Website

The Website tab controls how PowerPress players, media links, subscribe links, shortcodes, and related website display options appear on your site.

This page covers all settings available under the Website section in PowerPress, including Website Settings, Blog Posts and Pages, Subscribe Page, PowerPress Shortcodes, and Play in New Window.

Website Settings

The Website Settings section controls whether PowerPress automatically adds media players and links to your site, how podcast permalinks behave, and how the episode box is displayed.

PowerPress Media Players and Links

Enable PowerPress Media Players and Links (default): Adds PowerPress media players and links to your site automatically.
Disable PowerPress Media Players and Links: Prevents PowerPress from adding players and media links to your site. PowerPress will only add podcasting support to your feeds.

Tip: Leave media players and links enabled unless you plan to place players manually with shortcodes or custom theme code.

Permalinks

Controls how podcast permalinks behave on your site.

Default WordPress Behavior: Uses the default WordPress permalink behavior for podcast content.

When configured, podcast URLs can be matched to a page or category with the same name.

Episode Box Appearance

Check this box to display all episode settings before the media is verified: Shows all episode settings before attached media is verified.

Warning: This setting should only be enabled by experienced users. Publishing an episode without verified media may result in lost or incomplete episode data.

Blog Posts and Pages

The Blog Posts and Pages section controls where players and media links appear in your post and page content.

Display Media & Links

Below page content (default): Displays the player and media links below your post or page content.
Above page content: Displays the player and media links above your post or page content.
Disable: Prevents the player and media links from appearing automatically in posts and pages. They can still be added manually with shortcodes.

Additional Display Options

Display player / links: WordPress Excerpts: Displays the player and media links in WordPress excerpts, such as search results.
Hide player / links: Read More tagged posts: Hides players and media links in posts that use the Read More tag.

Player Settings

Display Player: Controls whether the media player is shown.

Media Links

Display Play in new Window Link: Adds a link that opens the media player in a separate window.
Display Download Link: Adds a download link for the media file.
Include file size: Shows the media file size next to the download link.
Include file size and duration: Shows both the media file size and duration next to the download link.
Display Player Embed Link: Adds a link for embedding the player elsewhere.
Include embed in feeds: Includes embed information in podcast feeds where supported.

Note: The embed option works with supported PowerPress players, including MediaElement.js for audio and video, Flow Player Classic for audio, and the HTML5 video player for video.

Subscribe Links Under Player

Display subscribe links below player and media links: Adds subscribe links below the player and media links.
Subscribe Label: Sets a custom label for the subscribe section. Leave blank to use the default label.

Subscribe Page

The Subscribe Page section lets you link to or create a dedicated page that helps visitors subscribe to your podcast.

The selected link is added to the Subscribe on Apple and Subscribe via RSS links shown below the player.

Subscribe Page Link

Select page: Choose an existing page on your site to use as the subscribe page.
Subscribe URL: Enter a custom URL if your subscribe page is hosted elsewhere.

Create a Subscribe Page

Create a subscribe page from Template creates a page using the

shortcode.

You can then edit the page in your own words. Depending on your SEO strategy, you may also want to configure the page’s robots settings.

Subscribe Page Link Label

Subscribe Page Link Label: Sets a custom label for the subscribe page link. Leave blank to use the default label.

Subscribe Widget

Select the appearance of the subscribe buttons used on your subscribe page.

Shape

Squared: Displays squared subscribe buttons.
Rounded: Displays rounded subscribe buttons.

Custom Styling

Include recommended styling (recommended): Applies the recommended styling for the subscribe widget.

Select Exclude to remove !important and text-align CSS styling. These rules may interfere with custom styling or styling from other plugins.

Subscribe Button Preview

Displays a preview of the subscribe button style you selected.

Tip: Creating a dedicated subscribe page gives listeners one place to find your preferred podcast app links and can make subscription options easier to promote.

PowerPress Shortcodes

The PowerPress Shortcodes section provides shortcode options for manually placing players, playlists, subscribe widgets, and skip links in your content.

PowerPress Player Shortcode

Use the following shortcode to position your media presentation exactly where you want it within your post or page content:

The player shortcode displays the player and related media presentation in the location where the shortcode is placed.

When specifying a direct media URL in the shortcode, only the player is included. Media links are not included because there is not enough metadata to display them.

PowerPress Playlist Shortcode

Enable PowerPress Playlist Player: Enables playlist player support.

The playlist shortcode displays a player with a playlist of your podcast episodes using the default playlist built into WordPress.

PowerPress Subscribe Shortcode

The subscribe shortcode displays a subscribe widget for your podcast. It is intended for use on a custom subscribe page.

PowerPress Skip-to-Position in Player Shortcode

The Skip-to-Position shortcode creates a link in your page that skips to a specified position in the player. Time may be entered in seconds, minutes:seconds, or hours:minutes:seconds.

Examples:

[skipto time="45"] → 0:45
[skipto time="45"]Skip intro → Skip intro
3:05 or 3:05 → 3:05
1:23:45, 83:45, or 1:23:45 → 1:23:45

Having Issues?

Use the troubleshooting option if your players are not appearing on some or all pages.

No, everything is working: Default setting when there are no player display issues.

If changing this option fixes the issue, there is likely a conflict with your current theme or a plugin. You can test this by temporarily switching to a default WordPress theme and disabling plugins one at a time until the conflict is identified.

Note: Shortcodes are useful when you want more control over exactly where players, playlists, or subscribe buttons appear in your content.

Play in New Window

The Play in New Window section controls the size of the separate playback window opened by the Play in New Window link.

Window Size

Width of new window: Sets the width of the playback window. Leave blank to use the default width of 420.
Height of new window: Sets the height of the playback window. Leave blank to use the default height of 240.

Scroll Bar Handling

Do not factor in scroll bars: Prevents PowerPress from adjusting the width and height to compensate for browser scroll bars.

By default, PowerPress compensates for possible vertical and horizontal scroll bars when opening the new window.