RSS feed issues

Looks like your iTunes listing is currently pulling from this feed: https://www.drhoffman.com/podcasts/channel-1/podcast.xml
PowerPress feeds generally don’t end in .xml so it’s very unlikely that a PowerPress feed is what’s being sent to your iTunes listing.

PowerPress creates one default podcast feed on every site and that feed can’t be changed. In your case, that feed is: https://drhoffman.com/feed/podcast/
The default feed will contain all podcasts you add to your site but it won’t contain any posts that don’t include podcasts. You can’t use PowerPress to create a podcast feed based on a single WordPress page.

Since iTunes is currently using a non-PowerPress feed, you’ve got to get your iTunes Store listing updated. There’s a couple ways you can achieve this:
1.) Follow the instructions listed here. This is the best method because it’ll ensure that all previous subscribers, not just iTunes subscribers, continue to stay subscribed to your podcast.
2.) You can send an e-mail to podcasts(at)apple.com and ask them to update your iTunes Store listing for you. You’ll need to provide them the URL to your iTunes listing along with the new feed podcast feed URL. It may take them anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to update it, depending. Again, this method will only ensure iTunes subscribers to your show will continue to get new episodes. If you care about retaining your other listeners, please follow the steps linked to in option 1.

Shawn, thanks so much for this info.
When I try and validate https://drhoffman.com/feed/podcast/, it tells me it can’t be found?
Also I don’t see any podcasts listed when viewing the feed in a browser?
Can you give me any direction as to why the podcasts are not populating in this default PP feed?

Thank you again for your help!

Michael

Your podcast feed has no entries. That’s why Feed Validator is giving you this error. You need to add some entries with podcast files attached to them first.

Gotcha.
I have over 500 ‘Podcasts’ under the Podcast section.
How do I get these into the feed?

Thanks Shawn!

Go to PowerPress >> Tools >> Import episodes and then click the appropriate link for whatever service was creating your previous podcast RSS feed. Follow the steps from there.

I don’t see any episodes listed on the import screen?
https://goo.gl/R2LXsa

Did you try importing using your old podcast RSS feed (https://www.drhoffman.com/podcasts/channel-1/podcast.xml)?

I do this using the built in RSS Importer in WordPress correct?
Will it duplicate all the existing podcasts I have?

I guess I’m confused as to why I can’t use the actual ‘Podcasts’ I have setup already under the ‘Podcasts’ menu item?

Thanks so much for your help.
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I figured it out, thank you Shawn!

I see you’ve got some podcasts here and some more here. How did you generate these podcast listings within the site? Are these individual WordPress categories? Are they pages? I think the first one is your actual podcast while the second one is simply an “archive” page.

Looks like the former developer created a custom post type called ‘Poscasts’ and I thought this was part of PP. It obviously is not.
On another note, does PP work with custom post types?
Being that there are over 500 existing ‘Posts’, I’d like to keep the meta information/descriptions that are there instead of having to recreate them in the imported posts.
Thanks for all your help on this Shawn, great support.

OK, now that we know your podcasts were setup with a custom post type, this gives us the next place to look. PowerPress does support custom post types. Take a look at this support article and see if post type podcasting has been configured on your site. Once it’s set up, you should see a “post type podcasting” menu you can access (it may already be there, depending) and from there, you can get the URL of your podcast RSS feed.

I got the custom post types going and went ahead and added an episode successfully to the feed. Thanks!

I have permalinks setup as https://drhoffman.com/sample-post.
Are you able to gauge if everything is setup correctly by the RSS output?
https://goo.gl/yQSeM8

OK, your feed at https://drhoffman.com/podcast/feed/intelligent-medicine/ looks good. It passes feed validation and I also tested it by manually subscribing in iTunes and no problems there.

Great!
I guess at this point I have to add the rest of them and then follow your instructions for notifying iTunes of the new feed to keep current subscribers?
Last question…Should I be seeing the artwork for the podcast when I do the manual subscription in iTunes?

Yes, go ahead and add the rest of your episodes just like you did the one that’s there now and then follow the feed redirection instructions I linked to earlier.

Also, be sure to go into PowerPress >> Post Type Podcasting >> Click the name of your podcast feed under Feed Title >> Fill out everything in the Feed Settings, iTunes Settings and Artwork tabs. You should be all set once that’s done.