Feed cover image not updating

Hi @gnarlo,

If you wish to have different player images for your episodes, you can utilize the ss_podcasting_data_image option. It can be configured in your episode page settings under Podcast Episode Details -> Episode Image.

Alternatively, if you prefer to have the same image across your entire podcast, you can set it up in the podcast feed settings found at Podcasting -> Your Podcast Name -> Podcast Image. If neither of these options is configured, the player will attempt to use the feed image specified in Settings -> Feed details -> Your Podcast Name -> Cover Image.

Hope this helps,
Serhiy.

Hi Serhiy, thanks for your response.

As I mentioned in the original post, I already updated the third option you listed:

Settings -> Feed details -> Your Podcast Name -> Cover Image

And while it seems to have updated in the RSS feed, it does not show up correctly in the HTML5 player album art. It seems that the option ss_podcasting_data_image is still pointing to the old image url, it did not get updated when I uploaded a new image.

I did some debugging and I may have found a bug in the settings.

I noticed in the settings page that the cover image field ids are prepended with the “ss_podcasting_” global prefix (eg. “id=ss_podcasting_data_image”), while all the others are not (eg. just “id=data-description”).

In controllers/class-options-controller.php I notice that the image field is rendering with “$default_option_name”, which is indeed set with the global prefix attached.

Is this a bug?

Hi @gnarlo,

Did you try to setup different images using Podcasting -> Your Podcast Name -> Podcast Image setting? If image there is setup and square, the player tries to use it as a first option.

Regarding the ID – no, fields are utilizing the name property, and not Id.

Best regards,
Serhiy.

@zahardoc Does not seem to have worked. I am also hoping to have the same image for all my podcasts and would prefer not to go through all of them to set individually.

I solved my problem by going into phpmyadmin and manually changing the ss_podcasting_data_image value in wp_options to the new image path. So while my issue is resolved, it may be possible that there’s something still broken in the Feed cover image edit flow.

@gnarlo

Could you make a screenshot of your Podcasting -> Your Podcast Name -> Podcast Image settings?

Sure here it is. You can see the image uploaded to both podcast and feed settings, but note that these settings did not work until I manually changed the ss_podcasting_data_image value in wp_options table to the new image path.

@gnarlo

Thank you for sharing your screenshots. It’s really strange, the settings look good, and it should use the podcast image by default. To narrow it down, could you please answer the following additional questions?

1. Does the issue occurs only with the Pillar Baptist Church podcast?
2. Did you try using another square image there, and jpg one, not png?
3. Could you create an episode without additional image settings, or remove the image of your existing episode, so I could check it?

Best regards,
Serhiy.