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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.

SecondLineThemes

<p>This free plugin helps to easily include 90+ custom and Podcast-specific Subscribe/Follow Buttons anywhere within your site directly via the editor or with a simple shortcode.<br />
The plugin supports all the major platforms like <a href="https://spotify.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Spotify</a>, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, YouTube, TuneIn, <a href="https://beamly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Beamly</a> and dozens of others.<br />
The Podcast Subscribe Buttons are intended for podcasters and therefore the list of companies/icons only include podcast-related companies. (Need a new icon? Let us know!)</p>
<p>With the Podcast Subscribe Buttons plugin, you could display links to subscribe to your podcast across various external podcast platforms, those links may include regular links to your pages on external podcast platforms, direct links to RSS feeds, or URI links to open directly in an external application.</p>
<p>There are a few ways to add subscribe buttons with the plugin.<br />
First, you can use the custom block in any page/post that uses the new (“Gutenberg”) WordPress editor.<br />
Also, you can create new “Subscribe Button” sets via the menu that appears in your WordPress dashboard (under “Tools -> Podcast Subscribe Buttons”). Simply adjust the default display settings, add links, and display the button via a shortcode anywhere within your site. See example below:<br />
    [podcast_subscribe id=”1789″]</p>
<p>Lastly, you can add the buttons directly via your theme or via a custom Elementor widget in case you use one of our <a href="https://secondlinethemes.com/themes" rel="nofollow ugc">Podcast Themes</a></p>
<h3>About SecondLineThemes</h3>
<p>SecondLineThemes is creating WordPress themes and plugins for podcasts. We are dedicated to help podcasters with their WordPress sites. To read more about us please check our website:<br />
<a href="https://secondlinethemes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://secondlinethemes.com</a></p>


Podcast Subscribe Buttons

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Podcast Channels vs Podcast Subscribe Buttons