Podcasting is the next step from blogging. While blogging is carried out by pajama-clad masses of ordinary people, podcasting is done by many of these same people, however typically, not as often, in pajamas using a digital recording device or an audio player. Short pieces are recorded, then distributed via RSS 2.0 as well as Atom to their websites usually a blog. Listeners and viewers can then download podcasts using 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 and instantly download the content onto your computer or a portable audio player whenever new content becomes available.
The majority of podcasters produce their content in MP3 or MP4 audio or video files, and then upload them, including the link to the file in the blog post. The users can click the button to download the content even if they're not subscribed automatically to the RSS/Atom feed. The difficulty hasn't been in how to upload the content onto the website, but in making the content work through feed systems. WordPress generally will automatically add the latest podcasting information in your RSS/Atom feed system. This makes it easy for you to provide content as well as for your users to subscribe to the content.

For the majority of users, WordPress 1.5 and above will podcast easily and automatically. When you hyperlink to the audio file within an WordPress article using the full URL, it incorporates it into the RSS/Atom feed and makes it possible to use it as podcast. podcast. Be sure to include a full URL:

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

Your last step is to put the URL to your RSS/Atom feed on your page. By default, the feeds are listed at the bottom on your WordPress page. The feeds link should look like this if you're using RSS:


In earlier versions of WordPress automated links were used exclusively for posts and not to be used for pages that are static. Since WordPress requires precise information about file sizes, if you change a linked file you should be certain to republish the post containing the link. When you've connected to an image that has any reason to not be easily accessible from your blog, your podcast will not function properly when it's published because WordPress doesn't have the right information about the size of the file.

For Apache servers as well as other servers which use the .htaccess file, you'll have the addition of a directive the config file or .htaccess file to enable servers to be able to detect podcast files (m4a and m4b) correctly. You can simply add this line in the file you're using: