Subscribe Link to a Podcast for iTunes
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When sharing the link for people to subscribe to a Podcast Series, when they click on the link they are getting varying messages in their browsers:
Safari
This will add articles from “stayhealthy.life” to Shared Links.
Search the App Store for an application that can open this document, or choose an existing application on your computer. (You have to manually Choose iTunes by changing from recommended Apps to All Apps and then Choosing iTunes)Chrome
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<rss xmlns:content=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/” xmlns:wfw=”https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/” xmlns:dc=”https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/” xmlns:atom=”https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom” xmlns:sy=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/” xmlns:slash=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/” xmlns:itunes=”https://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd” version=”2.0″>…</rss>
(There is no option in Chrome to manually Choose an Application)Firefox
Subscribe to the podcast using: Live Book Marks or choose Safari
(Firefox naturally comes closest to making this seamless as it at least identifies the , but you still have to manually hunt the iTunes application, and it at least gives the option to make available to Always use iTunes to Subscribe to podcasts)And, while you can manually Add the Podcast to iTunes, I would like it to be more seamless for less educated users.
For example my Podomatic Account provides an iTunes Icon with an href link to a url as follows: <img src=”https://assets.podomatic.com/images/subscribe_with_itunes.gif”>
Clicking on the icon automatically and seamlessly populates iTunes with the Podomatic Podcast subscription. And I would like this type of functionality from within Seriously Simple Podcasting being as it is “Seriously Simple” ??
I did see in your documentation on modifying the urls @ https://www.seriouslysimplepodcasting.com/documentation/modifying-podcast-urls/
and input the following into my theme functions.php file:add_filter( ‘ssp_archive_slug’, ‘ssp_modify_podcast_archive_slug’ );
function ssp_modify_podcast_archive_slug ( $slug ) {
return ‘new-slug’;
}add_filter( ‘ssp_feed_slug’, ‘ssp_modify_podcast_feed_slug’ );
function ssp_modify_podcast_feed_slug ( $slug ) {
return ‘new-slug’;
}But it did not seem to make a difference in my case.
Can you please add any incite as to a possible solution to my issue?Thank you.
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