Podcast Website Design
Your Complete Guide to Professional Podcast Website Design
What you'll learn
- Understand the steps to build a podcast website
- Install a WordPress theme made for podcasts
- Set up the theme, header and footer
- Customize the home page
- Prepare the podcast system on WordPress
- Upload a new recorded podcast
- Create the most important podcast pages
- Organize the site menus
- Translate the site elements and finish the site
About this course
This course teaches you how to design a professional podcast website with WordPress, from the idea to the launch. It starts with an introduction and the steps to build a podcast site, then getting the basic requirements and installing a WordPress theme made for podcast websites. Next you set up the main theme settings, the header and the footer, and customize the home page. Then you prepare the podcast system on WordPress, upload a new recorded podcast, and support the system with the basic podcast codes. In the last part you create the most important podcast pages, organize the site menus, add podcast elements to the home page, then translate the site elements and finish the site in its final form. The course suits podcasters and anyone who wants a website for their episodes, whether you are a beginner or a web designer. You do not need much previous experience, because the lessons go step by step with hands-on practice and cover the site from the start to the final result. By the end you will be able to build a complete podcast website, upload episodes to it, and organize its pages and menus.
Expected outcomes
- Create a complete podcast website using WordPress.
- Customize the template and set up a professional interface.
- Easily upload and update new podcasts on the site.
- Organize site elements to enhance user experience.
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Course content
1Podcast Website Design
13 lectures
- Course IntroductionIntroduces a course on building a podcast website with WordPress: designing the homepage, displaying episodes in different layouts, and organizing episodes individually or in series, ending with a complete site ready to publish.1:49
- Steps to Create a Podcast WebsiteOutlines the steps to build a podcast site with WordPress: choosing the platform, getting hosting and a domain, designing with a ready-made theme, adding a podcast plugin and its codes, and uploading episodes.5:13
- Getting Basic Podcast Site RequirementsCovers the basic site requirements: shared and cloud hosting types, domains and their yearly cost, or setting up a free local server to run WordPress and practice the lessons.16:46
- Installing a Custom WordPress Theme for Podcast SitesExplains choosing a WordPress theme suited to podcasts, such as Blocksy and Astra, installing it with its plugins and importing a ready-made demo, and comparing free and paid options.8:31
- Setting Up Basic Theme Settings, Header, and FooterExplains customizing theme settings in the WordPress Customizer: colors, fonts, the header menu, footer, logo and social icons.28:38
- Customizing the Main Site InterfaceExplains customizing the homepage with the Elementor drag-and-drop editor: editing sections, icons, images and the videos section, and leaving the episodes section until files are uploaded.25:47
- Setting Up the Podcast System on WordPressExplains setting up the podcast system with the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin: installing it, the setup wizard (cover and category), podcast settings, creating a thumbnail image, and customizing the player.10:47
- Uploading a New Recorded Podcast on WordPressExplains uploading a recorded podcast episode on WordPress: title and featured image, organizing episodes into series and categories, adjusting the player's look, and ordering episodes.15:18
- Enhancing WordPress with Basic Podcast CodesExplains using the shortcodes of Seriously Simple Podcasting to display episodes or podcast lists in different layouts inside pages and posts.12:09
- Creating the Main Important Podcast PagesExplains creating the site's key pages: privacy policy, about and contact with a contact form, plus combined and separate podcast pages built with shortcodes.21:59
- Organizing Podcast Site ListsExplains organizing the podcast site's menus: adding pages and custom links to the header menu as a dropdown, and creating a separate footer menu and editing its sections.14:59
- Adding Main Podcast Elements to the Site Interface and Organizing ThemExplains adding podcast elements to the homepage with Elementor: a latest-episodes section using display codes, series sections with their episodes and listen buttons, and video cards.13:11
- Translating All Podcast Site Elements and Finalizing the SiteExplains translating the podcast plugin into Arabic with a translation plugin that lets you edit its English strings, then recaps the finished site ready to publish.4:39
Instructor
Eng. Ahmed Abbas
