I have the same problem on our site at https://outpostChurch.org. No solutions yet.
-Phillip
After a couple hours digging into the code to see how it works, I think I have found a workaround!
SHORT VERSION:
Change your service-type feed urls from these:
http://cpcpca.org/service-type/s2-worship/feed/
http://cpcpca.org/service-type/sunday-school/feed/
to these
http://cpcpca.org/sermon-archive/feed?wpfc_service_type=s2-worship
http://cpcpca.org/sermon-archive/feed?wpfc_service_type=sunday-school
https://outpostchurch.org/podcast/feed/?wpfc_service_type=weekend-messages
LONGER EXPLANATION:
Here is what seems to be the problem…
We use the web address https://outpostChurch.org/podcast/feed, to generate our main RSS feed. You use http://cpcpca.org/sermon-archive/feed. Both of these URLs are pulling in the file “wpfc-podcast-feed.php, which is in the “views” folder of the Sermon Manager plugin and is what the program uses to generate the feed, including the enclosures.
For some reason, when we use another URL to filter the results by a category, such as service type, that URL is actually NOT using the wpfc-podcast-feed.php file to generate the feed, but is using the default WordPress files to generate the file. This does NOT include media enclosures, which is why it won’t work for a podcast feed.
By changing the structure of the URL, we can filter the results but still use the right file to generate the feed.
We use Feedburner as the RSS feed that we submit to iTunes, so it’s a pretty easy fix to just update the URL in there and doesn’t require any other submissions to iTunes.
Hope that’s helpful. God bless you!
-Phillip Gonzales
phillip@phillipgonzales.com
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Sweet. I was escalating with our pastor on opening advanced support from the parent company wpforchurch that manages the plugin.
This was a great find. I did spend 2 days on trying to see if I can pull from another link. Honestly, I didn’t even think of the view php file, or using firebug to troubleshoot like I used to use in the old days.
We do have feedburner set up, so I can update with the new links. I swear this worked properly on past builds of the plugin with the old links.
I used to manage our website, but our pastor with agreement of the session decided to go with an outside company to manage the site’s implementation and design. They did decide to keep WordPress since upgrading is very easy. I still handle other things such as managing our domain and Google Apps if needed, but my involvement is low key which frees up my time anyway. 🙂
Thanks again for all your help!
Hi there,
This is indeed a bug in Sermon Manager, and thanks to Phillip, we were able to fix it quicker. 🙂
It was a matter of Sermon Manger not detecting those URLs as the ones it needed to override, but we’ve adjusted the code so it does detect them now.
The fix will be included in the next release of Sermon Manager, or if you want to use it now, you can download the development version of the plugin. To install it, first deactivate and remove existing Sermon Manger (no data will be lost).
Hooray! I’m so glad it worked for you, Dave, and thank you, Nikola for your help in future releases. Glad I could be of service 🙂 While you’re in there, could you look at the width of the “sermon title” column in the WordPress admin section? It got really REALLY narrow on my 13″ MacBook pro in both Safari and Chrome. Weird.
Thank you!
-Phillip
Sure, fixed! ✨
You can install development version, as mentioned in my previous reply, or wait for next release.
Thanks for the help!
Hello,
Sermon Manager has been working great for us for months, but we seem to suddenly have some issues with our url feed and our Apple Podcast subscribers are not able to listen to any of the episodes we have listed.This issue began on 10/22/18.
Here is our current url feed:
https://cookevillecentral.com/?feed=rss2&post_type=wpfc_sermon
When testing our feed url with Feed Validator, it fails. The issue reads:
“line 14, column 25: language must be an ISO-639 language code: United States”
Is this something on our end or is there another solution that will restore our feed with Apple Podcast?
–Sam
