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I was a bit bummed when I found out that Blubrry Powerpress WordPress plugin no longer displays a podcast cover image anymore. The latest update must have broke this functionality because I used to be able to display a custom image whenever I uploaded an mp3 file and set it as a podcast.
I tried configuring it both ways, in the configuration settings allowing a video poster image and setting it manually. But I also used the powerpress shortcode by adding the image=”path to image” after the powerpress shortcode and it still didn’t work.
The previous images that showed up for all my previous podcasts are vanished, now I am left with just the “play” bar without any image on it to help the player stand out better.
I mentioned this in the Blubrry Powerpress forum hoping someone will respond to my thread with some instruction or update that will work here.
Update:
The Bluberry Powerpress folks were very responsive to my thread and mentioned that they would look at restoring functionality in a later update. It must have not been a heavily used one as the image/cover feature works for video casts, just not for audio at the moment. I also had a typo in my original article which I corrected.
-Justin Germino