Wrong site permalink?

  • We are running the Blubrry plugin on our site RosenInstitute.com. We were originally using it on DivorceDiscourse.com but have since merged the sites together and only kept the RosenInstitute.com domain name. However, even though all of our posts are coming from RosenInstitute.com, our feed (https://roseninstitute.com/feed/podcast) is still permalinking to DivorceDiscourse.com for each episode using code like this:

    <guid isPermaLink="false">https://divorcediscourse.com/?p=18342</guid>

    How can we change this to our current site?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Support Shawn

    (@shawnogordo)

    What you’re seeing there is a GUID value, which technically isn’t a web link. All RSS feeds have unique GUIDs for each item in the feed. These GUIDs are used by RSS readers and podcast-consumption apps to determine which items (or podcast episodes) in a feed have been read/listened to. GUIDs can technically be any set of characters, but typically GUIDs look like website URLs of the posts they were generated from. This is how the RSS engine built into WordPress works, and PowerPress works off that engine. When you moved the podcast from one domain to the other, the original GUIDs were kept intact, and that’s a good thing, because if anyone who was subscribed to your old feed was automatically carried over to the new feed, those subscribers wouldn’t suddenly be downloading all of your old episodes.

    Keep in mind that GUID tags in the feed aren’t viewable by readers/listeners, and have no impact on the functionality of your site or your feed. What you’re seeing here is normal behavior for moving a podcast from one location to another.

    Thread Starter charlieroark

    (@charlieroark)

    Thanks for your reply Shawn,

    I was told that there were still instances of the old name showing up places, but I’m not seeing them now, and it appears that even if I was, it wouldn’t effect peoples’ feeds. Thanks!

    Plugin Support Shawn

    (@shawnogordo)

    Glad that answered your question!

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