Author Topic: RSS feed contains only podcasts, not blog posts  (Read 1398 times)

FreedomOfFetish

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RSS feed contains only podcasts, not blog posts
« on: May 01, 2010, 06:20:17 pm »
I have two interrelated problems, and I don't know anything about coding, so I apologize in advance for needing things to be spelled out extremely clearly.

1. Only podcast posts, not blog posts, appear in my RSS feed

My site, http://www.freedomoffetish.com, is both a blog and a host for my podcast episodes. I should probably tell you that it's a sex advice podcast in case you're offended by that sort of thing. I use FeedBurner and Blubrry PowerPress to make my podcast feed, which you can see here:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreedomOfFetish

Note that it only contains podcast episodes. Therein lies the problem. Why do my blog posts not show up in my RSS feed? If I were only podcasting, this would be fine--my feed goes right to iTunes and people can subscribe on there.

But I do a lot of blogging, too, and I want subscribers to be updated when I post new entries, not just new podcast episodes.

Should I create a separate feed just for blog posts? If so, how do I do that?

2. I changed my categories/permalink structure and now have 404 errors on my category pages

I say these problems are interrelated because I, in what was probably a stupid move, read somewhere that I could create 2 separate feeds--one for podcast episodes, one for blog posts--using the category as an indexer. So I went into my permalinks, changed to a custom structure with category and post name, and deleted all my categories except 2: podcast episodes and blog posts. The "podcast episodes" category existed previously, while the "blog posts" was new.

I'm more of a tag person, anyway. I figured I could use categories as more of an internal organization thing and tags/search as what the visitors will see.

I also made sure to go through all my posts and categorize them as either blog posts or podcast episodes.

Now, however, when I select categories, I get a 404 error. Everything categorized with "podcast episodes" is fine, but the "blog posts" category page is just a 404 error.

I'm sure I did one or more completely moronic things here, and I appreciate your time and patience in helping me out.

-Raven

mgdell

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Re: RSS feed contains only podcasts, not blog posts
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2010, 07:28:53 am »
My guess (not having your web address) is that you submitted your podcast only feed to feedburner.   It would be something like http://example.com/feed/podcast/.  If you want your posts that are not podcasts to show in the feed, remove the "/podcast/" from the end of the feed.  (it also could be "?feed=podcast" and in that case, just remove "podcast" from that address)

As for the 404 on categories, I can't look at that not knowing your website address.

-Mike