Creating a Podcast with Wordpress & RSS Feeds by Category
As you can probably see from the last 4 posts, I am playing around with podcasting. Its very easy to upload an MP3 file to your blog and have it become a podcast. You just go over to Feedburner.com and give them the normal RSS feed for your blog. Feedburner will then massage it into the right RSS format for iTunes and other applications to consume as a podcast.
One small downside is that the normal RSS feed for my blog has ALL of my posts in it. What if I had a link to an MP3 in a post that I did NOT want in my podcast?? I was interested in how I could segregate those posts. Turns out its simple. If you apply a category (tag) to your podcast postings (like category=podcast) then you can very easily have wordpress create an RSS feed for just that category. Below is such an RSS feed link for my blog. I have all my test podcasts under a category called “podcast”…
http://carlhutzler.com/blog/category/podcast/feed
I then tell feedburner to digest the above RSS feed and produce an MP3 Podcast feed which gets published as:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CarlHutzlersBlog
Add in the special itns:// service delineation and you have a podcast rss feed that will automatically open itunes and subscribe the person to your podcast with just one click. Cool :-)
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