Title: [Plugin: podPress] iTune feed incorrect
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: podPress] iTune feed incorrect

 *  [BSR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/)
 * (@biblestudyradio)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/)
 * The iTunes:Subtitle field was entered in the Feed/iTune Setting, however the 
   content within <itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle> in the feed was not what was
   entered in the field. It took part of the <itunes:summary> as the subtitle.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [BSR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/)
 * (@biblestudyradio)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079112)
 * After updating to the newest version, the <itunes:category> are incorrect and
   the RSS Feed no longer works. Please fix ASAP.
 *  [UULosAlamos Webmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uulosalamos-webmaster/)
 * (@uulosalamos-webmaster)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079115)
 * Yes. Our iTunes:category was Religion and Spirituality and the “&” breaks the
   RSS. Had to turn category off for now to get it to work.
 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079149)
 * Thank you for reporting the problems!
 * The current [Development Version](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/download/)
   includes already a bug fix for the problem with the “&” characters.
 * But so far I could not find the wrong behaviour of the <itunes:subtitle>. But
   I will make some more tests.
    [@biblestudyradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/):
   Which <tunes:subtitle> element did you wrote about? The one of the <channel> 
   or the ones of the <item>s?
 * Regards,
    Tim
 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079154)
 * [@biblestudyradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/): Now
   I have controlled the <itunes:subtitle> of the channel and the channel items.
   
   If you insert something in the field for the <itunes:subtitle> of the main feeds
   or the podPress Feeds then that value shows up in the feed. If you leave that
   blank then the <itunes:subtitle> element in the feed stays empty, too.
 * The <itunes:subtitle> element of the <item>s behaves differently. You can choose
   in the post specific itunes settings (while you are editing a post) “Use the 
   excerpt” or “insert a custom value”.
    If you choose “Use the excerpt” (it is 
   also the default setting) then podPress tries to use the manually written excerpt
   of the post. If there is no manually written excerpt, it takes the first words
   of the content of the post and if the content is also empty (or something went
   wrong) then it takes the post title as the itunes:subtitle. If you choose “insert
   a custom value” then you can enter a custom value. But if you leave that input
   field empty, then setting will be set automatically to “Use the excerpt” again.
 *  Thread Starter [BSR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/)
 * (@biblestudyradio)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079347)
 * The new fixed version still not working. I had to revered back to the 10.2 again.
   With the 10.4 I got an error when verifying with feed validator:
 *  line 145, column 1: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode bytes in position 7320-7322: invalid
   data (maybe a high-bit character?) [help]
 *  <itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
    ^
 * Also version 10.2 and the new 10.4 both has issue (not error):
 * line 31, column 58: title should not contain HTML: » [help]
 *  <title>Chinese Bible Study Radio » Podcast Feed</title>
    ^
 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079348)
 * [@biblestudyradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/): Have
   you tried 8.8.10.6?
    If there are still problems then please, post besides the
   error message at least the two lines from the XML code which are above the line
   with error. The line which is in the error message is sometimes not helping me(
   like the message with the itunes:block element. It is fine as it is. The cause
   for the error message was in a different line). Or don’t switch back to 10.2,
   so that I can see myself what the problem is. I’m the next 2 hours in front of
   the computer (until 0:00 UTC+2).
 * Regards,
    Tim
 *  Thread Starter [BSR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/)
 * (@biblestudyradio)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079349)
 * I just upgraded to 10.6, same error. Here is the feed validator link that you
   will see the error:
 * [http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://chinese.biblestudyradio.org/?feed=podcast](http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://chinese.biblestudyradio.org/?feed=podcast)
 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079354)
 * Thank you. I could see what the problem is. (The method which limits the number
   of characters in the <itunes:subtitle> cut off a part of last Chinese symbol 
   and the validator (and probably some feed readers) has trouble to interpret that.
 * This particular problem is probably limited to blogs with languages with [multibyte characters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibyte_character).
 * I will think about a solution.
 * Thanks,
    Tim
 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079355)
 * You may try the current [Development Version](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/download/)(
   8.8.10.7 beta 1). it uses a multi-byte safe function (mb_substr instead of substr)
   to limit the number of characters in the <itunes:subtitle> (in fact not only 
   in the subtitle).
 * I would appreciate it very much if you could test this Development Version.
 * Regards,
    Tim
 *  Thread Starter [BSR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/)
 * (@biblestudyradio)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079356)
 * Why 10.2 did not have this problem?
 *  Thread Starter [BSR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biblestudyradio/)
 * (@biblestudyradio)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079357)
 * The beta seems to work.
 * [http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://chinese.biblestudyradio.org/?feed=podcast](http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://chinese.biblestudyradio.org/?feed=podcast)
 * But still have the issue in line 30
 *  Plugin Author [ntm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ntm/)
 * (@ntm)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-podpress-itune-feed-incorrect/#post-2079358)
 * > But still have the issue in line 30
 * Yes, I know. I will think about that too.

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