Increasing Items in iTunes Feed

Ok I fixed part of it! I found the setting on dashboard>options>reading

and increased my syndication posts to 100.

Now my RSS fee shows all items… until I route it through feedburner. Then if knocks it down to 6. How to I fix this?

I’m having a similar problem.

Some of my posts in the Podcast category show up in iTunes, and some don’t.

https://deconstructingcomics.com/

Specifically, #133, 134, and the latest, 142, refuse to appear in the feed. I can’t find anything that distinguishes them from the others. I though that having other links in the same article could be the problem, except that’s true of 137 and it appears in the feed!

I’m not using PodPress. Would that help with this problem??

I took the other links out of #142, and it showed up in the feed. But I don’t understand why that made a difference when it didn’t for # 137.

@BigBad, you might need to go into Feedburner and tell them to resynch your feed after you changed the setting to 100. I think it’s under Feedburner > Troubleshootize

@stingpin, try to “Validate” your feed using a feed validator website. That might tell you what was wrong with that post

I tried that, but Feed Validator said it was fine.

It must have been something in one of the links to another Web page. Having other links (besides the one to the MP3 file) per se doesn’t seem to be the problem, but something about the links…

iTunes has a thing called “explicit” and another thing called “hide from iTunes” or something like that. Those settings will keep a single episode out. You would probably know if you set something like that tho. You said you’re not using PodPress. Are you using anything else, or just vanilla WP to get your enclosures into iTunes?

Also take a look at any enclosures on your posts? You have just 1 enclosure per post, and it’s a valid mp3 (or other media that works with iTunes and is correctly located on your server) — be sure of this?

Define what you mean by “enclosure”. Each post also has a jpg image; for the most part that doesn’t seem to be disrupting iTunes. There are also sometimes some other links, to other Web pages. Removing those cleared up the problem with #142, but I have additional links in other posts which ARE showing up on the feed.

Right now I’m just using plain ol’ WordPress to publish the podcast. Would using PodPress allow me to control other iTunes tags, such as the “explicit” tag or the tag that controls which image is associated with the podcast? (although it seems that there’s no way to change a podcast’s image in the iTunes store — as much as I’d like to change mine)

Yes, Podpress gives you control (in your WP Admin interface) for iTunes Explicit tag, other iTunes tags, and your iTunes Image.

“Enclosures” are typically a sound or video file. The best way to see them, or how many you have on a post, is look at your Custom Fields, in the Edit Post. WP sometimes automatically makes an enclosure, if you have direct-linked a media file in your post.

hope this helps

Sounds like I’ll have to look into PodPress. Thanks.

Still puzzling over why episodes 133 and 134 don’t show up in my feed. Well, perhaps PodPress would make that a bit clearer — ??

I recommend Podpress, it’s awesome, but be careful at first. The current Podpress 8.8 and the current WordPress 2.6.1 have problems playing nicely together. You have to turn off Post Revisions (use another plugin to do it), and you might have to use Firefox to Write Post for adding a new podcast episode. Hopefully they’re working on a new Podpress that will work just-perfect. It still works tho.

I see. BTW, how can I tell what version of WP I have? I don’t remember what I installed, and I can’t find anything in the controls that tells me.

Also, I keep noticing that quotation marks and apostrophes show up in the iTunes feed as &#8220 and &#8217. Do you know how to prevent this?