WordPress Publisher Blog
This blog is aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress. We’ll cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.
The Ford Story Chooses WordPress
The Ford Story is a recently launched site committed to making Ford’s progress towards getting new high-quality, fuel-efficient cars, and trucks on the road today transparent and open. The site is completely powered by WordPress and uses WordPress as a CMS to deliver a wide variety of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.
We talked [...]
Intruders.tv Web TV Network Chooses WordPress
Intruders.tv, an international web tv network, recently relaunched their globally focused channels, having switched to WordPress MU as their publishing platform of choice.
Since they started out two years ago, the Intruders team have been bringing high-quality, high-profile tech/Internet interviews to the world with HD video, in a number of languages, from a refreshing breadth of [...]
Tips on Optimizing Performance for Self-Installed WordPress
Michael Biven, CTO of Laughing Squid, wrote a great post highlighting how to optimize your self-installed WordPress setup:
Taking responsibility of your WordPress site by keeping it up to date to the latest version and managing it’s load on the server hosting it is just as important as the content you’re writing for it. Security updates, [...]
- Publisher Blog Feed (RSS 2.0)
For publishers looking for a way to manage, publish, and track podcasts there is a great WordPress plugin called 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.
8 Responses to “Podcasting With WordPress”
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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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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
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.
[...] Raanan wrote an excellent article about podcasting with WordPress using PodPress. Here I’m going to flip it around and talk about podcasts about [...]
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I have been using PodPress for a while. I went from an older version to 8.8 and not sure what happened, but now when I try to play an audio file I get the following message: “error opening file”
The file location listed in General Settings is correct. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this problem, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
@Ramesh –
Unfortunately I’m not familiar with that error. Your best bet is to scan the FAQs and the support forums over on the PodPress site: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/