A podcast is the next step up from blogging. While blogging is conducted by armies of pajama-clad ordinary people, podcasting is done by the same people, although less often in pajamas, using a digital or audio recorder. Podcasts are short pieces of content recorded and later distributed via RSS 2.0 as well as Atom to their site, typically a blog site. Viewers and listeners are able to download podcasts using podcast clients. A good podcast client (for example, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) will permit users to sign up to the RSS/Atom feeds of your favorite podcasters . You can instantly download the content onto a computer or to a portable audio player as new items are available.
The majority of podcasters produce their content as MP3 or MP4 audio or video files and upload them, linking to the files in an article on their blog. The users can click the link to download the file even if they're not subscribed automatically to the RSS or Atom feed. The issue has not been uploading the content to the website however, it's in making the content work through feed systems. WordPress usually will include any the latest podcasting information in your RSS/Atom feeds. This makes it simple for you to deliver content and for users to subscribe to the content.

Most people, WordPress 1.5 and above will podcast easily and automatically. When you link to the audio file in your WordPress blog post by using the complete URL address, it automatically incorporates it into the feed RSS/Atom and makes it possible to use it as podcast. podcast. Make sure you use a full address:

Wrong: My podcast


Right: My podcast

The last step is to place a link to your RSS or Atom feed on your website. By default, feeds are listed at the bottom of your WordPress page. The link should look something like this when you're using the RSS feed:

Podcast Bookmarking App

In earlier versions of WordPress the automated links functioned for posts only, but not in static websites. Because WordPress needs to maintain precise information about file sizes If you alter 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 which has any reason to not be fully accessible via your blog the podcast won't work properly when it's up since WordPress does not have the correct data on the size of the file.

For Apache servers and other servers that utilize using the .htaccess file, you'll need the addition of a directive to the config files or .htaccess file to get it to recognise podcast file formats (m4a and m4b) correctly. Simply add this line to the file you're using: