shalako

also looking for good solution to management of 100MB+ podcast audio files

Looks like I was using the wrong Effect. Lightbox doesn’t do anything. Only Thickbox and Shutter work.

Looks like I’ve been using the term ‘image browser’ incorrectly. What I want is the popup/lightbox view for a tag-based gallery. Just like can be seen here.

The example for tag-base gallery does just what I want but I don’t know how to make mine do this.

Clicking on a thumbnail using nggtags always seems to go to subpages.

Relevant config:
Deactivate gallery page link: checked
Show ImageBrowser: checked

Nothing I do seems to bring up the image browser.

Using arno_esterhuizen’s method in 2.7 and it works great.

2 issues:

1. echo rEd86’s point: mousover the category in navigation and the whole description, including html markup, pops up.

2. I want to conditionally display the description if it exists. I’ve tried this:
if (category_description()) { echo category_description(); }
but it doesn’t work. If category description is empty, it’s still echos a line break.

I think I figured this one out. I was missing the_content() in my template.

I had the same problem and used keelyak’s solution. Seems to have resolved the problem.

What I meant was, for a little while the channel category for my podcast appeared as ‘Shalako’ (Artist, from media library), rather than ‘Music’ (channel category set in podcast-channels). But this is no longer the case.

I’ll check out #1

The channel category no longer shows up as media artist. Don’t know how, but I’m not complaining ??

Yep things are in pretty good shape. I’m looking forward to resolution of the following items:

1. Control of item subtitle in some way so that it can be a short blurb without putting limitations on the way a post is written.
2. Filtering out markup in item summary.
3. Add category channel dropdown doesn’t display parents.

I think those are the only items I’m tracking. Thanks so much for your efforts. Going to give your plugin a big plug soon.

I just received notice from Apple that our feed has been approved in the iTunes Store. All the tags look great except for item subtitle (still shows truncated post text). Would be great if this could be set to post excerpt or content until ‘more’ tag.

So I’ve been doing testing on the behavior of enclosures and files in the Media Library, and I just came back to Podcast-Channels and the text fields for ep-cat and ep-author have changed to drop downs! Low and behold the defaults were not what I wanted to I set them to:

Episode category: Channel categories
Episode author: Media artist

Resynced Feedburner… and pow! Episode Artist and Category are as I want them to be. Whew.

But… Channel Category now shows up as Media Artist. How to fix?

Tested: deleted custom field for enclosure added an audio attachment to the post from Media Library. Enclosure custom field was not created. Saved. Still not created. iTunes doesn’t recognize episode has playable content.

Added enclosure back.

What confuses me is 1. how this enclosure was created, and 2. why it won’t work without it now where it did before?

This difference is that since my audio files are an hour long and are near 100MB I upload them via ftp or scp. Then add markup to the post for wpaudioplayer: [audio: URL]. With this workflow, I never saw an enclosure in custom fields. The Podcasting plugin (which I no longer use) added enclosures, I think, but I’m not sure.

In an effort to get xml tags right for ‘item’ in conjuction with the Podcast-Channels plugin, I have started importing the mp3s into WP Library by using the Add To Server plugin.

I did experiment with adding the audio file to an existing post from the library after adding it to the library. Maybe the enclosure was created at that point. But when I removed the enclosure iTunes no longer recognized the episode. I would expect it still to work like it did before (when I linked to the mp3 outside of the library)? Am I stuck with this custom field?

I use FTP to upload my media since they are 80MB so I have installed the Add To Server plugin to import files into the WP Media Library. In Media Library I have specified the Artist for the file and in Podcast Channels I have specified the following settings:

Episode category: channel cat
Episode author: media artist

By the way, these should be drop down menus, instead of free text fields, right?

After saving and resubscribing to the feed in iTunes, the only change I see is that both channel artist and episode artist appear as post author. Episode category continues to be post category.

just upgraded using WP auto upgrade to .26 and these field appear. I have set the following and will test.
ep cats = channel cat
ep author = media artist