What it is
A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress.
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Download PodPress Version 8.8
Features
- Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM and BitTorrent RSS)
- Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes
- Podcast Download stats, with cool graphs. See below.
- Support for Premium Content (Pay Only)
- Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
- View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting
- Control over where the player will display within your post and what it will look like.
- Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
- Supports unlimited number of media files.
- Automatic Media player for MP3, OGG, MP4, MOV, FLV, SWF, ASF, WMV, AVI, YouTube, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
- Preview image for videos
- Support for separate Category podcasts
- Podango hosting integration
Resources
History
WordPress is a fantastic Blogging platform and while it does have some Podcasting support, its just all that a Podcaster could want.
I searched around and found iPodCatter which is is a good start, for getting the iTunes support, but its just not a fully featured Podcasters pluggin.
I then found a VERY nice Flash mp3 player that I really liked.
With these two pluggins a a basis for me to learn how to write a pluggin for WordPress and for the core functionality I wanted, I created PodPress which is intended to be a full blown Podcasters Plugin for WordPress.
Get it, WordPress, PodPress? Heh, I crack myself up.
Installation
If you have ever installed a pluggin, then this will be pretty easy.
- Extract the files. podpress directory into
wp-content/plugins/
- If your using WordPress 1.5, then you will need to use the replacement wp-rss2.php file that is provided. Look in the podpress/WP1.5_users/ directory
- Login to the Site Admin and go to Plugins and active podPress
- Then it can be configured from the Options menu. The config should be pretty straight forward, and it even has a preview of what your podcast would look like on iTunes.
Note: If using PHP5 you may need to increase the memory_limit setting in your php.ini to be at least 12M if you run into the problem of getting a blank screen after enabling the podPress Plugin
Usage
Write a page and at the end of your Post add your mp3 filename or full URL.
And thats it!
By adding the mp3 location after your Post it will show the player in the post, and will add the enclosure tags to your RSS2 feed.
You can set the iTunes specific settings along with an instant preview of what it will look like in iTunes
Additional Screenshots
September 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Podcast in Wordpress…
Wow, da oggi è possibile inserire il lettore del proprio Podcast in Odeo all’interno del vostro blog (Wordpress).
Sarà sufficiente inserire il seguente codice [odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/2004071/view] (naturalmente sostituendolo con il link de…
October 10th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
On my blog you can find an improved version of the flvplayer.swf (and of course the fla source). This version provides quicktime-like progressive downloading. Enjoy!
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 am
Nice plugin! Is it possible to use it to show video from Google and YouTube too?
November 8th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Any hopes of updating podpress to match the newly updated wordpress?
I updated my wordpress this morning… and podpress died. =(
Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks!
November 24th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Is very very good software, now i install it and work very good, i think change my actual csm for podcast.
Very good work
November 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Is very very good software, now i install it and work very good, i think change my actual csm for podcast in my site diarma.com
Very good work
November 28th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Where do I find the php.ini file for changing the memory_limit parameter for WordPress?
Thanks,
Kyle
November 30th, 2006 at 4:30 am
Great pluggin! As someone trying to learn to podcast, it has taken care of most of my concerns. But I can’t get the player to play my mo3 files. I have checked and recheck that the file location is correct the setup. The player says downloading, and the download bar fills, but it never starts playing, just appears to continue downloading. Any suggestions?
November 30th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Turn off stats, and see if things start working
December 1st, 2006 at 1:04 am
Never mind, found the answer in the FAQ. The permalink stuff is greek to me. The stats issue seemed to be the trouble. I unchecked that box and it now works. I’m still not sure how to know permalinks are working, but thats a wordpress issue not yours. I new to this and realizing that this whole conversation probably should have been on the forum page. Sorry for any inconvenience, feel free to delete the post. Thanks again for the awesome program!
December 1st, 2006 at 1:05 am
Woops, now I see your answer… thanks again!
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:32 am
wow.. i am utterly impressed with the plugin
December 13th, 2006 at 9:40 am
It’s a very good plugin. But I have a question. ¿It’s possible to link a media archive instead to upload?.
This is a good posibility in loudblog…
February 8th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
i’ve been using show.xml based in my root directory for years. i want to use podpress. can i still use that show.xml? all of the directory sites are using show.xml for updates.
March 16th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Thanks for the Plugin. Great work. Jürgen
April 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Awesome plugin! You have no idea how easy this has made podcasting for me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
April 18th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Great plugin, this has everything I was looking for when I went to move my weblog back to Wordpress and needed to migrate my podcast as well. Thanks!