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Podcast episodes have vanished

I have been publishing via WordPress for about a year and for some reason all of my episodes have disappeared.


#WirelessTuesday by Jason Grant on Apple Podcasts


My feed is here: http://ciscofullbars.com/category/podcasts/feed/


Only odd thing I've noticed is in my Podcast feed it uses http:// where WordPress wants me to use https://, both are functional.


I didn't do anything (that I am aware of) that should have caused this. Any ideas?

Posted on Sep 5, 2018 11:38 AM

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Posted on Sep 5, 2018 1:59 PM

Your feed has no 'enclosure' tags containing the URLs of your media files, and so when subscribing in iTunes no episodes show (iTunes does not display episodes with no playable media). Presumably because of this your podcast has been removed from the Store so you will have to correct the problem and resubmmit it.


Your associated website show the episodes as having media in the form of embedded players of video from Videopress.com which is presumably something like YouTube. These are not acceptable, which is why Wordpress has not created the enclosures. You have to provide the direct URL to playable media in an acceptable format - .m4v, .mov or .mp4. You must have had acceptable formats before, or you wouldn't have been accepted. I would guess that you originally did this, but ten or more episodes ago you changed to these embedded players. As Wordpress is limiting the number of episodes in the feed to ten (the default - you can change this) the episodes with acceptable media have been pushed off the feed, resulting in there being no episodes.


You need to revert to direct links to the media files. When this has been done (test it by subscribing manually in iTunes from the 'File' menu) please read http://rfwilmut.net/notes/podcast.html#rejected which described your options.

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Sep 5, 2018 1:59 PM in response to jasonjgrant

Your feed has no 'enclosure' tags containing the URLs of your media files, and so when subscribing in iTunes no episodes show (iTunes does not display episodes with no playable media). Presumably because of this your podcast has been removed from the Store so you will have to correct the problem and resubmmit it.


Your associated website show the episodes as having media in the form of embedded players of video from Videopress.com which is presumably something like YouTube. These are not acceptable, which is why Wordpress has not created the enclosures. You have to provide the direct URL to playable media in an acceptable format - .m4v, .mov or .mp4. You must have had acceptable formats before, or you wouldn't have been accepted. I would guess that you originally did this, but ten or more episodes ago you changed to these embedded players. As Wordpress is limiting the number of episodes in the feed to ten (the default - you can change this) the episodes with acceptable media have been pushed off the feed, resulting in there being no episodes.


You need to revert to direct links to the media files. When this has been done (test it by subscribing manually in iTunes from the 'File' menu) please read http://rfwilmut.net/notes/podcast.html#rejected which described your options.

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