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editing RSSfeed.liquid does nothing to the RSS feed

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Before I can even think of moving our website over to Rock i have to make sure we have a solid way for people to pull up and listen to past sermon from our site. Right now we are doing all of our podacasting from our wordpress site. (RSSfeed: http://www.morgantowncommunitychurch.org/feed/podcast ) I then run it into feedburner and send it to itunes ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/MCChurchSermons ). 

I have been attempting to use the RSS block as a way to import sermons from wordpress and show them in a feed. Not exactly what we want...but we can get away with it for a time ( http://church.mcchurch.me/Sermons ). I wanted to add some of the itunes info such as images, a link to the audio file and write in an HTML5 audio player. 

Initally the feed only shows the sermon title and publication date. Then following the instruction in the block settings I went to theme>assets>liquid and created a new file called _RSSSermons.liquid. I then changed template in the block properties to match. 

Sermons.png

Rock returned a message "WarningCould not find the template _RSSsermon.liquid in /Themes/Stark/Assets/Liquid."  

I switched this back to feed and instead tried editing the _RSSFeed.liquid file but as I editied it nothing changed. I even went as far as to delete the "pubdate" line but it still showed. 

Has anyone else been able to sucesfully edit RSS Feeds? Any guesses what I am doing wrong? 

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    DJ, the way the channel feeds work is changing in Rock 1.2. You might hold off until it's released (soon, it's out for testing now). Here is the documentation for the updated feed functionality. You'll probably want to create a new liquid template for your itunes additions.

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    I was messing with this again today and have it part way there. I was able to get the RSS block to use my new liquid file. The place I ran into more issues is with having it use any itunes tags.

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    So below you will see a section of the RSS feed i am working with. The Title, link, guid, and pubdate tags all work great.  This means I have The sermon name, audio player (which plays the sermon) and the sermon date all showing up. I just can't get anything that starts with itunes: to show up. I would like to get the sermon series, series logo and sermon description to pull over also. Does anyone have any guesses what I am doing wrong? Below is also a text version of the liquid file. 

    <item>
    <title>An Attitude of the Heart</title>
    <link>

http://www.morgantowncommunitychurch.org/sermons/an-attitude-of-the-heart/

</link>
    <itunes:author>Bill Wright</itunes:author>

<itunes:subtitle>How to Have No Friends</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:summary>

This is the third sermon on a series about relationships

</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:image href="http://i0.wp.com/www.morgantowncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/HTHNF-Square.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024"/>

<enclosure url="http://www.morgantowncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/An-Attitude-of-the-Heart.mp3" length="52271349" type="audio/mpeg"/>
    <guid>

http://www.morgantowncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/An-Attitude-of-the-Heart.mp3

</guid>
    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:42:59 +0000</pubDate>

<itunes:duration>55:19</itunes:duration>

<itunes:keywords>Honor, Parents, Relationships</itunes:keywords>
    </item>

     

    _RSSSermonsItem.txt