Podcast menu
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How do I create a menu for a podcast?
I changed screen options so can show series or speaker but not sure how to create a menu item to go to a list of all podcasts.Here’s the easiest way to do it. In the navigation builder (Appearance > Menu) create a “Custom Link” that has your site URL then a /podcast
In the demo it looks like this: http://www.organizedthemes.com/try/authentic/podcast
Add that link to your navigation and save your changes. You should have a podcast page now like the demo does.
If you don’t see the page like the demo, you may need to save your permalinks again. Go to the settings section of your WordPress control panel and select permalinks. If you’ve already selected something other than the default, just click save to update them for the podcasting. If you haven’t selected a permalink structure other than the default, I’d suggest doing so. That will make your URL’s look much nicer and easier to read.
If you have any trouble, let me know.
Thanks Bill.
Permalinks was set to default so I’ve changed it and can now link to the podcast page.I can only get this to work if i have /index.php/ in the permalink. So am having to link to /index.php/podcast. If I don’t use the index.php and just have /%postname%/ or similar i just get 404 errors. Any clues as to why that is?
thanks
BrianThat’s really bizarre. Is that necessary on other pages–like yoursite.com/index.php/about
IF you wouldn’t mind sending over a link, I’ll take a look too.
Yes, it’s all pages. Here’s the link to the site http://www.peelstreet.org.uk/wordpress/
In the settings for the permalink the common settings all have /index.php/in the url e.g. for date and name it is http://www.peelstreet.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/10/22/sample-post/
thanks
I did a bit of digging around and it looks like including index.php means that you’re set up for PATHINFO permalinks. I found a possible remedy here:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=878129
but I haven’t tried it out. If you backup your .htaccess file (it’s in the root of your WordPress installation) you should be able to revert back to it if you have a problem.
I hope that helps and enjoy your weekend!
Hi Bill, sorry I’m blowing up your forum here with questions, but I seem to be having some issues with my iTunes feed configuration.
Initially, I created a custom link in my navigation menu, http://www.seniorcareministries.org/podcast/, as recommended in one of your earlier threads, but when I tried submitting that link to iTunes, I got an error message saying that it was not a valid XML feed.
I then removed the custom link, and replaced it with a page, with the same exact url. I submitted it to iTunes and it said the feed was empty so I tried again, and got the following message, “Error Parsing Feed: Error on line 116: The prefix “fb” for element “fb:like-box” is not bound. See screen shot http://cl.ly/1x0K3e3J1n371N2Y2J1n
In the Podcast menu within Theme Settings, I have the same url (http://www.seniorcareministries.org/podcast/) in the “Podcast Archive URL” box.
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, so any thoughts you might have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much Bill
The feed is a bit different from the public facing archive. Here’s what you need to do:
Create a new page and call it something like “Podcast Feed” or something similar. In the right hand column while creating this page, you’ll see a page attributes box. In that box choose the “Custom Feed” from the list of available page templates. Publish that page and view it in your browser. Copy the URL to the page. That is the URL that you can submit to the iTunes store so your podcast can be listed there.
You don’t need to add the page to your navigation.
I’m sorry Bill, I probably should have told you that I already did that, and that was the url I submitted (the custom feed page url), and iTunes said it was empty.
What I’ll do is delete my current page, and try it from scratch.
I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks a lot
Okay so I followed your instructions again, and created the following page with the custom feed attribute, http://www.seniorcareministries.org/podcast-feed
When I submit it to iTunes I get, ” The feed has no episodes”, even though I have three published podcasts.
Does the feed I submit to iTunes have to be the same as the “Podcast Archive URL” within the Podcasting settings (in Theme Settings)? because that feed is also http://www.seniorcareministries.org/podcast-feed
Or is that supposed to be the url of my custom link that sits in my nav menu, http://www.seniorcareministries.org/podcast
Again, thanks a million for your support
I took a look was able to get your stream URL to appear in iTunes with the title and description, but I didn’t see any episodes. I took a closer look at the code from your feed and it looks like the enclosure–the actual link to your audio file–doesn’t appear to point to the actual file:
<enclosure url=”http://www.seniorcareministries.org/?attachment_id=985′ rel=’attachment wp-att-985″ length=”43397038″ type=”audio/mpeg” />
But rather points to a WordPress attachment post. Here’s how to change that.
After you upload your file, the media uploader will give you three choices of links for the file: none, file URL, or post URL. Make sure you select “File URL” before you insert the media.
I believe if you make that switch to your podcasts you’ll be in better shape.
Wow, you’re amazing man!
Okay, so should I re-upload all of the media files to make this switch, or is this something I can change after the fact?
I went into my media folder, and it appears that the “File URL” option is already selected. I could be wrong though
The easiest way might be to upload them again and make sure the file URL is clicked before you insert it. You can try clicking the upload button and then viewing the file in the media library (inside the pop-up lightbox). Then see if you have the option to click file URL and insert it again.
Let me know if you have any other trouble.
Hey Bill,
I went ahead and re-uploaded the podcast files, and selected “File URL” before uploading. It seemed to have worked because when I submitted the feed to iTunes, it was accepted.
However, the next day I got notification from iTunes that the podcast feed was rejected due to an error. They recommended I troubleshoot the feed to try and fix it, and sent me this link too http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seniorcareministries.org%2Fpodcast-feed%2F
What should I do now? Any idea what’s happening?
Thanks for your contented support Bill
Based on the error message, it looks like the feed is missing a bit of data. You might check and make sure that all of the fields are filled in on the podcast tab of the theme options page. You can see the one from the demo here.
The odd thing is, everything is filled out correctly on my podcast tab. I double and triple checked.
The only thing that is not filled in is the “iTunes subscription url for archive page” at the bottom. But I can’t fill that in until my feed is accepted by iTunes right?
On closer inspection, I believe I know why the speaker is throwing things off. In the demo, the speaker gets output like this:
<itunes:author>Chris Goins</itunes:author>
but in your install, a link to the speaker archive is inserted:
<itunes:author><a href=”http://www.seniorcareministries.org/speaker/chris-langille/” rel=”tag”>Chris Langille</a></itunes:author>
A tested out a small change to the podcast feed page that I think will remove the link. Here’s how to change it out.
1) Go to the theme options page and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2) From the list of files on your right, choose podcast-feed-page.
3) Look for this spot in line 61:<?php echo get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), ‘speaker’ ) ?>
and replace it with this:
4) Save your changes.
The other item that drew an error was the iTunes category being blank.
Okay I’ll give it a shot. I made the changes, but Feedvalidator is still showing errors with the feed for some reason. http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seniorcareministries.org%2Fpodcast-feed%2F
As I mentioned before, the category and all other fields are filled in and correct.
I just tried re-submitting the feed via iTunes so lets see what happens. I’ll keep you posted. Thanks Bill for your hard work and support here
For some reason, this feed just isn’t working. Do you think I should delete it altogether and start over?
It’s still adding a link to your author tags. Any chance you’d mind emailing a login to support@organizedthemes.com so I can take a closer look at it for you?
Chris. Thanks for the login. Here’s what I found. I swapped out the author tag and the iTunes categories in the podcast feed file, but it still pulled up an error. I tried turning off the W3 Total Cache and the feed validated.
I’m not entirely sure which part of the plugin is causing the error. I’ve got a feeling it’s in the minify section…if I was going to track it down, that’s where I’d start. You might try excluding that page from caching (I think that was possible with this plugin at one time).
Let me know if that helps.
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