Even with the option for powerpress to disallow other plugins to mangle podcast feeds turned ON, WordPress inserts the favicon from the site_icon made in the customizer.
This results in the favicon being interpreted as the RSS feed image. It also causes the cast validator to remark that there is a favicon being set by the theme. Any theme that enables this basic theme function will do this.
Is there an option for powerpress to unset the site icon for podcast feeds? If so, then which is it. The apparent option may not be working for category podcast feeds.
]]>I made all my podcast episodes live and the RSS feed was only showing 20 items. I found the correction for this in the documentation and have updated the syndicated post number to 50, but the RSS Feed isn’t updating. Episode no. 1 disappeared a the last one (no.22) isn’t there as well.
Web: https://tbtennis.cz/podcast/
Can you help me, please?
Tiebreak Tennis
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However, the plugin is configured is confusing Google since the feed podcast is giving them the same info (2 identifical podcasts)
https://gocheezy.com/feed/podcast/
How can I correct this please?
I have the Anchor RSS feed in the plugin but for some reason the plugin won’t let me change the feed from https://gocheezy.com/feed/podcast/ to the RIGHT RSS feed which is the one on ANCHOR
Best,
Henry
]]>I would like to have a longer episode description in the Podcast feed. At the moment is limited in ~320 characters followed by […], is it possible to set a specific property/configuration to have a longer description?
In the feed I want something like this:
<description><![CDATA[…long description…]]></description>
I’ve verified some other podcasts feeds and a longer description is being done by other applications/plugins, but I did not find how to do on powerpress. Is there a way to do it?
]]>First, great plugin!
Now a question: Is it normal when using Category podcasting that the standard category RSS feeds (i.e. those without “/podcast/” suffix in URL) contain podcast tags?
See for example this category RSS feed:
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/category/podcasts/the-link-podcast/feed/
It has some podcast tags (e.g. <itunes:*…>) and even the podcast generator comment:
<!-- podcast_generator="Blubrry PowerPress/8.4.4" mode="advanced" category="20148" Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin for WordPress (https://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/) -->
For comparison, here is the true podcast feed:
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/category/podcasts/the-link-podcast/feed/podcast/
Note that the issue does not exist for categories not registered as podcasts.
The problem is that it confuses Google Podcasts, and makes it want to use the shorter URL (without /podcast/ suffix) even though some podcast tags are missing.
Regards!
]]>I’ve recently set up a second podcast on our site using strict category podcasting. As far as I can tell everything is set up correctly, and I’ve published all the episodes of the first season (it’s a drop of ten very short episodes, all at once, though the episode posts are dated with 15 minute intervals). I’m also not listing it in Apple Podcasts or other directories, as it is a private podcast just for our crowdfunding supporters. (Preventing public listing in directories and not linking to it obviously on the web site is sufficient for our needs; we’ll send the feed and a support page URL to listeners directly.)
However Blubrry’s own castfeedvalidator.com reports there are no episodes in the feed (no items with an enclosure); Overcast won’t add it because it says the feed is empty; and the Apple Podcasts app adds the podcast, but shows no episodes.
But viewing the raw XML of the feed (by opening the feed URL in Chrome) shows that the episodes are included and Blubrry is adding the <enclosure> tags to the feed correctly (as far as I can tell). The Podbase validator also reports no errors.
I am not using a caching plug-in for WordPress, so I don’t think that’s the problem. I am using a category excluder podcast to prevent this category and its posts showing up on the first page (again, it’s a “secret” podcast), which did make the category feed appear empty, but I have disabled the option which caused that problem and again, in Chrome the feed XML includes everything now.
Can anyone assist?
]]>For some reason, on the Podcast category, the feed is ignoring the featured image and it is pulling the mp3 that is located in the content under the featured image. (see this screenshot as reference).
Thank you for your assistance.
CommMgr
I would like to change the way my podcast feed works by switching from a category based aggregating page to another page using the slug /podcast. The issue seems to be the feed URL is already /feed/podcast. Can I change the feed to /feed/podcasts without too many issues? Will that break the feed to iTunes and other services? Could I just resubmit with the new feed URL, or would that be like creating a brand new listing and lose reviews, etc.?
Thank you for any help
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