WordPress MU

You may know that Podpress is a podcasting plugin that works with Wordpress. I've been trying to get it to work with WPMU for several weeks now with mixed results. I've reported my results to the author with no response, and so I'm trying here.

I've tested Podpress 7.4 against the production build of WPMU 1.0 and the daily builds 2-12, 2-15 and 2-20. Although podress works in the production build, it does not function in the current development builds. I'm trying to figure out why.

Under all of the development builds tested above the following happens:

1. Podpress is installed as usual - it appears in the plugin list and is activated. Support files can be copied or not, the broken functionality is the same.

2. During editing a media file is added to the post, as usual. Function during editing appears the same. WHen the post is saved, no player or podpress information appears in the post and if the post is edited again, the podpress file information is missing. It appears that the podpress meta inforamtion (such as the enclosure URL) is saved to the wp_#_postmeta table. No error is thrown.

3. The podcast feed shows the Podpress generator tag:

<!-- podcast_generator="podPress/7.4" -->

but if a post is added with a media file added through the podpress media editor interface, the enclosure does not show up in the post. Here is an example of the item node in the feed (keep in mind that a media file was attached by it is not showing up:

<item>
<title>Post with Podpress Content</title>
<link>
http://test.com/blog/2007/02/20/post-with-podpress-content/
</link>
<comments>
http://test.com/blog/2007/02/20/post-with-podpress-content/#comments
</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
<category>Episodes</category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">
http://test.com/blog/2007/02/20/post-with-podpress-content/
</guid>
<description>
A media file was attached to this post. Does it show?
</description>
<content:encoded>
<p>A media file was attached to this post. Does it show?</p>
</content:encoded>
<wfw:commentRss>
http://test.com/blog/2007/02/20/post-with-podpress-content/feed/
</wfw:commentRss>
</item>

In the production build feed, the enclosure is included correctly.

I don't expect anyone here (unless the Podpress author is reading this) to know how Podpress works, but I thought someone may have an idea about what changes in the development tree may be good candidates for killing this very popular plugin.

Thanks!

Find what includes the enclosure in the plugin. Action, filter, whatever.

Find the function that is executed in MU, both the 1.0 release and nightly.

Then compare.