Varbase Podcasts Base recipe

A recipe to provide a podcast episode content type, a listing view and related configuration for Varbase. Use Podcasts to publish audio episodes with a cover image, duration, episode number and transcript in the Podcasts section of the site.

The podcast counterpart of Varbase News Base and Varbase Blog Base.

Features

Podcast content type

A Podcast content type for episodes, with:

• Title
• Description, a short summary
• Featured Image, a media reference used as the episode cover art
• Content, long text used for the episode transcript
• Audio, a file upload for a self-hosted episode
• Audio URL, a link for an episode hosted on a podcast platform or CDN
• Duration, for example 44 Mins
• Episode Number, rendered as the episode eyebrow
• Tags, a taxonomy reference with autocomplete

Audio delivery

An episode carries either a self-hosted file or a remote URL. Both are optional, so an episode can be drafted before its audio is ready and the theme decides which player to render. A site that publishes only to a hosting platform never has to upload a file, and a site that self-hosts never has to keep a second URL in sync.

Views

A Podcasts view with several displays:

• All podcast episodes, a paginated listing with Better Exposed Filters
• Latest podcast episodes, a block for the most recent episodes
• Related podcast episodes, a block for episodes sharing tags, used for the More Episodes rail on an episode page
• Featured podcast episodes, a block for promoted episodes
• RSS Feed, a podcast content feed

There is deliberately no page display. The podcasts landing page belongs to the site template, which may serve it from a Drupal Canvas page, and a view page at /podcasts here would collide with it.

View modes and templates

Full for the episode page, plus Card and Text card medium for listings and rails. Drupal Canvas content templates are shipped for each, so an episode renders through the site's component library rather than through field markup.

SEO

• XML sitemap inclusion through Simple Sitemap bundle settings
• A Pathauto pattern for episode URLs
• Metatag and Yoast SEO support inherited from Varbase SEO Base

Requirements

• Varbase Content Base
• Varbase Media Base
• Varbase SEO Base
• Varbase Workflow Base

Installation

composer require drupal/varbase_podcasts_base
drush recipe recipes/varbase_podcasts_base

Compatibility

Best used with the Varbase Starter site template.

Can be installed on any Drupal CMS ~2.0 or Drupal core ~11 site, even with the Minimal or Standard profile. Using it with Varbase gives you a lot more.