The next step is podcasting. It's the step up from blogging. While blogging is done by pajama-clad masses of ordinary people, podcasting is done by a lot of these people, however less often in pajamas, in front of a digital or audio recording machine. Short pieces are recorded, then distributed via RSS 2.0 as well as Atom to their site, typically a blog site. Viewers and listeners can download podcasts using podcast clients. A good podcast client (for example, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) allows users to sign up to the RSS/Atom feeds of your preferred podcasters. It will immediately download the content to your computer or a portable audio player as new podcasts are released.
Most podcasters create their content as MP3 or MP4 audio or video files and upload themto the internet, including the link to the file in a blog post. Users are able to click the link to download the file in case they're not already subscribed to the RSS or Atom feed. The issue has not been uploading the content to the web page, but in getting the content to work through feed systems. WordPress generally, will automatically include new podcasting data in your RSS/Atom feeds. This makes it simple for you to provide content as well as for your customers to subscribe to the content.

Most people, WordPress 1.5 and above will podcast easily and automatically. When you embed an audio file within an WordPress blog post, using the full URL address, it automatically incorporates it into the RSS/Atom feed and makes it a podcast. Make sure you use a full address:

Wrong: My podcast



Right: My podcast

Your last step is to place a link to your RSS/Atom feeds on your page. By default, feeds are listed at the bottom of your WordPress page. The link should appear like this in case you're using RSS

In the earlier versions of WordPress the automated links functioned for posts only, but not in static websites. Because WordPress must keep exact information on file size in case you modify the file linked to, you must be certain to republish the article that has the link. In the event that you've hyperlinked to a document that in any way is not easily accessible from your blog then your podcast will not function correctly when it's published because WordPress does not have the correct size of the file.

For Apache servers as well as other servers which utilize for the .htaccess files, you'll have the addition of a directive the configuration files or .htaccess file to allow your server's ability to identify podcast media files (m4a and M4b) correctly. You can simply add this line in the file you're using: