Slides from the "Power Your Podcast with WordPress" workshop I presented at WordCamp Baltimore 2013, September 21, 2013. Topics include an overview of the importance and history of podcasting, the requirements to start an amateur podcast, and how to utilize self-hosted WordPress or WordPress.com to serve as the platform for a podcast.

1. Power Your Podcast
with WordPress
Presented by Douglas Bell
www.DouglasBell.us / www.techtAUk.net
WordCamp Baltimore 2013
Station North Track - 1:00 pm

2. What is a
Podcast?

3. 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.

4. Who’s Podcasting?

5. A Little About Me
(in a very brief slide)

7. A Brief History of
Podcasting

8. 2001 iPod

9. 2002
RSS 2.0
Feeds

10. 2003 Blogging

11. 2004
iPod + Broadcast
= Podcast!
The Big Idea

12. 2004

13. 2004 “Podcatchers”

14. 2005 iTunes Podcasting

15. Podcasting &
Blogging
They go hand-in-hand!

16. Democratizing
Publishing

17. Democratizing
Broadcasting

18. What Makes a Podcast?
Personal Portable
Professional
(or amateur)
Pretty Easy

19. How to Start Your
Own Podcast Using
WordPress

20. Four Things You Need:
Blog or CMS Website
Artwork & Branding
Podcast Feed
Episode Hosting

21. iTunes defines the de facto
standards for Podcast Feeds
www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

22. 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

23. 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)

24. Other Episode Hosting
• Any shared web host
($80-$100/year)
• Many hosts offer
unlimited bandwidth &
storage space
• Keep regular backups!
• Pro option: Amazon S3

25. Artwork & Branding
• Podcast Artwork
represents your podcast
on iTunes & media devices
• 1400x1400 square JPEG
image recommended
• Should scale down well to
300x300 for viewing
1400
1400
YOUR
IMAGE
HERE!

26. Example Artwork

27. 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

28. Demo
Recording & Editing An Episode
Self-Hosted & Plugin Setup
Submit Podcast to iTunes
WP.com & Feedburner Setup

29. Demo

30. Recap
What Podcasting Is
Setup a Podcast Site w/ WordPress
Submit Podcast to iTunes
How to Edit an Audio Podcast
Podcast Feed & Requirements

31. Resources
Apple iTunes Podcasters Guide
www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/
WordPress.com Podcasting Setup
en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/
WordPress Self-Hosted Podcasting
codex.wordpress.org/Podcasting

32. Plugins (Self-Hosted)
podPress
wordpress.org/plugins/podpress/
Blubrry PowerPress
wordpress.org/plugins/powerpress/
Feedburner Plugin
wordpress.org/plugins/feedburner-plugin/

33. More Podcast Directories
Podcast Alley - www.podcastalley.com
PodBean - www.podbean.com
Blubrry - www.blubrry.com
Podfeed.net - www.podfeed.net

34. Review This
Workshop Online
SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/dbelldc
WordPress.tv: Coming Soon!

35. If You’re Hiring...
Contact Me: dbelldc@gmail.com
My Website: www.DouglasBell.us
Tech tAUk Reloaded
Podcast
Website: www.techtAUk.net

36. Questions?
Thanks for listening!