PowerPress Advanced Tweaks

iTunes image not appearing in iTunes

Getting iTunes to display modified/changed iTunes images can be a real headache. Blubrry Powerpress has developed a relatively simple and easy to use solution to the problem. In order to make iTunes recognize that a new iTunes image is present, the actual iTunes image file name is changed slightly. In order to achieve this, please use the upload new image: option. Every uploaded iTunes image takes on a new file name, thus forcing iTunes to re-cache your latest image.

Customizing the text labels used for the player and links

You can customize the labels such as ‘Podcast:’, ‘play in new window’ and ‘download’ by adding a few lines of code to your wp-config.php file. Please use the instructions found on the PowerPress Translation page.

Customizing the character separating player and download links

You may customize the character or html that is placed between the player and download links by adding the following define to your wp-config.php file.

define('POWERPRESS_LINK_SEPARATOR', 'YOUR_SEPARATOR_HERE');

I want to customize my play icon.

If you see the blubrry player icon for your audio/video (m4a/m4v), you can customize this by adding the following define to your wp-config.php.

define('POWERPRESS_PLAY_IMAGE', 'http://server.com/full/path/to/image.jpg');

Can I center the Powerpress media player?

You can center, left or right justify the Powerpress player in your blog posts by adding the following line to your blog’s style sheet, (style.css, typically found in your blog’s theme folder).

.powerpress_player { text-align: center; }

Simply replace ‘center’ with ‘left’ or ‘right’ to align the player to the left or right respectively.

Can I customize how the play and download links look in my blog post?

If you are familiar with HTML/CSS, you can customize the play and download links very easily by adding an entry to your blog’s style sheet (style.css, typically found in your blog’s theme folder). The following example sets the links to a specific font size and centers the links in the middle of the page.

.powerpress_links {
 text-align: center;
 font-size: 85%;
}

How can I use my own icons to prefix the media download links?

If you are familiar with HTML/CSS, you can customize the play and download links very easily by adding an entry to your blog’s style sheet (style.css, typically found in your blog’s theme folder). The following example adds a PDF icon to the left of the play in new window and download links.

.powerpress_links_pdf {
 background: url(images/pdf.png) no-repeat left top;
 padding-left: 20px;
 min-height: 16px;
}