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Good news .. My son has found the problem. It was nothing to do with any of your lines of enquiry, ntm. (But huge thanks anyway ??

I can’t give you the precise geekspeak, but apparently some file in the child theme had been mysteriously overwritten.

Beats me …

Anyway, all sweet now. (Only now having trouble getting the iTunes store to load the podcast .. But I guess that’s another subject?)

Thanks. I think it’s time to ask my son to hop aboard this thread and take over from here. My noob head hurts … ??

Stay tuned …

… or does it contains additional (or less) lines of code?

It has all the code exactly as on your linked page.

Above that it has:

RewriteRule ^sermons/lancesermons.rss$ audio/lancesermons.rss [NC]
RewriteRule ^audio/lancesermons.rss$ feed/podcast/ [NC,L,R=301]

And then below the core bit:

-Indexes

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fullofgraceandtruth\.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.fullofgraceandtruth\.net$
RewriteRule ^sermons\/lancesermons\.rss$ "http\:\/\/fullofgraceandtruth\.net\/feed\/podcast\/" [R=301,L]

Do you use some kind of security plugin?

No active plugins for security – unless you’d count antispam etc.

Or a plugin which should optimize the URLs of your blog?

I don’t think so, although I’m not up on all the intricacies of the setup my geeky son created. I can ask him if you think that would help …

… modified the default filter settings for this RSS feed. It is possible to limit the posts by the type of the media files. If you have done that and have chosen a file type other then .mp3 …

Hmm … well that could be significant?? As a relative noob I’m rather bamboozled by all the array of settings in podpress. I do notice that I’ve selected two filetypes in the filetype filter: MP3 and M4A (no others). I don’t actually have any media files in the podcast other than MP3 at this point, but I think I added M4A to the selection on the assumption that that might happen in the future. Would that be a problem for the feed?

Thanks for the reply. In light of your later comments I’ve now disabled the new-feed-url thingy in podpress.

I should have thought to provide my URLs before. Here they are:

Front page: https://fullofgraceandtruth.net/
Podcast page: https://fullofgraceandtruth.net/sermons/
Podcast URL: https://fullofgraceandtruth.net/feed/podcast/

(NB: there’s also a text blog with feed https://fullofgraceandtruth.net/feed/ )

I’ve definitely attached the podcast episodes to the posts through podPress. And as I say, the same feed was working some weeks ago.

Thanks for replying. In the absence of earlier responses I ended up handing the job to my two geek sons, who got me setup eventually. I’m not geeked up on all the details, but I know it involved creating a unique taxonomy ‘podcast’ and linking it to podpress.

Working fine (apart from a current feed mystery problem, which I’ve just posted about).

Just to tie this one up .. It turned out in the end to be some corruption in my parent theme installation. Beyond my ken, but not that of my two professional geek sons. All fixed now, it seems.

Thanks, Jarret. Thankfully FTP is one thing my geekery does extend to. Would I be right to extrapolate from what you say that I could rename the folders for individual plugins and/or themes? I thinking maybe I could disable the most recently added ones first, if that’s an option. Is that possible?

Good news. I figured it out ?? …. Found there was another way to download the backed up database through the plugin settings page. That resulted in a text document. Now all restored through phpmyadmin. Happy camper, and feeling marginally more geeky

Uh, huh .. that sounds not quite so good ?? I’m pretty sure the hosts don’t backup the database (but I’ll check).

Possible plan B: I installed a plugin called “Updraft” a while back, and it’s been nicely saving backups for me, the last of which was yesterday. It saves a set of archives with these names:

backup-myblogname-uploads.zip
backup-myblogname-themes.zip
backup-myblogname-plugins.zip
backup-myblogname-db.gz
I’m guessing the last of these would be the one I want?? .. I’ve downloaded that, and it produces a Unix Executable File. What do I do with that?

(My desktop is a mac btw.)

ah, a reply ?? Thanks so much ..

Sadly I’m too noob to identify which files that would be. Can you give me some path details? Thanks.

P.S. In my browser at least, the above post has weird formatting, to say the least. I can’t figure out how to correct it, so too bad …

Just to report back – my hosting support people did it for me ?? All good now.

Thanks, webjunk. That’s probably wise advice. I’ve just opened a support ticket with my hosting support, linking to this thread. I’ll see what they say.

If they say no, I may be back …

thanks for persisting.

What I have setup may or may not be “best practice” .. it’s kind of fallen together over a period of time. I started my website (or rather my geek son built it for me) a few years ago, and I only envisaged using it for one purpose (a podcast). So it was all setup on that assumption. The domain fullofgraceandtruth.net was for that purpose.

But I’ve since added a WP blog (my own) installed in /public_html/foldername. (Didn’t bother with a unique domain name for that one.) And now I’m hosting a site (built with WP) installed in /public_html/anotherfoldername – with domain holytrinityportmelb.org.au .

Now .. can you please expand a little on the second half of your post? (I’m not quite geek enough … ) How do I do this .htaccess & 301 thingy … ? A few more baby steps would help my already melted brain ??

Many thanks.

Thanks for the thought. But actually that’s the article I linked in the 3rd paragraph. It didn’t really clarify my confusion in this case.