Episodes don't show up on the blog anymore

As far as new episodes they don’t show up and without changing anything for those specific episodes from time to time they reappear and disappear again.

For examples the last two podcasts are not shown on the website. just the title and it stops from there.

I disabled all the plugins and changed the theme, so it’s not about those two things.

I use the same format for every podcast, so why are some there and some are not working, I don’t understand that.

The upper bar, which I only see as an admin is not visible on those specific not working pages aswell.
see here: http://prnt.sc/a72hv8 and http://prnt.sc/a72icx

I would really appreciate help here guys.
You can answer in both german and english.

(this was asked the last I had an issue, which isn’t solved yet aswell, but I will insert it anyways)

Website http://wrestling-talk.de/wordpress
PHP Version 5.6.16
WordPress Version 4.4.2
Publisher Version 2.3.8
Web Player Version 2.0.19
Twig Version 1.23.1
open_basedir //customers/f/0/0/wrestling-talk.de//httpd.www://customers/f/0/0/wrestling-talk.de//httpd.private://customers/f/0/0/wrestling-talk.de//tmp:/customers/wrestling-talk.de/wrestling-talk.de:/var/www/diagnostics:/usr/share/php
curl Version 7.26.0
iconv available
simplexml ok
max_execution_time 50
upload_max_filesize 96M
memory_limit 256M
disable_classes
disable_functions disk_total_space, diskfreespace, exec, system, popen, proc_open, proc_nice, shell_exec, passthru, dl
permalinks ok (/%postname%/)
podlove_permalinks ok
podcast_settings ok
web_player ok
podlove_cache on
assets
mp3 audio/mpeg
jpg image/jpeg
txt text/plain

0 errors
1 NOTICE (no dealbreaker, but should be fixed if possible):

  • The PHP setting “open_basedir” is not empty. This is incompatible with curl, a library required by Podlove Publisher. We have a workaround in place but it is preferred to fix the issue. Please ask your hoster to unset “open_basedir”.

Looks like the page stops rendering. This is mostly when PHP errors happen. Can you check your PHP error log please?

Das bekomme ich auf einer der Beispielseiten ausgegeben:

“Notice: wpdb::prepare wurde fehlerhaft aufgerufen. Der Abfrage-Parameter wpdb::prepare() benötigt einen Platzhalter. Weitere Informationen: Debugging in WordPress (en) (Diese Meldung wurde in Version 3.9 hinzugefügt.) in /customers/f/0/0/wrestling-talk.de/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3792 Notice: wpdb::prepare wurde fehlerhaft aufgerufen. Der Abfrage-Parameter wpdb::prepare() benötigt einen Platzhalter. Weitere Informationen: Debugging in WordPress (en) (Diese Meldung wurde in Version 3.9 hinzugefügt.) in /customers/f/0/0/wrestling-talk.de/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3792 Catchable fatal error: Method Podlove\Chapters\Chapters::__toString() must return a string value in /customers/f/0/0/wrestling-talk.de/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podlove-podcasting-plugin-for-wordpress/lib/chapters_manager.php on line 48”

I don’t think I have seen this before. Does it work if you turn off chapters? There might be an episode with chapters formatted in a way that generates an error (although I’m not sure how to reproduce this fatal error).

no it is with episodes with our without chapter txt files. just happens randomly. some episodes work other don’t, and some episodes where the error occured after release, by now work again… this is really hard to handle.

I get so many people blaming that they can’t see, but I don’t know what to do about it. iTunes works fine.
the episode is there, I can edit it like I want. it just doesn’t show up, just the headline and that’s it… can’t even look into php errors as the top bar isn’t there, which would possibly show me, what causes the error.

:frowning: :sob: :frowning: :sob:

Hello guys I managed to find (well by accident) the problem, but don’t know how to solve it.

it has something to do with the chapter marks. Episodes that have the .txt file with the chapters won’t work, as soon as I uncheck the txt file in the editor and save the episode again, it shows up on the website again.

the mp4chaps are correct.
for example:

00:00:00.000 Einführung
00:02:15.046 Cheerleader Melissa vs. Leva Bates
00:18:08.277 Cherry Bomb vs. Candice LeRae
00:27:25.532 Nicole Savoy vs. LuFisto
00:36:59.566 Kimber Lee vs. Jessicka Havok
00:45:39.411 Veda Scott vs. Heidi Lovelace
00:59:35.976 Nicole Matthews vs. Crazy Mary Dobson
01:15:02.985 Cheerleader Melissa vs. Candice LeRae
01:31:05.357 Kimber Lee vs. Nicole Savoy
01:37:15.006 Nicole Matthews vs. Heidi Lovelace
01:48:49.359 Interview mit Shayna Baszler
01:59:49.753 Candice LeRae vs. Heidi Lovelace vs. Nicole Savoy
02:14:03.960 Fazit, Wertung, Ausblick und Verabschiedung

can you help me out one more time, please?
I’m getting closer to solving this.

EDIT: the problem is solved… the txt files where coded in ansi, I resaved them to utf-8 and cow it works.
now hopefully the iTunes feed will work again aswell.

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Thanks for following up with the solution. I’ll see if I can detect non-utf8-encoded files and warn the user about it.