• Resolved luisramosbcn

    (@luisramosbcn)


    Hi,

    The URLs pointing to the podcast post now appear with a capital P, as in “Podcast”, but the posts are automatically created without capital, as in “podcast”.

    The result is that podcast posts appear as “not found” because from the main page the links are pointing to non-existing URLs (with capital P).

    This is automatically handled by the plugin. I can’t seem to change it in the options, so what’s going on…?

    Test with http://librosparaemprendedores.net

    The first two articles are podcast posts. If you try and visit those posts, you get 404s, but if you manually change the url to replace the capital P, this works.

    I’ve tested with latest version of the plugin, I’ve also rolled back to a previous version and this is still happening (I guess it has made changes in the database).

    Please help, I think this problem is critical.

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  • Plugin Author Craig Hewitt

    (@podcastmotor)

    Hi Luis,

    Have you looked at other plugins that could be creating custom post types that are active on your site? This could be confounding how SSP creates/names the ‘podcast’ CPT. We don’t see this in either our development environment or test sites that we run the plugin on.

    If you have any other info please pass it along.

    Craig

    Thread Starter luisramosbcn

    (@luisramosbcn)

    I disabled all the plugins and tested and this was still on. And I don’t have plugins that change or create custom post types (just yours, in fact).

    No idea why or where the conflict was. No plugins have been installed recently and this was a stable environment.

    The “funny” thing is that all urls were changed for your custom post type. No other posts or categories were affected.

    I’ve removed all content from your plugin by moving the post type of all episodes to “post”, and redirect the rss feed to the one that libsyn creates.

    And I’ve changed the urls of all the posts so they include the “podcast” text not in capital letters, so I don’t lose positioning in google.

    It’s a very popular podcast (#1 in business worldwide for spanish language), and this was hitting me hard.

    Plugin Author Craig Hewitt

    (@podcastmotor)

    Are you creating the podcast episodes under the Podcasts menu? Or the regular Post menu in WP-Admin? If you’re creating them under the Podcast menu you shouldn’t be able to edit the “podcast” slug in the post editor. It’s hard coded as it’s a custom post type. Maybe that’s where some of the issues are coming from.

    The site looks to be working well now. Are all of the podcast episodes under regular Posts now?

    Thread Starter luisramosbcn

    (@luisramosbcn)

    I did create all the episodes the same way, from the podcast custom type. It’s the url generated from the custom type that, in some way, changed the slug to Podcast with the capital P.

    Now I’ve moved all episodes to type “post” (with the help of a plugin) and redirected the RSS feed to the one libsyn generates. I was receiving way too many complaints (we have 25k downloads a day) because the urls to the articles and episode notes were not available.

    Hey, one thing, maybe you could look into that… The article was still available (if I change the capital P to a ‘p’). The real issue is that the links from the main blog page were the ones changed to capital P.

    Maybe that can direct you to were the problem may reside. I still have the plugin active, because of the rss feed redirection (I don’t really know if that has to be active forever for the redirection to work), so we can test something if you want. I’d very much like to return to your custom post, but without the issue of course.

    Cheers!
    Luis

    Same thing is happening to me. I think the problem has something to do with the fact that both Luis and I are using the Spanish version of WordPress. Actually, I tried to reproduce the issue on the English version of WordPress, but it worked just fine.

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