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.

blubrry

machouinard

<p>By populating a MySQL database table with all the information about the podcasts you can automatically create the posts needed for podcasting with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerpress/" title="WordPress Podcasting" rel="ugc">Blubrry PowerPress plugin</a>. This will allow you to post as draft or published and switch between the two as well as delete posts.  Probably not useful to actual Podcasters, but it works for what I needed.</p>
<p>Information required from the database:</p>
<ul>
<li>Host</li>
<li>Database Name</li>
<li>Database Table Name</li>
<li>Database Username</li>
<li>Database Password</li>
</ul>
<p>Also field names from the database which will be used for the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Primary Key Field</li>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Category</li>
<li>Post Body</li>
<li>Featured Image(URL to an image)</li>
<li>Media URL</li>
<li>Media size</li>
<li>Media type</li>
<li>Date posted</li>
</ul>
<p>Your categories need to be setup prior to using this.</p>
<h4>Example database table for importing from</h4>
<p>You may use the following database table as an example template for your database.</p>
<pre><code>CREATE TABLE episodes (
  episode_id int(11) NOT NULL,
  episode_title varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  episode_category varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  episode_body text NOT NULL,
  episode_image_url varchar(4000) NOT NULL,
  episode_url varchar(4000) NOT NULL,
  episode_length int(11) NOT NULL,
  episode_content_type varchar(20) NOT NULL,
  episode_date date NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (episode_id)
) DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
</code></pre>
<p>Note: You must have at least one record in the database table before you can enter the database column fields in this plugin.</p>


PowerPress Posts From MySQL addon

Have a bunch of podcasts stored on your server and aren't excited about creating each post manually? This can help.

Podcast Channels vs PowerPress Posts From MySQL addon