Player enhancements

[jeffpaul]

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.

The existing player that is used with the plugin is the default core audio player with no additional enhancements even with various toggles/metadata set in the podcast block settings:

It might be nice to enhance the player to support the following functions:

• Display show title
• Display episode title
• Display show image/icon
• Display explicit badge if content marked as explicit
• Display season number
• Display episode number
• Display episode type
• Player enhancements - Player bar alternate colors #298
• Player enhancements - Ability to have the player docked to header or footer location on site. #299
• Player enhancements - Ability to have a playlist of all episodes in a season (or a custom list of episodes) #303

Open to any/all of these items to roll into their own PR, best to update each item above with any linked PR # at the end of the line to better track completion of the work.

Designs

No response

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[jeffpaul]

@Sidsector9 I'm unassigning you here as there doesn't appear to be a WIP PR, so moving this out for others to pick up and work on

[jeffpaul]

Some good examples in https://wordpress.org/plugins/podcast-player/

[jayedul]

best to update each item above with any linked PR # at the end of the line

@jeffpaul I think implementing the whole checklist in a single PR will be more maintainable. Because these content's should be organized in a single wrapper element and design structure.

[jeffpaul]

@jayedul if you've got the time and interest, go for it!

[jeffpaul]

Another good example: https://portlandartmuseum.org/podcast/black-artists-of-oregon-episode-1/

[gusaus]

Quick followup on the prior art on WAMU's site referenced in #299

In addition to the player being persistent, the ability to play on-demand podcasts AND live radio streams is key. Not sure if that would make sense for a plugin focused on podcasting, but possibly as a stand-alone persistent audio player?

Either way, we'd like to include the plugin and the persistent player(s) in the Newspack branches maintained by OpenProducer (see OpenProducer/newspack-platform#22) and would love to contribute/help where we can.