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Multiple users report that the PowerPress 11.16.x update breaks self-hosted media URL verification and causes dashboard looping or 401 errors, forcing rollback.

PowerPress outputs an invalid iTunes email element that prevents Spotify and Amazon Music from accepting the podcast feed.

PowerPress users report manually entered podcast media URLs disappearing days later, removing players and possibly tied to a recent auto-update.

PowerPress 11.15.x broke episode descriptions in podcast apps and removed feed fields, causing users to roll back until 11.15.4 fixed it.

Podcast platform bots are hitting the site so heavily that it crashes several times a day, while stricter blocking risks breaking episode discovery.

PowerPress 11.16.2 deletes Show Notes text and can also erase author fields when saving posts.

Invalid XML in the podcast RSS feed prevents newly published episodes from appearing on audio platforms.

A long-time PowerPress user lost the Podcast Episode box on new and old posts and remained blocked after many support replies.

PowerPress 11.16.0 caused a fatal type error that emptied the plugin settings tab, forcing the user to restore a backup and stay on the prior version.

Terrible, Buggy Plugin: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Can I Use the Podcast Feed for Spotify?: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Just A Sales Tool: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Not intuitive – Buggy: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Does Not Work As Advertised – Support Is Terrible: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Categories changed in 2019: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Migrate from other podcast plugin: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Slows your site to a crawl: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Interface is a mess, no cpt: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

The user objected to requiring a Blubrry account for Podroll and later reported that the resulting Podroll change caused their podcast feed to fail validation.

Insanely confusing and a little buggy: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

The reviewer says the podcast player has become glitchy, sometimes hiding transcript links or failing to play audio, and asks for more customization.

I’d give it zero stars if I could: users show pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

PowerPress caused a critical error when publishing posts with Divi Classic Editor enabled, forcing the user away from their preferred editing workflow.

mp3 URL: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Insanely unintuitive settings: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

The user reports that PowerPress corrupts RSS descriptions by changing punctuation and failing to escape some XML codes properly.

Review deleted: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

PowerPress 11.15 produced a fatal error when a location was set without latitude and longitude values.

A PowerPress update replaced the user's OP3 stats prefix with a Blubrry prefix and linking requirements appeared to block other features.

The podcast post composer cuts off episode and season fields on narrower laptop and smartphone screens.

PowerPress prevented one category archive from loading on PHP 8 because it treated a string like an array in the header output.

The user can no longer customize a shortened podcast episode description separately from the full WordPress post content.

PowerPress's Advanced tab shows only tooltips and no editable fields, and the expand arrows do nothing in multiple browsers.

PowerPress marks PodPing as enabled but update notifications are not reaching Podcast Index unless triggered manually.