Special Page: Podcast
A page with an MP3 player embeded at the top of the content. Important meta-information can be defined, such as the artist, episode genre and bitrate, and an option exists to display share buttons for social networking.
Features
Save and you should be ready to start publishing your podcast content.
A page with an MP3 player embeded at the top of the content. Important meta-information can be defined, such as the artist, episode genre and bitrate, and an option exists to display share buttons for social networking.
Features
- Can choose between Google's MP3 Player, Yahoo's Media Player, Dewplayer, Zanorg Player, or a simple hyperlink.
- Can define a thumbnail (normally the album cover), note the episode length, artist, genre (you define them); optional social network buttons
- Automatically adds the podcast to the RSS feed due to the rss tag (if i18n Search is installed)
- Displays the defined keywords/tags for the podcast
- Download the zip file and unzip it to the root directory of your GetSimple installation.
- Create a page for your podcast to be sorted under, e.g. "Podcasts", and paste the following:
Code:
(% searchresults tags=_special_podcast HEADER="All Episodes" %)
- Go to Plugins/Configure I18N Special Pages in your GetSimple administration
- Select the Podcast template to create the special page type
- Under GENERAL For Custom URL (Slug), change 'podcast-name' to the name of your podcast and set the Parent and Menu placement
- Under FIELDS, change the dropdown list of the genres to have all of the possible genres relevant to your podcast episodes
- Under VIEW, change any CSS that you need. In particular, edit the hexadecimal coding for the MP3 players to fit the colour of the player to your site (option doesn't exist for Dewplayer or Yahoo)
- Also change 'your-search-page' to the slug of your search page (under VIEW and SEARCH)
Save and you should be ready to start publishing your podcast content.