New import – “all episodes already existing in WordPress!”

  • Resolved podcastrs

    (@podcastrs)


    5 years ago

    Hey there,

    First of all, as a podcast aggregator, your plugin is godsend and it’s been working flawlessly so far! Very streamlined and easy to use. However, on recent rss import for a new category, it said “No new episodes imported, all episodes already existing in WordPress!”. First time using this feed (it’s a new podcast, only 3 episodes). I’ve checked all posts, drafts and trash, and no posts were made from that rss import before.

    The feed in question is
    https://bospodcast-fusingfutures.sounder.fm/show/WzPXz/rss.xml

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  • Plugin Author SecondLineThemes

    (@secondlinethemes)

    Hey @podcastrs,

    Thanks for using our plugin and for reaching out!

    I’ve just ran the import process on a dev server and seem to be working properly.

    Typically there are two possible reasons the for seeing this error message (“No new episodes imported…”):

    1. GUID – Our plugin tests the GUID property of your episodes, ensuring no duplicate episodes are being imported. The GUID field usually contains either a very long alphanumeric string separated by hyphens (example: 5a0ab843-95a1-4d11-a146-58e974f2aa2d), or a unique URL (example: https://your-website.com/episode/112 )

    In your case, looks like the GUID is very short (example: BzJZz) which is quite a bad practice, to be honest.

    2. Episode Title – The second measure to detect duplicates is the episode title. If you have more than one episode with the exact same title anywhere on your site (including other post types, draft posts, and posts in the trash!), these would not be imported.

    You’ll have to check that as well, as if you’ve manually created posts with similar titles they would prevent the new episodes from being imported.

    Thread Starter podcastrs

    (@podcastrs)

    Hey

    Thank you for the quick response. 1. seems to be the case. At least 2 episode’s GUIDs match with GUIDS from another feed. Any way to circumvent this on my end or is it strictly hosting issue?

    Plugin Author SecondLineThemes

    (@secondlinethemes)

    Hi again,

    Yeah so the best solution would obviously be to change the GUIDs themselves.
    Otherwise, you can edit the plugin files and disable the conditional check for GUIDs altogether, but this would not really be recommended. (and also, any plugin update would override your changes)

    Thread Starter podcastrs

    (@podcastrs)

    Hey,

    I’ve contacted the hosting platform for those podcasts and I’ll try to relay the information to the best of my ability. That GUID is their internal ID for the episode, what we see is actually a hashid for some integer, which should be recognized as such. One suggestion is adding a custom hash in front of GUID to separate it, since there are a lot of podcasts that use simple GUIDs like that.

    Dunno if that clarifies it or helps, but anyway thanks for input!

    Plugin Author SecondLineThemes

    (@secondlinethemes)

    Hi again,

    As mentioned earlier, it’s a bad practice to include such a short string in the GUID field of an RSS feed, especially if that’s for an ID for an item (the episodes in your case)

    I would assume the podcast hosting provider could add the hash to all episodes, or otherwise you’ll probably need to remove the conditional check for the GUID in the dashboard.

    At the same time, we’ll to take another look into it, and try to find another solution.

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