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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.
Information required from the database:
<ul>
<li>Host</li>
<li>Database Name</li>
<li>Database Table Name</li>
<li>Database Username</li>
<li>Database Password</li>
</ul>
Also field names from the database which will be used for the following:
<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>
Your categories need to be setup prior to using this.
<h4>Example database table for importing from</h4>
You may use the following database table as an example template for your database.
<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>
Note: You must have at least one record in the database table before you can enter the database column fields in this plugin.

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.

Angelo Mandato

Plugins Podcast

Replaces the GetID3 library used in PowerPress with an older version 1.9.3. for podcast websites using older versions of PHP.
This plugin was intended for podcasters hosting on sites with PHP 5.3 or older. If you still require this plugin we strongy encourage you to contact your web hosting and have your version of PHP upgraded.
If you have PHP 5.4 or newer, you no longer need this plugin.
If you have WordPress version 5.1 or newer, you no longer need this plugin.
If you are using WordPress 5.1+ this plugin will not use the included outdated version of getID3 library and instead use the PowerPress default which is now the getid3 library packaged within WordPress.
<h3>Contributors</h3>
Angelo Mandato, CIO <a href="https://blubrry.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Blubrry Podcasting</a>

PowerPress GetID3 1.9.3 add-on

Replaces the GetID3 library used in PowerPress with an older version 1.9.3.

PowerPress Posts From MySQL addon vs PowerPress GetID3 1.9.3 add-on