PodPress in WordPress 2.6
Yesterday had a quick look at podPress, the premier plugin for podcasting. It has a small incompatibility with the new Post Revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6.
PodPress seems to be in the middle of a large update. I’ve used the “experimental” version (8.9) of the plugin and emailed the proposed fix to the authors, however for the more impatient here is the patch:
function post_edit($post_id) {
GLOBAL $post;
if($this->justposted) {
return;
}
$this->justposted = true;
if ( isset($_POST['post_ID']) && (int) $_POST['post_ID'] )
$post_id = (int) $_POST['post_ID'];
$this->settings_item_save($post_id, $_POST);
}
It goes in podpress/podpress_admin_class.php, around line 51. What it does is to make sure the custom post meta fields used by podPress are attached to the actual Post, not one of the revisions.
July 31, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Thanks for this info! Will come in handy as we prep a new season of thecrazycanucks.com for this fall.
July 31, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Similar fix might work in 8.8 (non-experimental):
function post_edit($post_id) { GLOBAL $post; if($this->justposted) { return; } $this->justposted = true; // ADD THESE NEXT TWO LINES if ( isset($_POST['post_ID']) && (int) $_POST['post_ID'] ) $post_id = (int) $_POST['post_ID']; if($this->checkWritableTempFileDir(false)) { ...August 1, 2008 at 1:19 am
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August 1, 2008 at 11:43 am
Going to try it out. Much thanks!! Revising the code now.
August 1, 2008 at 1:07 pm
the Otto fix worked for me with wp.2.6 & podpress 8.8
they are going crazy on podpress forum!
August 1, 2008 at 2:42 pm
The Otto patch worked for me, also. (wp 2.6 & pp 8.8)
Thanks!
August 1, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Word. Thanks for this!
August 1, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Otto:
Does the fix work for firefox only or should it work for IE as well?
August 1, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Thanks Otto, that will work in 8.8. First I tried installing 8.8, but a few js errors popped up, so went with 8.9 that seems to be more compatible.
August 3, 2008 at 2:21 am
[...] tried out Andrew Ozz’s workaround for podPress 8.9 experimental and could not get it to work. But in the comments on that thread, a gentleman by the name of Otto [...]
August 3, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I can’t get either code to work. I’m using Podpress 8.8 with WP 2.6. Does Ozz’s code need to be on line 51 as well?
August 3, 2008 at 11:10 pm
opps ment otto’s code… not ozz’s
August 4, 2008 at 4:15 pm
[...] von WordPress funkt PodPress dazwischen. Einen inoffiziellen Fix dieses Problems kann man auf dieser Seite nachlesen. Eine schon früher veröffentlichte Möglichkeit ist es, das Artikelversionen-Feature [...]
August 4, 2008 at 6:19 pm
@ajTwist: in 8.8 the function “post_edit” is on line 576 in podpress/podpress_admin_class.php.
August 5, 2008 at 1:49 am
[...] Andrew Ozz was one of the first to get the PodPress 8.9 experimental release working for many people, with a fix that should fix PodPress for those using WordPress 2.6 and having issues due to the post revisions feature that WordPress now includes. [...]
August 5, 2008 at 2:10 am
HELP the podpress neophyte! I am using wordpress 2.6 and podpress 8.8….now where exactly do I find the place to put the code that otto suggests to fix the 8.8 problems? thanks!!!
August 5, 2008 at 5:16 am
Brilliant, it works. Thanks a lot!
August 5, 2008 at 5:54 am
[...] as always, WordPress community is awesome. Andrew Ozz has given a workaround in his blog and a commenter name Otto also gave a simple tricks that work for me (Otto also the creator of PHP [...]
August 8, 2008 at 4:28 pm
[...] can find the fix that I used successfully right here. Look at Otto’s comment [...]
August 8, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Thanks – the fix got podpress running again, just cut and placed into the code as described.
Mind you that’s only half the story, no matter how may times I tell WP where the source media files are it looks for them elsewhere.
I upgraded because of security issues and it’s been a headache since. Any advice on this much appreciated.
August 11, 2008 at 6:47 pm
[...] new version is still not out, but Andrew Ozz has posted a quick fix for those of you who don’t want to wait and are comfortable updating the plugin code [...]
August 12, 2008 at 4:15 pm
[...] Go here for a post by Andrew Ozz that explains how to fix the problem. Note that if you’re using PodPress version 8.8 you’ll find the fix in the comments section of that post. [...]
August 25, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Why haven’t you linked to to Otto’s website in your post, all people’s responses are that his patch works? Are you writing a book or are you writing a hyperlinked-web-internet post?
September 13, 2008 at 7:35 am
Finally did the manual update just b/c I was tired of waiting on MightySeek. It did in fact fix the Podpress, so thanks for that. However, now my RSS feed apparently isn’t loading…suggestions?
September 13, 2008 at 9:31 pm
As a sidenote, I’m currently using the Podcasting plugin with v2.6.2 and it works great as a replacement for PodPress! But you have to reenter all your old PodPress podcasts on each post.
September 13, 2008 at 9:32 pm
P.S. The spam filters really suck here so I can’t add a link to the Podcasting plugin on WordPress.org
Just do a search over in the plugins section there for Podcasting
October 20, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I’ve noticed the fix doesn’t work in IE, but does work in Firefox.
Is there a fix that works with IE?
October 21, 2008 at 8:32 pm
thanx dude
November 10, 2008 at 7:52 pm
patch did not work for me on IE using wp 2.6.2 and podpress 8.8 ;(
November 16, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The patch didn’t work for me, but changing the player option to popup only prevents IE from crashing.
November 16, 2008 at 10:58 pm
this patch for PodPress worked perfectly for me on WordPress v2.6.3 with PodPress v8.8
November 17, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Problem 1:
Do anyone has problem detecting the length of an MP3 file? It seems that it will detect the size of file but not the duration.
Problem 2:
The space characters ( ) is being put in the itunes:summary tag without the “&” sign. So any spaces will show up as “nbsp” in the summary feed.
Problem 3:
wma is an audio file extension, but Podpress think it is video format (Media File -> Type drop-down) and therefore unable to detect it properly.
Anyone know how to fix these? Thanks.
November 23, 2008 at 12:49 pm
[...] fawcettmade isnt displaying properly at the moment. I am however investigating some fixes including this one (which also has a link to PodPress 8.9) and maybe even replacing it with the Podcasting plugin (if [...]
November 24, 2008 at 5:20 am
Not sure if others are aware that there’s another WordPress podcasting plugin available called Blubrry Powerpress. It does not yet have all of the features found in Podpress but for the typical podcaster it does everything that’s needed. It imports Podpress settings and also has a setting to process previously created Podpress episodes. http://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/
December 1, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I am having the same WMA problem. it seems the developer of podpress doesn’t work with windows, which could explain why WMA is listed as a video type and not an audio type.
Anyone know of a fix? The podpress forums are down so no way to get this problem in.
December 4, 2008 at 2:05 am
I just enabled the ‘No Revisions’ plugin for WordPress (which is great even if you don’t use Podpress) and that fixed it for me a few months back.
December 4, 2008 at 8:49 am
I’ve decided to bite the bullet and get rid of Podpress. The final straw was encountering a weird error a few days ago with v8.8, as this screenshot shows:
http://www.twitpic.com/oojr
About to try the Blubrry Powerpress WP plugin as I know a few podcasters who think this is pretty good.
http://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/
December 4, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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December 5, 2008 at 3:41 am
Just wondering if you have tried the PowerPress plugin by Blubrry? We are seriously thinking of jumping ship from PodPress because of the lack of updates. And, with the pending WordPress 2.7 release we are anticipating it to break even more than it currently is.
So, just wondering what the buzz is about PowerPress and if it is even worth looking at.
December 5, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Rainy City Radio – Thanks for mentioning the alternative. I just tried it on my site ( wp 2.7 rc1) and it worked easily. After I installed it, I had to go to settings (can’t get to it under plugins) and select Blubrry Powerpress to allow it to detect the settings, etc and then save it. After I did that, I disabled and deleted podpress (forever!) and everything worked great! I am a small scale guy and my income is not related to this so take my info for what it’s worth…
December 5, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Anyone have 2.6.5 working with 8.8?
December 7, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I have 2.6.5 and 8.8 and I can’t get it to work. I’ve used Oz’s patch and I still get frozen when I go to write. Any suggestions? I’m ready to switch to Blubrry.
Thanks!
December 8, 2008 at 6:29 am
any guesses on how well the patch might work with wp 2.7?
December 8, 2008 at 11:31 am
Spotted this just too late. Got rid of PodPress on one of my sites last night. Now using 1 Pixel Out which seems fine. Although it would take a lot of work to update all posts if you had a lot of podcasts on your site already.
December 13, 2008 at 2:13 pm
new podcasting plugin have import feature, then you can use it with this player, and there is a thread about converting on wordpress forum
December 14, 2008 at 9:22 am
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December 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm
For some reason, when I post my podcast, it never shows up in my feed reader. Is it supposed to take awhile?? Could I have accidentally removed something from page.php that WordPress uses to automatically add a link to the file in the RSS/Atom feed??????
December 18, 2008 at 4:25 pm
[...] fawcettmade isnt displaying properly at the moment. I am however investigating some fixes including this one (which also has a link to PodPress 8.9) and maybe even replacing it with the Podcasting plugin (if [...]
January 19, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Installed 8.8 and worked perfect until my last two posts. Both return errors from iTunes. They show up but do not download. I believe the conflict from my troubleshooting is NextGENeration Photo gallery 1.2
Anyone have this issue? Find an answer?
March 7, 2009 at 8:32 am
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April 25, 2009 at 1:29 am
@Paul Dymon
I just started to see the issue. Mine is weird. I have a gallery on my homepage and I use this method to embed on the homepage
but when I do the latest podcast shows up on the bottom. Help needed.
June 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm
[...] Go here for a post by Andrew Ozz that explains how to fix the problem. Note that if you’re using PodPress version 8.8 you’ll find the fix in the comments section of that post. [...]
July 11, 2009 at 4:13 pm
[...] how popular podPress is, it’s great to see that Andrew Ozz has published an article that details a fix for the plugin until the next version is released. The fix involves a snippet of [...]
July 14, 2009 at 11:52 am
Word. Thanks for this!
September 1, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Didn’t work for me, because I had another error. I don’t use IE, but some of the blog users do, and when viewing blogs that have podPress enabled, the blog won’t load, and instead gives this error:
“Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site”
My solution is to switch to PowerPress (http://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/), which works great, and imports all podPress podcasts with a simple check in a checkbox. What’s even better, it’s actually being actively developed, unlike podPress, which hasn’t come out with a new version in 2 years…
October 8, 2009 at 4:04 pm
How can I do it using WordPress 2.8?