Jonathan Bossenger
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Hi @tkittich
Thanks for raising this question.
At the moment, the plugin does not perform any urlencoding to the audio file paths. However, it probably should.
Could I ask you to replicate this question in our GitHub code repository, so that we can schedule it into our next development cycle?
https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/Seriously-Simple-Podcasting/issues
Thanks
Perfect, thanks for letting me know
Hello @tkittich
I have tried reaching out to the developer of Simple Bulk Episodes to see if I can add the code to the plugin for him.
In the meantime, here is a code snippet that should work for you
https://gist.github.com/jonathanbossenger/fccde3a070f427914f9023b4752817c7
I would suggest you add this code at around line 210 of the Simple Bulk Episodes plugin file, just after the section where it adds the audio duration if it exists in the import data
I should point out that this I haven’t tested this code, so I can’t guarantee it will work.
Hello @tkittich
Editing plugin core files is not ideal, if there’s ever a plugin update, you will loose those edits.
However I do see that the Simple Bulk Episodes plugin has not been updated in 3 years. So you might be ok.
Please give me a day or so to review the Simple Bulk Episodes plugin and I’ll get back to you with a solution.
Regards
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limitedHi all
We updated the plugin today, which included the following changes
[NEW] Add a setting to control whether RSS feed episode description tags use the post content or the post excerpt
[FIX] Fixes a bug where Turbocharge settings were enabled even when it is switched offYou can now set your feed to use either the excerpt, or the post content, as the episode description in the RSS feed. This update also fixes some bugs that were introduced when we added the Turbocharge feature.
Please update your plugins to receive the latest changes.
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] How to translate after generating a .mo file?Hey @rghedi, thanks for getting in touch.
If you are wanting to submit your translation of the plugin to the WordPress plugin repository, which we would really appreciate, you can to do so via the plugin’s translation page, which you can access here.
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/
That page also contains a link to the translator handbook, which is a good place to start.
https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/
If you just want to load the .mo file for your own site, you would need to use the load_plugin_textdomain function
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/load_plugin_textdomain/
I hope this helps.
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limitedThanks everyone for the feedback.
We’ve create an ticket on the GitHub repository for the plugin, with how we feel it’s best to resolve this update.
https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/Seriously-Simple-Podcasting/issues/382
Instead of forcing the truncated post content as the description tag in the RSS feed, we’re going to add a setting to switch this functionality on, which will be off by default. So leaving this setting off, will mean that the RSS feed works as it did in 1.20.4.
Then, if a user does switch it on, well only do the 4000 character limit if they also have Turbocharge on.
I’d appreciate it if you could review this, and if you have any further comments on it, to post them there. If we don’t have any other concerns posted on that ticket, we’ll be implementing this change in the next update.
Thanks
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limitedThanks @shinymewy
So to confirm, using “S6E3 – Dice Funk: The Bernie Sanders of Dragons” as an example:
On version 1.20.4 of the plugin the description tag in the feed contains the same value as the WordPress excerpt, which is also used on the Series page (https://shinyprivatepodcasts.com/blog/series/dice-funk-season-6/), in this case “The party climbs the Yggdrasil to reach the Cathedral of Stars.”
On version 1.20.5 of the plugin, the description tag contains the full post content (which is the description, plus all the other content, Starring list, Support links etc) but cut off at 4000 characters.
Finally, you’d prefer it to go back to containing only the description/excerpt, as it does now?
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limitedThanks @shinymewy
For now, could I ask you to revert back to version 1.20.4 of the plugin. That way I can see your feed as it was before the update.
Besides the feed changes and a bug fix that only affect sorting of stats by series, there are no other changes in 1.20.5.
Thanks
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limited@shinymewy could I confirm something with you, before the update, was the RSS feed description for episodes showing the entire text of the post/podcast content or the excerpt?
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limitedThanks for the feedback
@samkuhn content:encoded should still be available, so I will check this to see if a bug has crept in.
@shinymewy, thanks, we will discuss this internally and make a call as to how to allow this level of control
In the meantime, please feel free to revert back to version 1.20.4 of the plugin, which you can download from here (at the bottom of the screen)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/advanced/
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] Podcast Descriptions suddenly limitedHi @shinymewy and @sbujon, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We recently updated the following three RSS tags: description, itunes:summary and googleplay:description, to follow the RSS specifications set out by each service (namely iTunes and Google Play).
The reason for this change was two fold, firstly our understanding is that iTunes prefers to have show notes in the description tag, which requires the ability to allow HTML tags in the description tag, which was currently not the case by default. Our understanding was also that both iTunes and GooglePlay only allow up to 4000 characters for the description tag, whereas the full post content should appear in the content:encoded tag (you can read the RSS iTunes specifications related to description and itunes tags here – https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390)
The idea behind this change was to make your RSS feed more complaint with iTunes and faster, by only loading the number of characters required for these feed tags.
However, we’re always keen to hear feedback from our users regarding such changes. With that in mind, I have two questions.
- Are the descriptions in your episodes on the website being cut off, or only the descriptions in the episodes in the RSS feed. It should only take effect on the episodes in the RSS feed, so if it’s affecting the website episode descriptions, that is a bug
- Can you explain how the character limit we’ve applied to the description field on episodes in the RSS feed affects your show. Is it a case of you noticed the change but it has no overall effect on how your show is aggregated to the various podcast platforms, or there there some other negative outcome we aren’t aware of
Your feedback on the above would be greatly appreciated, as it will help us inform how to proceed.
Regards
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] How can I get the name of the series?@lk2_89 Ah, yes, that’s not the way to use that function.
You have to do this
$term = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );Where $term_id is the ID of the series, and $taxonomy is ‘series’
And then you can echo the name from the $term object
echo $term->name;Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] How can I get the name of the series?@lk2_89 are you able to post a snippet of the code you are using here, so that I can advise from there?
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In reply to: [Seriously Simple Podcasting] How can I get the name of the series?Hello @lk2_89 and @ottaviano
I hope I understand your question correctly, but it sounds like you want to get the series name of a specific series.
In that case you should be able to use to the get_term function – https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_term/