iTunes is not recognizing the enclosures in our RSS feed as podcast episodes. We're using Feedburner to add iTunes-specific tags to the feed, but iTunes has the problem with the original feed as well.
Here's our original RSS feed:
http://www.esvbible.org/devotions/rss/chronological/
Here's our Feedburnerized feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ESV-Chronological
Here's the podcast page on Apple's site:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/esv-chronological/id301024126
The enclosures are still there, with the appropriate type. Feedburner has changed the length of the enclosure from the empty string to "0", which after checking the spec is technically correct. What am I missing?
Turns out, iTunes completely ignores the MIME type, and is dependent upon the .mp3 file extension in the URL. Adding the extension fixes the feed.
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I think I know the answer, but wanted to double check:
Should the link tag in an RSS feed always point to a website's home page or to the most relevant page?
What I mean: say there is a website devoted to real estate (http://www.realestate.com) that has multiple RSS feeds. One RSS feed is latest listings, one RSS feed is latest home listings, one RSS feed is latest apartment listings, etc. The home listings can be found at http://www.realestate.com/home-listings.html. The apartment listings can be found at http://www.realestate.com/apartment-listings.html
Should the link tag for all 3 RSS feeds point to http://www.realestate.com/? Or should it point to, respectively, http://www.realestate.com/, http://www.realestate.com/home-listings.html and http://www.realestate.com/appartment-listings.html?
The RSS "Profile" states that "The link element identifies the URL of the web site associated with the feed (required)."
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-link
But let's be pragamtic. The intention here, is certainly to let the user click on the link to go to the source of information.
I think it would be better to link to the apropriate section than to the homepage.
I want to display RSS posts in WordPress. The default RSS plugin lets one see items by adding source. I added valid RSS source, but WordPress gives following error,
RSS Error: A feed could not be found at https://medium.com/feed/#mbertulli. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed.
I want to create a RSS feed based on the Tumblr tags I use. I want to submit some of my posts to a blog syndication service. To the blog syndicator I have to provide a RSS feed. But I don't want all posts to appear there. Is there a way I can do something like this?
When I tag a post with a specific keyword: (eg: #blog) the post will
get added to the RSS feed.
If the #blog tag is not there, the post doesn't get included to the RSS feed.
OP found the answer themselves here it is:
mydomain.tumblr.com/tagged/tagx/rss
Adding /rss after a tumblr URL apparently generates an RSS feed (probably only if the blog has enabled RSS).
I've created a RSS 2.0 feed for my podcast, but when I test it in iTunes (Advanced -> Subscribe to podcast..) no episodes are showing.
I haven't yet added iTunes specific tags, since I though they were not required. Are they? Is there any way to debug why it's not working? It is a valid RSS 2.0 feed according to W3C's feed validator.
The <link>s in your <item>s should be <enclosure>s instead. See the feed specs example feed:
<enclosure url="http://example.com/podcasts/everything/AllAboutEverythingEpisode3.m4a" length="8727310" type="audio/x-m4a" />
I've config'ed a WP blog (now at 3.0) to provide full RSS feeds. Yet WP insists on producing excerpt RSS feeds.
What could cause this? How does WP produce an RSS feed? (i.e. what functions get called, what gets filtered, what hooks run, etc.)
It could be several reasons. Most likely either
a. A plugin the manipulates your RSS feed. Do you have one such installed?
b. Some manipulating code in your theme's "functions.php" file...
Could you check either of those out, or go a bit more into detail?