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Thank you Serhiy!

I think I would like to try it… for troubleshooting purposes the issue is:

? new, started about 2 months ago or so. for many years no issues and the “issue” is…

??the feed actually doesn’t update immediately, there is a non-consistent delay between posting and an episode being available on a podcast client

It’s not a big deal, it is actually working with this bizarre and kind of frustrating delayed posting, i just wonder with these type of things, what changed?

but yes, I would like to change post type, might as well do it right.

thank you again so much

Hi Serhiy!

Apologies for delay… again

I finally consolidated all podcast episodes into a single default podcast.

Same issues persist: clicking on the number beside the name of podcast (696) shows only 7

If I go to “All Posts”, however, and click sort by/filter the column “podcast”, it properly shows all podcast “posts”

I am going to empty caches again… I don’t really know!

thank you again for all of your help ??

I am SO SORRY that my responses are so delayed and sporadic. I am having crazy times with my job and family trips. I want to ping here to keep this thread alive ??

How many episodes can you see when you go directly to the?Podcasting -> All Episodes?page?

I only see, when I go to Podcasting -> All Episodes, 7 total (1 draft)
https://lukejanela.com/word/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=podcast

When I go to “Posts”, under the ‘Podcast’ Column there are hundreds, as indeed, most of my 700+ posts for last 7 years or so are podcast audio.

And, BTW, how many episodes can you see when you click the Default podcast number?

I only see (1) episode when I click the “Default” Podcast linked Number (which says 105 currently)

Weird!

I will be combining all into one, the default, per your instructions, soon. I need to wait until yet another family trip this weekend before as I need to do it carefully.

Thank you again for all your help and patience ??

Hey there, thanks so much for your patience and help.

I really want to stop bugging you but I do have more issues.

I went to consolidate the podcasts. A strange thing happens: when I click the number of episodes (600) I am shown 7 total episodes on subsequent page.

If I click the number of episodes of “default podcast” (103) I am shown 1 episode.

gif of behavior here

I am willing to give access to show if that is needed

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the other thing that is happening, which may be related to the above, is that last night, as an experiment after removing the redirect plugin, I posted a podcast episode. I checked boxes for both default and reveries podcast. Apple has not ingested it yet (and thus overcast). This was my original issue and is still in place after removing redirect plugin.

if you have time to take a look, thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

Apologies for the delay, I realized today that response pings to this thread were going to junk.

I did have a redirect plugin that I was not using (I hope!) and I deactivated it.

Upon testing a test podcast episode post just now, the problem of not seeing said post immediately when refreshing my podcast in overcast does still exist after deleting that plugin… so it seems that wasn’t the problem.

I couldn’t see anywhere where that very strange url redirect is being set, I certainly wouldn’t set it to that in any situation… cache? (no idea what i’m talking about lol)

perhaps an issue (that I haven’t yet had in 5+ years) is that i need to combine the “default” podcast with the much more heavily used “not-default” podcast.

How could I do this and not disrupt people’s experience with my feed?

Attached are screenshots, one of what I mean by default and not default, and another of each podcast’s settings/options.

Along similar lines, if I try the “turn it off and turn it back on again” approach of re-installing seriously simple, is there a way to do so without interrupting subscriber’s experience?

I realize this is a little vague as I don’t know what I am talking about, and I appreciate your responses. Hopefully I can get this sorted without having to bug you much. Cheers!

And just to clarify for help troubleshooting: these problems started in the past month or so with no changes on my end. I rarely, at this stage in my site/podcast, make changes, add plugins etc.

two podcasts which I don’t need… how to “combine”?

The podcast that I have been using all this time options/settings:

the podcast that is labeled “default” but which i don’t and haven’t been using

hmm, thank you… but also the plugin is not working properly… do i… re-install? I really really really value the hundreds of episodes in people’s feeds and continuing the project, so I am hoping perhaps you can help me troubleshoot that message and this issue of episodes not posting within the last month or so. Thanks so much!

This is disgusting. Offer something of value, rather than being able to *see submissions*

I will never know what opportunities I may have missed because of this gross, misleading, exploitative app. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND nobody install this app, ever. Form submission entries are NOT and should not be considered a premium feature.

Sidenote: I forgot that I need to research how to accomplish my end goal ideally using the mla_gallery shortcode… looking at now (finally)

Hi David,

Again, I am amazed by the generosity of your technical know how and continue to chew on how incredible this plugin is.

I just wanted to let the forum show for the record that I successfully have the foundation for mapping tags based on the ‘comment’ section of an itunes…

I feel like I am likely one of 7 people on this planet that actually “need” this function… nonetheless I want to document the (very basic, but for me it took a bit of trial and error to accomplish) steps that I took to make this happen.

To recap: the metadata of an attached audio file showed that indeed, the “comments” field was being ‘pulled’ via id3 tags… it said:

‘comment’ => ‘moody,ethereal,cello’,

David took the time to let me know that the way to “pull” this info was to use the term: template:[+id3:comment+]

So. What I did was:

Go to Settings -> Media Library Assistant
Click on the IPTC/EXIF tab
In my case I wanted the “Tags” to be populated by the “Comment” so I clicked Edit underneath “Tags” in the list of fields to the right (I could have also used Quick Edit)
In the “EXIF/Template Value” field I entered the text: template:[+id3:comment+]
I chose Exif as Priority (I don’t know if this is important)
In my case I chose “Keep” for existing text as I hoped to run this on existing files
I used a “,” delimiter, so that multiple tags would be created if I had multiple moods in my comment
I set the status to Active

This has made it such that when I upload files that have data in the comment field of my audio files, it automatically converts those into tags.

I have used the exact same uh… approach to making “Category” be populated by my “Genre” from my audio file.

So for me the ultimate end goal is to have a clickable tag cloud based on moods… I use the “comment” field to represent the moods of the track I have just recorded.

I am not 100% there yet as now I need to figure out how to (ideally) automatically create posts from these audio uploads, such that when a user clicks on a tag, it takes them to a page (archive?) of audio files of that particular tag. For example, clicking the tag “cello” would take you to all the songs I’ve recorded that use Cello. I may have to manually create posts for each of these… (any thoughts on this @dglingren ?)

Additionally I will be creating a very similar situation out of categories. In my oh so artistic way I am using the categories North East South and West as my overarching mood categories. I don’t know why I just see North as lonely and cold, East as exciting, South as mysterious and West as warm and invigorating. I’ve been using that system for years so it will be the “parent” and thus has a category rather than a tag.

So. I’m almost there. I doubt that this will help many people as I think most users have a more advanced working knowledge of wordpress than me. But in case it helps there you have it.

I’m very grateful for this plugin and am always amazed at people who take their valuable time to contribute to projects like mine without asking for a thing. THANK YOU and cheers. I hope to pay it forward myself in other ways.

Hi David,

Just wanted to take a moment to thank you both for your very helpful response and for the work you’ve done on this in general. Because this project is for my own betterment I have procrastinated on it terribly… But I plan now to dive back in, hence the very delayed response. I’ll keep you posted on what I find… if I can get this to work (and even if I don’t) your plugin is a lifesaver. Thank you.

Definitely!

Worked like a charm. Thank You!