Steve Rodgers

Hi Tim,

I sorted it out. I actually wasn’t an issue with any of the plugins at all.

The problem was that I was inserting music player into the posts, rather than podpress player. I’ve since updated all of my posts with the podpress player and voila! All of the post-specific subtitles and summaries are now showing in both itunes and in my feedburner xml.

For anyone else who finds this, you do not need to deactivate the Feedsmith plugin that redirects the feed to feedburner for this to work.

It was simply a problem of not using the podpress player.

Thanks again, Tim for all your help!

I noticed the file size value being 0 too, but paid it no mind because the podcast file actually plays in the blog, the feed and itunes.

Not sure what the auto-detect button is (?)

Here all of my active plugins.

I’m using the Thesis theme, btw

Active plugins:

Akismet
Audio Player
BackUpWordPress
Comment Reply Notification
Facebook Comments for WordPress
FLV Embed
Page Expiration Robot (PRO) – not used for posts ever.
Pinterest “Pin It” Button
Pinterest RSS Widget
podPress
Post Filters
TweetMeme Retweet Button
Widget Logic
WordPress.com Stats
WordPress plugin – Google +1 Button
Select WP-Stats WP-Stats

I think me might be getting somewhere now. Thanks for all your help so far.

I deactivated the Feedsmith plugin and now I see what you mean about the added tags.

Now the https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/feed does not redirect to feeds.feedburner.com/musicmarketingmanifesto/feed

If I look at my feed xml, it’s much cleaner and the channel summaries and subtitles are as they should be, however the recent episode is still not showing post-specific summary and subtitles that I have set.

I’m not sure if my boss updated the podpress plugin since I had originally set this up, but it’s possible and I noticed you have a special note in there for people who have upgraded from an older version.

Should I be updating this “Feed enhancedpodcast” section? Right now it’s mostly empty.

I have deactivated the itunes-new-feed-url as you have suggested.

I pinged my feed so that the xml would update and the itunes-new-feed-url is gone.

What is confusing me is that you have suggested that feedburner is adding tags and I’m seeing the opposite to be true. It seems that feedburner is removing the post-specific custom subtitle and summary values that I have added to the latest post, using the podpress post options.

Also, the xml is showing me that the itunes:subtitle and itunes:summary are the exact same string of text: “Music Marketing Manifesto is a leading resource for today’s DIY musicians and Music Business Professionals. Presented by John Oszajca, Music Marketing Expert and Former Major Label Recording Artist.”

I have not set it up this way in podpress itunes/feed settings, so I don’t know why this is the case.

It appears to me that the xml is not getting any information from the podpress settings at all

Lastly, the newest post does not appear as an item in the xml, but past episodes do.

I’m really feeling at this point that podpress is not affecting my feed at all, other than the fact that itunes, somehow knows how to find it by id.

I wish I could just get item specific (post-specific) subtitle and summaries to appear.

Thanks

Just to make sure I’m not overlooking something painfully obvious, but…

Inside of the XML file with feeburner, I’m noticing that the iTunes new-feed-url for my feed is https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/feed/

however my feedburner uri is indicating: musicmarketingmanifesto/feed <– without the ending forward slash.

Could what I’m experiencing be related to this somehow?

Thanks again

Hi Tim,

I’m using Version 8.8.10.13

I’m confused by your response. iTunes is getting my feed from podpress at https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/feed

That’s the same feed that feedburner is getting to. In other words any post specific stuff I activate should appear in both itunes and feedburner.

Are you suggesting that iTunes is getting my feed from feedburner? That’s not what I have set up in my feed/itunes settings.

Specifically, the latest podcast episode is the only one that I have set post-specific summary and subtitle for, just to test and see if it works.

Am I not undertsanding how itunes picks up my feed properly? I’m not seeing how feedburner affects this at all.

Nevermind Michael,

For some reason wordpress just didn’t like that particular page id. I just erased and recopied into a new page.

Thanks you very much! Job well done and much appreciated.

-Steve

Hi fives, Michael! That seemed to do the trick.

However I’m running into another issue, but I’m not certain that it’s related to this, but it might be.

I checked your code against two different page parents (the ones I listed in the if/ exclude statement) and it works just fine.

However when I publish a new parent page, it shows in navigation, which is great, but when you click the page, I’m getting an “Index of ‘Pagetitle’ page. Please note that the page looks fine in preview before publishing. It only does this when published.

Could this be because I haven’t indicated the page in our new globalnav code as a parent page?

Would you prefer I opened a new ticket?

Thank you for the awesome job you’ve done so far with the navbar ??

-Steve

Thanks, Michael

However I’m still getting the same effect though. It only seems to want to show the page designated in the second ‘if’ statement (page 112).

Page 107 is still not listing itself where we’re at right now.

What a pain huh? ?? I really appreciate you taking the time on this one.

Thant definitely fixed the syntax. however I’m still running into an issue.

Following our example– Hodrods would be page 107 (a parent page)
Streetbikes is page 112 (also a parent page)

for some reason, using the code you’ve provided, the main navigation seems to get rid of Hotrods 107 altogether, but shows Streetbikes 112 regardless of which page you are on.

If I reverse the two pieces of code the opposite shows is true (hodrods show, but streetbike is gone)

Should I be using an else or elseif statement instead?

I put the original here. That’s what I thought you were asking for.

The changes you suggested gave me a syntax error message. The only part I changed was to the function sandbox_globalnav below.

function sandbox_globalnav() {

	echo '<div id="menu"><ul>';
	echo '<li';
	if ( is_home() ) {

		echo ' class="current_page_item"';
	}
	echo '><a href="' . get_settings('siteurl') . '">Home</a></li>';
	if ( is_page('107') || $post_parent='107' ) {
$menu = wp_list_pages('exclude=112&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&echo=0');
}
if ( is_page('112') || $post_parent='112' ) {
$menu = wp_list_pages('exclude=107&title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&echo=0'); // Params for the page list in header.php
	echo str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "\t"), '', $menu);
	echo "</ul></div>\n";
}

Everything else was left unchanged. I’m backed up so I don’t have any problems there.

I was thinking I could just add if statements to sand_globalnav like you suggested, but unfortunately it didn’t work out for me.

function sandbox_globalnav() {

	echo '<div id="menu"><ul>';
	echo '<li';
	if ( is_home() ) {

		echo ' class="current_page_item"';
	}
	echo '><a href="' . get_settings('siteurl') . '">Home</a></li>';
	$menu = wp_list_pages('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&echo=0'); // Params for the page list in header.php
	echo str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "\t"), '', $menu);
	echo "</ul></div>\n";
}

Yes. Typo, realized after I posted it.

No luck, Michael.

I replaced what you’ve suggested and wordpress is giving me a syntax error:

unexpected $end on line 361

That is the last line of sandbox where the php tag is closed.

I was very careful to follow your instructions and checked it a few times, but I’m getting the same syntax error.

Is there any more info I can provide for you to help remedy this?

do you think it would be a good idea for me to create a new function with the code you’ve just provided? For instance I’ll keep the current sandbox_globalnav for the main header.

But I can made page-specific headers that link to different function that I create from the code above.

In other words I’ll leave globalnav alone. I’ll create a new function called function sandbox_hotrodnav() and put the code:

<div id="access">
		<?php sandbox_globalnav() ?>
	</div><!-- #access -->

in my custom header files.

That way my main blog home stays unaltered and I will customize page templates to reflect what you’ve provided above.

Am I on the right track here?

-Steve