alanft

<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.

douglaskarr

<p>A simple feed widget or shortcode that displays the iTunes set image for the episode and embeds the default WordPress’ internal audio player to play it.</p>
<h4>About Podcast Feed Player Widget</h4>
<p>WordPress has an RSS Widget, but it doesn’t includes custom podcast tags for the episode image and the audio file, this one does!</p>
<p>Shortcode Usage:</p>
<pre><code>[podcastfeed feedurl="" quantity="" imgsize="" imgclass="" itunes="" google="" soundcloud="" icons=""]Here are our latest podcasts.[/podcastfeed]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>feedurl – Your podcast feed address.</li>
<li>quantity – The quantity of podcasts you wish to display.</li>
<li>imgsize – The size of the image you’d like to display, 0 for no image.</li>
<li>imgclass – The class for the image, default is alignleft </li>
<li>itunes – Your iTunes address to display in the icons.</li>
<li>google – Your Google Play address you’d like to display in the icons.</li>
<li>soundcloud  – Your SoundCloud address you’d like to display in the icons.</li>
<li>icons – Whether you want to display icons, default is true.</li>
</ul>


Podcast Feed Player Widget and Shortcode

Really hope you appreciate this submission to the community. I previewed and tried every other podcast player and just couldn't find one that was simple and that utilized WordPress' default audio player.

Hope You Appreciate the Plugin!

The default RSS widget didn't provide an audio player nor the image for the episode, so I built one. I've also since added a shortcode in th …

Podcast Channels vs Podcast Feed Player Widget and Shortcode