[Plugin: podPress] HTML/Flash player doesn't show up

besweeet
(@besweeet)

14 years, 8 months ago

I’ve setup a new podcast at http://thetecherra.com. The first episode can be found here.

Everything seems to work fine, but I can’t seem to get the HTML5/Flash player to show up above the little information thing that appears at the top of each post. The only way I can do that is if I tell podPress to put the play at the end of each post. I have the ‘more’ thing set to having everything come before it (which would be in the excerpt area).

Any ideas? I’ve tried several settings combinations.

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/podpress/

ALSO, the downloads number doesn’t work until I clear my cache with WPSuperCache. Is there a way to bypass certain posts into Super Cache?

Update: I added a new line of text in the post, and now the player info is completely gone.

Lastly, my RSS feeds either aren’t working or only work for a little while. I’ll play with the settings a bit more, but the player is what I’m worried about.

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Plugin Author ntm
(@ntm)

14 years, 8 months ago

Right now, the post does not seem to have a podPress attachment. Further the blog seems not to contain a post with podPress attachment. That would explains why there is no player and the podcast feed are not working (if a RSS feed does not contain posts then it is not valid and the feed readers often tell you that the page is not there (404).).

Please add a media file to a post and notice me via a post here in this thread and I will take a look at your new blog again.

ALSO, the downloads number doesn’t work until I clear my cache with WPSuperCache. Is there a way to bypass certain posts into Super Cache?

Did you mean the numbers in the admin panel or the posts?

Thread Starter besweeet
(@besweeet)

14 years, 8 months ago

Ah. Not sure why the attachment was gone. It should be back again.

I was referring to the number for the posts next to the download link.

Plugin Author ntm
(@ntm)

14 years, 8 months ago

Okay.

The problem with the position of the player is a question of the CSS of all the post elements together.
A very simple solution could be that you let the podcast picture float at the right side of the post (and if you would change distance between the picture and the surrounding text (padding) from right to left). You can probably adjust that in the post editor of WP (image properties – alignright).

But in general it should possible to let the picture be on the left side and to let the player and the other podPress elements float around it. But that is a little bit more complicated. I will try to find a solution.
Plugin Author ntm
(@ntm)

14 years, 8 months ago
I’m not good in estimating time. It on second look it was easier as I thought.

Ad the following CSS code to the style.css file of your theme:
```
.podPress_content {
	float:left;
	width:415px;
	display:block;
}
```
Please be aware of the capitalised P in .podPress_content. It is necessary to take this over into your file.

This solution is for the theme that you use. If you change it or if you the width of the post boxes then you will probably need to adjust the width value of this CSS definition too.
Thread Starter besweeet
(@besweeet)

14 years, 8 months ago

You’re definitely right; the featured image was causing issues. Removing it brought up the play button. I did the change to style.css and the play button is now perfectly visible.

Thanks!

The download count next to the post still doesn’t get updated until I clear the cache in WP Super Cache. Surely there’s a way around this? I’m assuming I have to go to them for support?

Plugin Author ntm
(@ntm)

14 years, 8 months ago

Surely there’s a way around this?

Well, I don’t know.
I’m no expert of these cache plugins. But I think that the main functionality of these plugins is to store the output of a blog in a special way in order to reduce the workload of the server. In a way these plugins are designed to do exactly what you observe.
I guess that the cache content gets only updated e.g when the content of a post gets modified. But the download number is not part of the content of a post and the timestamp of the post does not change with every download. podPress attaches the player, the download links and the download number via the WP Action Hook the_content (or the_excerpt). That happens usually on every page load.
I’m not sure if it is possible to define exceptions for some Hook actions in these plugins. But all these exceptions would probably reduce the effect of such a cache plugin.
Further it is recommended to to hide the download number in order to reduce the amount of db queries and to speed up the blog home page.

I’m assuming I have to go to them for support?

Yes. You know now how podPress adds those elements and maybe someone of them can help you. (They most likely know what Action Hooks.)

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