hoyd

I just upgraded to 2.0.2 and the enclosures aren’t working yet (I know it wasn’t supposed to – but I thought I would update…)

Right now, the only way to generate an enclosure on a WP.org install is to post from the WordPress Admin interface. However, WP.com accounts will generate the enclosure from the admin interface OR xmlrpc.php.

There must be a way for this to be done on a WP.org install since the code should be fairly similar right. I’ve taken the xmlrpc.php file from the WP-MU install and tried it with a WP.org install and it still doesn’t work. So, for whatever reason, whatever is being called to generate the enclosure in WP.com is not being called in WP.org.

I know someone out there must know the answer…

Dave,

If you put a link to a file in your post body, and then post using xmlrpc, do you get enclosure generation in WP 2.0.1? I’m using Ecto to post, and the enclosures are not generated for the links to mp3 files that I’m putting in the post?

I just checked out that link in your post again and noticed that it’s posting to a WP.com site – I CAN get enclosures to generate at the WP.com sites – it’s the standalone 1.5.2 or 2.0.1 where xmlrpc.php doesn’t seem to want to generate the enclosures.

Mabye I’m the only one reading this but I thought I’d post an update. I just upgraded one of my blogs to WP 2.0.1 to see if the enclosures were automatically generated… they were not.

So, there must me some extra bit or different code in the xmlrpc.php file for WP.com versus the standalone WP.org 2.0.1 version.

Anyone with any insight?

As a follow up to this – if I use my WordPress.com account and the third party blogging tool, the enclosure is generated if I put in a link to an external mp3 file.

You can see what I mean here:
https://hoydnewsnetwork.wordpress.com

So, I know that WordPress is capable of doing it – but is the .com version handling the enclosures in the xmlrpc.php differently than the WP 1.5.2 version?

Would this work in WP 2.0.1?

Maybe another way to approach this:

Is there any way that after I post, I can tell WordPress to check the feed for enclosures and have them generate them after the fact? Maybe I could just run a script on my server to check for new “enclosures” every 15 minutes and have the RSS feed regenerated?

Just a thought…

Can you give me a bit of a hint… ??

The problem is, when I add this line to my rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^skinny/feed/rss2/$ skinny.xml

it doesn’t work. It actually gives me the feed for my other site that is in the root directory of my server, not the skinny directory. Also, could we not just use a rewrite to redirect to the new feed on the new site, or is that still considered a “redirect”. For example, could we not do:

RewriteRule ^skinny/feed/rss2/$ https://skinnyonsports.com/wp-rss2.php

Either way, that doesn’t work for me. It just points to my other blog as I mentioned above.

However, this does work:

RewriteRule ^test/test.htm$ skinny.xml

So, I know that the rewrite is working – I’ve taken out that rewrite for now, that was just me testing to make sure I actually could get at least one rewrite to work.

Any other help would be appreciated as I feel like I’m close! I have a feeling it’s due to rewrite rules in my root directory’s .htaccess file for the root WP install, and that’s throwing off the rewrite for the /skinny WP install.

Thanks again!

In case anyone is interested, the second episode of our Podcast for The Skinny on Sports is now posted.
As always, feedback is welcomed!

Audacity is what I’ve been using as well. Works great and I like the fact that it’s free and is available on all the different platforms in case I ever switch. I want to try it on my old 550 Mhz laptop and see how it works so that hopefully I can have a portable Podcasting setup for when I’m away.

Hi Leslie,
I’ve never actually noticed that before since I’m almost completely a Firefox user – I check my site to make sure it looks OK in IE, but that’s about it. It stumped me, because my other site Hoyd News Network also uses that theme and when I checked it does the same thing.
So, I went back to the original theme page on Alex King’s site which can be found here and it appears that it has the same highlighting problem. I wonder if that means it’s just an IE problem (maybe SP2 – is that what you’re using as well?)
As for removing the graphic with the style, it’s just about editing the sytle-sheet with it. I just removed the graphic and then moved the top value up so the column would start immediately. You’re welcome to use View Source and then check out the style-sheet that my site links to for more details.
Thanks for the feedback.
Andy

Basically, an enclosure allows a file (in this case an MP3) to be included with the RSS feed. In the case of Podcasting, you can use a client such as iPodder to automatically fetch MP3’s from RSS feeds and move them directly to an MP3 player such as an iPod.
Hope that clears it up.

I was a current WordPress user but was looking for something to automatically handle enclosures for a Podcasting feed. To my surprise and delight, it’s built-in to the latest Alpha!
My brother an I just started our own show and are using WordPress to host it. It’s a 10 minute sports show called The Skinny on Sports. If you’re a sports fan, please give it a listen. We are trying to keep it to 10 minutes so that it doesn’t take up too much tiime. If you have any comments or suggestions for us, feel free to comment on our site since we’re brand new to the Podcasting world!
Andy

Good call! The only one I had ‘Activated’ was MarkDown which I didn’t think would affect anything since I thought it was only for posting. However, now that I’ve deactivated it, things are flying again!
Thanks!

Alright… so I’m starting to think that this is a WordPress problem again with a weird query or something going on. I run another site on the same server using mysql and running forum software and those pages load just fine. When I look at those, my server hits a maximum of 18% for CPU use with the norm being around 10%. When I try and load my WordPress page however, it hits 95% for CPU use. So, I’m beginning to think that perhaps there is something weird with what my index.php is calling.
Any suggestions?

Everything is on the same server so I guess that could be it. I was hoping that it would be good enough though as I have heard these system requirements should be fine. I guess now I should really focus on my server and how to speed that up then as it doesn’t sound like it’s a WordPress issue at all. I wasn’t really expecting that it was a WordPress issue, but I thought I would ask for ideas here.
If anyone has any other suggestions on the server situation, let me know.

19 queries. 7.864 seconds.
It’s not showing up on the site, but it’s in the HTML. Does that mean anything to you as far as fast or slow or what I can do to speed things up?
Thanks for your help so far!