Clear Configuration (reset to default)

No way to do this from within PowerPress. You’d have to remove the information from the database manually or just update the settings you need to change from within PowerPress settings.

Thanks for the quick reply Shawn, is there a reference to what’s stored in the database somewhere in the help pages? I’m not extremely comfortable poking around in the database but if I know what to remove I’ll be able to do that.

My ultimate goal is to change or remove the default feed (“podcast”). I’d like to use a different slug (“subscriber”) which I already have created, but I’m unable to modify the “podcast” feed, or remove it entirely.

I’ve asked the Blubrry dev team to look at your question. A reply will be posted here once they’ve had a chance to do so.

Hello @tasoli,

PowerPress stores program level settings in two places:

• database wp_options table with field names starting with powerpress
• wp-content/uploads/powerpress/ folder for storing uploaded podcast images

You can delete the database records with an application such as phpmyadmin. Be sure to backup your database before hand. The files can be removed using your web hosts’ preferred file system tool, whether it be FTP, SFTP, SCP, WebDAV, or a web viewer.

Episode data is more complex. We store episode data in the postmeta db table in the WordPress default ‘enclosure’ field, this is available in the custom fields option in PowerPress when editing posts. Images, if you uploaded any, go into the default wp-content/uploads/year/month/day/ file structure and are part of the WP media library. the enclosure data can be edited long after PowerPress is disabled, so the forethought here is that you should not have to or want to delete the enclosure values to reset or remove PowerPress. But if you are so inclined, you could delete the database data, search the wp_postmata table field name ‘enclosure’ to find and delete episode data.

Sorry there is not a more elegant solution, but we have not had issues with settings getting corrupted, you can simply change the setting and save and it gets overwritten. I looked to see how other major plugins provide reset or clearing functionality and found they also ask you to delete the records from the options table or delete specific tables all together such as in Yoast SEO’s case.

We’ve added to our development feature TODO list an option to clear all PowerPress settings. Until then, the procedure above requires you to manually find these fields and files and delete them.

Thanks,
Angelo

Angelo,

Thank you very much for your comprehensive response. Will removing the data and starting fresh allow me to achieve my desired result of using the powerpress plugin for an alternate channel, but not using the default /feed/podcast channel?

I’m using the Seriously Simple Podcast plugin for my main Podcast and I’d like to use powerpress for my subscriber’s feed, but when I enable powerpress it fights with SSP to use the default feed.

Hello @tasoli,

Unfortunately you cannot use both podcast plugins at the same time as both will add all of the podcast tags to your feeds and you will end up with duplicate information in both feeds, perhaps data that competes with the other as well.

When you are using SSP, are you using their post type “podcast” or are you using the blog posts and routing the “podcast” keyword as a podcast feed (what PowerPress does)?

PowerPress has post type podcasting option you could simply switch to PowerPress and maintain the post type that SSP created for you originally.

Thanks,
Angelo

@amandato,

I am using the blog post function, so I could switch to powerpress. Unfortunately I switched from powerpress to SSP because powerpress doesn’t support chartable statistics. So it seems my choice is to either use SSP and retain chartable, but not be able to offer individualized private feeds to my subscribers, or switch to powerpress and lose chartable data but regain the ability to offer individualized feeds to my subscribers.