Power Your Podcast with WordPress - Workshop - WordCamp Baltimore 2013

Power Your Podcastwith WordPressPresented by Douglas Bell

www.DouglasBell.us / www.techtAUk.net

WordCamp Baltimore 2013Station North Track - 1:00 pm

What is a Podcast?

A podcast is an episodic audio or video program, syndicated over

the internet using RSS feeds.

Users can subscribe to these shows and have new episodes pushed to

them as they’re released, and take the episodes with them on any device.

Who’s Podcasting?

A Little About Me(in a very brief slide)

A Brief History of Podcasting

2001 iPod

2002

RSS 2.0

Feeds

2003 Blogging

2004

iPod + Broadcast= Podcast!

The Big Idea

2004

2004 “Podcatchers”

2005 iTunes Podcasting

Podcasting & Blogging

They go hand-in-hand!

Democratizing Publishing

Democratizing Broadcasting

What Makes a Podcast?

Personal Portable

Professional(or amateur)

Pretty Easy

How to Start Your Own Podcast Using

WordPress

Four Things You Need:Blog or CMS Website

Artwork & Branding

Podcast Feed

Episode Hosting

iTunes defines the de facto standards for Podcast Feeds

www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Blog or CMS Website• Easy-to-use CMS to

control your website design and content

• Media-friendly platform

• Generates RSS feeds of syndicated content

• Self-hosted or WP.com

WP.com Episode Hosting• Space Upgrade required to

upload audio files(10 GB = $20/year)

• VideoPress Upgrade required to upload & embed video ($60/year, incl. 3 GB space)

• WordPress.com Premium ($79/year, incl. VideoPress and 10 GB space & other features)

Other Episode Hosting• Any shared web host

($80-$100/year)

• Many hosts offer unlimited bandwidth & storage space

• Keep regular backups!

• Pro option: Amazon S3

Artwork & Branding• Podcast Artwork

represents your podcast on iTunes & media devices

• 1400x1400 square JPEG image recommended

• Should scale down well to 300x300 for viewing

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Example Artwork

Podcast Feed• Enhanced version of your

WordPress site’s RSS feed

• Adds metadata about the podcast, read by iTunes

• WordPress Plugins: podPress and PowerPress

• Google Feedburner

DemoRecording & Editing An Episode

Self-Hosted & Plugin Setup

Submit Podcast to iTunes

WP.com & Feedburner Setup

Demo

RecapWhat Podcasting Is

Setup a Podcast Site w/ WordPress

Submit Podcast to iTunes

How to Edit an Audio Podcast

Podcast Feed & Requirements

ResourcesApple iTunes Podcasters Guide

www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

WordPress.com Podcasting Setupen.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/

WordPress Self-Hosted Podcastingcodex.wordpress.org/Podcasting

Plugins (Self-Hosted)podPress

wordpress.org/plugins/podpress/

Blubrry PowerPresswordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/

Feedburner Pluginwordpress.org/plugins/feedburner-plugin/

More Podcast Directories

Podcast Alley - www.podcastalley.com

PodBean - www.podbean.com

Blubrry - www.blubrry.com

Podfeed.net - www.podfeed.net

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If You’re Hiring...Contact Me: dbelldc@gmail.comMy Website: www.DouglasBell.us

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Questions?Thanks for listening!