Other iTunes Category

  • protolexus

    (@protolexus)


    8 years ago

    I am using the powerpress plugin for my podcast, but for my iTunes category I do not want to use the subcategories provided, just the main category. Example:
    Technology NOT Technology > Tech News.
    As far as I see it I cannot do that through the powerpress dashboard (it is an allowed category option by iTunes, fyi).

    Is there a way to overwrite what powerpress puts in my rss feed for category and allow me to insert what I want?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/

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  • Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    8 years ago

    protolexus,

    Is there a reason you need to select the top level category without a sub category? It’s not allowed according to iTunes.

    Apple has been updating their website the past 4 months, so things are no longer where they used to be. Here is a link to the December 2015 specs.html for iTunes podcast RSS specs on Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160209220607/http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html Under the <category> section look for “You must also define a subcategory if one is available within your category.”.

    Thread Starter protolexus

    (@protolexus)

    8 years ago

    Thank you for the response!

    I guess I did not want a subcategory because my show (interviews developers in Philadelphia) did not align with any of the subcategories. But I did just read in your link that it gets more exposure on iTunes if it has a subcategory, so I guess it is fine if it not “exactly” right. I’ll keep the subcategory in that case, thanks again!

    Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    8 years ago

    No problem. By the way the new Google Play tags only have top level categories, there are no sub categories.

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