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Same here!

Beautiful. I knew it was something simple like that. Thanks Tafts!

Also, would anyone know of a way to limit how many posts come up in the “featured” and “popular” sections? I’d like to limit it to no more than two at a given time, if possible.

Thank you both! I was able to center it using your advice. Much appreciated!

Hi Govpatel and thanks for responding. I found those lines using the Firebug plug-in for Firefox, but strangely enough, the style.css doesn’t contain any #headimg tag. The information I pasted above is literally all that is included in the style file regarding the header. With nothing calling on height, I’m really at a loss.

Hi, I looked into this thread and used the advice therein, but the theme doesn’t have the same tags. My style.css file has this regarding the header:

============================================================
#wrapper
{
background:#ffffff;
width:974px;
margin:0 auto;
position:relative;
}

#header
{
background:#505050;
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, “DejaVu Sans”, sans-serif;
display:block;
}

#headerwidget
{
float:right;
width:468px;
height:60px;
margin:18px 54px 0 0;
overflow:hidden;
}

.hitem
{
background:#FFFFFF;
}

#headerwidget .widget h3
{
margin-top:0;
====================================

Firebug pulls html that makes the size very apparent but I’m not sure how to get at it since it’s not in the style file. Am I missing something?

Hi ntm,

Thanks a ton for helping me through here. I saw everything you described and went through and fixed it, so each post should only have a single enclosure now. I tested out the downloads for the feed you linked and Feedburner and they’re both tallying up perfectly. I notice that it’s not immediate through iTunes but I’d assume there’s a delay before their downloads update (that TTL timer in the podPress settings page)?

I can’t tell you how grateful I am for the support you’ve given here. I’ve notified the Vagary TV network about the enclosure issue so we know to work around that until the next release. Good luck on all of your future efforts, ntm!!!

That’s definitely an option on my mind. I like how podPress is designed and set up, though, so I’d like to keep it if possible. Does podtrac break it down by episode and download type?

Some extra info, in case it’s relevant:

Currently under “Podcast Feed URL” it’s set to our FeedBurner at “https://feeds.feedburner.com/Multiverse”.

iTunes:New-Feed-Url is set to “Disable.”

Also, “Enable podTrac Statistics” was turned on under General Settings but that must have been an error since I don’t use it. I just disabled it.

Okay, I did a little bit more digging and I think I know where this issue is stemming from. Since some shows track and others don’t, I figured that it must be related to the feed. So, I went into FeedBurner (feedburner.com) and used their PodMedic tool.

The shows that aren’t reporting iTunes downloads are all associated with “podpress_trac” whereas the others are not.

Here’s are some examples of those that work from the report (copy/pasted exactly):

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Content Item: “The Multiverse – Episode #7: “MMO Divorce””

* Yay! Media enclosure created for: ~r/multiverse/~5/_a_CKvfIG8k/multiverse07.mp3

Content Item: “The Multiverse – Episode #5: “Semi-Intelligent Manchild””

* Yay! Media enclosure created for: ~r/multiverse/~5/2Pr_zbP3VT8/multiverse05.mp3

Content Item: “The Multiverse – Episode #4: “You Wanna Talk Good””

* Yay! Media enclosure created for: ~r/multiverse/~5/HAwCXHAPPAE/multiverse04.mp3

—

As you can see, they all begin with “~r” I don’t know anything about this, some I’m shooting in the dark.

Here are the listings of episodes not tracking right:

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Content Item: “The Multiverse – Episode #9: “Guest Starring: Syp””

* Yay! Media enclosure created for: multiverse/podpress_trac/feed/128/0/multiverse09.mp3

Content Item: “The Multiverse – Episode #8: “Ringing in the Weekly Show””

* Yay! Media enclosure created for: multiverse/podpress_trac/feed/116/0/multiverse08.mp3

Content Item: “The Multiverse – Episode #2: “Skinemax””

* Yay! Media enclosure created for: multiverse/podpress_trac/feed/37/0/multiverse02.mp3

—-

I don’t know why they’d be different since I’ve been posting them all the same way through the WordPress dashboard.

Any ideas on what’s causing it/how to fix it? Thanks again, ntm. You are a total life saver here. We’re trying to get added into a podcast collective at virginworlds.com and the low stats are something I know will concern them.

– Chris

The Feedburner plugin is titled specifically “FD Feedburner Plugin.” Here’s the homepage to get it easily. WordPress Stats is “WordPress.com Stats” and is here. My understanding is that it replicates the stat tracking available on the *.wordpress.com blogs.

For “Stat Method” I’m set to “Use WP Permalinks.” Stat Logging is set to “Counts Only.” The test for stats support comes up successful.

I discovered something interesting tonight though. I tried to download Episode 7 through iTunes and it’s still tracking those stats! Just not 6, 8, or 9. The only difference I could see was that under the “custom fields” section on the edit post page, episode 7 had defaulted to “feature image” where as 8 and 9 were “enclosure” with information on the show title, length, and size. I changed 6, 8, and 9 to match 7 but it didn’t result in any changes.

The only thing I can think of that changed was we moved from the Suffusion theme to Motion shortly before this started happening. Could it be related to that at all? This is even more perplexing that it’s happening for certain files but not all.

I’ve been looking through our directory and can’t seem to find any “robots.txt” file. The .htaccess files are there though. Should I have this somewhere?

Hi ntm,

Thanks so much for the quick and thorough response. That’s strange about the feed. I literally checked this out yesterday, before updating PodPress, and it had the correct iTunes ID in there. I fixed it now, though, so it should be working again. Before I posted my original post, I took down the ability to view the download statistics on the main page (I didn’t want to discourage new listeners). I re-enabled that though, in case you wanted to see if the downloads had any impact. I’m still not seeing any update in the feed downloads even from yours recently. Still sitting strong at 14.

In regards to your questions:

1) I’m pretty sure our feeds have been functional since we started. They’ve been posting to iTunes for download fine within the default TTL frame. I do use the FeedBurner plugin, though. I disabled it recently for testing and it didn’t seem to make a difference with the stats tracking (not sure if it would anyways).

2) Since we started, we’ve left everything to do with the feed intact. At least on my end. I have an email out to our site dev. right now to see if anything’s happened behind the scene. I don’t think he’s played with it at all though, since he usually keeps me posted on what’s changing/being tweaked.

3) No, I haven’t changed anything with them at all. I only found out about them last night while researching, actually.

4) No new plugins, either. We only really use WordPress Stats, Cystats, Feedburner, and Akismet.

Could something have gotten corrupted, somehow? I’m open to doing a re-install if that might fix it up. I love PodPress, so I’d really like to keep on utilizing it.

Thanks again for the help. I really appreciate you taking the time today.

– Chris

I am having this issue as well now with version 8.8.4. Any help would be greatly appreciated, since I’m at a total loss. What //’s did you remove?

Thanks Esmi!!!