[podlove-web-player] shortcode not display on homepage

Podlove Publisher
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Apologies if I’m missing something obvious - I’ve installed the Podlove Publisher plugin but I can’t get the [podlove-web-player] shortcode to display on the home page. It works for the Episodes pages, but I can’t replicate it on the home page - is that typical behaviour? If so, is it possible to get the Web Player to display on other pages?

The site is at www.mindofyourown.co.uk

Dave

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What do you mean by “home page”? By default, the home page is automatically constructed out of most recent posts. In your case I think you are talking about a separate WordPress page, right?

Problem is, the [podlove-web-player] shortcode needs the context of which episode to show. Right now, it is not possible to display the player for a specific (or the most recent) episode using that shortcode.

You can however create a Podlove Template that’s brings up the player for the latest episode and insert it into the page using the [podlove-template] shortcode. If you like I can give you an example.

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Here is the code that does what you need:

{% for episode in podcast.episodes({ orderby: "publicationDate", order: "DESC", limit: 1 }) %}
    {{ episode.player }}
{% endfor %}

Create a new template in Podlove -> Templates and call it “latest-episode”. Then you can insert it at any page with

[podlove-template id="latest-episode"]

And you’re done.

Read more about templates in our documentation: http://docs.podlove.org/reference/template-tags/

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Thanks very much for such a detailed reply - all of your assumptions are correct! I’ll have a play around with the templates and see if I can get that working as I need.

Thanks again,

Dave

5

Sorry, one more thing - the template code works (thanks!), but is it possible to display a list of recent episodes within the player (e.g. image below instead of a tabled list) via the template editor?

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Unfortunately the player only supports one episode at a time. it is not designed to show a list of episodes.

It’s something that comes up every now and then but we haven’t a solution for that yet.

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Ah, that’s a shame! Thanks for all your help.