Resolve or override an episode’s Explicit flag
The episode-level Explicit flag is a three-value override — 'inherit', 'yes', or 'no' — never a bool. 'inherit' is the default and falls back to the show’s Explicit setting; 'yes' and 'no' override it for that one episode.
Feed emission resolves the enum against the show default through EpisodeMeta::get_effective_explicit(), so the enum-to-bool mapping lives in exactly one place. Anything else that needs the effective value — a custom feed, a bulk operation, a migration importer, a front-end badge — should call the same resolver rather than reading the post meta and interpreting it independently.
Code
<?php
use Benecaster\Episode\EpisodeMeta;
use Benecaster\Show\ShowMeta;
// Read the effective flag exactly as the RSS compiler does.
$ep_meta = new EpisodeMeta( $episode_id );
$show_meta = new ShowMeta( wp_get_post_parent_id( $episode_id ) );
$is_explicit = $ep_meta->get_effective_explicit( $show_meta ); // bool
// Write a per-episode override — never pass a raw bool.
$ep_meta->set_explicit( 'no' ); // force clean regardless of show default
$ep_meta->set_explicit( 'yes' ); // force explicit
$ep_meta->set_explicit( 'inherit' ); // clear the overrideNeed this built rather than just documented? See our services →