Castilo 6.8 - Audio Podcast WordPress Theme

Podcast publishing and distribution

Castilo is designed for hosts and publishers, generating a compliant RSS feed so you can submit to major directories without additional plugins or third-party tweaks.

• Submit to iTunes, Google Play and more
• Submit to iTunes, Google Play Music or any other RSS-based directories

Importing episodes from another publisher

Easily pull episodes from an external RSS feed into your new WordPress site. Paste the feed URL, assign the appropriate category, and import. An advanced option allows scheduling imports to run automatically.

• Extract episodes from an external RSS feed into your site
• Choose category for imported episodes
• Advanced option to schedule periodic imports

Personalization and visual impact

Apply your personal touch with a media-rich header area. A well-chosen image or video creates an instant visual impact, while the setup remains straightforward and powerful enough for both newcomers and experienced users.

• Media-rich header area for strong visual impact
• Easy setup that handles heavy lifting
• Practical design backed by solid research

Audience insights and analytics

Know who’s listening and how they engage. The backend panel provides daily, weekly, and monthly statistics on total listens, listeners, and listening sources, including the audio player, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, direct downloads, and more. Your audio files are permalinked to protect originals.

• Daily, weekly, monthly statistics on listens and listeners
• Listening sources and engagement metrics
• Perma-linked audio files to protect originals

Speed, code quality, and developer experience

The theme is optimized with a mobile-first approach, delivering fast performance and developer-friendly code. A high page-speed score and clean architecture make customization and extension straightforward.

• Mobile-first optimization; page speed score around 98%
• Faster than 95% of tested sites
• Well-written code for easy development and extension
• Hooks for better customization; episode post type and podcast functionality in a separate plugin

Live preview, customization, and branding

Preview live changes as you tweak options, experiment with header images, and adjust primary colors and page backgrounds. You can upload a logo to reinforce your brand directly in the header.

• Live preview of option changes
• Custom header image, primary color, and background color
• Logo upload for header branding

What Castilo includes

• RTL support
• Responsive and mobile-ready layout
• Prominent social icon menu
• Sidebar and footer widgets support
• Integration with Gutenberg
• Integration with Contact Form 7
• Useful options in the Customizer
• One-Click Demo Importer
• Transcripts and episode jumping points
• Ready to be translated in any language
• Comprehensive documentation
• Outstanding support

Customer reviews

• “This is by far the best theme I’ve worked with. After importing the demo details, I had only two questions, both answered promptly by Liviu. I could not have had a better experience and my website does everything I need it to do for my podcast: episode page with built-in player, downloadable show notes, links to podcast platforms, great graphics. Perfection!”

  tannuzzocopywriting

• “One of the best designs I’ve ever seen. We get so many compliments on the look of our platform and website from our listeners and readers. Well worth the investment.”

  TripCast

• “This is a fantastic template, clean and easy to customize (within WP but also in the template files). But most importantly Liviu provides exceptional customer support: very responsive and effective, thank you!”

  MaxxEight

• “Absolutely fantastic theme for a podcast website! Super easy to get up and running — within a few minutes of tweaking images, colors, logos, etc. we had a top notch site customized to our brand. Castilo is fantastic.”

  heymeow

• “Thanks Liviu for a great theme and providing good support and documentation. I really like the design of this theme, and it is quite simple to install and configure with WordPress. It is well tailored for podcasters as the podcast play button is built into the page in a well-designed way and also includes prominent ‘call to action’ buttons for encouraging listeners to subscribe/follow etc.”

  slivera

• “Awesome theme with exceptional customer support. I asked a quick question to the author and the response time was VERY fast, and answered exactly what I needed. Highly recommended!”

  bmurphy75

• “Great theme and super fast customer support. Really happy with it and excited to create using it. I had some questions which were all answered in a few hours and really helped me out. Even a feature I was looking for was added in a day! Amazing!”

  geddesi

• “Went beyond the call of duty with troubleshooting. Theme is simple and concise, exactly what I like.”

  Heylon

• “I really like the simplicity of the design and how it includes a neatly organized way to manage podcast episodes. Not a lot of extra fluff that makes a theme heavy. Yet it includes everything that a podcaster looks for in a theme.”

  JoeBailey72

• “I love this theme and the price was an amazing bargain. Thank you for creating a theme that doesn’t use any of the typical page builders I love the clean code!”

  jaymic