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I currently use a plugin called "Series Engine" to play media on my Wordpress website. It has the ability to generate a podcast link for me. I've used this link to successfully upload my podcast to iTunes in the past, but it has recently stopped updating new episodes - I believe due to the fact that my podcast link was limited to 15 episodes. I've since then changed that setting to 50 episodes and the plugin generated a new link. However, when I go to update that link on Podcast Connect it says it can't parse the feed. What do I do? Below is the new podcast link that Series Engine generates:

http://www.riveroflifegj.com/?feed=seriesengine&enmse_pid=3

Posted on Oct 8, 2016 11:27 AM

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Oct 8, 2016 2:03 PM in response to jrandall25

You've got yourself into some confusion here. Your iTunes Store page is at


https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/river-of-life-alliance-church/id1028499779


It's looking for a feed at


http://www.riveroflifegj.com/?feed=seriesengine&enmse_pid=2


which is basically empty - although its 'lastPubDate' is today it has no episodes. The feed you have linked to - at the same URL but with pid=3 on the end - works fine when subscribed to in iTunes, though it does indeed fail validation in Podcasts Connect. The Store is showing the state of the pid=2 feed at the time it could last read it.


When I open the pid=3 feed in FireFox, my default RSS reader, it works OK and looking at the coding there it appears to be OK. However when I submitted the feed to FeedValidator it rejected it, and the coding isn't for the feed at all but for a web page containing an iframe. This suggests that the server is detecting the client (program) which is requesting the feed and serving up different coding for an RSS reader or for a web page reader, and evidently serving the wrong version to Podcasts Connect. These problems can arise when you get to complicated with the server; ideally you just want a straightforward link to the feed file and no frills.


Presumably Series Engine, whatever that is, is messing things up for you. As the feed works perfectly well in the iTunes application the coding may work in the iTunes Store if you can change the URL to the pid=2 version which the Store is expecting. Otherwise I can't advise on Wordpress or Series Engine, or say why something which worked before is now a mess.

Oct 10, 2016 11:25 AM in response to jrandall25

I've been podcasting with self-hosted WordPress since 2007 and I work in the podcasting industry. I've never heard of Series Engine. Did you pay for it? If so, you're entitled to support from the creator of the plugin and you should contact them. If not, I'd strongly recommend you switch to the free PowerPress plugin. PowerPress is made by Blubrry (I work with their support team), a company that's been around almost as long as the medium of podcasting.

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