AlChron77

Ray, obviously you haven’t read all of my posts. I have thanked Tim profusely in every one. Personally, I see nothing wrong with being frustrated over a lack of tech support for a program that is supposed to make my life easier. Especially considering how much time I have spent over the last week giving this plugin a chance when there was a very reasonable and user friendly alternative readily available. With that said, thank you for the response and the advice about Podango. I will make sure to avoid any of those features.

Tim, thanks for the heads up about the potential problems with using 3rd party statistics. I will make sure to avoid them. It looks like everything is working for the moment thanks to your help. If you think of anything else that I should or shouldn’t do in podPress would you mind email me ([email protected]) and letting me know? You have been an immense help through this ordeal!

Allen

Ok I reinstalled Podress and WordPress and reset the permalinks to date and name. It looks like everything is working (for now at least). I’m just so nervous to make any changes – settings, theme, feed, anything – because it seems like every time I made a change before it all fell apart. Is there anything that you can think of that I should not do or change? You have been so helpful, you should write up a manual or a FAQ or something because as it is now, using this plugin is very unclear and not very user friendly (especially for newbies like me).

Thanks again, and I would really appreciate and other advice you have.

-Allen

Thank you so much for taking so much time to answer all my questions. I can’t imagine how frustrating it is to have some newbie sit here and insult a plugin you’ve worked hard to help develop. Sorry for my rant earlier, I was just tired and frustrated.

I changed the permalink settings to ‘day and name’. The good news is that the player is now playing the file. The bad news is that the feed still won’t validate. I’m going to delete Podpress and then reinstall it. If that doesn’t work I will do one more reinstall of WordPress. I’m really, really excited to get my podcast up and running so if that doesn’t work I will probably go with the Podcasting plugin.

Seriously, thanks again. Without your help I would have been totally lost.

And now the feed won’t validate AGAIN! Now I’m going to have to uninstall and then reinstall WordPress for the 6th time, reinstall my theme and repost my episode. I am done with Podpress, I will never use it again or recommend it to anyone. It would be one thing if they offered some sort of support but its impossible to get anybody to respond. Nothing against you, nTm, in fact I wouldn’t have had any success without your help. I just don’t think I should have to go to the forum of a different company to get support. I guess its my own fault for sticking with Podpress after it failed so many times (and not going with the better rated plugin in the first place).

Check out my site (www.doganddeuce.com) and notice the two players. The one at the top is the one from the Podcasting plugin. The one at the bottom is the Podpress player. The top one works fine, the bottom says “file not found”. I copied and pasted the link into both plugins so there is no type-o or other difference.

Yeah its validating now, but I’m having the same exact problem I had a few days ago where the player won’t find the file. It was working just fine thirty minutes ago but now nothing. I didn’t change the link to the file or anything, all I did was try to add some show notes to the post. The last time this happened I had to reinstall WordPress. I have actually reinstalled it so many times to fix errors with Podpress (AT LEAST 5 times) that I’m starting to wonder if I should go a different route. If its not one thing its another. At first I thought it was me but after spending over 15 hours on this in the last 3 days I’m pretty confident its not.

Do you have any idea why it won’t find my file now? At this point I think it would actually take less time to learn to write the feed myself and use a different player, especially considering Mighty Seek doesn’t offer any support (I’ve tried emailing all the addresses on the site with no response). Or maybe just use the ‘podcasting’ plugin, that one has worked every time I’ve used it, I’ve just used Podpress because it has a good reputation and because it makes configuring for iTunes so easy. I’m willing to give it one more shot, though.

Sorry, I don’t mean to vent all my frustration, but this plugin was supposed to make it easier to podcast and all its done for me is cause problem after problem and give me a never ending migraine. I really do appreciate all your help, especially considering you are the only person to even give me a response to these questions.

Well I actually had to delete WordPress and reinstall it and it worked. Now I’m having another problem with the feed for my podcast. It validated fine last night and again today, but once I changed my theme the feed validator says:

“Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found”

I posted a message a few days ago and you mentioned that I needed to upload the podcast file before the feed would validate. I have one uploaded but its not validating so I am totally out of ideas. Is there something I need to do to make the feed work with my new theme? Are there only certain themes that will allow the feed to work? Thanks so much for your help!

-Allen

Thank you soooooo much! You have no idea how stressed out I’ve been trying to figure this out. I owe you big time!

Sorry, I forgot to mention my site. https://www.doganddeuce.com