[Plugin: podPress] Podpress podcast feeds title problem

Is this about an category Feed (e.g. example.com/category/mymusik/feed) or a podPress Feed (e.g. example.com/feed/podcast) or a default Feed of the blog (e.g. example.com/feed/ or e.g. example.com/?feed=rss2)?

ntm – This is a podPress feed (example.com/?feed=podcast)

How do you control the changes? With a web browser?
Some web browser store feed data in the cache memory for a certain time period and you have to clear the cache before you reload the feed to view the modifications.

If this is not the problem then it is maybe an effect which is the result of an interference with a different plugin or theme (like in this case https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-podpress-title-in-feed-crashes-validation ). But the cause may in your case different. In order to help you I need more information about your blog. For instance the name of the blog or the URL of it.

Tim-

Actually it looks like it is happening to all of my site feeds. The site is https://personplacething.org.

Tim – Thanks for your help. After looking more into the problem, I went ahead and made a change to the feed-rss2.php file and it looks like all of my feed titles are correct.

Thanks again.

Modifying the feed-rss2.php may help. But it has one disadvantage. One would probably need to renew the modification after every WP update.

That is why I think it is maybe better to look for the cause of problem and to fix that.

I have looked into the source code of your theme Sight and found in the function.php file of that theme the function seo_title(). This function is solely responsible for feed titles as you can still see in the ATOM Feeds of your blog (triple blog name and a vertical separator between the second and third title). The problem occurs even if you deactivate podPress.
A possible bug fix could be to prevent the function to alter the title if it is an request for one of the news feeds of the blog.
In order to do that modify the function as follows:
old:

function seo_title() {
    global $page, $paged;
    $newtitle = '';
    $sep = " | "; # delimiter
    $newtitle = get_bloginfo('name'); # default title

new:

function seo_title() {
    global $page, $paged;
    if ( is_feed() ) {
    	return '';
    }
    $newtitle = '';
    $sep = " | "; # delimiter
    $newtitle = get_bloginfo('name'); # default title

This way the function will in all the case which are defined in the further lines of this function without modifying the feed titles.