Drip turns a show into a course: each listener hears it from the beginning, one episode at a time, however late they join. Date release opens episodes on set days, and closing episodes makes a bonus or a challenge time-limited.
Where to find it:
On the show, in Show settings: How episodes are released, with the number of days between drip episodes. On each episode, in Episode audio and details: When it opens, and for how long. The episode box also says how its show releases, with a Change it on the show link.
The three ways to release:
- All at once: every published episode is open, the usual way.
- Each on its own date: set Opens on (date release) in each episode, and it opens at the start of that day, in your site's time zone. Blank uses its publish date.
- One at a time after they join (drip): the first episode opens the day someone joins, the next one after the number of days you set, and so on, oldest first.
Set up a drip show:
- Open the show and choose One at a time after they join (drip).
- Type the days between episodes in the box (1 to 365; 7 is a week).
- Update the show.
- Publish the episodes in the order they should be heard, oldest first.
- For an exact schedule, open each episode and type its day in Opens on day (drip): 0 for the first, 7 for the second, and so on.
Drip in more detail:
Drip counts from the day each listener or member joined, so everyone hears the series from the start at their own pace. For a listener added by email, joining is the day they were added. For a member, it is the day they got the earliest membership level that opens the show (or the day their account was made, without ResultsAiX Membership).
Any episode can set its own day with Opens on day (drip), for example day 0 for a welcome episode and day 30 for a bonus. Left blank, the plugin places episodes by publish date, oldest first, one every few days as the show is set. If your site has more than one show, give each drip episode its own Opens on day so the schedule is exactly what you want.
Visitors and podcast directories see a drip show by its publish dates.
Episodes that close:
Closes after (days) makes an episode stop playing a number of days after it opened for each listener. Blank means it stays. It is handy for a time-limited course, a challenge, or a bonus that is only there for a week.
What the listener sees:
- An episode that is not open yet shows a calendar and This episode opens for you on, with the date. In a playlist it is marked with the date it opens.
- A closed episode shows This episode is no longer available.
Podcast apps follow it too:
A private feed only ever holds the episodes that are open for that listener today, so their podcast app shows new episodes on the right day by itself and drops closed ones.
A real example:
The Client Onboarding Series on yoursite.com has six lessons with Opens on day set to 0, 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35. A client added on Monday hears Lesson 1 that day and Lesson 2 the next Monday. Lesson 6 has Closes after set to 30, so each client has a month to hear it once it opens.
Tips:
- Re-adding a removed listener starts their drip again from that day.
- Anyone who can edit the episodes always hears everything, so check what a listener sees from a test listener's own page.