Author Topic: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.  (Read 2021 times)

n1kki6

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Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« on: September 14, 2015, 11:12:41 pm »
I am having some weird issues with my feed. I am using a custom post type for podcasts,  just enabling post type podcasts used to send all posts to this primary feed. The latest podcast should be episode 51

http://retrogamefix.com/feed/podcast  This feed is now not showing the latest.

The post type feed without the slug does show the latest. http://retrogamefix.com/podcast/feed/

But the specific post type feed only shows one. I have this set at 10. http://retrogamefix.com/podcast/feed/retrogamefix

The category feed is working as intended.  I don't have all episodes assigned here, that's why its smaller. Although this feed does not show the direct download link with the headphone icon in IE. It's missing the enclosure URL, but the player shows up in the post, and everything is set like it should be from what I can tell.
http://retrogamefix.com/category/retrojonez/feed/

My main issue is just getting the main feed to update as it's the feed I have submitted to most aggregates.  Any ideas?
« Last Edit: September 14, 2015, 11:19:30 pm by n1kki6 »

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2015, 01:22:07 am »
So it looks like something weird is going on with the enclosure tag.  It used to auto update a custom field called as an enclosure after I would publish a new podcast.  This area is no longer updating so the feed is missing enclosure and then the podcast doesn't show up.   If I manually add the entry for enclosure everything works fine.  In previous podcasts when I added the podcast and verified, after clicking save, the podcast would disappear from the powerpress area and would populate the enclosure area.  Now it stays in the powerpress area.

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2015, 11:10:16 pm »
Is there a reason my enclosure custom field would stop populating in the custom post types?  Nothing has changed, and I can certainly add it manually, but it would be much easier if it auto populated.  Anything I can check?

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2015, 12:39:56 am »
Also when using category feeds they start out with an XML tag but doesn't line break vs the rss of the standard feed.  This seems to cause a problem in Windows 10 edge.

category

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
   xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
   xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
   xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
   xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
   xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
xmlns:rawvoice="http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/"
>

standard
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:rawvoice="http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/" version="2.0">

Is this intentional?


I also noticed that the problem with the enclosure field not populating is only when post type podcasting is enabled.  I can understand that maybe when post type is enabled it keys off post type and you would use post type as the main feed.  But I keeping it from populating the enclosure tag must be a bug.
« Last Edit: September 18, 2015, 01:00:34 am by n1kki6 »

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2015, 01:34:58 pm »
Your website is showing this as the latest episode: http://retrogamefix.com/podcast/destiny-the-taken-king-impressions-so-far-cereal-at-night-e-03-745/ This is also the most recent item in the RSS feed at: http://retrogamefix.com/feed/podcast The media enclosure is there and when I manually subscribed to this feed in iTunes, the most recent episode on the site also came up as the most recent episode in iTunes.


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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2015, 10:28:20 pm »
That's correct, but I have to manually add the enclosure details, when post_type podcast isn't checked it will update this field for me.

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2015, 12:03:45 am »
Do others using post type podcasting have an issue with the enclosure tag not populating?

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2015, 09:45:38 am »
Can you share a screen shot of your post type screen? I think that will clear up confusion.

Usually you do not "check a box" to put a podcast into a post type, rather you go into the post type section and create a new post. Post Types normally do not intermix with your regular blog posts. Post Types are typically separate silo's of information with their own category and tags (custom taxonomies). You can use the same categories as you use for blog posts, but that would be the only place where then the content inner mixes.

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2015, 08:10:02 pm »
Here are the screen shots. First shows where I add podcasts in my custom post type.  second shows the verified file, third is after save state that doesn't add the enclosure, fourth is the enclosure I add manually.   If I disable post type podcasting then this enclosure field auto fills for me.

http://retrogamefix.com/images/PreUpload.PNG

http://retrogamefix.com/images/URLverified.PNG

http://retrogamefix.com/images/published.PNG

http://retrogamefix.com/images/manualadd.PNG

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2015, 11:13:21 am »
Great screen shots, but they cut off the part that tells me if they are "Posts" or of some other post type, which is the detail I am looking for. If you can do a screen shot of the entire page, even including the address bar URL that tells me everything.

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2015, 08:56:43 pm »
Here it is with the URL indicating post type and the highlighted post type in the left menu.  If I disable post type podcasting in the blubrry settings the enclosure populates.

http://retrogamefix.com/images/posttype.PNG

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2015, 09:22:59 pm »
Okay as I suspected, you are using a post type that is not "post". If post type podcasting is enabled then you need to use the post type's feed. What ever the post type's slug name , it would be example.com/post-type-slug/feed/ in addition, you can use the post type podcasting feed for a podcast only (no blog posts) feed.

Post type's would not populate the post type "post" category or tag feeds in this case.

If you want everything to inner mix with the default "post" post type, then use podcast channels. In podcast channels there is a last tab in the settings where you can map specific post type's or select all (which I think is what you want).

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2015, 01:33:12 pm »
Thank you for the clarification.  I think I am getting there but want to make sure I understand.  My assumption, or at least how I was previously using post type podcasting, was I assumed that had to be enable for my podcast posts to show up in the main feed, it doesn't sound like this is the case, although if I use the enclusure tags it seems to do it anyway.

What I want to do is have a main primary feed that would include all of my podcasts.  Is there a way to do that which would post them all to the http://retrogamefix.com/feed/podcast URL? or will I need to redirect URLs?  I ask because when I disable post type podcasting this feed is now blank.

I am using category podcasting and it works great for the category specific casts, but I would also like a catch all. 

So right now the two category feeds I have always work great, just wondering how and if I can get the main feed to include all.

Thanks for all of your help on this.

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2015, 04:43:46 pm »
Sorry that this is so complicated. These are features that only a small group of PowerPress users use.

Try this: In PowerPress settings, turn off podcast type podcasting, turn on podcast channels and then click save. Then go into podcast channels, edit the default podcast channel, and go to the last tab "Other Settings". Find the option titled "Custom Post Type", select "All Post Types" then click save. What this will do is include all post types into your podcast only feed. It should work, but it has been a few months since I last tested this. BTW If post type podcasting is enabled, the "Custom Post Type" option in Podcast Channels is not available, because it would conflict with the post type podcasting feeds.

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Re: Main podcast feed not updating, others working.
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2015, 08:26:41 am »
I think that did it, thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.