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Hi, I am using the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin and everything seems to work fine but I’d like to tie my podcast posts to a category (called “Podcast” naturally). The plugin’s documentation provides some CSS snippets but they don’t seem to work. I haven’t even begun to try and mess around with CSS yet, but I pasted them in and nothing happened. Is this a quirk with Weaver Xtreme or am I just not doing something right? There is no option to select Categories when I go to make a podcast post through the plugin. Thanks
I don’t see how CSS could be involved in adding a category to your podcast posts so you would have to elaborate as I am not following.
That said if you are given CSS rules to try, they should go in Main Options > Fonts & Custom > Custom CSS Rule box.
The directions at the link you provided are very clear, and you would have to do that to get the podcast category to be available.
If you have Weaver Xtreme Plus, you can add the actions described to the Filters and Actions box on the Advanced Options tab.
Otherwise, you will need to create a Child Theme and add the described code to the child’s functions.php.
Sorry, like I said I have no experience with CSS I’m honestly new to WordPress and any kind of web publishing in general. I pasted the commands into the CSS and nothing happens. Is there any other way to do this?
The code you are referring to is not CSS but PHP.
Adding PHP normally requires for you to understand PHP programming and implement it Via a WordPress child Theme.If you have purchased the Weaver Xtreme “Plus” plugin, there is a space in Advanced Options to add PHP code in the Action and filter box, and weaver indicated that it would work to add the code suggested by the plugin.
But without the “Plus” plugin, your only solution is a WordPress Child theme and enough knowledge to do the implementation.
Okay I see. If I could back up a bit, all I want to do is have my podcasts in one place so people can see them in a list, much like they would be able to do if I could add a Category “podcast”. Is there any work around even if it’s a little shoddy?
Since we really don’t know about every plugin, it is very difficult to know how it works, or what options it has. I think you might need to spend a bit of time reading whatever documentation you might have available, or even consider a different plugin.
We can help you with questions about our theme, provide help for specific CSS styling questions with a link to the site in question.
But we can’t help you use another provider’s plugin – other than answer a few questions.
If this is important to you, you really should consider springing for Weaver Xtreme Plus, where you can simply copy/paste the PHP code provided in your first link into the Weaver Xtreme Plus “Actions and Filters” box and get the desired category, which you can then easily show on a Weaver Xtreme “Page with Posts” page template. It really would be worth not spinning your wheels on less elegant solutions. I assume your own time is worth something to you.
You may also want to check if your plugin is creating your podcast using a custom post type.
If it does, you can simply use a weaver Xtreme page with posts and select the custom post type in the corresponding filter box to select all your podcast in that page.
You create a new page, select the “page with posts” template for it in page attribute, publish the page, then in the “settings for page with posts template” section, type the podcast custom post type slug in the custom post type filter box.
If you do not know the custom post type slug of your podcast, ask the plugin developer.
Note: based on their site, you can try to use the slug ssp_podcast_post_types in the custom post type box, and see if that works
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