Title: Player widget?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Player widget?

 *  [thePixelPixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourbusybee/)
 * (@yourbusybee)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/)
 * My client already has her podcast hosted/fed through Libsyn, and has it pushed
   to iTunes. All we’re needing is a player widget. I thought that’s one of the 
   things this plugin would do, but it seems that I have to migrate all of her podcasts
   to a Blubrry account? Is that right? She’d really like to just keep things simple
   and in one place. Any suggestions?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/)
 * (@amandato)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/#post-7326316)
 * yourbusybee, PowerPress is open source, you can use it and not use Blubrry Hosting.
   We would appreciate your patronage, by using our services you would support the
   company providing you the plugin. Plus it would make your production a lot easier
   as you can post, upload and publish all from your WordPress site, rather than
   going to multiple places. That truly is “simple and in one place” when you use
   Blubrry services with PowerPress.
 * You can always take baby steps and just use PowerPress just for the player functionality.
   I strongly encourage installing the plugin and taking a look at the features,
   I think you will find that you’ve been short changed on things such as advice
   on podcasting SEO, subscribe to podcast widgets, and other smaller details. All
   this is free, built-into the plugin. If find you love having everything within
   your site (like we do), you can sign up with blubrry and use the built-in importing
   and migration tools which makes any migration painless.
 *  Thread Starter [thePixelPixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourbusybee/)
 * (@yourbusybee)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/#post-7326341)
 * I can appreciate all that, and it’s possible I’ll be able to convince her to 
   migrate, but truly, I’m having trouble getting anything working that she wants.
   The only widget I’m finding from Blubrry is for a Podcast subscription, and she
   wants to have a player as a widget, showing the last x-number of podcasts. Is
   that possible? What am I missing?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/)
 * (@amandato)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/#post-7326384)
 * yourbusybee, it sounds like you are looking for the playlist player. In PowerPress
   Settings, go to the section titled “Advanced Options” and select the “Playlist
   Player” option, then click ‘save’. This will enable the playlist player. You 
   can set a limit and specify other settings as well, here’s the documentation:
   [http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/advanced-tools-and-options/powerpress-playlist-shortcode/](http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/advanced-tools-and-options/powerpress-playlist-shortcode/)
 * What is your production flow currently?
 * Are you posting your podcast episodes on your WordPress site? Each blog post 
   has a podcast episode entry box, this is what all of the PowerPress features 
   use to know what to display and how to display it. The Verify button gathers 
   information such as the file size and duration (time in seconds) of each episode.
   You can also go into the Basic Settings tab of PowerPress and customize what 
   fields are available in the podcast episode entry box. You can enable an embed
   box option and use an embed code from another service for each episode. You can
   select a sub option for that setting to let PowerPress know that you want this
   embed to be the default player (in place of the built-in player), which is useful
   if you are posting your podcasts to YouTube for example.
 *  Thread Starter [thePixelPixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourbusybee/)
 * (@yourbusybee)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/#post-7326406)
 * Right now my client uploads her podcast (mostly audio, no video) to Libsyn. Libsyn
   in turn pushes it to her WordPress site.
 * I will check out the playlist and these other settings you mention. Sorry for
   the newbie questions. I’ve designed and built a lot of WordPress sites, including
   ecommerce. But I’ve never had one for podcasts before so this whole process is
   rather new to me.
 *  Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * (@shawnogordo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/#post-7326410)
 * It sounds like what you’re hoping to do is use LibSyn’s on-post feature to automatically
   post to the WordPress blog and automatically populate the PowerPress Podcast 
   Episode box. If that’s the case, it won’t work. Your client will still need to
   manually add the necessary information (media URL, etc.) to the Podcast Episode
   box.

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 * Last reply from: [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/player-widget/#post-7326410)
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