Dave Chimny

@gerroald: It’s working for me. As a thread starter, I can mark this one “resolved”. ??

@seaturtledave: Use phpMyAdmin (or something similar) and clear the tables XX_itsec_log, XX_itsec_lockouts and XX_itsec_temp (XX stands for your prefix). Then it should let you in, again. ??

@dwinden Works. Even after deleting the folders, they are recreated seconds later. ??

Did you edit any of the plugin files or use an own feed template? It sounds like the BOM (Byte Order Mark) problem that some editors have.

The most (well programmed) podcast directories check the feed on a regular basis and adopt changes. iTunes had my changes between 5 minutes and 24 hours later – I still don’t know why it was sometimes faster. ??

It’s a bit late, but I had the same problem today. I found this snippet that has to be put in the Theme’s functions.php or (what I prefer) a custom plugin. Now, the matching podcast episodes are shown in the category/tag archives.

/* Podcast in Tag/Category Archives START */
function add_custom_types_to_tax( $query ) {
if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {

// Get all your post types
$post_types = get_post_types();

$query->set( 'post_type', $post_types );
return $query;
}
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'add_custom_types_to_tax' );
/* Podcast in Tag/Category Archives END */

Possibly a clue: I have 4 independent WordPress installations (one per domain on my server) and PHP 7 is activated for every domain. My hoster lets me chose this for every subdomain. ??

BackWPup has the same settings in every install but only in one installation the same error occurs when the automatic backup wants to send the database backup via email. I set this domain to use PHP 5.6 and then everything worked normal again.

Maybe another plugin interfers..

The errors aren’t fatal, those are just recommendations. ??

Better use podba.se and castfeedvalidator.com for validating podcast feeds. They reveal that your server doesn’t support “byte range” and iTunes may reject your podcast. :-/

It’s a feature, introduced in an earlier version. Hugh, the developer of the plugin, is already working on it, since it is now clear how it should work. ??

I fixed it temporarily with changing line 188 in /seriously-simple-podcasting/templates/feed-podcast.php from “clean” to “No”.

if ( $explicit_option && 'on' == $explicit_option ) {
	$explicit = 'yes';
} else {
	$explicit = 'No';
}

After about 24 hours, iTunes should remove the “Clean” tag. ??

iTunes sees every episode that is included in your podcast’s RSS feed:
https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/peace-church-sermons/id1069513644

The WordPress setting Settings > Reading > “Syndication feeds show the xx most recent items” affects how many items are shown in iTunes. Just change that and you’re done.

If you also have text content on your WordPress website, you should leave it around 20 and give the podcast feed an own value via the function.php file of your theme (or an own plugin):

function ssp_posts_in_feed ($n) {
	return XXXXX; // The number of episodes in RSS feed
}

add_filter('ssp_feed_number_of_posts', 'ssp_posts_in_feed');

I’ve set it to 9999 on my website, so iTunes receives every episode. ??

Go to Podcast > Settings and check the needed Podcast post types. This should show blog posts with podcast content in the podcast feed.

This seems to be a thing of your WordPress theme. The featured images in your Quotes archive have the same dimensions.

The size (400×230) could be set by the theme itself or by media settings of WordPress: Settings > Media

Is the size set there as “Thumbnail” size? Then you can change it to Width 400, Height 9999 and Crop off (that makes images appear with 400px width and the corresponding proportional height.

Next problem is: This just works for newly added images. Therefore you should regenerate the images with Force Regenerate Thumbnails.

Same here: The content of the Dashboard page (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec) breaks after

Database Information
MySQL Database Version: 5.6.25-73.0-log
MySQL Client Version:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_get_client_info() in /var/***/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/content/system.php:70 Stack trace: #0 /var/***/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/class-itsec-dashboard-admin.php(119): require_once() #1 /var/***/wp-admin/includes/template.php(1037): ITSEC_Dashboard_Admin->metabox_normal_system_info(NULL, Array) #2 /var/***/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/class-itsec-core.php(1578): do_meta_boxes(Object(WP_Screen), ‘advanced’, NULL) #3 /var/***/wp-includes/plugin.php(525): ITSEC_Core->render_page(”) #4 /var/***/wp-admin/admin.php(236): do_action(‘toplevel_page_i…’) #5 {main} thrown in /var/***/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/content/system.php on line 70

I found out that mysql_get_client_info() was removed in PHP 7.

The image is 1.2 MB in size and it’s in CMYK color mode – maybe iTunes doesn’t want that. Convert it to RGB and then re-upload it. ??

By the way: The logo on your website is also in CMYK mode.

Go to Podcast > Settings and check “Include podcast in main blog”. That *should* do it. ??

iTunes doesn’t show changes immediately. In my server logs, I could see iTunes crawling the feed every ~15 minutes. But once the changes were on iTunes after 5 minutes, sometimes I had to wait 20 hours until I could see an effect. I’d just wait some more time. ??