Keith a.k.a. K j A M

Disregard this question. I got it working.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Keith a.k.a. K j A M.

You could be right about the theme. I use Customizr Pro, which is no longer supported by WordPress. I’m in the process of switching to the Astra Pro theme. I also use the Soonar player but use PowerPress to generate my feeds (don’t ask, it’s complicated), but it works for my needs.

I’m happy to help with the development of your awesome plugin but only if it’s worth your time since I no longer am using your hosting service (sorry). Let me know and if you want, I’ll schedule a time with you next week. Otherwise, no harm no foul. I just wanted to bring it to your attention.

Actually, Category podcasting has always been enabled as has “strict categories” (see attachment).

Honestly, I’m not sure why it does this. I’ve tried staging on three separate services, and they all work perfectly fine, but for whatever reason, the category from the dropdown list and the artwork for each episode is stripped out. It’s blank.

I learned the hard way when I pushed the staging site live last year. I’m not sure how that category from the dropdown list interacts with the actual category assigned in WordPress, but I assume the WordPress category dictates what shows up for that category in PowerPress (though I could be wrong).

Since each category is listed as its own show on streaming platforms, I don’t know if removing the episode from the dropdown list has any effect or not. If it does, it’s important. If it doesn’t, eh. I just want to ensure that only that episode shows up under that category as well as the main feed itself.

As for the artwork, some streaming services, like Amazon, actually pull the artwork, which is why I want it there. Others, like Apple, do not. It just depends. So that, to me, is important.

While I’d prefer to use a staging site, it’s not a do-or-die because I just put up a roadblock to my website instead of creating a staging site when I’m creating an overhaul, but for others, that might be important because they can’t afford to lose traffic. I’d also check to see if it does it with Custom Podcast Channels, Taxonomy Podcasting, and Post Type Podcasting. I’ll bet it does.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Keith a.k.a. K j A M.

In the Gutenburg builder for PowerPress, the dropdown field for categories per episode and the individual artwork are removed when you create a staging site. Here’s what mine looks like before staging. After creating a staging site, these fields are empty.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-mIbXF8sngGlmTB-P6hKJyk_mXpbp0H/view?usp=drive_link

I don’t have to tell you that WordPress generates the feed that ends with /feed/ and PowerPress generates the feed that ends with /feed/podcast/. Both are identical and based on whatever information I add to the feed in PowerPress. Why this one feed was redirecting, I can’t say because there were no redirects for feeds that I could find — especially not back to the home page.

I went ahead and added the redirect as you suggested but that didn’t resolve the issue, nor did I expect it to. I’m just trying to hide the shortcode at the top of my post in the feed so it doesn’t show up as the description in streaming services.

I don’t use the description field for each episode because that was never a thing for many years and my podcast is 17 years old. It always pulled from the blog post, which is why I’m now having issues with the shortcode appearing as part of the description since I moved the player to the top of the post.

I replied several days ago and it’s missing. Anyway, here’s the link to one of my podcasts in Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/club-fusion-by-party-favorz/id1676656976?mt=2&ls=1

I have a code to hide the shortcode in the RSS feed but cannot find the shortcode_function that triggers the play button to add it to my functions.php file in my child theme. I’m going back and forth with the developer now about what it is but he seems to be questioning if I’m adding the shortcode into the description when I just rely on the blog post to be pulled like it always has. With over 1,000 episodes, there’s not enough time in my day to summarize all of them when I’m trying to maintain a website, podcast, and create content.

Interesting, it appears to me this is something built into WordPress not my theme. I know you offer the option in your newer block editor.

Regardless, I don’t think the people behind CustomizrPro are the same developers. They say they’re still supporting the theme but it hasn’t had an update in over a year. I’ll be switching themes in the new year and will see if that changes anything. I doubt it but okay.

Thanks.