Feed HTML Has Huge Gaps in Between Paragraphs

I’ve asked the Blubrry dev team to look at your question. A response will be posted here once they’ve had a chance to read it over.

Also, please post a link to the podcast feed you’re sending to Repurpose, as that may be useful to get a better idea of what’s going on.

This is the feed that I use with Repurpose:
https://summitforwellness.com/feed/podcast/

When you add the url into CastFeedValidator, then I see it has a bunch of breaks in between each paragraph. But, I am not seeing that directly onto the feed when I look at it (but then I don’t really know how to read html)

Hello @bcwash,

I see your content has HTML comment lines above and below each paragraph/heading(block section), which appears to be making additional paragraph tags in the feed content. I have never seen this before, I do not recognize what is causing this but it does not look like something that WordPress itself does. I think you have another theme or plugin adding these HTML comment tags to your content.

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p>
<p>So why is 5G ...</p>
<p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p>
<p><!-- wp:heading --></p>
<h2>Why Are 5G Towers Being Built ...</h2>
<p><!-- /wp:heading --></p>

I suspect your theme but it may also be another plugin adding these HTML comments. I would follow these diagnostic steps to find out what is adding these tags: https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/diagnosing-feed-andor-player-issues-with-powerpress/.

When viewing the feed only: https://summitforwellness.com/feed/ the tags are gone, but there is lots of white space. It may be that the theme or plugin is saving this information to your database then stripping it out after the fact. If this is the case, you need to make sure other themes and plugins “can” modify podcast feeds, to do this you want to go to PowerPress Settings > Feeds tab, make sure the option to allow plugins and theme to not modify your podcast feed is “NOT” checked then click save.

Thanks,
Angelo

Thanks for the reply @amandato

I went ahead and unchecked the box in the PP settings. It looks like the html like you displayed about (<p><!– wp:paragraph –></p>) has disappeared. But like you said, there is a lot of white space in between each line, which I would think would cause the <br />

I went ahead and deactivated all plugins, and even changed to the 2017 theme, and I still notice all of the white space in between paragraphs in the html

Hello @bcwash,

The whitespace should nto cause an issue, uless they are getting converted to <br> tags i would leave it with the whitespace. Once it is formatted in an HTML viewer the whitespace will not be seen.

If you are down to only PowerPress plugin and a stock theme such as twentyeighteen, you should not have the whitespace or the comments. IF you still see this stuff, you have something else going on as well such as caching, either on your server or within another plugin (WP caching plugin).

Thanks,
Angelo

I do have a cdn (cloudflare), could that be causing the white space?

I notice that on the castfeedvalidator, that is where the <br> tags are showing up. But, I haven’t seen the tags show up when looking directly at the html. So maybe some feed viewers are converting the white space to <br>?

I do not suspect Cloudfront as causing your issues.

CastFeedValidator.com uses your itunes:summary, which currently only iTunes desktop displays. It shouldn’t be an issue as iTunes desktop usage has dropped below 5% in the past year, everyone is using the mobile app.