A podcast is the next step up from blogging. While blogging is performed by pajama-clad masses of ordinary people, podcasting can be done by a lot of these individuals, but less often in pajamas using a digital or audio recorder. The short segments are recorded and then released via RSS 2.0 as well as Atom on their website usually a blog. Listeners and viewers can then download podcasts via 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 the computer or to a portable audio player as new items are available.
The majority of podcasters produce their content in MP3 or MP4 audio or video files and upload themto the internet, connecting to the file within the blog post. The users can click the link to download their content when they're not automatically subscribed to the RSS or Atom feed. The issue has not been how to upload the content onto the website but rather getting the content to work through feed systems. WordPress, in most cases will include any new podcasting data in your RSS/Atom feeds. This allows you to deliver content and for your users to subscribe to the content.

Most people, WordPress 1.5 and above will podcast conveniently and instantly. If you embed the audio file within your WordPress post using the full URL, it adds it to the feed RSS/Atom and makes it a podcast. Make sure you make use of a complete address:

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

The final step is to add an URL for your RSS/Atom feed on the page. By default, the feeds are located at the lower right of the WordPress page. The link should look something like this If you're using RSS:


Podcast Bookmarking Service

In earlier versions of WordPress automatic links worked exclusively for posts and not on static web pages. Since WordPress needs to maintain accurate file size information in case you modify a linked file you should be certain to republish the post containing the link. If you've linked to files that has any reason to not be fully accessible from your blog then your podcast will not function properly when it's finished because WordPress won't have the correct information about the size of the file.

For Apache servers and others that use for the .htaccess files, you'll have include a directive the config file , or .htaccess file to get the server to recognize podcast file formats (m4a and m4b) correctly. You'll need to add this line to the file that you are using: