[Plugin: podPress] iTunes not updating

Shawn,

one problem might be the RSS image which has currently not the right size.

But there is another issue: the iTunes:keywords should be single words separated by commas. “Paddy-Whacked Radio FM Broadcast!” is the title of your show but the keywords should be like tags which are describing the content, maybe like “music, Irish, indie, green, radio”.

Correct these two things and wait a day or two.

Regards,
Tim

Hi again,

I have no key words set on the “FM” category OR on the main “global” setting. I just have a very detailed description. I may have on the old blog (which WAS pwradio.net/fm, but has since been deleted, files and all).

Thanks again,

Shawn

Shawn,

you are right with the iTunes:keywords for the channel. But there is at least one post with post specific iTunes settings. You can find these settings below the editor box (where you add the episodes).

Try https://validator.w3.org/feed with your feed:

line 1, column 17465: Use commas to separate keywords (10 occurrences) [help]

    ... ywords>Paddy-Whacked Radio FM Broadcast!</itunes:keywords> <itunes:autho ...

It is a little bit difficult to say but I believe one post with those keywords is your last podcast “78. St. Patrick’s Week Special …”.

Tim

Is https://pwradio.net/fm/?feed=podcast the URL you are using in the iTunes Store?

You have obviously changed the settings like the feed image settings. But https://pwradio.net/fm/?feed=podcast is maybe not your the URL of the current category feed.

https://pwradio.net/category/fm/feed/ seems to be the URL of your category feed.

Tim

This is maybe a little bit off topic but it seems that the site title of you blog is not defined. If I open the main RSS feed (https://pwradio.net/feed/) of your blog then the title value is empty (line 1, column 1113: title should not be blank [help]).
This value is used in other feeds too.
If you have left the related field at the general settings page of your blog (not of podPress) empty in order to hide the text header on the blog front pages then you could consider a different solution. Fill out this field and add the following lines to the style.css of your theme:

h1#site-title {
display:none;
}

to hide the tagline add:

div#site-description {
display:none;
}

Regards,
Tim

HA! Yes, we were looking at the same thing just now. I have a redirect from when I switched over, and though it made perfect sense at the time, I can’t remember exactly why I did it.

Ok, so here’s what I JUST did… you’ll see though, I still have a problem that I’ll get to.

Thinking that there people may have /?feed=podcast in their readers, I have redirected as follows:
https://pwradio.net/fm/?feed=podcast
Redirects to

https://pwradio.net/category/fm/feed

BUT… Now new episodes won’t load on iTunes. I may need to put it back the way it was, since this IS the St. Patrick’s Day show. ??

Thoughts? And THANKS!

I take it back, episodes are downloading now. I’ll wait and see what happens with iTunes and google. Please let me know how things look from your end. If its still not working, I’ll be back in touch.

Thanks for all your help!

Shawn

Shawn,
https://pwradio.net/fm/?feed=podcast
and
https://pwradio.net/category/fm/feed
are not identical.

For instance the iTunes:image is not the same.

… and in both feeds the post specific iTunes:keywords are still in a format which is not recommended.

In conclusion: I would say that the posts in both feeds are the same but the feed settings are different. That is why I think that your redirect does not work as expected.

Tim

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Regards,
Tim

TiM!!! Thanks so much. Everything seems to be mostly working fine now. For some reason the redirects took a while to kick in, but they are working, and iTunes has picked up on https://pwradio.net/category/fm/feed/.

One weird thing is that I am not sure podpress is processing the feed 100% correctly. One issue is the key word problem you were mentioning (I don’t have key words set), and another is that the title of the podcast repeats. You can see this in the feed and on iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paddy-whacked-radio-fm-broadcast/id300168326

Any thoughts on that?

Your help has been and is greatly appreciated!!

Shawn

Oh, I guess one other thing is that the 144X144 image is still not showing up on Google Listen, so I figure it is not being positioned correctly in the RSS…???

another is that the title of the podcast repeats

Usually the title of a category feed has this scheme: blog title >> category name.
I guess that the category name is the same as the blog title. However you can set a custom title for the category feed in the Category Casting options. There is an option in the section General Feed Settings which is called “Blog/Podcast title”. You have three choices: the global setting – blog title >> category name / append category name – appends the name of the category to whatever the global setting is / category name – the feed title will be the category name only

Paddy-Whacked Radio FM Broadcast! seems to be the name of your blog and this category. The default setting for the post specific iTunes settings is “Use WordPress Categories”. That means that podPress adds automatically the nice names of the categories of a post as the keywords.
That is maybe not the best default setting because a category name (like in your case) may consist of more than one word.
I will probably change the default setting in the upcoming podPress version.
I’m sorry for my wrong assumption.

Furthermore I have noticed that you are using the CSS code to hide the blog title and tagline on the blog front pages and I have discovered that the code to hide the title should better be:

div#site-title {
display:none;
}

h1#site-title is wrong. I had my eyes on a different theme before I have had written the code snippet.

Oh, I guess one other thing is that the 144X144 image is still not showing up on Google Listen, so I figure it is not being positioned correctly in the RSS…???

The part of the feed is correct. I do not know why Google Listen does not show the RSS image.
Maybe the software loads the image only in the moment when you subscribe to the feed. Or maybe the channel settings like the image are in some kind of cache memory of this software.

Regards,
Tim

Usually the title of a category feed has this scheme: blog title >> category name.
I guess that the category name is the same as the blog title. However you can set a custom title for the category feed in the Category Casting options.

The blog title is, and has been blank in my settings, and I have been using the custom category title setting

The part of the feed is correct. I do not know why Google Listen does not show the RSS image.

I have reset the cache on booth google listen AND iTunes and this image does not show up at all. On iTunes I assume it should be the small associated artwork image??

I just made the CSS code change you recommended. Thanks.

Thanks,

Shawn

Oh, also I reinstalled podpress yesterday just to be sure there wasn’t a corrupt file.