Title: Description Pulling from Blog Coding
Last modified: March 22, 2017

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# Description Pulling from Blog Coding

 *  Resolved [ohjujube](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohjujube/)
 * (@ohjujube)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-pulling-from-blog-coding/)
 * Hey all-
    My podcast description looks fine on iTunes when viewed on a desktop,
   but when viewed on mobile via the iTunes app (and in various other places around
   the web – ie listennotes, etc), the description is just garbled code from my 
   WordPress theme.
 * When I look at the RSS feed, I can see that all the iTunes tags look good, but
   the <description> tag is filled with junk.
 * I have checked all the boxes to write my own iTunes episode descriptions instead
   of having it pull from the blog post, etc. I also tried the ‘Wrap summary values
   with <![CDATA[ … ]]> tags’ as I was advised that it would help.
 * Nothing is working… any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
 * RSS feed: [http://marchbradness.net/feed/podcast/](http://marchbradness.net/feed/podcast/)

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 *  Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * (@shawnogordo)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-pulling-from-blog-coding/#post-8945100)
 * The iOS Podcasts app doesn’t use the itunes:summary tags for displaying descriptions
   like the iTunes desktop application does. Instead, the iOS app pulls from the
   main blog post section of your feed. Look at the Feeds tab of PowerPress Advanced
   Mode and check the box next to Do not allow other plugins to modify podcast feeds
   and click the Save Changes button. See if that helps with the problem.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/)
 * (@amandato)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-pulling-from-blog-coding/#post-8946602)
 * We are working on a webpage to explain the differences, but here’s a quick cheat-
   sheet what is happening…
 * * iOS podcast app episode level uses fields in this order: <content:encoded>,
   <itunes:summary>, <description>
 * * iTunes Desktop app episode level uses fields in this order: <itunes:summary
   >, <description>
 * To have the exact same behavior for both mobile and Desktop apps, go to WordPress
   settings > Reading page go to option “For each article in a feed, show” and select“
   Summary” then click save changes. This turns off the <content:encoded> in the
   feed.
 * You do not have to enter your own <![CDATA[ … ]]> tags, PowerPress does this 
   automatically for the itunes:summary. You may have accidentally unchecked this
   option, go to PowerPress settings > iTunes tab, make sure “Wrap summary values
   with <![CDATA[ … ]]> tags” is checked then click save.
 *  Thread Starter [ohjujube](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohjujube/)
 * (@ohjujube)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-pulling-from-blog-coding/#post-8949185)
 * [@amandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/) – Thank you so much,
   you made my day! That fixed the problem immediately. A big relief – I really 
   appreciate the quick response and detailed answer.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/)
 * (@amandato)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-pulling-from-blog-coding/#post-8950195)
 * Hello [@ohjujube](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohjujube/),
 * Glad I was able to help! Perfect timing as I just put these notes together over
   the past weekend.
 * If you have a moment we would greatly appreciate it if you could [leave our plugin a review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/powerpress/reviews/?rate=5#new-post).
   Thanks!

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 * [itunes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/itunes/)
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 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-pulling-from-blog-coding/#post-8950195)
 * Status: resolved