Setup

How to Structure Your Podcast

To configure the feed correctly, you first have to think about how you would like to structure the pages of your podcast.

There are three recommended ways to structure your podcast (but you can do it however you like):

1. Flat
2. By Season
3. By Year

1. Flat

This structure is the simplest but may become a bit cluttered over time. In this case you have a flat structure with the feed and the episode on one level:

• My Podcast
  • feed
  • episode01
  • episode02
  • (…)

2. By season

This structure might be the best one for most podcasts. In this case, you have a deeper structure split into seasons with the feed and the season pages on one level and the episode as children of the season pages:

• My Podcast
  • feed
  • season 01
    • episode 01
    • episode 02
    • (…)
  • season 02
    • episode 01
    • (…)

3. By year

This structure works the same as the seasonal one, but it is split by year with the feed and the yearly pages on one level and the episodes as children of the yearly pages:

• My Podcast
  • feed
  • 2023
    • episode 01
    • episode 02
    • (…)
  • 2024
    • episode 01
    • (…)

Create the feed

It is recommended to create a parent page for all the pages of your podcast. I will call it „My Podcast“ in this example. This page should have a blueprint/template that can later on list all episodes.

Create the feed page within your podcast page:

1. Open the Podcast page (My Podcast)
2. Create a new draft
3. Select Podcaster Feed as a template
4. Create the page

If everything worked, you should see the feed page; it should look like this:

Fill in at least the:

• Podcast Title
• Copyright
• Apple Categories
• Language

Switch to the RSS Settings tab and fill out:

• Podcast Id
• Link

The Podcast ID should be a simple string, representing our Podcasts name. For example my-podcast

The Podcast Link should be a link to the landing page of your Podcast.

Next

• save the changes and ignore that the required Source Pages are empty for now.
• fill all the other fields as you like (link zu allen Feldern und was sie machen)
• set the page status to unlisted
• open the page - you should see the rss feed with all the information you entered

Creating Episodes

This plugin does not provide a blueprint for episodes but it does provide a tab blueprint to extend your existing blueprints.

Prepare a blueprint

If you have a blog your could extend your post blueprint. If you don’t have any fitting blueprint, you can use this very simple example:

title: Episode
num: '{{ page.date.toDate("YmdHi") }}'
tabs:
  podcast:
    extends: tabs/podcasterepisode
  content:
    sections:
      basic_stuff:
        type: fields
        fields:
          date:
            label: Date
            type: date
            default: today
            required: true
          text:
            label: Text
            type: textarea
            size: large

If you do have a fitting template, you can extend it with:

tabs:
  podcast:
    extends: tabs/podcasterepisode

Create an episode

Create an episode within your chosen structure. I’ll use the seasonal structure in the example. So I will

1. Open the panel
2. Go to the My Podcast page
3. Create a child page named Season 01 with the same listing template used by My Podcast
4. Go into Season 01
5. Create a new page with my episode template

The newly created page should look like this:

Now fill in at least the required fields:

• Upload the mp3 file
• Chose an episode type
• Fill out all the fields to your liking

Publish the episode page and the season page.

Add episodes to the feed

Now we can add episodes to the feed:

1. Open the panel
2. Go to your podcast
3. Open the feed
4. Go to RSS Settings
5. Edit Source Pages
6. Add the page containing your episodes; in my case, this is Season 01
7. Save the changes
8. Open the page

You should now see the new episode in the RSS feed.

Publishing the Podcast

You are set up now and can publish the RSS feed. If your feed is still a draft:

1. Open the panel
2. Go to your podcast
3. Set the feed page to unlisted
4. Open the feed
5. Copy the URL
6. Submit the URL to the directories of your choice

Congratulations! Your podcast is live!