Description Pulling from Blog Coding

  • Resolved ohjujube

    (@ohjujube)


    8 years ago

    Hey all-
    My podcast description looks fine on iTunes when viewed on a desktop, but when viewed on mobile via the iTunes app (and in various other places around the web – ie listennotes, etc), the description is just garbled code from my WordPress theme.

    When I look at the RSS feed, I can see that all the iTunes tags look good, but the <description> tag is filled with junk.

    I have checked all the boxes to write my own iTunes episode descriptions instead of having it pull from the blog post, etc. I also tried the ‘Wrap summary values with <![CDATA[ … ]]> tags’ as I was advised that it would help.

    Nothing is working… any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

    RSS feed: https://marchbradness.net/feed/podcast/

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  • Plugin Support Shawn

    (@shawnogordo)

    The iOS Podcasts app doesn’t use the itunes:summary tags for displaying descriptions like the iTunes desktop application does. Instead, the iOS app pulls from the main blog post section of your feed. Look at the Feeds tab of PowerPress Advanced Mode and check the box next to Do not allow other plugins to modify podcast feeds and click the Save Changes button. See if that helps with the problem.

    Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    We are working on a webpage to explain the differences, but here’s a quick cheat-sheet what is happening…

    * iOS podcast app episode level uses fields in this order: <content:encoded>, <itunes:summary>, <description>

    * iTunes Desktop app episode level uses fields in this order: <itunes:summary>, <description>

    To have the exact same behavior for both mobile and Desktop apps, go to WordPress settings > Reading page go to option “For each article in a feed, show” and select “Summary” then click save changes. This turns off the <content:encoded> in the feed.

    You do not have to enter your own <![CDATA[ … ]]> tags, PowerPress does this automatically for the itunes:summary. You may have accidentally unchecked this option, go to PowerPress settings > iTunes tab, make sure “Wrap summary values with <![CDATA[ … ]]> tags” is checked then click save.

    Thread Starter ohjujube

    (@ohjujube)

    @amandato – Thank you so much, you made my day! That fixed the problem immediately. A big relief – I really appreciate the quick response and detailed answer.

    Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    Hello @ohjujube,

    Glad I was able to help! Perfect timing as I just put these notes together over the past weekend.

    If you have a moment we would greatly appreciate it if you could leave our plugin a review. Thanks!

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