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Podcasting With WordPress

15 Feb 08
Raanan Bar-Cohen

For publishers looking for a way to manage, publish, and track podcasts there is a great WordPress plugin called PodPress.
podpress

PodPress features:

* Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM and BitTorrent RSS)
* Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes
* Podcast Download stats, with cool graphs. See below.
* Support for Premium Content (Pay Only)
* Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
* View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting
* Control over where the player will display within your post and what it will look like.
* Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
* Supports unlimited number of media files.
* Automatic Media player for MP3, OGG, MP4, MOV, FLV, SWF, ASF, WMV, AVI, YouTube, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
* Preview image for videos
* Support for separate Category podcasts
* Podango hosting integration

For more information, demos, and tutorials about PodPress, visit the PodPress plugin site.

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Comments

  1. Chris Thomson February 15, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    PodPress is a great plugin. Any plans to integrate this into WordPress.com? I know many WP.com users, who’d love it!

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  3. Charles Hodgson February 16, 2008 at 8:49 am

    The reason that PodPress is so important is that there exists no central portal for podcasts like YouTube is for video.

    iTunes fills that niche for podcasting but you can’t use the iTunes store with a browser so individual podcasters have to find a way to bring in their own listeners. Many people don’t know that you don’t actually have to have an iPod (or other MP3 player) to listen to podcasts so it is critical for podcasters to place a player on their websites.

    PodPress is not the only solution but it seems to me to be head and shoulders above the others in that I can associate each episode with a single player. In fact it was PodPress that brought me to WordPress. Of course WordPress offers lots of ways to pull in audience.

    Please check out podictionary - the podcast for word lovers

  4. Doug Smith February 16, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Another good plugin is simply called “Podcasting” http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podcasting/

    It’s much simpler than PodPress so I especially like to use it for sites I set up for others to use. Plus it has one big advantage over PodPress in that you can name the podcast anything you like. With PodPress, the blog name and podcast name must be the same.

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