Rick

Ok so we were putting in a non-wordpress-uploaded file URL into this box. For applications that my client sells. Since .sit .exe, etc etc are not valid file extensions, in abstract-wc-product.php in the set_downloads() method line 1157 block, that error is never seen

$errors[] = sprintf( __( 'The downloadable file %1$s cannot be used as it does not have an allowed file type. Allowed types include: %2$s', 'woocommerce' ), '<code>' . basename( $download_object->get_file() ) . '</code>', '<code>' . implode( ', ', array_keys( $download_object->get_allowed_mime_types() ) ) . '</code>' );

Instead I get this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_catalog_visibility() on boolean in /path/to/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/includes/admin/class-wc-admin-post-types.php

So yeah this was a huge pain to track down. Commenting out your allowed file types block allows everything to work again. Obviously not the best solution, but it would be great if the error worked so that we knew what was going on, and a way to bypass this check.

My bad, looks like it breaks in the set_downloads() method. Im tracing it right now.

Yep you’re right, looks like there was a problem with the serialized data, it was starting with a string (s:151:) instead of array (a:1:), I removed the string wrapper and now it’s working. Only thing I can think of is that these are products that were imported and they were not imported correctly. Sorry about wasting your time!

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Ah thank you @etruel!

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Thank you Shawn, that’s what I was afraid of. They are embedded into the posts so I guess we only need one podcast feed. Ill have to experiment in my podcast app to see how everything shows up. Thank you to the both of you!

Using the post type really helped. Now I have a different issue, not with the plugin, but your advice on how I should handle it.. The audio, was no problem, but I realized the video feed.. our video is youtube uploads.. so how would you handle that since Im pretty sure youtube videos wont play within most podcasting apps and if they do.. how do we set it up so that it will work? Maybe we just need to put the link within the audio feed.. although having two feeds would be best.. or is this even possible?

And thank you again for your time, you’ve been awesome! ??

Im sorry, Im usually not this dense. I had created a post type podcast feed:

https://mountvernonsda.com/multimedia-archive/feed/sermons/

It has all the blog post info in it. I think my proble is trying to figure out how everything hooks in together and if I can define the audio and video content in the blog post/episode (which Im currently doing, but in my theme’s interface) so I duplicate it into the media, at least the audio file part, but I don’t see a way of defining both media parts, either in a taxonomy podcast type or a post type podcast type within the blog post.

Im a programmer also so Im feeling a bit sheepish even asking these questions ??

Yeah only a couple items since I only recently added your plugin and haven’t gone back and added the older episodes yet.

My problem is that I would like to create two feeds one for audio and one for video so that people can subscribe to whichever they would like to. How do I do that?

Bump ??

Thank you for your reply! I wasn’t able to get to things until today anyways so it worked out well for your reply ??

This is the Audio feed:
https://mountvernonsda.com/multimedia-category/weekly-sermons/feed/

I would still like to create a video feed also. The taxonomony is in the theme, but I can copy and paste the code for the taxonomy creation if you would like?

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Rick.

It’s part of the theme and this is the value of rewrite for the taxonomy:

‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘multimedia-archive’, ‘with_front’ => false),

// for the category of the taxonomoy
‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘multimedia-category’, ‘with_front’ => false, ‘hierarchical’ => true)

On a different note.. how do I create two feeds, using the same taxonomy that I just setup, one for audio and another for video? Whenever I try to duplicate, etc it just pops me in to edit the previously made feed.

The bug I mentioned above, looks like it’s just a bug with the display in the admin. The feed seems to be ok, but the feed URL that is displayed is wrong.

Oh excellent, thank you! So I added a taxonomy, but I think there might be a bug or something isn’t quite working with my theme’s special post types and categories. I added a post type (taxonomy) and category (term) and it looks like it added correctly, but then when it asks for all the podcast information, the podcast URL is using a different term than the one that I had specified. So then I set up a couple more taxonomy podcasts using the same taxonomy, but different terms, and those feed URLs were blank.

Bug?

How are you caching the data though? It seems like I should be able to pull the cached data and use it? or are you not catching the raw data? only the parsed data?