Podcasting is the next level from blogging. While blogging is performed by an army of pajama-clad people, podcasting is performed by the same people, however more often, they are in front of a digital or audio recording machine. The short segments are recorded and then released via RSS 2.0 and Atom to their website which is usually a blog. Viewers and listeners can download podcasts using podcast clients. A good podcast client (for example, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) allows you to subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed of your favorite podcasters . You can instantly download the podcast content to your computer or a portable audio player whenever new episodes are made available.
Most podcasters create their content in MP3 or MP4 video or audio files and upload them, including the link to the file in an article on their blog. The users can click the button to download the content when they're not automatically subscribed to the RSS or Atom feed. The difficulty hasn't been getting the content to the website, but in getting the content to function through feed systems. WordPress typically will automatically add new podcasting data in your RSS/Atom feeds. This makes it easy for you to provide content as well as for your users to sign up to that content.

Most people, WordPress 1.5 and above can podcast effortlessly and automatically. When you embed an audio file in the body of a WordPress post using the full URL address, it automatically integrates it into the RSS/Atom feed and makes it available as podcast. podcast. Be sure to make use of a complete address:

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

Your last step is to add the URL to your RSS or Atom feed on your website. By default, the feeds will be on the bottom the WordPress page. The link should appear like this if you're using RSS:

In the earlier versions of WordPress automated links were used for posts only, but not to be used for pages that are static. Because WordPress must keep precise information about file sizes in case you modify an uploaded file, you should be certain to republish the blog post that contains the link. When you've connected to an image which in any way is not easily accessible from your blog, your podcast isn't working properly after it's finished because WordPress will not have the proper information about the size of the file.


For Apache servers and other servers which utilize to use the .htaccess document, it is necessary to need include a directive to the configuration files or .htaccess file in order for the server to recognize podcast files (m4a and m4b) properly. It's as easy as adding this line to the file you use: