How to Post a Podcast on a WordPress Blog

How can you keep your blog on the cutting edge? You can add a podcast to it. Adding a podcast lets you incorporate audio or video into your blog, allowing you interact with your readers on a different, often more personal level. Follow these few steps to post a podcast on a WordPress blog:

Instructions

1. Create the audio or video file that you want to share. Edit the file to eliminate background noise and content you want excluded. This will be your podcast file.

2. Upload your podcast file to a Web server. WordPress recommends Odeo.com.

3. Add a link to the file in your blog post. When you use Odeo.com, this link will also include a player for the audio or video content, and should look like this: [odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/filenumber/view], where "filenumber" is replaced by the actual number of the file you wish to include.

4. Include a link in RSS/Atom feed for syndication so that listeners know new content is available.

5. Post your entry to your WordPress blog.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure that the file is available. If you can't load and listen to your own podcast, others won't be able to either.

• Republish the post if you make changes to the content so that the post reflects those changes.

• WordPress does not allow direct posting of audio or video content. In order to post a podcast to your WordPress blog you will need to link to the content from your post.