Title: Adding Podcast Episodes Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Adding Podcast Episodes * [synthtony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synthtony/) * (@synthtony) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/) * I am sorry if this seems like a really stupid question. I just started using PowerPress with a client’s site. Previously I was hosting the podcasts on Podcastgarden. com for iTunes and RSSS feeds, but I was also manually putting the episodes on the clients site and creating posts that pointed to those files for site visitors to use. I was able to setup PowewrPress and get it to link to the Podcastgarden feed and it seems to have pulled in all the episode content correctly but I have two issues: 1. When it imported, all of the podcast episode description text was missing. How can I rectify without manually going in and updating each post? 2. I am not exactly sure how I now add new podcast episodes. Do I put them on Podcastgarden and then does Powerpress automatically scan and pick these up and create the posts or do I still have to manually create a post for each new podcast and point it to the feed location? My hope was that I would not be continuing to double input each episode. Any help on this is welcome as I get to know the plugin. Thanks in advance. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/) * (@shawnogordo) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421422) * Can you post a link to the RSS feed from Podcast Garden? The text portions of the original entries should’ve come along with the podcast information when you imported them. It’s possible there’s something in the Podcast Garden feed that prevented this from happening. * When you import an RSS feed into PowerPress, it brings in all existing entries from that feed. It doesn’t scan the feed after that for updates. You’ll have to add new episodes manually. This page has instructions on how to do that: [http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/creating-your-first-episode-with-powerpress/](http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/creating-your-first-episode-with-powerpress/) * Thread Starter [synthtony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synthtony/) * (@synthtony) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421466) * Thnanks. The RSS URL is: [http://www.podcastgarden.com/podcast/podcast-rss.php?id=358](http://www.podcastgarden.com/podcast/podcast-rss.php?id=358) * Then also to sum up in short. I need to still post a podcast to the current host, then create a post with the same info and the new episode URL and validate it and then publish the post. * No way to make this a one step process is there? Thanks again. * Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/) * (@shawnogordo) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421512) * > Then also to sum up in short. I need to still post a podcast to the current > host, then create a post with the same info and the new episode URL and validate > it and then publish the post. * Yes, that’s correct. There’s no way I’m aware of that you can automatically post to WordPress/PowerPress using an RSS feed. * The lead developer of PowerPress is going to look over that Podcast Garden feed and see if he can figure out why it didn’t import the blog portions, and only the podcast episodes, from the RSS feed. * Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/) * (@amandato) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421588) * Hello synthtony, * I took a look at the Podcast Garden feed. IT does not have or RSS tags in the . I’ve never seen a feed before with these tags missing. That is why the blog post content is blank as these are the 2 fields where blog post content is specified. * If you go into the podcast episode box (check the box to modify), you will find that the itunes:summary should be there. Those fields are present in your Podcast Garden feed. You should be ab le to copy the content from here and paste it into your blog posts. * I am adding logic to PowerPress to deal with this scenario. Sorry we did not foresee this situation where there are no or fields. It is highly irregular. I am surprised it passes feed validation even though it is missing key RSS tags. * Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/) * (@amandato) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421592) * Hello synthtony, * I have added code to PowerPress to deal with podcastgarden podcast feeds. * Do you want to re-import or did you want to manually edit and fix the previous imported episodes? * Thanks! * Thread Starter [synthtony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synthtony/) * (@synthtony) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421593) * Since this is still a dev site, I’d probably want to re import. Do I need to delete all the podcast posts first or can I re import and overwrite? * Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/) * (@amandato) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421602) * Awesome this is a dev site! * Hopefully this is not too hard to do but I would recommend deleting all of the imported blog posts then re-import. * At the end of the day today I will be releasing PowerPress 7.0 beta 5 (It is the last beta of 7.0 which has this import logic fixed). We will be releasing PowerPress 7.0 on Monday, but if you do not want to wait until Monday you can get the beta 5 tonight on our beta page: [http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/powerpress-beta/](http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/powerpress-beta/). * It should be posted at the URL linked by 5pm Eastern US time today. * Thread Starter [synthtony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synthtony/) * (@synthtony) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421612) * I thought this would just be a process of deleting the existing podcast posts and re importing, but when I re imported, the plugin shows that all the episodes had already been imported except the three I have added since I installed the plugin.So it essentially imported 3 and skipped 179. I tried re importing again with the Override info box checked, but no difference. Also, none of the posts were recreated when I re imported. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin but it seems to have the info cached somewhere. * So I hate to bug you, but how do I successfully delete the old podcasts/posts, and re import all the podcasts again as well as recreate their relevant posts? Thanks. * Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/) * (@amandato) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421636) * When you deleted the old posts, did you also remove them from the trash? * I have to look but I think we consider posts that are deleted as well as matched in case you were just doing some clean-up to the site after an import. * Thread Starter [synthtony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synthtony/) * (@synthtony) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421637) * Emptying the trash worked. Should’ve thought of that. The import worked and the descriptions showed up. I am going live this week with their site. At that point I am going to redirect the iTunes feed. Has anything changed or anything additional I should know about redirecting the RSS feed from the old host to PowerPress from the site? * Again thanks for all the help. * Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/) * (@shawnogordo) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421639) * This page has instructions on redirecting a feed: [http://create.blubrry.com/manual/syndicating-your-podcast-rss-feeds/changing-your-podcast-rss-feed-address-url/](http://create.blubrry.com/manual/syndicating-your-podcast-rss-feeds/changing-your-podcast-rss-feed-address-url/) Follow this process and you should be fine. * Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/) * (@amandato) * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-podcast-episodes/#post-7421642) * synthtony, are you all set? 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