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How do I list the guests on my episode pages?

Open your website, then Site Settings, Podcasts/Episodes, and Episode Page Setup, and set Show “Guests appearing in this episode” to Yes. Each episode page then lists its guests in a small box under the Episode details, in the column beside the Episode Description: the guest's name, one sentence about who they are, and links to their profiles. It is off until you turn it on.

Podspun finds the guests in each episode's title, show notes and transcript, and checks each one against all three. A name is spelled the way the title or show notes spell it, because a transcript can misspell names. A profile link is used only when its handle or web address is written in the show notes next to that guest, and nobody is looked up on the web. The account of the guest's own business (a tour company they run, for example) shows after their own handle, separated by a comma. A sponsor's account and your own show's accounts are left out. Every handle opens that profile, and a website opens the site, in a new tab. The show's host is never listed as a guest. New episodes are read within the hour, and read again once their transcript arrives.

Anything Podspun is not sure of waits for you and stays off the page: a guest named only in the transcript, someone it cannot tell takes part (a partner or child who made the trip), or a handle that looks cut off. To check them, open Site Settings, then Episode Overrides. It lists every episode, newest first, and an episode with something to check has a Check mark beside its guests (the Status filter narrows the list to those). Open one, and on its Guests tab click a guest to open it. From there you can fix a name, the sentence about a guest or a profile, add or remove a guest, drag guests into a different order, or add someone from Untagged: Also Named in This Episode, then click Save. Tagged Guests is the list the episode page shows. Saving confirms the list: the episode page shows exactly what you saved, and Podspun does not change it unless you click Find Again. A saved list shows on every one of your websites that shows the same podcast.

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