Title: Having Major Difficulties
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Having Major Difficulties

 *  Resolved [wselwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wselwood/)
 * (@wselwood)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/)
 * Hi, I have been trying for over a week to make this work. From what I can see
   it will do exactly what I want, but the set up is a nightmare. I’ve noticed that
   there are some requests for support listed here that go back months that haven’t
   been addressed…
 * I, like so many here, am having problems trying to make the feed work. Settings
   below:
 * Source Feed URL: [http://www.domainname.com.au/podcast/podcast.xml](http://www.domainname.com.au/podcast/podcast.xml)
   
   XPath to Posts:/podcast
 * Blank NameSpace Prefix & URL
 * Post Type: Post
    Post Status: Publish Update Existing Posts: Yes Automatically
   Add New Posts: podcasts
 * Source Field (XPath): title
    Source Field (XPath): pubDate
 * Status : Pulling feed
    Warning : No items in feed
 * Please tell me what am I doing wrong?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-pull/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-pull/)

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 *  [sokratesagogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sokratesagogo/)
 * (@sokratesagogo)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790915)
 * Is that really the URL you are trying to pull from? In any case, it’s returning
   a 404 error.
 *  Thread Starter [wselwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wselwood/)
 * (@wselwood)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790924)
 * Sorry, no the domain name is hawkesburychurch
 *  [sokratesagogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sokratesagogo/)
 * (@sokratesagogo)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790928)
 * Hi wselwood,
 * Using [http://www.hawkesburychurch.com.au/podcast/podcast.xml](http://www.hawkesburychurch.com.au/podcast/podcast.xml)
   as the SourceFeed URL and your XPath above works for me…
 * I’m not an expert, but I’m guessing you would have to create some custom fields(
   using something like the CMB2 plugin) to map the XPath to the download link, 
   keywords etc.
 * Then amend your podcast category single template to display the new fields as
   you desire.
 * Sok
 *  Thread Starter [wselwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wselwood/)
 * (@wselwood)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790929)
 * Yes, the source feed url is fine as is the XML file, it’s integrating them into
   the Feed Pull plugin that isn’t working.
 * The status says it’s puling the feed, but the warning says there are no items
   in the feed. I know my side of everything is fine, so the problem lies in the
   plugin set up — that’s where I’m looking for assistance!
 *  [sokratesagogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sokratesagogo/)
 * (@sokratesagogo)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790930)
 * I tried setting up your URL as a new feed in one of my testing sites and I don’t
   get that error – it pulls them in as posts – with no content of course, but the
   titles and the date are all correct in the new post.
 * Sok
 *  Thread Starter [wselwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wselwood/)
 * (@wselwood)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790931)
 * Ok, so what did you do that I didn’t?
 * How have you got your settings?
 *  [sokratesagogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sokratesagogo/)
 * (@sokratesagogo)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790932)
 * Sorry – just noticed your XPath to posts value is wrong.
 * It should be XPath to posts: channel/item
 * Sok
 *  Thread Starter [wselwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wselwood/)
 * (@wselwood)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790933)
 * And there in lay the problem. I was over thinking the set up. No wonder it couldn’t
   find anything!
 * Thanks for your help and patience Sok!
 *  [sokratesagogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sokratesagogo/)
 * (@sokratesagogo)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-major-difficulties/#post-6790934)
 * You’re welcome mate 🙂

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