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Garrick, looking for some help on cleaning out my database. I have thousands upon thousands of itunes:duration tags in each of my posts (due to a previously reported problem). As you can imagine, it is taking light years to load the rss feed and iTunes is now timing out trying to read my feed. I can not even edit a post in my browser – it crashes trying to load a post. How can I get at that database and remove all of those duration tags?

No, however, I am hard coding the keywords and do not use explicit tags – but I see no other duplicate tags in any postings. The only postings with duplicate tags have an mp3 enclosure tag with them (ie: only my podcast posts have duplicate duration tags).

I am running 1.0 I downloaded this for the first time 1 week ago.

>In your ‘create new post’ or ‘edit post’ screen, do you see an ‘iTunes Podcast Tags’
>section right below the ‘Publish’ buttons?

I do. I also have about 200 “Custom Tags” listed now that all say itunes:duration and are all empty. It is taking hours to manually delete all of them and more keep apprearing.

Garrick, yes, the “getid3” directory is in the plugins folder. To be honest, I don’t know how to set durations manually with WordPress (I am embarassed to say). I’ve tried to code this for each posting but have not succeeded.

I am still unable to get the duration tag working. In the local path, I have “/Volumes/Web/wachs-org/weddingcast/audio/” which is the path on my machine to the MP3 files. The root of WordPress is in “/Volumes/Web/wachs-org/weddingcast/” I’ve tried using just “/audio/” in the path for MP3 files but that does not work either. Am I using a https://…. path for this?

Chad

Couple of issues I have found with version 1.0 using feedvalidator.com:

– “Undefined channel element: itunes:link” <itunes:link rel="image" type="video/jpeg" href="https://www.wachs.org/weddingcast/audio/podcast_cover.jpg">Countdown to Chaos</itunes:link> This does not seem to be a well formed tag. Why is the link going to the artwork and not the actual MP3 file?

– All my durations show as “Invalid Duration”. My podcast MP3 files live in a directory called “audio” inside the root wordpress directory. Must I put these MP3’s in the root of wordpress?

– “Keywords must be words separated by spaces” <itunes:keywords>Pre-wedding Podcast</itunes:keywords> It seems my keywords are separated by spaces. If I want to hard code these keywords, do I need to do that in rss2.php?

The actual page is: https://www.wachs.org/weddingcast/wp-rss2.php

Did you ever find the aswer to this? I’ve been trying to get WP on my OS X box to send e-mail out and i can not get it working. I’ve looked at the support forum and seen the question asked a number of times but never answered. Where do I set my SMTP server, port, user, etc? Or must I run SendMail on this server as well? I’ve been able to fairly easily figure out everything else with WP but this one setting, and it is driving me crazy!

I have added the correct itunes specific tags to wp-rss2.php but I could only add the items up to the first <item> tag. From there, it is obviously too specific for me to make perminant changes to the php file. So far, “global” tags work fine and were accepted by iTunes (nice code checking they have!).

Modifying the php file is lame, I’ll admit, but it will work fine for my podcast. Have any of you come up with a solution for adding the itunes specific codes to each of the <item>‘s? for example the <itunes:duration> <itunes:explicit> <itunes:keywords> etc tags? Can I do this by using the “Add new custom field” tool via the admin->write post? If so, how would you code that?

What am I missing though? Where do you set the SMTP server and account for WP to send mail? I’ve gone through the php files and looked at all the admin settings and don’t see where I would set that anywhere…

I am having a similar prpblem with 1.5.12… The e-mail to post feature works fine via CRON but I am never notified via e-mail when someone posts a comment. Also, if you sign up as a user to post comments, you are told your password will be e-mailed to you. That e-mail never arrives. Where do I set the mail server and account to use for this? Perhaps I am missing something obvious but I don’t see it anywhere.