Configure your Podcast Website on Podhome

Every podcast can have a website attached to it. You can use your own website, or use the website that we create for you. Your own “Podhome Website“

And example of a Podhome Website

A Podhome website has the following features:

  • It’s included in your subscription

  • One website per show

  • Episode search

  • Users can play episodes, and navigate through them with the episode transcript and chapters

  • Dark mode (user gets to choose between dark / light mode, or system default)

  • You can use a custom domain

    • We generate an SSL certificate for you, so that you use https://www.{yourdomain}

  • Include links to your social media channels

  • Create custom pages (like an about page)

  • Mobile friendly. The website adjusts to the device size of the user

    • Extra feature: When your show is on Apple Podcasts, we show a banner for your show in the Apple Podcasts app on iOS devices.

  • Set the website Language. This displays all texts on the website in your chosen language

    • You can currently choose between English, Polish, German and Dutch

  • Show scheduled episodes. You can turn this on when you want to show your listeners what episodes are coming

  • You can inject custom code into the <head> element of your website. For instance to use your own analytics tool

Enabling your Podhome Website

When you create a show, we generate a Podhome Website for you. In your show settings, you can choose to enable it, or to use your own website, by entering a URL.

How to enable your Podhome Website in Podhome

You can also enable your Podhome Website in the Website page.

On your Dashboard is a button that links to either your Podhome Website, or your own website.

Customize your Podhome Website

Although your Podhome Website is generic, you can customize some aspects of it.

  1. Go to the Website page

  2. If you haven’t done so already, enable your Podhome Website (you can always switch it off later)

  3. Go to the Website Appearance tab

  4. You can choose to “Show funding tags“. This is the funding site name and URL that you can configure for your show in Show Settings > Monetization & Value 4 Value. This could for instance be a link to PayPal

  5. Also, you can change the Color for the website main elements, which are the play buttons and controls

Custom Pages

By default, your Podhome Website comes with a home page, and a page per episode. You can add custom pages to your site with custom HTML.

  1. Go to the Website page, and select the Website Appearance tab

  2. Click “Add new Custom page“

  3. Enter a Title (this will show in the website menu)

  4. Now fill in a navigation slug (like about-me), or a link to an external page

    • When you fill in a link to an external page, you can select if the page opens in a new window

  5. When you’ve entered a navigation slug (which is used in the URL to your custom page), you need to enter HTML for your page. This can be any valid HTML

  6. Click “Save changes“ to add your custom page

The website preview will update, so you can see what your custom page looks like.

Configure custom pages for your Podhome Website in Podhome

(Custom pages for your Podhome Website)

Use your own Domain name

When you use a Podhome Website, it will have be at a URL that we generate for you (and you can change), like https://serve.podhome.fm/microsoft-azure-for. You can also use your own domain with a Podhome Website.

  1. Go to the Website page

  2. Select the Website Url tab

  3. Select the “Use your own domain name“ area

  4. Enter your domain name

  5. Click “Save Changes”. This can take minutes to complete, so please bare with use and don’t refresh the screen

Before you can use your domain name with our Podhome Website, you need to do several things:

  1. Make sure you have a domain name

  2. Create a CNAME record in your DNS settings of your domain provider

    1. When you create a new record, providers often ask for a name and value

    2. In this case, the name is “www” (without the quotes), or your subdomain (for instance 'podcast' if you want to use https://podcast.yourdomain.com)

    3. And the value is “podhomeserve.azurewebsites.net“ (without the quotes). Check in Podhome for the actual value, as this can be different

    4. If asked to enter a TTL (or time to live), enter 600, or something similar

    5. See this example for Godaddy.com

  3. Create a TXT record in your DNS settings of your domain provider

    1. When you create a new record, providers often ask for a name and value

    2. In this case, the name is “asuid.www” (without the quotes), or your subdomain (for instance 'asuid.podcast' if you want to use https://podcast.yourdomain.com)

    3. And the value is “a284120799eed0767c75e25ed3104c46f3b7294e9613afbaa70116b294d8a06e“ (without the quotes). Check in Podhome for the actual value, as this can be different

    4. If asked to enter a TTL (or time to live), enter 600, or something similar

Note: It can take a while before you DNS settings propagate though the internet (hours in some cases), so please be patient.

Domain configuration settings screen in Podhome

(Podhome Website URL settings)


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