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How To Podcast Using WordPress
The next step is podcast ing. It's the level from blogging. While blogging is conducted by a swarm of pajama-clad normal people, podcasting is done by the same people, though less often in pajamas using a digital or audio recording machine. The short segments are recorded and then distributed via RSS 2.0 or Atom on their website which is usually a blog. Viewers and listeners can download podcasts through podcast clients. A good podcast client (for example, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) allows users to sign up to the RSS/Atom feed of your preferred podcasters. It will automatically download the content to your computer or a portable audio player when new items are available.
Most podcasters create their content in MP3 or MP4 audio or video files, and then upload them, linking to the files in an article on their blog. The users can click the button to download the content even if they're not subscribed automatically to the RSS or Atom feed. The challenge has never been in uploading the content to the web page however the issue is getting the content to function through the feed systems. WordPress generally, will automatically include new podcasting data in your RSS/Atom feed system. This makes it simple for you to distribute content and for your customers to subscribe to the content.

For most people, WordPress 1.5 and above can podcast easily and automatically. If you embed the audio file in the body of a WordPress post using the full URL address, it automatically integrates it into the feed RSS/Atom and makes it possible to use it as a podcast. Be sure to utilize a complete address.

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

Your final step is to put an RSS or Atom feed on your website. By default, feeds will be on the bottom of your WordPress page. The link should appear like this in case you're using RSS


In the earlier versions of WordPress, automated links work for only posts, and not in static websites. Since WordPress must keep exact information on file size in case you modify an uploaded file, you should ensure that you republish the article that has the link. If you've linked to files that for any reason is not fully accessible from your blog the podcast will not function properly when it is up because WordPress will not have the proper file size information.

For Apache servers as well as other servers that use to use the .htaccess files, you'll have create a new directive to the config file or .htaccess file to enable servers to be able to detect podcast file formats (m4a and m4b) correctly. It's as easy as adding this line to the file that you are using:

Here's my website: https://podjuicy.com