Instead of using the shortcode, put the full URL to the mp3 file in the Podcast Episode box in the post editor (towards the bottom) in the media URL box. That will put it in the feed and generate a player on the post (depending on how you have the website tab in PowerPress settings filled out.
For complete setup and use instructions, see this video: https://youtu.be/4AV5HPvwRv8
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hluu
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Thank you for replying. I know how to do it in the WP editor.
I’m trying to do it via Postie (post by email). I need to do the equivalent of adding the media URL field in the editor screen — via email.
Try going the the Video and Audio Postie settings tab and change the audio template to:
[powerpress url="{FILELINK}"]
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hluu
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Thank you, but I think I went down the wrong path with the [powerpress] shortcode, since that only affects what shows up visually, ie, it will show a media player in the post.
What I need is to be able to attach a URL to a media file so that it will show up in the feed as an RSS enclosure and be recognized as a podcast episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure
Internally, this isn’t in the post table, but the postmeta table with meta_key ‘enclosure’
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hluu.
You can create an AddOn that will populate the correct meta values. See http://postieplugin.com/extending/
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hluu
(@hluu)
Ok, I hope I can do this, thanks 🙂
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hluu
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This turned out pretty straightforward, as wordpress API makes it easy. Posting code here. Hope this’ll help someone.
<?php
/*
Postie add-on to extract [enclosure] short code and insert into meta table the way powerpress does it
Take, for example,
[enclosure type="audio/mpeg" url="http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/9966888"
length="854664" duration="00:23:11"]/>
and add_post_meta 'enclosure' with value
http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/9966888
854664
audio/mpeg
a:1:{s:8:"duration";s:8:"00:23:11";}
*/
$enclosure = '';
function extract_enclosure($post) {
//do something here like update $post['post_content']
global $enclosure;
// look for a line containing
// [enclosure ....]
//
// may have spaces or > before and spaces after, but must be on line by itself
$re = '/(\R+|^)[ >]*\[enclosure (.+)?\] *(\R+|$)/m';
if (preg_match($re, $post['post_content'], $m)) {
// use SimpleXMLElement to parse attribute
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement("<element {$m[2]} />");
if ($xml) {
$enclosure =
$xml[0]['url'] . "\n" .
$xml[0]['length'] . "\n" .
$xml[0]['type'] . "\n" .
'a:1:{s:8:"duration";s:8:"' . $xml[0]['duration'] . '";}';
}
// replace multiple preceding and trailing \n with 1
$nl = $m[1] ? "\n" : '';
$nl .= $m[2] ? "\n" : '';
$post['post_content'] = preg_replace($re, $nl, $post['post_content'], 1);
}
return $post;
}
function insert_enclosure($post) {
global $enclosure;
if ($enclosure) {
add_post_meta($post['ID'], 'enclosure', $enclosure, true);
}
return $post;
}
add_filter('postie_post_before', 'extract_enclosure');
add_filter('postie_post_after', 'insert_enclosure');
?>
Nice. You could move all the logic from insert_enclosure() into extract_enclosure(). $post[‘ID’] exists and is valid during postie_post_before
