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2:55 pm
14 December, 2011
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I feel a little dumb, but the answer to my issue is not on this forum. My podcast feed appears blank when you click the rss subscribe. also itunes doesn't recognize my feed any longer, i'm sure the problems are connected, but i can't figure out why the feed is not broadcasting the sermons. any help would be appreciated.
5:52 pm
18 June, 2009
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Could you post a link to your site so we can take a look?
9:31 pm
14 December, 2011
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midtownbc.org
2:15 am
16 December, 2011
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scottcoers said
midtownbc.org
My podcast is also not being picked up in itunes and is doing the same thing as yours. Did you find a fix yet?
4:17 am
18 June, 2009
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scottcoers,
It looks like you made some edits to podcast.php, and I think you may have introduced some errors to it. Line 5 of your podcast feed shows this:
See this post: http://pastebin.com/MKrDaXX7
(The difference is the characters "&" after "id=40" instead of just "&".)
If you need help identifying what the changes you need to make to your podcast.php file are, you can post the contents of your podcast.php file to http://pastebin.com/. After you post it, Pastebin will give you a link that you can post here so we can take a look at it.
4:32 am
18 June, 2009
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manusdorsey,
You have a different problem with your feed. On every page on your site, if you view the source code of the page, you'll see that your web server is sending 4 blank lines before the code begins. This is not a problem for an HTML webpage, because the web browsers just ignore the whitespace. However, it is a problem for an XML podcast feed; in XML, there can't be any whitespace before the code begins. That is why your feed is failing. I don't know why your webserver is returning blank lines before the code. My first guess is that your WordPress theme is inserting these blank lines. To test this, you could temporarily switch to a different theme, such as TwentyTen, the WordPress default theme. After you switch themes, check to see if your pages' source codes still begin with four blank lines. That will tell you if the problem lies with your theme or elsewhere.
Post back here and let us know what you find out.
9:54 pm
16 December, 2011
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Ben Miller said
manusdorsey,
You have a different problem with your feed. On every page on your site, if you view the source code of the page, you'll see that your web server is sending 4 blank lines before the code begins. This is not a problem for an HTML webpage, because the web browsers just ignore the whitespace. However, it is a problem for an XML podcast feed; in XML, there can't be any whitespace before the code begins. That is why your feed is failing. I don't know why your webserver is returning blank lines before the code. My first guess is that your WordPress theme is inserting these blank lines. To test this, you could temporarily switch to a different theme, such as TwentyTen, the WordPress default theme. After you switch themes, check to see if your pages' source codes still begin with four blank lines. That will tell you if the problem lies with your theme or elsewhere.
Post back here and let us know what you find out.
I see the 4 blank lines in the source code. I switched to the default wordpress theme but that only makes 2 of the blank lines go away and the podcast still doesn't work.
10:33 pm
18 June, 2009
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I see that you are back to your old theme, and there are only 2 blank lines at the top of the code. But you'll need to get rid of all the blank lines at the top for your podcast feed to work.
I found this page that talks about some of the troubleshooting that you can do:
http://feed2.w3.org/docs/error…..kLine.html
My guess is that one of your other plugins is causing the problem. To find out which one:
1. Make a list of all the plugins that are currently activated on your site.
2. Deactivate all of your plugins.
3. Check to see if the blank lines are gone from the source code of your pages.
4. If the blank lines are gone, then you know a plugin did it. Reactivate your plugins one at a time, and check the source code of your pages between each one, until you know which one is causing the problem.
Let us know what you find out.
10:44 pm
16 December, 2011
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Ben Miller said
I see that you are back to your old theme, and there are only 2 blank lines at the top of the code. But you'll need to get rid of all the blank lines at the top for your podcast feed to work.
I found this page that talks about some of the troubleshooting that you can do:
http://feed2.w3.org/docs/error…..kLine.html
My guess is that one of your other plugins is causing the problem. To find out which one:
1. Make a list of all the plugins that are currently activated on your site.
2. Deactivate all of your plugins.
3. Check to see if the blank lines are gone from the source code of your pages.
4. If the blank lines are gone, then you know a plugin did it. Reactivate your plugins one at a time, and check the source code of your pages between each one, until you know which one is causing the problem.
Let us know what you find out.
Will do. Making a complete FTP backup of my site now. Found one of the blank lines in my functions.php file and one in my template.php. Gonna disable all plugins and then see if it's gone before I look at the rest of my .php files.
11:32 pm
16 December, 2011
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manusdorsey said
Ben Miller said
I see that you are back to your old theme, and there are only 2 blank lines at the top of the code. But you'll need to get rid of all the blank lines at the top for your podcast feed to work.
I found this page that talks about some of the troubleshooting that you can do:
http://feed2.w3.org/docs/error…..kLine.html
My guess is that one of your other plugins is causing the problem. To find out which one:
1. Make a list of all the plugins that are currently activated on your site.
2. Deactivate all of your plugins.
3. Check to see if the blank lines are gone from the source code of your pages.
4. If the blank lines are gone, then you know a plugin did it. Reactivate your plugins one at a time, and check the source code of your pages between each one, until you know which one is causing the problem.
Let us know what you find out.
Will do. Making a complete FTP backup of my site now. Found one of the blank lines in my functions.php file and one in my template.php. Gonna disable all plugins and then see if it's gone before I look at the rest of my .php files.
Update: You were right on point once again Ben. Appreciate it. Found the plugin that was causing it. Ironically it happened to be a plugin that I was planning on not using anyway!!!! God Bless you Ben I've learned a lot from you in my new foray into Wordpress.
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