alanft

What do you need to podcast with WordPress? Nothing — WordPress puts enclosures in the feed for you. That’s the bare bones and it works well enough.
But iTunes metadata would be nice. And, how about different info in different categories? Podcast Channels lets you specify iTunes metadata for the home feed, specific category feeds, and even ‘user defined’ (‘Conditional’) feeds (see the FAQ).
<h4>Setting up Category Channels</h4>
Go to the ‘Media > Podcast Channels’ page to set up the Site Defaults (it’s ‘Manage > Podcast Channels’ for pre-2.7 WP). If you are not happy with the defaults shown in grey, click in the fields to set your own. If you want the main blog page feed to use this data, tick the ‘add to Home Feed’ option.
To add a podcast channel, choose a blog category from the drop-down menu and click ‘Add Category Channel’. When the new channel pops up, there is an ‘Add field…’ drop-down menu in it that lets you specify defaults for this channel that over-ride the site defaults.
Leave a field undefined/blank or the same as the default and it will be removed from the channel definition – which means the value reverts to the site default.
<h4>Fields that don’t inherit</h4>
Two fields are channel specific and do not inherit from the site defaults:
‘Feed Moving To’ is used to tell your podcast users (and the iTunes directory) that the podcast channel is moving to a new URL.
‘Feedburner URL’ redirects everyone (except the Feedburner site!) to a Feedurner URL so that they can collect stats for you.
<h4>Audio Files in the Media Library</h4>
When you upload an audio file, Podcast Channels adds ‘Artist’, ‘Duration’ and ‘Explicit’ fields to the Media Library. It initially fills in the artist and duration with the information found in the ID3 tags, but you are free to edit the fields.
Remember to set the explicit flag to ‘Yes’ if the content is not suitable for children. Apple are likely to de-list your podcast from the iTunes directory if you do not.
<h4>Copyright and Image</h4>
Podcast Channels adds image and copyright info to all your feeds if you specify it in the extra fields in ‘Settings > General’ (see screenshots).

Podcast Channels

Podcast Channels lets you setup 'Category-Casting' -- a different podcast per category.

Hugh Lashbrooke

Seriously Simple Podcasting is a great plugin for publishing your church’s weekly sermons, but no sermon is really complete without a relevant Bible reading – that’s what this plugin allows you to add to your sermons published with Seriously Simple Podcasting.
Simply put – this plugin adds a new ‘Bible reading’ text field to your episodes where you can specify the reading for that sermon. For your site visitors, this will add the reading to the episode meta data that is displayed beneath the media player with the reading linked to biblegateway.com for the full text.
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This plugin is an add-on for <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/seriously-simple-podcasting/" rel="ugc">Seriously Simple Podcasting</a> and requires at least v1.15 of Seriously Simple Podcasting in order to work.
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Primary Features
<ul>
<li>Adds a new field to your episodes for adding the Bible reading for the sermon</li>
<li>Adds the Bible reading alongside the rest of the episode details on your episodes, linked to the full passage on biblegateway.com</li>
<li>Allows you to select your preferred version from 60 different English Bible versions</li>
<li>Includes dynamic filtering (see FAQ) to use any other version that is available on biblegateway.com</li>
</ul>
How to contribute
If you want to contribute to Bible Readings for Seriously Simple Podcasting, you can <a href="https://github.com/hlashbrooke/Bible-Readings-for-Seriously-Simple-Podcasting" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the GitHub repository</a> – all pull requests will be reviewed and merged if they fit into the goals for the plugin.

Bible Readings for Seriously Simple Podcasting

Add linked Bible readings to sermons published with Seriously Simple Podcasting.

Podcast Channels vs Bible Readings for Seriously Simple Podcasting