Blank GUIDs

  • Resolved bassman2112

    (@bassman2112)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there,

    When in contact with Spotify support due to recent episodes not showing up, they discovered that all our GUIDs after March were coming up blank.

    Last working one:
    <guid isPermaLink="false">https://fyx.space/2020/03/gaming-fyx-episode-114-reggies-twin-pools/</guid>

    After that:
    <guid isPermaLink="false"></guid>

    Any tips? AFAIK I have not changed any settings which should affect a GUID

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support Mike Dell

    (@benzoid)

    Do you have experience with phpmyadmin? If so to look at the post table and see if the guid column is blank.

    If it is blank, something (most likely a plugin) is blanking it out.

    If it is not blank, something (most likely a plugin) is removing it during feed generation.

    You can also try the option in PowerPress to prevent other plugins from modifying the podcast feeds. (in the Feeds menu of PowerPress settings)

    Definitely an issue outside PowerPress though, even the regular blog feed has blanked out guids: https://fyx.space/feed/

    -Mike

    Thread Starter bassman2112

    (@bassman2112)

    I’m taking a look at phpmyadmin, wp_posts table, and it does seem that recent posts all have blank GUIDs (image)

    Also, interestingly, the “Do not allow other plugins to modify podcast feeds.” option was already selected.

    I’m not too sure which other plugin(s) might be causing this as, AFAIK, we haven’t added any in the past year; but I will try and inspect to see if I can track anything down.

    Any advice for how to potentially repopulate these GUIDs? =] I’d do it via phpmyadmin, but feel as though WP might want triggers based on changes which a db update might not affect

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by bassman2112.
    Plugin Support Mike Dell

    (@benzoid)

    Tracking down what Plugin is causing it (or it can be a theme issue) can be difficult.

    Doing a test blog post (since the blog feed also has blank GUIDs with some plugins disabled maybe how to do it. See: https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/diagnosing-feed-andor-player-issues-with-powerpress/

    I think you can just put a random number or something in there. BUT, if you change the GUIDs (or populate them) the episodes may show up as new on all the other apps and directories.

    Thread Starter bassman2112

    (@bassman2112)

    Was able to track down the issue!

    It looks like there was an update to a tool we use to generate an XML Sitemap (for google analytics crawls). I’m not sure what the update did, but I removed the plugin and did a few test posts which seemed to clear up the GUID issue.

    Afterwards I went into the database and updated the empty fields (sorry RSS peeps, they’ll be marked as new but yolo), and a few test run posts seem to show that the feed is updating properly now =]

    Thanks for the pushes in the right direction!

    Plugin Support Mike Dell

    (@benzoid)

    What was the name of the sitemaps tool? Is it a Plugin?

    -Mike

    Thread Starter bassman2112

    (@bassman2112)

    It was just “XML Sitemaps Generator”

    However that didn’t seem to be it =[ We’re still getting blank GUIDs with new episodes..

    For now I’m just updating the GUID manually every time we update ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ

    Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    Hello @bassman2112,

    Since the last major WP update are you still using the XML Sitemap code you mentioned earlier or did you switch over to letting WordPress manage your sitemaps? The latest update may have fixed the issue with WP?

    Thanks,
    Angelo

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