Hello @fpmsummer,
That does sound like a very useful feature but I do not recall developing that option. We do have the inverse however, you can create an episode but then turn off the podcast meta information from appearing on the web pages.
You could add a filter to exclude the post ID from every feed query. Let me do some tests tonight, I suspect there may be a simple few lines you can add to your theme’s functions.php that will do what you need.
Thanks,
Angelo
I can’t take credit for this, I found it here: https://wpengineer.com/2175/exclude-post-from-wordpress-feed/ This is how I would write it though…
function yourtheme_posts_where($where) {
if( !is_feed() )
return $where;
$where .= " AND {$GLOBALS['wpdb']->posts}.ID NOT IN (40, 9) ";
return $where;
}
add_filter( 'posts_where','yourtheme_posts_where', 1, 2 );
Replace 40, 9 with the IDs you want to exclude. If you just want to exclude one post, then just put one number in there without any commas.
Thread Starter
Summer
(@fpmsummer)
Might be worth testing out.
It’s just something I thought of because I ran into a long forgotten option when I was updating an old site… removing the Powerpress enclosure didn’t actually remove the mp3 from the post, and after noticing a metric ton of 404s for the long-gone audio, I wanted a way to yank it from the feed without causing a cascade of issues.
It took me a few hours to figure it out; seems the very old PodPress info was buried in there, but not visible in any of the custom fields or info in the post itself (yes, this is a feed that goes back 15 years).
Deactivating the PodPress option fixed it, but it got me wondering about the ability to create a feed with a curated selection of episodes rather than the full, chronological episodes, without going through the hassle of creating a new category and doing the “new feed” tango.
And I know at some point in time I saw a podcast enclosure option that was a checkbox excluding that post from the podcast feed. I didn’t think it could have been PodPress, but from what you’re saying, maybe it was? I didn’t think it was THAT long ago, LOL
Thread Starter
Summer
(@fpmsummer)
Just to follow up, I may end up having to create a new category, since the number of items I’d want to exclude could get ridiculously long. The shows I want to include in the feed would then just end up being in two categories, and the new category feed would end up replacing the one that’s in use now.
But, I also found this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-exclude/
It appears to be abandoned, but I may try it out anyway.
Will you have posts in the future that also need to be excluded, or are these all older posts that accidentally had media attached to them before you had PowerPress enabled? If you are just trying to exclude older posts,you can also do something similar as above but make sure the post date is greater than a specified start date.
Thread Starter
Summer
(@fpmsummer)
It’s more like choosing select items in the existing feed, a highlights reel so to speak.
The show in question has been “retired” since 2014, and instead of just having the same “most recent” 30 episodes in the feed, I wanted to change the feed to just include select highlighted episodes instead.
So there wouldn’t be any new posts added, but I didn’t want to necessarily remove the media from episodes that were “skipped”, since there could be 5-20 episodes skipped between selected episodes that people might want to check out on their own via the website. Hopefully that makes things a little clearer?
Yes more clear, and more complicated too!
Did the simply exclude plugin do the trick then?
