This is the following step up from blogging. While blogging is performed by pajama-clad masses of ordinary people, podcasting is done by many of these same people, however less often in pajamas in front of a digital or audio recording machine. The short segments are recorded and then released via RSS 2.0 as well as Atom on their website usually a blog. Viewers and listeners can download podcasts using podcast clients. A reliable podcast client (for instance, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) will permit you to join the RSS/Atom feeds of your favorite podcasters . You can instantly download the podcast content to the computer or to a portable audio player as new episodes are made available.
Most podcast ers create their content as MP3 or MP4 audio or video files. They then upload the files, including the link to the file in a blog post. Users can then click the button to download the content if they're not automatically subscribed to the RSS/Atom feed. The challenge has never been in getting the content to the web page however the issue is making the content work through the feed systems. WordPress, in most cases will include any new podcasting data in your RSS/Atom feed system. This makes it easy for you to publish content and for your users to subscribe to the content.


For the majority of users, WordPress 1.5 and above will podcast quickly and easily. When you link to the audio file within your WordPress article using the full URL, it integrates it into the feed RSS/Atom and makes it an podcast. Make sure you use a full address:

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

The last step is to include an RSS/Atom feed on the page. The feeds are located on the lower right of your WordPress page. The URL should look like this if you're using RSS:

In earlier versions of WordPress the automated links functioned for only posts, and not to be used for pages that are static. Since WordPress requires accurate information regarding file size when you modify an uploaded file, you should be sure to publish a new article that has the link. If you've linked to files which has any reason to not be easily accessible from your blog the podcast will not function properly when it is up because WordPress will not have the proper information about the size of the file.

For Apache servers and others that use for the .htaccess document, it is necessary to need create a new directive the config document or .htaccess file to get it to recognise podcast documents (m4a and m4b) correctly. Simply add this line in the file you're using: