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<p>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.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<h4>Setting up Category Channels</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Fields that don’t inherit</h4>
<p>Two fields are channel specific and do not inherit from the site defaults:</p>
<p>‘Feed Moving To’ is used to tell your podcast users (and the iTunes directory) that the podcast channel is moving to a new URL.</p>
<p>‘Feedburner URL’ redirects everyone (except the Feedburner site!) to a Feedurner URL so that they can collect stats for you.</p>
<h4>Audio Files in the Media Library</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Copyright and Image</h4>
<p>Podcast Channels adds image and copyright info to all your feeds if you specify it in the extra fields in ‘Settings > General’ (see screenshots).</p>


Podcast Channels

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

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<p>Captivate Sync™ is a WordPress plugin maintained and developed by Captivate, part of the Rebel Base Media family. With our background in Podcast Websites, WordPress development and podcast hosting, hundreds of independent podcasters trust Captivate Sync™ and Captivate to power their podcast brands everyday.</p>
<p>Captivate Sync™ is totally free to use and connects seamlessly to your Captivate podcast hosting account.</p>
<p>Captivate Sync™ helps you to publish and manage your Captivate podcasts directly within your WordPress dashboard. It’s designed to save you hours of time and shave off the manual processes that come with running a podcast, so you can focus your energy on creating your show:</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete integration with Captivate, the world’s only growth-oriented podcast host</li>
<li>Manage and display your podcast episodes inside your WordPress account</li>
<li>Edit, view, share and delete podcast episodes from WordPress and see changes reflected in your Captivate dashboard immediately</li>
<li>Use custom shortcodes and page mapping to decide how and where your episodes display on your website</li>
<li>Easy, enhanced customizations and team settings to make managing a team or multipple podcasts a breeze</li>
<li>Fully compatible with all major WordPress builders and themes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Full Captivate Sync™ features</h3>
<h4>Show and episode-level podcast management</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manage multiple podcasts and podcast episodes without leaving WordPress</li>
<li>Publish, schedule, edit and draft podcast episodes</li>
<li>Automatically insert the fully responsive Captivate podcast player wherever you need it</li>
<li>Use custom page mapping to create bespoke website content that reflects your brand, business or network</li>
<li>Choose whether to hide or display custom links and set bespoke calls to action</li>
<li>Edit or disable your comments section</li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy enhanced customization with shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically embedding your podcast players has always been easy with Captivate Sync™, but now you have full control over how people listen to your episodes with our Shortcode builder.</li>
<li>Use list view to display a feed-like list of episodes, or use grid view to choose either 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 column layouts to suit your website’s look and feel.</li>
<li>Change your featured image and podcast player position to best suit your brand and theme</li>
<li>Add custom CSS to your shortcodes for consistent branding throughout your podcast website</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customize your team settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customize and restrict access to specific podcasts to stop certain users publishing or editing content</li>
<li>Set default authors</li>
</ul>
<h4>Complete integration with Captivate, the world’s only growth-oriented podcast host</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited podcasts and uploads</li>
<li>Distribute your podcast to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and all other major podcast platforms</li>
<li>Fully responsive, customizable podcast players</li>
<li>Free, built-in podcast websites</li>
<li>Private RSS feeds on any plan</li>
<li>Innovative marketing tools to help you grow and promote your podcast episodes</li>
<li>One-click PDF sponsor kit</li>
<li>…and LOADS more! <a href="https://www.captivate.fm/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out the full feature list</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to install Captivate Sync™</h4>
<p>Setting up the Captivate Sync<strong>™</strong> plugin is a quick process with just two steps. First, you’ll need to <strong>install</strong> the plugin, then <strong>authenticate</strong> the integration.</p>
<ol>
<li>Install Captivate Sync<strong>™</strong> from the WordPress repository. Then, head to your <em>Plugins</em> tab, find Captivate Sync<strong>™</strong> and click <em>Activate.</em></li>
<li>Head on over to your Captivate dashboard. Click <em>My Account,</em> and then click <em>Reveal API key.</em></li>
<li>Back in WordPress, paste the <em>User ID and API key</em> into the relevant boxes within Captivate Sync™.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you need more guidance, we’ve put together <a href="https://help.captivate.fm/en/articles/2761714-how-to-authenticate-captivate-sync-after-installation" rel="nofollow ugc">full instructions and video steps</a>.</p>
<h4>How to find help</h4>
<p>For help with Captivate Sync™, take a look at the FAQs and step-by-step guides in our <a href="https://help.captivate.fm" rel="nofollow ugc">help section</a>. If you can’t find the answers you need, reach out to us on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/captivatesync-trade/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> or get in touch via the chat feature on the <a href="https://my.captivate.fm/" rel="nofollow ugc">Captivate dashboard</a>.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>https://help.captivate.fm</p>
<h3>Twitter</h3>
<p>http://twitter.com/captivateaudio</p>


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