Podcasting is the next level from blogging. While blogging is performed by an army of pajama-clad people, podcasting is done by the same people, however more often, they are with a digital recording device or an audio player. Podcasts are short pieces of content recorded and later distributed via RSS 2.0 as well as Atom on their website, typically a blog site. The listeners and viewers are able to download podcasts via podcast clients. A reliable podcast client (for example, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) allows users to sign up to the RSS/Atom feeds of your favorite podcasters . You can instantly download the content onto either a computer or portable audio player whenever new podcasts are released.
The majority of podcasters make their content in MP3 or MP4 audio or video files, and then upload them, linking to the file in the blog post. Users can then click the link to download the file even if they're not subscribed automatically to the RSS or Atom feed. The difficulty hasn't been in uploading the content to the website however the issue is getting the content to work through the feed systems. WordPress, in most cases will automatically incorporate new information about podcasting in your RSS/Atom feeds. This makes it easy for you to distribute content and for users to subscribe to the content.

Most people, WordPress 1.5 and above will podcast easily and automatically. When you hyperlink to the audio file within the body of a WordPress blog post by using the complete URL address, it automatically incorporates it into the feed of RSS/Atom, making it available as podcast. podcast. Be sure to use a full address:

Wrong: My podcast

Right: My podcast

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

Podcast Bookmarking Service

In earlier versions of WordPress, automated links work for posts only, not to be used for pages that are static. Since WordPress requires precise information about file sizes If you alter a linked file you should be certain to republish the article that has the link. If you've linked to a file which for any reason is not completely accessible from your blog, your podcast will not function properly when it is up because WordPress does not have the correct file size information.


For Apache servers and others that utilize for the .htaccess fileformat, you'll have create a new directive to the config file or .htaccess file in order for it to recognise podcast media files (m4a and m4b) correctly. You'll need to add this line to the file you use: