The next step is podcasting. It's the level from blogging. While blogging is performed by an army of pajama-clad individuals, podcasting is carried out by a large portion of these people, although more often, they are with a digital or audio recording machine. Short pieces are recorded, then distributed via RSS 2.0 or Atom to their site which is usually a blog. The listeners and viewers are able to download podcasts via podcast clients. A reliable podcast client (for instance, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) will allow you to join the RSS/Atom feeds of your preferred podcasters. It will instantly download the content onto either a computer or portable audio player as new episodes are made available.
Most podcasters create their content in MP3 or MP4 video or audio files and upload themto the internet, linking to the files in a blog post. The users can click the link to download the file when they're not automatically subscribed to the RSS/Atom feed. The problem has never been how to upload the content onto the website however, it's in getting the content to work through feed systems. WordPress typically will include any the latest podcasting information in your RSS/Atom feed system. This makes it simple for you to distribute content and for users to subscribe to the content.


For most users, WordPress 1.5 and above can podcast easily and automatically. When you link to the audio file in the body of a WordPress blog post by using the complete URL address, it automatically incorporates it into the RSS/Atom feed and makes it possible to use it as an podcast . Be sure to make use of a complete address:

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

Your last step is to put a link to your RSS or Atom feed on your website. By default, the feeds appear on the lower right the WordPress page. The link should appear like this if you're using RSS:

In earlier versions of WordPress, automated links work for only posts, and not to be used for pages that are static. Because WordPress requires accurate information regarding file size when you modify the file linked to, you must be sure to publish a new blog post that contains the link. When you've connected to an image that has any reason to not be easily accessible from your blog the podcast will not function properly when it's published because WordPress will not have the proper size of the file.

For Apache servers, as well as others that use using the .htaccess file, you'll need create a new directive the configuration files or .htaccess file to enable servers to be able to detect podcast documents (m4a and M4b) correctly. You can simply add this line to the file you use: