enable this by going to Elementor -> Settings -> General -> Post Types and selecting the Episode option.

To enable all SSP features for regular posts, you can activate it under Podcasting -> Settings -> General in the Podcast Post Types section. However, the recommended approach is to use the standard SSP Episodes for your audio content, and posts for your blog.

Best regards,
Serhiy.

Hi @nmschaller ,

Is there any specific reason to use Seriously Simple Podcasting (SSP) for regular posts on your site? If not, I recommend using SSP episodes for your audio content and sticking to standard posts for your text-based blog content. In this case, you’ll need to uncheck all the boxes in Podcasting -> Settings -> General -> Podcast post types.

For your multilingual podcasts, I suggest creating three separate podcast feeds for English, French, and Italian.

Regarding audio quality, 160 kbps is indeed a good choice. For playback speed – our player currently supports playback speeds ranging from 0.4x to 2.0x.

As for your question about differing episode titles and descriptions: if you use standard posts for your long-form blog articles and SSP episodes for your podcast audio, you can have separate titles and descriptions for each.

I hope this helps!

Best regards,
Serhiy.

Hi @webdevmattcrom,

Sorry to hear you encountered this issue. I’ve just checked the Blubrry URL you provided, and it redirects properly to the real m4a file, though it’s not the same as the first file URL. Have you managed to fix it? What did Blubrry support say?

@centoasa

Great, glad you’ve managed to solve it!

Hi @centoasa,

It seems that after enabling the CDN, the browser treats the play SVG image as a third-party asset and blocks it.

Could you try adding the following custom styles to your site?

.castos-player .play-progress .play-pause-controls button.play-btn {
  mask-image: url(/wp-content/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/assets/css/images/player/images/icon-play.svg);
  -webkit-mask-image: url(/wp-content/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/assets/css/images/player/images/icon-play.svg);  
}

@marekmaurizio
It depends on how you use this filter. If you return the direct file path, the Stats won’t be able to track listens because it won’t even register that they’re happening. But if you remove .mp3 extension from the virtual path, both your player and stats will work. The only downside of this approach is that some platforms don’t allow file paths that are not ending with .mp3 or .mp4.
Also you can consider using Castos, in this case your files will be stored there, and you’ll have much better statistics.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Serhiy Zakharchenko.

@baxterburgundy @defries

If you don’t use Seriously Simple Stats plugin for your statistics, you can try forcing to use the real file path instead of the virtual one by adding the following code into your functions.php file:

add_filter( 'ssp_episode_download_link', function ( $link, $episode_id, $file ) {	

  return $file;

}, 10, 3 );

Hope this helps,
Serhiy.

Hi @baxterburgundy,

I’m sorry to hear you encountered this issue.

It seems to be related to your NGINX server settings. Have you tried the troubleshooting steps outlined in this article?
https://support.castos.com/article/160-podcast-episodes-will-not-play

Best regards,
Serhiy.

Hello @gilas,

It looks like your question is not related to our plugin, so I would suggest asking it somewhere in RSS-block related place.

Best regards,
Serhiy.

Thanks for keeping us updated. If you need any further assistance, feel free to reach out. Hope you’ll resolve it soon!