Merge Custom channels into one channel

Hi juanmespina,

The Blubrry dev team had this to say in response to your question:

Ask them if they are tech savvy and have experience with phpmyadmin. If so we can leave some instructions how to change the channel slug names in the database to the appropriate channel they want everything merged to. This will only work so as long as each episode is found in a separate blog post. If the channels share a post you cannot merge them together.

Hey Shawn! I am a developer so no problems! Happy for the fast response! @shawnogordo

Hi juanmespina,

I’ve asked the Blubrry dev team to provide an look further into your question. I will post another reply here as soon as I hear back from them.

Thanks so much @shawnogordo!

Hello @shawnogordo. Any update? sorry for the insistence!

Hello @juanmespina,

We are writing a documentation page that explains what to do in detail, but here is a very rough explanation…

In your WP database, query the postmeta table with a query similar to the following:

SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key LIKE '%enclosure'

Records with the meta_key’s value ‘enclosure’ without any prefix or suffix store episode information for the default podcast feed, blog feed and any category feeds. this is associated to the feed slug ‘podcast’.

Records with the meta_key’s value starting with an underscore and ending with ‘:enclosure’ indicate a specific record for a podcast channel or post type. The value between the _ and :enclosure is the podcast channel or post type’s feed slug. Changing the feed slug portion to the slug that matches the podcast channel you want to move the episode data to then save.

Important: You cannot have 2 episodes associated with the same feed slug. Podcast applications cannot support multiple media episodes associated with the post in the same feed.

Thanks,
Angelo

Thanks @amandato for your time! Okay okay, I will wait for the full page documentation.