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Thursday, August 25, 2005

WordPress Podcast Support Issue

Previously, I'd mentioned how cool WordPress picks up on mp3 files automatically. It is still a very good and time saving feature but I was a bit dissapointed when the audioblog.com files just wouldn't show up on my feeds as a podcast.

It wasn't that easy to get the answer but eventually figured out, WordPress has difficulty picking up on files that are hosted off site. What a bummer and I thought I could save me some bandwidth. I didn't want to start paying for more bandwidth since I'm already paying audioblog.com and was determined to figure out how to make my audioblog.com entries a podcast and there are two ways.

Use feedburner or when you create your blog entry, go to Advanced Fields, go to the section custom fields and select enclosure. In the 'value' blox enter the URL to your mp3 file on one line, next line enter the file size and next line enter audio/mpeg then save and publish, you should now have a podcast with mp3 files hosted offsite.