Jonathan Bossenger

Hi @cpweb5

How are you embedding the player into an external website?

Apologies, I see you are using the Episode Embed Code from the Podcast Episode edit screen.

At this point, the Episode Embed Code does not support the HTML 5 player. However, we are in the process of updating the player, and I will create a ticket for us to ensure that we also add support for the HTML player in the embed code.

We’re expecting this update in the next few weeks, so please bear with us until we can ship this update.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Jonathan Bossenger.

@yaniv1983 I have given you this documentation, it was in my first reply.

Seriously Simple Podcasting uses the default WordPress Custom Post Type system.

All podcast episodes are stored as posts in the WordPress posts table, just with a custom post type of podcast.

So the reason we don’t have any specific documentation for this is that you can use all the default functionality available to WordPress posts, for querying podcasts.

Your original question was this:

I am trying to create a show page, that will query the episodes sorted by the ssp publish date (not the WP post date).

The SSP publish date is the same the WP post date, the plugin makes use of all the same functionality.

You then asked me about this code

$query_args = ssp_episodes($number, $series[0]->slug, true, 'widget');

As I pointed out that code will return an array of query arguments, which can be used to create a new WP_Query, based on the arguments.

I’ve listed the links to the WordPress docs, that explains how WP_Query works, and how to use all the various arguments available.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/

This is all the documentation you need, to be able to add the orderby arguments to the query_args returned from that function, to add ordering by the date, and to also return all results.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Jonathan Bossenger. Reason: Spelling

Hi @astevens93

Ah yes, I see what you mean now, thanks for updating me. Currently that is not possible.

What would be ideal here is if the function that generates the HTML output for the stats page had better filters in place, so that it would be possible to add your own totals to the At A Glance section, with documentation on these filters and how to use them to extend that page.

I will raise this with our team internally. In the meantime could I ask you to raise this as an issue on the GitHub repository for this plugin – https://github.com/CastosHQ/Seriously-Simple-Stats/issues. That way we can prioritize the update there.

Hi @yaniv1983

If you read through the code for the ssp_episodes function, you will see it sets up the same query arguments as used by the WP_Query object, detailed in the documentation I shared with you here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/. So you will need to modify the $query_args array of arguments to include ordering by post date, and returning all items.

This type of question is moving into the area of you using the support channels for our plugin in order to get me to develop your code for free. It might be worthwhile to search for some articles on how to set up and use WP_Query arguments.

Hi @astevens93

At the top of the stats page, there is a drop down next to “View stats for ” where you can select “An individual series” and then select the series to view stats for.

Hi @bhkh

If you click on the Tags sub menu item under the Podcast menu item, you can add new tags to be used by your podcast episodes.

Hi @redrockcity thanks for logging this, and apologies for the late reply.

All your custom post types should be deleted while the plugin is still installed, by using the Podcast -> All Episodes list, you can select multiple podcasts and send them to the Trash in WordPress, and then empty the Trash from there.

The same goes for any Series you have created. Doing it this way will ensure that any custom post meta or custom series meta is also deleted.

Any other data is stored in the WordPress options table. There are two types of data stored, those with the ssp_ prefix and those with the ss_podcasting_ prefix. In order to delete those you will need to do so via direct access to your database. You can search for these records by using the following query.

SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%ssp_%'
SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%ss_podcasting_%'

Where wp_options is the name of your options table, this may vary on your install, depending on your table prefix.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Jonathan Bossenger. Reason: Corrected backticks on queries