About this plugin
Pi Podcast Feed – Cards & Playlist Player lets site administrators connect a public podcast RSS feed and display episodes using responsive cards or a full playlist audio player.
Features include:
- Responsive podcast episode cards.
- Searchable playlist audio player.
- Play, pause, previous, next, rewind, forward, speed and progress controls.
- Configurable episode counts and appearance settings.
- RSS caching using WordPress transients.
- Shortcodes for use in Gutenberg, Elementor and other shortcode areas.
Shortcodes
[pipodcastfeed] – Responsive latest episode cards.
[pipodcastfeed_player] – Full playlist audio player.
External services
This plugin retrieves podcast information from an external RSS feed configured by the site administrator. The default feed is NPR’s Planet Money podcast feed:
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The RSS request is made by the WordPress server when the plugin needs to refresh cached episode data or when an administrator tests the configured feed. A standard HTTP request is sent to the RSS provider. This can include the server IP address, request headers, and user agent that are normally part of an HTTP request.
The plugin does not intentionally send WordPress user account information or form data to the RSS provider.
Episode artwork and audio files are provided by URLs contained in the selected RSS feed. When a visitor views artwork or plays an episode, the visitor’s browser may connect directly to the host serving that image or audio file. That host can receive normal request information such as the visitor’s IP address, browser user agent, and referrer according to that provider’s own policies.
If the site administrator replaces the default RSS URL with a feed from another provider, the same type of requests will be made to that provider. Site administrators are responsible for reviewing the terms and privacy policy of any RSS provider they configure.
NPR Terms of Use:
org/about-npr/179876898/terms-of-use
NPR Privacy Policy:
org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy
Source code
All JavaScript and CSS used by this plugin is included in human-readable, editable form inside the plugin package. No compilation or minification step is required to modify or regenerate the distributed assets.