Enclosure Flex WordPress Plugin
I’ve only been using WordPress for a week, and don’t really know PHP or MYSQL but I was developing this video blog for my friend Sean, and I couldn’t understand why the default enclosure creation, was so restrictive and why I didn’t have option to delete them if I wanted. So I sat down and wrote this plugin. It makes things at little more flexible. A lot of more work to do, but this should help, those looking for more enclosure options.
I also reccomend Garrick Van Buren’s WP-iPodCatter plugin which will add iTunes specific tags your feed.
Before you start using keep in mind is very early in development, and I’ve never written plugin before this could have unintended consequences. So far it works fine for me.
This plugin was developed using WordPress 2.0 and has not been tested on 1.5
Download the Enclosure Flex plugin (version 0.5)
How to use KG-Enclosure Flex
- Upload kg-enclosureflex.php to wp-content/plugins your server
- Activate the plugin from plugins page.
- The “edit post” page now has enclosures drop down list below their post cotent window. When you start writing the post, the list won’t have anything it. Once you’ve written the post, hit “save and continue editing”
- There list will populated with every link in post, including non-media ones. I could screen them out, but the idea of plugin is flexibility. Eventually plan give you option to choose your preferred mime types in options page.
- Choose the link you want to enclose. By default nothing will be enclosed unless your choose a link. That’s another thing I’m going to work on for the options page.
- Hit save and the link you chose will enclosed, including the length and mime type information.
- You want add another enclosure just choose another link and save the post. Multiple selections in one step will added in future, but it my understanding that nobody is using them and they can break a lot of podcast readers that’s not high on my list.
- To delete enclosure you’ve already added, make sure “No Enclosures” is selected in list and are delete the custom field. It won’t re-created automatically like WordPress usually does.
KG-EnclosureFlex is released under the GNU General Public License.
Version History
0.5 (Released January 03 2006)
-First release. Very simple, but works.
47 Comments Add your own
1. oculos | January 22nd, 2006 at 3:05 am
Hey, thanks a lot!!!!! that made my podcast possible!! Too bad it didn’t help me to make a decent podcast, but, what the heck… 😉
Now, seriously, congrats, it worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!
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4. Adrian | January 25th, 2006 at 3:04 am
Champion fix. After trawling through all of the support to get the enclosure to show in the RSS feed it is now working and as such solved my iTunes podcast subsciption issues!!
Well done (SOOOO Easy!).
5. Colin D. Devroe | January 25th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
I’m trying this out, but it isn’t working with m4a files, any ideas?
6. Colin D. Devroe | January 25th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
BTW, if this plugin is only for WordPress 2.0, you might want to state that.
7. Kyle | January 25th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Could you be more specific about what’s not working? It should be able to enclose anything, even plain text files, although those enclosures won’t be displayed by any feed readers. With m4a I suspect MIME type trouble.
8. Kyle | January 25th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Good point about the version numbers. It was developed for 2.0. Anyone using 1.5 with this plugin? I haven’t tried it.
Does the plugin work with mp3 files? If it does, then it’s almost definitely a MIME problem.
9. Bryan | January 26th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
I just registered with WordPress and have been experiencing problems with mp3 enclosures as well. Odd thing is that I had one successful post using Mars Edit + and absolute URL. The mp3 appeared on iPodder, etc. and downloaded without problem. Since then I’ve had no luck using Mars Edit and cannot get an mp3 to appear by uploading directly from WordPress.
Is KG-Enclosure Flex only for those who have web hosting?
10. Kyle | January 26th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Bryan, if you’re using wordpress.com they don’t let you install plugins yourself. http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/10/27/can-i-upload-my-own-plugins/
11. oblaum | February 2nd, 2006 at 11:41 am
hello dear podcaster,
well, uh, i use the WP-iPodCatter plugin and this plugin.
i want to create an video podcast with .m4v (so apple’s own format)
it only works if i pasted the enclosure tagline by hand, right now.
it’s really hard to find a videopodcast tutorial, any ideas?
cheers!
oblaum
12. Kyle | February 2nd, 2006 at 8:53 pm
I’ve been seeing this problem a lot and I’ve been working on a solution over the past few days. I hope to have it done by the end of the weekend. Most hosts don’t have m4v or m4a MIME types set up properly so you have to edit your htaccess file to fix the problem. The next version of the plugin can do that automatically for various podcast formats, including m4v.
13. Seek3r | February 7th, 2006 at 6:02 am
Looks like of like we are both working to solve the same problem.
Ive been working on a plugin called PodPress which is at http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/. I was just talking with one of my users about adding an easier way to have multiple formats, such as m4v video podcasts. The flash player wouldnt work, but it would be fine to have the diff formats and instead of having them in the Post in the [podcast:filename.mp3] type tag, I can add input fields for each format. Then I will add to the feed support for users to choose the format they want. So http://www.site.com/?feed=rss2&format=mp3 or http://www.site.com/?feed=rss2&format=m4v
So thats what im in the middle of working, and ended up noticing this plugin… so now I will review the code and incorporate whatever useful is in this
14. Funtime Ben | February 21st, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Love the plug-in, it has saved my podcast enclosures from themselves! Awesome!
15. John Kopanas | February 26th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
The plugin works kind-of… what do you do when the file of the enclosure is on a nother server?
16. John Kopanas | February 27th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Sorry, the plugin is working. It is the server I use to host the files. That for all your help!
17. JW Richard | March 8th, 2006 at 3:51 am
This plugin is a godsend. Thanks.
18. eyn | March 11th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Thank you so much for making this plugin! I’ve tried all other kinds of podcast plugin like PodPress and iPodCatter but they are just bloated and useless IMO. What I need is simply to enclose the media files I want (automatically) and make them available as podcast feeds using feedburner (for more functionality).
I would really like to see the preferred MIME type option for this plugin. I also tweaked your plugin to fetch relative path as well, you might want to consider this option.
The only thing I don’t really enjoy right now is that auto enclosure of mp3 is disabled because of this plugin. You should probably remove the restriction of having “No enclosure” as default to “WordPress default” i.e. auto enclosure of mp3 only.
Multiple enclosure is a must! (at least for my blog) You might want to add a tweaked version of rss php file in your plugin to support multiple enclosure in single posting. I do some research on the web and found a tweak that does that. I further edited the code myself to make the feed size smaller by removing actual article text and using only excerpt and removed some unnecessary if else statement. You can have a look at my tweaked code here. My actual podcast feed using this tweaked RSS look like this.
Overall, this plugin rocks even it’s your first. Keep up the good work and I hope you can actively develop this plugin!
19. cloudchaos | March 14th, 2006 at 7:14 am
Yeah beside m4a it doesn’t work with m4v or mp4
20. Jurastudentin | March 24th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Thank you for that plugin. The enclosure-field was really annoying. It would be nice if the plugin removed the field right away when I click on No Enclosures and just save without having to delete the field itself though.
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22. Alan | June 4th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Wow, you’re good. You just answered all my questions, and saved me a lot of time. THANKS A TON!
23. Sir Mildred Pierce | June 9th, 2006 at 5:15 am
whew! Works like a charm! Thanks so much!!!!
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25. yaw | August 1st, 2006 at 8:19 am
once i loaded the plugin, and go to save and continue editing and the link i have in my post appears in the enclosure pull down menu, once i select it however, it doesnt give me anymore options, to add length or type. im using wordpress 1.5 is it compatible?
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29. jedielf | February 14th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Aah! Thanks for this! I was getting fed up with those enclosure fields that kept appearing 🙂
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33. be. | October 22nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm
does this plugin work on teh new version 2.3 of wordpress aswell?
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35. Alan | November 19th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
This isn’t doing anything. I select “No Enclosure” and it still includes everything.
36. admin | November 19th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Yeah, I have no idea if this works at all anymore. I haven’t used it in years. Try a plugin that wasn’t written for an ancient version of WordPress.
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38. Sammy | January 26th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Hi does this plugin compatible with WordPress ver. 3.3 ?
39. admin | January 26th, 2012 at 11:40 am
It might accidentally do something in WordPress 3.3 but I don’t know. I haven’t thought about enclosures in years.
40. Yo Noid | October 11th, 2012 at 1:14 am
Worked like a charm with WP 3.4.2.
41. Odysseas Rapantas | January 10th, 2013 at 9:38 am
After losing a whole day at work searching what went wrong about my rss feed of podcasts, I found out your plugin and it actually works. In wordpress 3.5
42. admin | January 10th, 2013 at 9:43 am
That’s great! I’m glad this thing is still hanging on to life six years later. Maybe I should fix it up so it fits in to the “new” admin interface and add it to the plugin database.
43. Tim | February 10th, 2013 at 10:49 am
I’ve been using it for 6 years 😀 In fact about to reinstall it as I stupidly took it off and now WP is enclosing my Mixcloud HTML5 embeds…ooops!
And yes I think it works upto 3.4 or 3.5. Not sure about the latest one…we’ll see!
44. Nathalie | March 13th, 2015 at 1:04 pm
I was so desperate because I only wanted to include a specific file per post on my RSS feeds. Your plugin really saved me, but I have a question: On my WordPress 4.1.1 website, I have existing posts with two enclosure each. I only want to use one of the enclosures, but when I use your plugin it adds the one I want as an enclosure but leaves the original two enclosures alone. There are now three enclosures on the post. Is this the correct behavior? Shouldn’t it remove the other two enclosures? Can I use your plugin only when I create a new post? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks so much!
45. admin | March 13th, 2015 at 1:22 pm
Hi Nathalie, this plugin is 9 years old! I don’t really remember how it works. I do think that you can manually delete the enclosures from the meta fields in your post and as long as this plugin is active at least 9 years ago it used to stop WordPress from automatically adding them back to your post.
46. Nathalie | March 13th, 2015 at 4:25 pm
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much. I can’t believe it is still an issue after 9 years! I guess it wasn’t important enough for the WordPress community to have it fixed in the core code.
47. admin | March 13th, 2015 at 4:40 pm
Glad it worked out for you. It was my understanding back when I was paying attention to this issue that the people in charge of such things at WordPress considered it the way enclosures should work and it will not be changed in core.
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