RSS Feed problem

Hi @suhails

After testing your feed locally it looks like the issue may be with your image compression plugin. It seems to be adding ?auto=compress&fm=pjpg at the end of your images and this is causing unexpected errors within the feed XML.

When I removed ?auto=compress&fm=pjpg from your image URLs, I could load the feed correctly.

How can I fix this? as this plugins been working together without any issues but now it is not working. Please advice if we can fully remove the images from the feed ?

@suhails

A recent update to either SSP or your compression plugin may have been the reason why it suddenly stopped working, but with regards to SSP, we haven’t changed anything about the RSS feeds in the most recent updates.

Your podcast cover image is required by podcast directories so that is the only image that is required to be present within the RSS feed. Episodes images are optional so those can be removed.

hello
My RSS won’t load:
https://hadarshemesh.com/feed/podcast (500 error)
i just sopped all my cache. i have an UNGIX server but i’m using it for several years….
It will be grate if you can take a look and help me resolve it
Thanks!

Until about 3 weeks ago, I’ve been able to link to my embedded podcasts loaded into Word Press for the last 2 years. I can’t tell if the issue is SSP or Castos. I did an update about then as well and since can’t get to the latest episode embedded on my webpage. Please advise.

Link: https://www.wsncradio.org/podcasts/

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by baesl7.

@baesl7 how do link to the podcasts up until 3 weeks ago? I see right now that each podcast goes to the podcast RSS feed for the episode list.

You can find each podcasts episodes at /series/podcast-show-title, example: https://wsncradio.org/series/africa-world-now/

@gilelnatan I am seeing that your RSS feed is loading but the stylesheet is broken.

@suhails digging further, it looks like your RSS feed stylesheet is returning a 304 error response from the server.. possibly related to caching/compression issue. If you view source for your RSS feed, it’s in tact. The issue is with the browser loading the stylesheet it seems.

You can disable the stylesheet completely by putting using the following filter in your theme’s functions.php file. This will allow you to at least easily view your feed easily while you investigate why the server is returning a 304 response for the stylesheet.

add_filter( 'ssp_enable_rss_stylesheet', '__return_false' );