Title: More features needed
Last modified: November 12, 2019

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# More features needed

 *  Resolved [digiboom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digiboom/)
 * (@digiboom)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-features-needed/)
 * Hi, I love this plugin. Willing to donate and support your work but I would love
   to see the ability to designate a featured image for all podcast episodes and
   a way to change the player from the default wordpress one to something else. 
   Other than that with some cron control it works like a perfect solution. Another
   option too would be to select multiple categories and also assigning tags, oh
   and a way of choosing whether to include the podcast show name to the title of
   a post since lots of broadcasters don’t. The number option doesn’t always work
   either but I have been making due.

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 *  Plugin Author [SecondLineThemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secondlinethemes/)
 * (@secondlinethemes)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-features-needed/#post-12121540)
 * Hey [@digiboom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digiboom/),
 * Thanks for using our plugin!
 * A couple of things regarding your comments –
 * 1) Featured images – The plugin already supports automatically importing featured
   images for the posts. Usually a podcast feed has either 1 main image for the 
   entire channel or a custom image per episode, and in either case those images
   would be imported.
 * If you need a different solution, it would be best to use a plugin to modify 
   your images in bulk, for example –
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-featured-images/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-featured-images/)
 * 2) Audio player – The plugin currently supports an embed audio player with multiple
   podcast hosts. This really depends on the hosts – we’ll add as many as possible,
   as long as there is compatibility.
    Currently those are the only two options,
   but you can use any plugin that overrides the default WordPress audio player 
   instead.
 * 3) Cron control – The continuous import process runs once an hour, which should
   be sufficient for most people. If you need to alter that, you can use the WP 
   Crontrol plugin to change the intervals.
 * 4) Multiple categories – This is already on our radar and we’ll try to add it
   soon. We’ll look into adding tags as well.
 * 5) When the episode number is available within the podcast feed, it should always
   work as expected. We find that adding the show name before the episode name might
   create long titles, so at this point it’s not available.
 * Let us know if you have any other questions!
 *  Thread Starter [digiboom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digiboom/)
 * (@digiboom)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-features-needed/#post-12129856)
 * Hi, in terms of an alternative audio player I have unfortunately not found a 
   solution to this. For the featured images I am using the following code in functions
   of my template as a work around because importing every single episode image 
   is going to eat up my server storage.
 *     ```
       function default_category_featured_image() {
       global $post;
       $featured_image_exists = has_post_thumbnail($post->ID);
   
       if (!$featured_image_exists)  {
       $attached_image = get_children( "post_parent=$post->ID&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image&numberposts=1" );
   
       if ($attached_image) {
   
       foreach ($attached_image as $attachment_id => $attachment) {
       set_post_thumbnail($post->ID, $attachment);
       }}
       else if ( in_category('60') ) {
       set_post_thumbnail($post->ID, '27597');
       }
       						   }
   
                                  }
   
             }
       add_action('the_post', 'default_category_featured_image');
       ```
   
 * Regarding the episode number automatically being added, sometimes it works but
   for the most part I see my posts don’t have it. Also if possible I would love
   to see the ability to edit a feeds settings after it starts posting. Like tags,
   if I want to add the name of the podcast show since some don’t include it in 
   their feed, etc.
 *  Plugin Author [SecondLineThemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secondlinethemes/)
 * (@secondlinethemes)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-features-needed/#post-12131327)
 * The audio player can be replaced with any plugin that replaces it by default,
   such as PowerPress, Seriously Simple Podcasting, Simple Podcast Press and so 
   on.
 * We’ll look into other options as well for possible future updates.
 * In regards to the featured images – If your podcast has the same image for all
   episodes, it would only be imported once, however if there are separate images
   in the feed, they would all be imported by default. Your solution would work 
   too.
 * The episode number only works for RSS feeds with the <itunes:episode> tag. The
   numbers are based on the value within that tag so that’s the only option to add
   those at this point.
 *  [mouwb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouwb/)
 * (@mouwb)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-features-needed/#post-12760595)
 * Hi there!
 * I’m having a similar need. I need to have automatic tags added on my WordPress
   website.
    I found many large podcasts doing this: 1st category on the feed is
   a “Category”. 2nd category on the feed is “tags”. Something like that:
 * <category>Podcast</category>
    <category>subject 1, tag2, abc, whatever, more 
   tags, etc</category>
 * My question is: Could you assist me in telling me what should I change in order
   to have this second category as tags on my WordPress blog post?
 * My second question is about the excerpt. What should I change to only my first
   <p> inside of <description> goes to my excerpt?
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [SecondLineThemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secondlinethemes/)
 * (@secondlinethemes)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-features-needed/#post-12762166)
 * Hey [@mouwb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouwb/),
 * Thanks for reaching out!
    I’m afraid the plugin currently doesn’t support tags
   or custom excerpts. With that said, you can change the default excerpt by creating
   a function in your theme’s functions.php file (unrelated to the plugin) and try
   to make it work for your needs.
 * Tags can be either added manually (there are bulk post editor plugins available
   too) or by changing the plugins code to pull tags like how we pull in category.

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