You may configure the sidebar widget by following the steps hereafter:

1. Click "Layout"->"Sidebar Widget" tab in your Podbean dashboard.

2. Move the widget to the sidebar position as you like. Click the "configure button" of the widget (at the right side of the widget, looks like a small book).

3. A window will be pop up. You can fill the related configuration fields of the widget. Such as, fill your Google adsense id in the "Google Adsense" widget.

The rating only can be done on the single episode page — not on your Podbean podcast site home page. When you click the rating on the home page, it will lead you to the episode page to let you rate it.

To remove episode hits and visits from your Podbean site, you can click "Settings" -> "Comments&Share" tab in your Podbean dashboard, then check off the "show episode hits" and "show visitor stats" option.

Steps to add Paypal Donation Button to your sidebar:

Step 1. Activate the "Paypal Donate Widget" in "Widget Management" by clicking "Settings"->"Widget" tabs in your Podbean dashboard . Then click the "Activate" link at the right side of the Paypal Donate Widget line.

Step 2. Getting into "Sidebar Arrangement" page by clicking "Layout"->"Sidebar Widget" tabs. Then, drag and drop the Paypal Donate Widget to your prefered sidebar position.

Step 3. Add your Paypal acccount email address to the widget by clicking the "window button" at the right side of the widget. You will get a pop up window in which you can fill your Paypal email address.

Step 4. Finally, DO NOT FORGET to click the "Save Changes" button at the right bottom of the page to save all your hard work.

Podbean.com supports any widgets that you can find online.

You can add a widget by following the steps hereafter:

1. Click “Publish a Podcast” tab on http://www.podbean.com . Log in with your username and password.
2. Click “Layout” tab, then “sidebar widgets” subtab.
3. At the bottom of the “sidebar widgets” page, select the number of customizable widgets that you need and click “save”.
4. You will see “text 1″, “text 2″ … widget-blocks are added into the widget pool.
5. Move one of the new widget block, e.g. “text 1″ , to the sidebar at the position that you want to display.
6. Click the edit bar at the top right of the “text 1″ widget (a button looks like a small page).
7. Copy & paste the widget code into the edit field and close the widget edit window
8. Click “Save Change” button at the right bottom of the page. Please DO NOT forget this step. Otherwise, your widget will not be shown on your site.

The Static FrontPage option allows a user to set a specific Page to be the Home Page. So rather than visiting your site and seeing a list of latest episodes(posts), the visitor can be presented with for example a nice introductory main page as to what your site or podcast is all about.

Before proceeding, make sure you have already created a page to use as the Front Page.

1. From the menu, navigate to Settings-> Display
2. Under Front Page Display, check the static page option.
3. Select the page you would like to display from the Front page drop down.
4. Optional: Select the Posts page that will list your most recent posts. Normally set this to a blank page because the page content will be populated with latest posts.

Podbean.com support users own html tags, thus html tags that you put in your post DO matters.

The most possible reason that your site get malformed is because of the mismatched <div> tags , such as, you put a open <div> tag without a closing </div> tag, or verse visa. A quick fix of this problem could be temporally removing your posts from your site one by one and check if your Podcast site looks normal after one post removed. If it gets normal, you know which post cause the problem. You then turn off the rich editor by check it off in “Settings” and edit the problem post to fix any malformed tags.

The second most possible reason is the oversized images. If one of your images width is larger than the post displaying area, your site will be malformed. This problem can be fixed by adding width in the image tag, such as, <img src=”…..”, width=”200”> </img>

Customizing your podcast themes using widgets in Podbean.com is easy.

Drag and Drop

Configure

All done!

1. Configure widgets by clicking on ‘Layouts’ in the main menu located at the top of the page, and then clicking on ‘Sidebar Widgets’ in the sub-menu situated under the main menu. You may then drag and drop the sidebar widgets you want to use. Some widgets can be specifically configured by clicking the ‘configure’ button located on the right side of the bar.
2. Should you like additional sidebar widgets, you may also activate these by clicking on the appropriate listing situated at menu: ‘Settings->widgets’.

1. Upload your profile photo.

2. Change your Logo by clicking the “Settings” Tab, then you can change the logo in the “general” sub-tab.

Customizing your header image is quick and easy, just follow these instructions.

1) Log into Dashboard.

2) Click the ‘Layout’ tab located in your dashboard menu, then select a theme which is marked in red with ‘header image customizable’.

3) A ‘header image’ tab will then appear in your ‘Layout’ sub-menu.

4) Click the ‘Header Image’ tab, then click the ‘Browse’ button to search for an image on your computer to upload. However, make sure that your picture is the same size as specified or you will discover that the image becomes distorted. Once you have selected a picture click ‘Upload’.

5) Your header image will then change to the new uploaded one.

Please Note - Sometimes, you may need to hit ‘refresh’ before you will see the new image appear in your ‘header image’ manage page, but it will show on your podcast site immediately after uploading.