Several problems when submitting to iTunes

  • Resolved locksleyu

    (@locksleyu)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I am using version 1.15.1 of Seriously Simple Podcasting and having a few odd issues when trying to submit my feed to iTunes for the first time.

    > Podcast artwork must be between 1400 x 1400 and 3000 x 3000 pixels, JPG or PNG, in RGB color space, and hosted on a server that allows HTTP head requests.
    > Can’t submit your feed. There is no category tag in your feed, or the category tag is empty.
    > Can’t submit your feed. There is no explicit tag in your feed, or the explicit tag is empty.

    I checked the above things and they seem to be configured correctly on my side. For example, the image is 1400×1400 in RGB color space and uses PNG. Also I have 3 levels of categories, and sub-categories set. Explicit is not set, but I assume that should be telling Apple “no” instead of “empty”.

    This seems it may be a bug with the plugin but I am not sure how to proceed to triage.

    If someone can help I’d appreciate it. My feed is below:

    https://selftaughtjapanese.com/podcast/feed

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  • Thread Starter locksleyu

    (@locksleyu)

    Finally figured out the problem, the URL I needed to use was reversed:

    https://selftaughtjapanese.com/feed/podcast

    I am not sure the difference between these and this is quite confusing, but I’m glad it works (:

    Plugin Contributor Hugh Lashbrooke

    (@hlashbrooke)

    The /podcast/feed URL is the default post type RSS feed that WordPress generates. In order to submit to iTunes, etc., this plugin needs to create a custom feed, which is what the /feed/podcast URL is all about.

    A solution here might be for me to implement a redirect so if you try to go to the default WP feed then it redirects you to the custom feed generated by the plugin. That way it wouldn’t matter too much if you get the URL incorrect. I’ll look into doing that in a future release.

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