Q: Hello, I bought podcast.
co on Appsumo and would like to synchronize the platform with a wordpress site with your theme.
I tried your free theme, but it's very simple.
In your paid theme, do you have widgets working with elementor to display the episodes? Can we include the player in the header of a post?
Can we disable the download of the episode ? (in the free version, it's not possible to disable it).
And my last question, maybe it seems obvious, but could you clarify where the episode are located once the podcast RSS is imported? Do we use the ressources of our website hosting or of podcast.co to play the episodes?
Thank you.
SecondLineThemes
May 15, 2024A: Hey there,
Thanks for reaching out!
Yeah, in our paid themes we have Elementor "elements" (or "widgets") that would help you display your podcast episodes in various ways. Our themes would also automatically include the audio player in the header/title area of your posts.
You can easily disable the download button via podcasting plugin you're using (usually PowerPress or Seriously Simple Podcasting)
Once you import your podcast RSS feed into WordPress, the episodes "live" on both places. Basically the content is cross-posted to WordPress (automatically, for future episodes too!) and you'll be able to display all of your episodes on your WordPress website.
With that said, the actual audio content would still be server from your Podcast.co hosting, so this means your listeners would still a better delivery of the audio file, and you would be able to see the stats of those plays.
So to sum up, just like any other website, when someone visits your site, the website's server/resrouces are being used, except that when the audio plays, it actually loads from the Podcast.co servers.
(for future reference/other readers - you can also serve the audio files from your WordPress server, an external server like AWS if you prefer, it's fully up to the user to decide)
Please let me know if it helps!
Regards,
Thomas - SecondLineThemes.com