feed broke

Have this same problem. Updated and feed has stopped working. Making the url ….podcast/feed will work but it will no longer be recognized by itunes when you try changing the podcast url there. Please help

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by brytey2k.

I have developed the same issue. Worked fine last week, now it is not working.

This seems to be an issue related to WordPress core. In the past, the problem would be that if you did not have any regular posts in your site then any custom feed (such as the podcast feed) would return a 404 error, but the feed would still display. I managed to find a work around for that inside the plugin by forcing the HTTP status code to not be 404, however, it seems that the issue inside WordPress core has graduated to the point where it just doesn’t show the feed at all anymore.

Finding a fix for this is going to be difficult and might ultimately mean patching core, but in the mean time the only way to fix this is to add at least one regular post to your site. It can be a blank post with no title, but it needs to be published in order for custom feeds to be shown.

A potential method of getting around this for most people (might not work for everyone) is to use the raw URL feed, which will be this: https://example.com/?feed=podcast – that URL will bypass WordPress’ cusotm feed mechanism and just return the feed content in the correct format. iTunes allows you to change your feed URL, as do most other podcasting services, so I recommend you give that a shot for now.

As a side note, don’t use the podcast/feed URL as that is WordPress built-in URL for the podcast custom post type – it does not contain all the tags that iTunes requires. You need to use the podcast/feed URL that this plugin provides.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Hugh

Thanks, All is back up and running.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by abundantlifels.

Adding a regular post fixed the feed. Thanks Hugh! Going to drop a donation! Thanks for the fast response, I was scared

Thank you, solved my issue quickly.

If you are still struggling with this and need a temporary solution until this is fixed in core, you can hook into the template_redirect action hook and override the default template_loader.php functionality with your own, to bypass the feed check. It’s not a clean solution, but would work in a pinch.