Podcast Feed "LastBuildDate" Not Updating

  • Resolved zackconq

    (@zackconq)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    I’m using Seriously Simple Podcasting to manage three different podcast series on my site, but all of the feeds are showing an incorrect “LastBuildDate” of Thu, 01 Jan 1970 08:00:00 +0000. I’ve looked at the template and it’s using the WordPress function ‘get_lastpostmodified’, and actually it’s working on my local dev environment, but not the live site. Although iTunes and a few other podcatchers don’t seem to mind, feed validators catch it as an error, and there are a few podcatcher apps that are not refreshing with the latest episodes.
    Feed in question is: http://www.kungfukomedy.com/feed/podcast/stuck-middle

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/

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  • Plugin Contributor Hugh Lashbrooke

    (@hlashbrooke)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Did you import your posts into your live site from a different source? If you’re seeing that date, then it means that there is no saved date for when the post was last modified. The most basic way to fix this is to edit each post and update it – that will force WordPress to save a modification date. If you have loads of episodes then what should work is using the bulk edit feature that is built into WordPress itself and simply re-save all the episodes at once.

    That should sort things out for you 🙂

    Cheers,
    Hugh

    Thread Starter zackconq

    (@zackconq)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I don’t think it was related to not having a saved date, because most of the posts had been created and saved on this WordPress install. But anyway, it’s working properly now. However, users are still having a problem refreshing the feed using the Pocket Casts app (Android and Browser), and their support says the issue is with our feed. They sent this link:

    “Here’s some more information about the feed modified date that needs to be updated when releasing new episodes: https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/http-etag.html .”

    Any insight would be appreciated. Again, our feed is here: http://www.kungfukomedy.com/feed/podcast/stuck-middle

    Thread Starter zackconq

    (@zackconq)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Turns out the <lastBuildDate> wasn’t the problem all along; it’s the HTTP response header “Last-Modified” that’s still returning Thu, 01 Jan 1970. Pocket Casts uses that and the Etag to decide whether or not to refresh the feed.

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