Podcast Data Showing in Website Links

Those links are all for RSS feeds automatically generated by WordPress. Do you have either Category Podcasting or Taxonomy Podcasting turned on in the Advanced Options menu of PowerPress settings?

Category Podcasting was turned on. I turned it off, cleared the site cache, reloaded the page, and the sample links I provided are still showing podcast data?

What is the next step?

These are the current options selected:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rjiapu8usfeypqn/Screenshot%202018-12-29%2018.02.20.png?dl=0

Another thing you could try would be to go to PowerPress >> Settings, Advanced Mode >> Feeds tab >> look for the Enhanced Feeds section at the top and select “Do Not Enhance Feeds,” and then click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page. Doing so should add podcast information to feeds you’ve specifically created just for podcasts.

I did as you suggested then cleaned the site cache and tested the sample links that I provided in this support thread. No change.

What do we try next?

I’m curious. Are you actually producing any podcasts on this website? I looked around, and could only find evidence of one potential podcast episode published in 2012. If you’re not actually publishing any podcasts, do you still need to have PowerPress active on your site?

We are publishing podcasts. Are podcasts can be found here in our Podcast website category:

https://film-book.com/category/podcast/

Out latest podcast was published on December 19, 2018:

https://film-book.com/filmbookcast-ep-94-ballad-buster-scruggs-2018/

As I said previously on December 31, 2018:

I did as you suggested then cleaned the site cache and tested the sample links that I provided in this support thread. No change.

What do we try next?

Sorry.

I meant “Our podcasts can be found here in our Podcast website category:”

Do you know if you are using Category Podcasting, Taxonomy Podcasting, or Custom Podcast Channels? You can check this by looking at the Advanced menu at the bottom of any PowerPress settings page.

Hello,

It appears you ARE using Category podcasting, please reverse what Shawn told you, currently your category podcast feed https://film-book.com/category/podcast/feed/ has no Podcast tags in it now.

PowerPress >> Settings, Advanced Mode >> Feeds tab >> look for the Enhanced Feeds section at the top and select “Enhance all Feeds”

I see that you are using “CloudFlare”. Please note that CloudFlare will block certain applications as well as Apple Podcasts directory. Apple podcasts uses their own network to pull feeds, those IP addresses do not have reverse pointer records. CloudFlare blocks IP addresses without a reverse pointer record, it is an old security practice. In addition, CloudFlare may cache your files longer than you are aware, you will need to sign in and clear your cache (if it is possible) in CloudFlare. Our recommendation is to avoid services such as CloudFlare and Encapsula for your podcast feed. A way around this is to use our PodcastMirror.com service to host a copy or mirror of your podcast feed to submit to places such as Apple podcasts. Podcast Mirror due to cloudFlare could still see delays before refreshing. This is the nature of the beast when using a web caching and performance service such as CloudFlare.

Thanks,
Angelo

Angelo:

I reversed what Shawn told me as requested i.e. I reactivated “Enhance all Feeds.” After that, I purged the WordPress site cache then the CloudFlare cache for the three URLs that I submitted as examples. The original problem remains.

How do we stop the podcast data from showing up in our regular website category and tag links? How do start the regular website information to show again?

Hello @webmastert,

Okay I understand the problem.

As far as the website experience, if you put your podcast episodes in the “posts” then they will appear as you categorize them. This is by design. Normally bloggers and podcasters will mix their content, blog reader will show the podcast episodes and all of this helps the bottom line which is driving traffic from search engines to your website.

Podcast apps and podcast directories do not care about blog posts. This is where the podcast only feed comes in, it is the opposite of what you are looking for however.

If you want to organize the data separately, then you may want to take a look at post type podcasting. With this you can create your own post type then tell your content producers to create podcast episodes in that post type you setup. PowerPress then allows you to add your own custom feed slug name to the post type. IF you make a post type called “food-series” and use the slug “food-audio-edition”, then the feed would look like example.com/food-series/feed/food-audio-edition/. This is rather advanced, if you have never worked with post types, I would not suggest going down that road as it is very complicated.

Another way, again advanced, is to add some code to the homepage of your theme that would exclude categories. A seasoned WordPress theme developer should be able to do this for you as it was a common thing to do back in the day before post types was a thing.

Thanks,
Angelo

Angelo:

“If you want to organize the data separately, then you may want to take a look at post type podcasting. With this you can create your own post type then tell your content producers to create podcast episodes in that post type you setup.”

We have already created specific post type for our podcasts long ago:

https://film-book.com/category/podcast/

“PowerPress then allows you to add your own custom feed slug name to the post type. IF you make a post type called “food-series” and use the slug “food-audio-edition”, then the feed would look like example.com/food-series/feed/food-audio-edition/.”

We did this years ago, the moment we started using PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry:

Example – for the podcast FilmBookCast, we created the slug “filmBookcast” for it in PowerPress. The URL within PowerPress that we created for this podcast is https://film-book.com/feed/filmbookcast/.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/mzrepbhjzssy9ac/Screenshot%202019-01-24%2007.14.23.png?dl=0

None of that is a problem.

This is the problem:

All of these website links (and others) are showing data from one of our podcasts and not the regular data from their associated website category or tag:

https://film-book.com/category/movie-news/feed/ (the problem started on or after December 11, 2018)
https://film-book.com/category/tv-show-reviews/feed/ (the problem started on or after December 5, 2018)
https://film-book.com/tag/game-of-thrones/feed/ (the problem started on or after November 20, 2018)

How do we stop the podcast data from showing up in our regular website category and tag links?

How do start the regular website information to show again?

Hello @webmastert,

The URL https://film-book.com/category/podcast/ does not look like a custom post type. Can you share a screen shot of your settings under WordPress settings > Permalinks? Specifically the category setting, I suspect it is set to the word “category”. If this is the case, then as I suspect, https://film-book.com/category/podcast/ is a category in your site under the post type “Posts”.

When I speak of custom post types, I mean creating your own post type (not one already packaged in WordPress). Unfortunately anything you do under “Posts” will appear in normal areas of your website.

https://film-book.com/feed/filmbookcast/ – This is a podcast channel feed added by PowerPress.

https://film-book.com/category/movie-news/feed/ – This is a Post type: Posts (built into WordPress) and the category is movie-news. This wuld be the WordPress feed for movie-news category.

https://film-book.com/category/tv-show-reviews/feed/ – This would be a post type: Posts (built into WordPress) and the category tv-show-reviews. This would be the WordPress feed for tv-show-reviews category.

https://film-book.com/tag/game-of-thrones/feed/ This would be the post type: Posts (built into WordPress) and the tag game-of-thrones. This would be the WordPress feed for tag game-of-thrones.

So far the examples you have provided make me think that you may have logic in your theme that hides or shows contented. This is not determined by PowerPress. Out of the box PowerPress adds features and feeds, but it does not limit where content can be found. If you had limits before they were created by something else, not PowerPress.

These last 3 examples are WordPress feeds. PowerPress can add additional tags to them but PowerPress does not control what goes in or not in them, it is based on which category or tag you select when you create the blog post.

All of these feeds have a powerpress comment tag which tells me what attributes they have. For example your podcast channel feed:

<!– podcast_generator=”Blubrry PowerPress/7.4″ mode=”advanced” feedslug=”filmbookcast” Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin for WordPress (https://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/) –>

This tell me you are using feedslug filmbookcast with a custom podcast channel. If there was also a tag that had posttype=”value” then that would tell me that this feedis in that post type.

How do we stop the podcast data from showing up in our regular website category and tag links?

Answer: Normal behavior is that if you create a new post under “Posts” in WordPRess and it has a podcast episode, the post will still display on your website as normal plus its podcast content on the page. The pages leading up to the actual post page you have options whether or not to display the palyer and links on those pages based on if those pages use the excerpt or not, or if your theme itself uses the content without calling the get_the_content() or get_the_excerpt() filters. I suspect your theme was updated in recent weeks which has caused this behavior to change.

To explain this further, if you turn off PowerPress, the category and tag feeds above will still work, only your podcast channel feed above will go away if PowerPress is disabled.

Thanks,
Angelo