Featured Image not pulling in from Buzzsprout

Hi @tawniabiz,

Thanks for using our plugin and for reaching out!
We’ve done some digging, and looks like there’s an issue related to the image URL.

BuzzSprout adds a question mark right before the file extension – ‘?.jpg’ for example.
This causes a conflict with the core WP media_sideload_image function, as it escapes question marks as suspected query parameters.

We’ve applied a quick fix, and you could test it in this version of the plugin –
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzus03fjh74zx90/podcast-importer-secondline-1.1.2-RC1.zip?dl=1

We have to test it some more before releasing the update, but you can use this version at the moment.

Please let us know if it works as expected!

Hey there. I installed the plugin, removed the posts and imported them again. The first podcast showed the featured image but none of the other posts showed them. I did a quick troubleshoot on the Buzzsprout side with the featured image for podcast #2. Deleted the posts and reimported them all again. Now, this episode doesn’t show the featured image anymore.

https://rachelscheer.com/podcast/

Screenshot
https://d.pr/i/UUaJ5r

Hi again,

Thanks for the update.
Looks like you don’t have images in the RSS feed for episode 2 and 3 – You can check the feed itself –
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/728078.rss

Please check that out and run the importer again.
Basically you’ll have to delete the posts from the trash as well if you want them to be imported again.

I see this link in the first section which is the image on her podcast

https://storage.buzzsprout.com/variants/dwezz334sy8n39iueiqzmjgpec09/8d66eb17bb7d02ca4856ab443a78f2148cafbb129f58a3c81282007c6fe24ff2?.jpg

Am I missing something

<item>
<itunes:title>Setema Gali: Super Bowl Champ and High-Performance Coach</itunes:title>
<title>Setema Gali: Super Bowl Champ and High-Performance Coach</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Super bowl champion, best selling author, results coach to top level entrepreneurs and executives, and world class speaker and trainer: Setema Gali, the Revered of the Revolution.<br><br>On today’s episode of Scheer Madness, we dive into Setema’s powerful story of overcoming, how the lessons from knocking doors allowed him to shift his mindset to be the high performance coach he is today, how reframing a situation can allow you to see the gift and the lesson, and how you can take the adversities you face and find the purpose in them and use it as fuel to your fire and to deepen your gratitude. </p><p>Setema’s Website<br>Instagram<br>Facebook<br><br></p>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Super bowl champion, best selling author, results coach to top level entrepreneurs and executives, and world class speaker and trainer: Setema Gali, the Revered of the Revolution.<br><br>On today’s episode of Scheer Madness, we dive into Setema’s powerful story of overcoming, how the lessons from knocking doors allowed him to shift his mindset to be the high performance coach he is today, how reframing a situation can allow you to see the gift and the lesson, and how you can take the adversities you face and find the purpose in them and use it as fuel to your fire and to deepen your gratitude. </p><p>Setema’s Website<br>Instagram<br>Facebook<br><br></p>]]></content:encoded>
<itunes:image href=”https://storage.buzzsprout.com/variants/dwezz334sy8n39iueiqzmjgpec09/8d66eb17bb7d02ca4856ab443a78f2148cafbb129f58a3c81282007c6fe24ff2?.jpg” />
<itunes:author>Rachel Scheer</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary>Super bowl champion, best selling author, results coach to top level entrepreneurs and executives, and world class speaker and trainer: Setema Gali, the Revered of the Revolution.On today's episode of Scheer Madness, we dive into Setema’s powerful story…</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>3609</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
<itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
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</item>

You are referring to episode number 7, I believe.
As far as I can see in the feed, out of 7 episodes, only 3 have images attached to them.

You can probably add the images via the Buzzsprout dashboard and those would appear in the site if you imported the posts once again.

Alright, so after digging a little further, it really looks like WordPress doesn’t play well with importing images without valid file names (in this case the file extension)

One could theoretically modify the core media_sideload_image function, but that’s not ideal at all, as it could be exposed to security threats or other types of errors in this case.

We’ll make sure to contact Buzzsprout and see if this can be resolved on their end.
At the same time, we can also open an issue within the WP Core, and see if there’s a possible fix.

Ok great thank you!

Just checking back to see if there was any resolution to this??

Hey @tawniabiz,

I’m afraid it’s a bit of an issue to resolve it currently without making major changes to the way the plugin pulls images (which is based on the WordPress core functionality)

We’ve created a ticket on the WordPress trac but it’s hard to tell how long it could take to be looked at.

As said, at the moment the core WP function we’re using does not support filenames with no extensions (or with ?.jpg extensions) so it may take a little while longer until we check more possible solutions.

Hey @tawniabiz,

I’ve received an answer from Buzzsprout regarding this issue.

They have recently made a change to the artwork, and any new uploaded artwork will have the correct “.jpg” extension.

Existing older artwork will have “?.jpg” extension which would cause issues with our plugin.

You can either re-upload the artwork, if it’s not too many items, or otherwise contact the Buzzsprout support team to check if there’s an option to do this automatically.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions, I’m more than happy to help!