• Resolved Bill Weye

    (@billhector)


    Getting a bunch of validation errors on my feed. At the same time, apple stopped updating our feed. Not a total idiot when it comes to this stuff … been podcasting for over a decade. This is one part of the validation message I got:

    Podcast episode count: 20
    Found 20 episodes with no itunes:title tag. Apple Podcasts requires this tag.
    Found 20 episodes with no itunes:summary tag, which should contain a one or more sentence summary of the episode.
    Found 20 episodes with no itunes:subtitle tag, which should hold a concise, one-sentence description of the episode.
    Found 20 episodes with no itunes:author tag. This will make it harder for users to find your podcast because Apple Podcasts uses this field for searches.
    Found 10 episodes with no content:encoded tag, which is required if you want to displaly HTML (for example, a link) in Apple Podcasts.
    Currently, you're using the category News without specifying a valid subcategory. You could select any of the following subcategories in addition:
    Business News
    Daily News
    Entertainment News
    News Commentary
    Politics
    Sports News
    Tech News
    Apple allows up to three categories per feed, and up to one subcategory per category selection. We recommend using as many categories and subcategories as possible so that your podcast can be more visible in directories.

    In fact, we do use Business News and News Commentary subcategories.

    The main image in the feed works fine.

    Any ideas? Help is much appreciated.

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  • Plugin Support Shawn

    (@shawnogordo)

    The advice about itunes tags is outdated and can be ignored. It will be removed from the validator at some point in the future.

    If you have your feed settings set to the category (or categories) you want and everything’s working normally within podcast apps/directories, you’re fine and don’t need to change anything.

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