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Thanks, Mike! Tried going back a couple of versions, but no change. Not sure what happened.

Oh, I’m so sorry. I’ve been using the feed produced in SermonPress:

http://revivechurch.com/?feed=rss2&post_type=wpfc_sermon

I went through the FeedBurner documentation, and did every step, but none of those changed the issue.

I also tried the redirect, but again no luck. No matter what I do, the RSS feed (even the original) will only show up to December 3, 2017.

It is showing up correctly on iTunes though so that’s a good thing.

Nikola,

We are back to the same issue as the first time. Our podcast feed is no longer valid.

feedvalidator.org is saying

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 20, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: com-wordpress:feed-additions:1 (11 occurrences) [help]

<site xmlns=”com-wordpress:feed-additions:1″>139846772</site> <item>
line 40, column 1: item contains more than one enclosure (10 occurrences) [help]

<enclosure url=”http://revivechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/facebook …

And podia.se is saying

Support for HTTP HEAD requests
The server for your episodes must support “HTTP HEAD requests”, which is a fancy way of saying that iTunes must be able to get information about your files without downloading them whole.
Unexpected HTTP code: 301

Does it have everything it needs to be searched properly?
Podcasts must have valid <title>, <author> and <description> tags at the <channel> and <item>level of your podcast feed, so that iTunes has enough source material for its search engine.
The feed’s <channel> is missing an <author>. To be featured by iTunes, podcasts must have a valid author information.

Is it XML?
XML is a language that computers (and soon, robots!) use to talk to each other. This tests to see if the content at the URL is XML. Technically, it tests whether or not the content is “well formed” according to the XML standard.

Our podcast has been down since updating to the new version of Sermon Manager. Any help would be great! Thanks so much for all your hard work on this!

Hi,

Yes it’s working. We wanted to let it run for a week to be sure before we responded.

Podtrac whitelisted the feed as well, so we can start tracking our podcast downloads soon, and iTunes approved the feed as well.

The one thing we’ve noticed is that our app developer cannot read the notes link that we include with each sermon. We even tried just adding an anchor link to the body of the description for each sermon, but the app won’t pick it up. Have you ever had anything similar happen with other churches, or do you know how we might fix that?

Ok, I will investigate this. Thanks for the information!

Are you able to give me any ideas as to why the RSS feed that Sermon Manager is supplying me will not work with iTunes podcast?

I tried this, but it will not let me install your development version:

Installing Plugin from uploaded file: sermon-manager-for-wordpress.zip
Unpacking the package…

Installing the plugin…

Destination folder already exists. /nas/content/live/revivechurch/wp-content/plugins/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/

Plugin installation failed.

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We also have a problem when submitting to iTunes. We get an error message saying that the episodes cannot be downloaded using the feed url that’s given to us through the plugin.

A friend of mine who is way more savvy at this stuff, used a feed validator and this is what he responded to me with:

Hi Stephan,

I tried validating the feed from a few different sites and you are right that something seems to be wrong. While I did not do extensive testing, the validator that I found which seemed to give some data about this issue was this one: https://podba.se/validate/

The 2 things that show up as issues are:

Byte-Range Support – My guess is that the issue here is the Podtrac analytics that are being used seeing as I had issues with it in the app as well. Something is up with how the links redirect and it makes them look like they are blank. Like I mentioned on the phone, I have worked with other analytics tools in WordPress (like Blubrry Powerpress) and it modifies the URL just like Podtrac, but it doesn’t mess up iTunes or app integration. It seems that Podtrac is just formatting something wrong.

Feed <channel> missing <author> tag – I have no idea why this is showing up as an issue. There is an <itunes:author> tag in the <channel> tag and that should be what you need. I validated a different church’s feed just now to be sure that I am correct about that, and the other feed validated fine and it had the same <author> tag style that you have. There is a chance that some funky character is there which I can’t see when viewing it (some characters don’t create whitespace, but when iTunes or a validator check them, the funky character is there and makes everything act wonky). That would be something that I couldn’t see.

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Any help would be great! Thanks so much1