Validator and apps reporting empty feed?

Hi all,

I’ve recently set up a second podcast on our site using strict category podcasting. As far as I can tell everything is set up correctly, and I’ve published all the episodes of the first season (it’s a drop of ten very short episodes, all at once, though the episode posts are dated with 15 minute intervals). I’m also not listing it in Apple Podcasts or other directories, as it is a private podcast just for our crowdfunding supporters. (Preventing public listing in directories and not linking to it obviously on the web site is sufficient for our needs; we’ll send the feed and a support page URL to listeners directly.)

However Blubrry’s own castfeedvalidator.com reports there are no episodes in the feed (no items with an enclosure); Overcast won’t add it because it says the feed is empty; and the Apple Podcasts app adds the podcast, but shows no episodes.

But viewing the raw XML of the feed (by opening the feed URL in Chrome) shows that the episodes are included and Blubrry is adding the <enclosure> tags to the feed correctly (as far as I can tell). The Podbase validator also reports no errors.

I am not using a caching plug-in for WordPress, so I don’t think that’s the problem. I am using a category excluder podcast to prevent this category and its posts showing up on the first page (again, it’s a “secret” podcast), which did make the category feed appear empty, but I have disabled the option which caused that problem and again, in Chrome the feed XML includes everything now.

Can anyone assist?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Ben McKenzie.

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