Don’t include blog text in RSS

  • Resolved oobedoob

    (@oobedoob)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Is there a way to not have PowerPress not include the blog text in the RSS and have something else entirely in the show description?

    The blog text for our show more or less has just a download link and the links to where to find our show which is not very descriptive of what the episode is.

    I would like to have the show description be something completely different from what’s on the blog post.

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  • Plugin Support Shawn

    (@shawnogordo)

    There’s no way to do that at this time. There are plans to include something like this in the future but there’s no ETA as to when it’ll officially be added to the plugin.

    Thread Starter oobedoob

    (@oobedoob)

    I figured it out:

    1. Go to PowerPress and click on Settings
    2. Click on the Episodes tab on the top
    3. Check off iTunes Summary Field (Leave unchecked to use your blog post)

    Then when you’re editing a blog entry there’s an additional box in the PowerPress section to add your own description.

    Plugin Support Shawn

    (@shawnogordo)

    The iTunes Summary tag is used at this time by only the iTunes desktop application and possibly a few other outlier apps. The iOS Podcasts app still pulls from the main blog post part of the feed.

    Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    Hello @oobedoob,

    WordPress adds <content:encoded> to your feeds when you have the setting in WordPress > Reading “For each article in a feed, show” set to “Full text”. If you switch this to “Summary”, your entire blog post will no longer be syndicated to Apple podcasts and other applications. We strongly recommend using “Full text”, not only for display sake, but also for Google podcasts as they will index this textual content which will help your podcast discovery on Google search as well as on Google home devices.

    WordPress adds the <description> tag to your feeds. It is a HTML stripped and length limited value of your blog post content.

    PowerPress uses your blog post content to populate the <itunes:summary> tag in your feed. It uses the first 4,000 characters of your blog post content and formats the value with limited HTML as required by Apple’s podcast documentation. If your feed includes the content:encoded value, the iOS podcast app will not use this field. This is only used for the traditional desktop iTunes app when Full text is set in your website. The desktop iTunes app is slowly being phased out by Apple. As of December 2018 the desktop iTunes app had less than 4% podcast listening market share. With the fact that the description view is hard to get to in the desktop app, this field by Apple is not as important as it once. Today it is only important if you do not have “Full text” configured on your website.

    Apple podcasts (and most other podcast apps) use the following hierarchy for displaying show notes from your feed:

    1. <content:encoded>
    2. <itunes:summary>
    3. <description>

    Thanks,
    Angelo

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