{"id":238,"date":"2006-03-08T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T02:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/08\/making-an-itunes-podcast-feed-with-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:18:00","slug":"making-an-itunes-podcast-feed-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/making-an-itunes-podcast-feed-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Making an iTunes podcast feed with WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is what powers this blog and is also what we used at work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/ctl\/podcast\/\">The University Teaching Podcast<\/a> WordPress can podcast right out of the box: <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Podcasting\">codex.wordpress.org\/Podcasting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What wordpress  can&#8217;t do is include information podcast clients appreciate like an image for the podcast&#8217;s icon or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/podcasts\/techspecs.html\">the extensions iTunes added<\/a>. In order accommodate this I choose to edit wordpress&#8217; wp-rss2.php file in order to take advantage of the iTunes podcast standards and other podcast focused tags. The one thing these modifications don&#8217;t address are the  and  tags for each episode &#8211; all podcast clients we&#8217;ve come across can determine this information from the file once it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>You will also notice the addition of the  60 tag &#8212; this Time To Live is not always honored by podcast clients, but if your podcast does experience popularity beyond your sever&#8217;s bandwidth, etc. this might make for a more graceful failure.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/ctl\/podcast\/\">The University Teaching Podcast &#8216;s<\/a> current wp-rss2.php file. Please feel free top copy and paste this over your current file and make your revisions.<\/p>\n<p>The source code is posted here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/~mclare\/itunes_podcast_with_wordpress.php\">www.brocku.ca\/~mclare\/itunes_podcast_with_wordpress.php<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s posted on my work webspace in order to take advantage of PHP&#8217;s ability to colour its own code.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A wordpress plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/garrickvanburen.com\/wpipodcatter\/\">WP-iPodCAtter<\/a> also  addresses this issue,  I have not tested this plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is what powers this blog and is also what we used at work for The University Teaching Podcast WordPress can podcast right out of the box: codex.wordpress.org\/Podcasting What wordpress can&#8217;t do is include information podcast clients appreciate like an image for the podcast&#8217;s icon or the extensions iTunes added. In order accommodate this I&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/making-an-itunes-podcast-feed-with-wordpress\/\">Continue Reading<span> Making an iTunes podcast feed with WordPress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}