brainlid

@amandato Thanks for following up.

I don’t know. The best solution I found was to use “Apple Podcasts Optimization (optional)” and set Summary explicitly as a short blurb of text and link to the page for full show notes.

I don’t know of a good way to test it without the risk of creating a bad experience again. How would you recommend testing it?

I noticed that PowerPress appears to be modifying explicitly written tags to remove <p> tags and add <br/> tags instead. Additionally, it removes multiple <br/> tags found together. I don’t want this to happen.

Can you create an option that is something like: “Don’t modify podcast post HTML at all” or similar? It would make it easier for those of us who have settled on formatting podcast posts explicitly to get the display we want.

Updating to 8.3.3 fixed this issue. Thanks!

@bbbassetttt I see the same thing. That’s when I first noticed the issue.

To test further, I checked editing the Podcast Channels > Podcast (default) > Feeds > Podcast Artwork settings and ensured they were blank. When I save that page it still shows the same “Invalid RSS Image:” flash message at the top. It displays on the Podcast Channels list page.

I don’t know what it is actually referring to.

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@benzoid

Just to test it, I removed all the settings on the Feeds > Podcast Artwork settings page. I removed the image urls and unchecked the options. It saves, but it still shows the “Invalid RSS Image:” flash message at the top. Hitting save repeatedly with no changes shows the message every time as well.

@amandato

I’m having this issue as well. I did some more experimentation and wrote up how and why it is happening here.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/formatting-rss-feed-for-show-notes/

Additionally, I noticed that PowerPress appears to be modifying the tags to remove <p> tags and add <br/> tags instead. I don’t want this to happen. An option to say, “Don’t modify post HTML at all” or something similar would be preferred for those of us who have settled on trying to format it explicitly.

Hello @shawnogordo,

I created an alternative 450px 72dpi JPEG image. You can see it here: https://thinkingelixir.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/podcast-graphic-450px-973.jpg

I used the graphic in the RSS2 Image. I selected it and on save it succeeds without error. Hitting save again with no changes now show the error of “Invalid RSS Image:”.

Is the RSS2 Image the one it’s talking about? Should I be changing a different one?

I uploaded the graphic in the RSS2 Image field. It still reports the Invalid RSS Image error.

I tried uploading it for the “Apple Podcast Artwork” field as well and checked “Also use as RSS image”. It still shows the error on save and the check to use as an RSS image did not save.

This is an S3 hosted version of the file: https://thinkingelixir-podcast.s3.amazonaws.com/thinking-elixir-podcast-graphic_3000px.png

Thank you for looking at this.

The error stays when I save. On the PowerPress > Settings > Feeds > Podcast Artwork tab, I removed all the settings and unchecked everything and save. The error remains when I save.

My image links are to S3 host images and are PNG files. The RSS2 hint suggests perhaps it should be a JPEG?

Even when I remove it, the save succeeds but the error still displays.

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I felt this was related to this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/itunes-spacing/

@amandato Thank you for taking the time to explain some of the backstory there. I appreciate all the work you and your team do on PowerPress. I look forward to Google making the change and the updates coming from your team.

Thanks!

I had to manually customize the HTML HEAD on the podcast page to include the desired RSS link to fix my feed. You can see it here:

https://thinkingelixir.com/the-podcast/

Note that it includes a comment showing it as being manually added.

PowerPress is not adding the link as expected.

Thank you Mike for the help.

I deleted the created Post Type Podcast entry I had setup and disabled “Post Type Podcasting”. I had to re-create the podcast episode entry under the custom post type and then it showed up correctly as an episode and the feed was validated.

Thank you for the help!

Thank you for the quick response!

I made the change but the default feed still shows as invalid. When using Podcast Channels, should it also be used Post Type Podcasting? I’ve tried it with and without Post Type Podcasting enabled.

The Podcast Channel “podcast” (default) shows 0 items in it. It should show 1. When I validate the feed I get: “FATAL: Found zero items with a valid enclosure tag. Cannot validate. Did not finish feed tests.”

What am I missing?

-Mark

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