內容簡介
Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player 將任何公共的播客 RSS 源轉換為精緻且可搜尋的集數庫，讓您的 WordPress 網站輕鬆展示播客內容，無需重新發佈集數。
【主要功能】
• 支援公共播客 RSS 源
• 自訂佈局、主題與顯示細節
• 全寬音頻播放器與控制選項
• 響應式設計適用於各種裝置
• 可搜尋與過濾功能
• 免費且無需訂閱或付費功能
外掛標籤
開發者團隊
② 後台搜尋「Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player」→ 直接安裝（推薦）
原文外掛簡介
Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player turns any public podcast RSS feed into a polished, searchable episode library for your WordPress website.
Add your feed once, choose the layout, theme, and details you want to show, then place the player with a block or shortcode. The plugin plays media from your existing podcast host; it does not require you to republish episodes in WordPress.
Free forever—without catches
Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player is free and will always remain free. There is no premium edition, feature paywall, recurring subscription, license key, required account, or limited trial. New features and updates are available to everyone.
The plugin is open-source software released under GPLv2 or later, the same license family used by WordPress.
Player and listening experience
One polished, full-width shared audio player with play, pause, seek, elapsed-time, volume, mute, and playback-speed controls.
Optional compact sticky player that stays available after playback starts.
Complete episode titles displayed above the full-width controls.
Responsive layouts for phones, tablets, and desktops.
Search, season filtering, and progressive “Show more” browsing.
Expandable episode notes.
Native browser audio controls as a no-JavaScript fallback.
Themes, layouts, and visible details
Light and dark themes with matching search and filter controls.
Optional transparent outer background for better site-theme integration.
List, card, and compact episode layouts.
Individual visibility controls for podcast artwork and description, episode artwork and notes, dates, duration, season and episode numbers, authors, links, and explicit-content labels.
CSS custom properties and an in-dashboard CSS guide for safe visual customization.
WordPress integration
A dedicated Podcast Player section in the WordPress dashboard.
A dynamic Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player block with per-block overrides.
A flexible [brainstorm_cafe_podcast_player] shortcode with per-embed overrides.
One site-wide feed plus an optional feed override for individual blocks or shortcodes.
A saved-settings preview, one-hour normalized feed cache, and manual refresh control.
Optional Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, RSS, and two administrator-defined links.
Podcasting 2.0
Transcript and caption links when supplied by the podcast feed.
Chapter markers that listeners load on demand and can use to seek within an episode.
Privacy-minded by default
No analytics, advertising, tracking pixels, external fonts, or third-party JavaScript.
No Brainstorm Cafe account or hosted service is required.
Feed retrieval is handled by WordPress, while audio and images continue to come from the publisher-selected hosts.
Block
Insert the Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player block from the Embed category. The block uses the site-wide settings by default and provides inspector controls for:
Feed URL
Theme
Layout
Transparent background
Sticky mode
Episodes shown at once
Total episodes available
Search
Season filtering
Podcasting 2.0 transcripts
Podcasting 2.0 chapters
Leave an override empty, or set its episode number to 0, to inherit the dashboard setting.
Shortcode
The basic shortcode uses every saved setting:
[brainstorm_cafe_podcast_player]
Override the most common options for one embed:
[brainstorm_cafe_podcast_player theme="dark" layout="cards" transparent="yes" sticky="yes" per_page="12" max_episodes="60"]
Use another public feed for one embed:
[brainstorm_cafe_podcast_player feed="https://example.com/podcast/feed.xml"]
Available attributes:
feed: Public HTTP or HTTPS RSS feed URL.
theme: light or dark.
layout: list, cards, or compact.
transparent: yes or no.
sticky: yes or no.
per_page: Episodes revealed at once, from 1 to 50.
max_episodes: Episodes loaded from the feed, from 1 to 200.
search: yes or no.
season_filter: yes or no.
podcast_image: yes or no.
podcast_description: yes or no.
episode_images: yes or no.
episode_descriptions: yes or no.
transcripts: yes or no.
chapters: yes or no.
dates: yes or no.
duration: yes or no.
numbers: yes or no.
episode_links: yes or no.
author: yes or no.
explicit: yes or no.
subscribe: yes or no.
CSS customization
Open Podcast Player > CSS guide for copyable examples and a selector reference. The neighboring Shortcode guide tab documents every shortcode attribute. A longer CSS guide is included at docs/customizing-css.md inside the plugin.
Add custom rules in Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS, a child theme, or the site editor. Do not edit the plugin files because updates replace them.
The main design tokens can be overridden in one place:
.braicapo-player { --braicapo-accent: #c2410c; --braicapo-radius: 8px; --braicapo-font: Georgia, serif; }
Feed behavior
WordPress retrieves and caches the RSS feed. The plugin also caches its normalized episode data for one hour. Use Refresh feed now on the settings page after publishing an episode when an immediate refresh is needed.
The player supports standard RSS and Atom enclosures plus common iTunes podcast tags for artwork, duration, season, episode number, author, episode type, and explicit-content status. It also detects Podcasting 2.0 podcast:transcript and podcast:chapters episode tags. Missing optional data is simply omitted.
Chapter JSON is never downloaded during the initial page load. A listener first opens the Chapters panel and selects Load chapters. Supported chapter markers become buttons that seek the shared audio player to the chapter start time.
External services
This plugin does not depend on a service operated by Brainstorm Cafe. It works with URLs supplied by the site administrator or declared by the podcast publisher:
WordPress requests the administrator-configured podcast RSS URL to parse and cache the feed. The podcast host receives the website server’s request data, such as its IP address and HTTP user agent.
A visitor’s browser requests podcast audio and images from the URLs declared in the RSS feed when those resources are displayed or played.
When a visitor selects Load chapters, the browser requests the HTTPS chapter JSON URL declared by that episode’s podcast:chapters tag. The chapter host receives the visitor’s request, without cookies or a referrer from this plugin. The request may fail if the publisher has not enabled browser access to the chapter file.
Transcript, episode, and listening-platform links take visitors to their configured destinations only when selected.
Those independently operated podcast and platform hosts have their own terms and privacy policies. Site administrators should review the policies of the feed and services they choose to display.
Privacy
Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player does not collect analytics or personal information and does not send usage data to Brainstorm Cafe. Search, season filtering, pagination, audio controls, and chapter navigation run in the visitor’s browser.
Support
For documentation and support, visit https://brainstormcafe.com/podcast-plugin/ or email [email protected].
License
Copyright 2026 Matt Lawhead and Brainstorm Cafe.
Brainstorm Cafe Podcast Player is free software released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version. The complete GPLv2 text is included in LICENSE.txt.
Uninstall behavior
Settings are preserved by default. To remove the plugin option and its cached feed data during uninstall, first enable Delete settings when the plugin is uninstalled under Data cleanup.
