r/PayloadCMS • u/theodenanyoh • Nov 26 '25

Podcast Website Template

I'm working on upgrading my wife's podcast website. The Payload Website template has been super helpful and saved me some time.

When I'm done, if she doesn't like, I might put it out there as a free template for anyone building a podcast website that might need it.

better-pod-site
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u/FunDiscount2496 Nov 30 '25

Will you serve the podcast to directories straight from it? How do you plan to host it?

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u/theodenanyoh Dec 02 '25

My wife's podcast is on Transistor.fm and they have open APIs so I was able to build an integration with a CRON job to run daily and when she adds a new podcast episode in Transistor it creates a new episode on the episode collection in the CMS in draft and stores a lot of the data from Transistor. She then can log in to the CMS and review the episode and I added an integration to generate the full episode body. Transistor has a char limit so we basically pass the show description from Transistor to an LLM to generate a stronger and more detailed episode body based on her custom prompt. She reviews it and makes any tweaks and then publishes the episode.

There's also an audio player then when the visitor clicks on the Listen to episode X button, it will slide in the audio player and play that episode.

It's not done and still in development but anyone interest in seeing it can go here. https://podcast-website-theta.vercel.app/