What is A Ripple Song?

A Ripple Song is a classic WordPress podcast theme with built-in episode publishing, podcast RSS output, a persistent audio player, theme-specific widgets, and ready-to-import demo data. The project is built with Sage, Acorn, Carbon Fields, and a modern Vite frontend workflow.

Core Capabilities

• Provides a podcast episode custom post type for uploading audio files and maintaining episode metadata.
• Provides a /feed/podcast/ podcast RSS feed for platforms such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
• Provides a Podcast Settings page for podcast title, author, owner, cover, language, Apple Podcasts categories, and other feed metadata.
• Includes a persistent bottom player with a playlist drawer, playback speed control, waveform area, and volume control.
• Provides theme-specific widget areas for the home page, right sidebar, left sidebar, and footer.
• Includes Banner Carousel, Podcast List, Blog List, Authors, Subscribe Links, Tags Cloud, and Footer Links widgets.
• Integrates One Click Demo Import for importing the theme's demo content and widget configuration.
• Supports separate light and dark theme presets through the WordPress Customizer.
• Provides responsive layouts with a mobile menu, search modal, left drawer, right drawer, and playlist drawer.
• Includes view-count statistics for posts and play-count statistics for podcast episodes.
• Includes prepared language support for English and Simplified Chinese.