Posts Tagged ‘feed’

Each of your podCast feeds will have a unique RSS feed URL which can be accessed directly in order to view the media files assigned to that feed together with a title and description for each item.

The URL of each feed is generated using the address of your website with the title of the feed which has been sanitized as a “feed” parameter appended to that. A sanitized title is a string with contains only alphanumeric characters and dashes in a lowercase state.

Lets say that you create a feed named “It’s my special podCast feed” and your domain name is “mysite.com“, the feed URL for the feed will be “http://mysite.com/?feed=its-my-special-podcast-feed”. Users can access this URL in their browsers, feed readers and other similar tools to view the media files of each of your feeds.

You can create new unlimited, new podcast feeds and edit your existent ones according to your needs.

Each feed consists of a title, description and categories selection. The title, sanitized (allowing only alphanumeric characters and converting to lowercase) will be used as the “feed” parameter of the unique feed URL. The description will be inserted into the RSS XML feed which is used for descriptive purposes to the user viewing the feed.

The list of categories and sub-categories is the set which has been provided by Apple iTunes and allows you to categorize each of your podCast feeds according to the content it consists of. When you submit your feed to the iTunes store (which is free of charge), the feed will automatically be shown in the categories which you ticked off when you saved the feed.

The Wordpress podCast plugin allows you to create multiple podCast feeds and assign media files to those feeds as a manner of organizing/categorizing. Each feed that you create has its own, unique URL by which users will access the feed in order to view the media files assigned to that specific feed.

The “Feeds” section of the Wordpress podCast plugin allows you to view all your current podCast feeds. Each record displays the feed title, name, unique URL, number of files assigned to the feed and the last modified date of the feed. You can use this section to perform mass actions on feeds using the checkboxes such as deleting the selected feeds.

Most of the feed settings are used for the iTunes special tags. It is recommended that all values are filled in to ensure that your podCast feed(s) is being read correctly as expected.

• Website URL
  The address of the website you want users to visit in order to find out more about (or get related) content published in your podCast feed(s).
   
• Subtitle
  A short sentence serving as a description or slogan for your website
   
• Summary
  A summarized piece of writing describing your website and the content it has to offer.
   
• podCast Image
  An absolute URL/address to the image which will be used when displaying your podCast feeds in podCast directories such as iTunes, Yahoo, etc… Please use a 300px BY 300px image which is either in .JPG, .GIF or .PNG format. The default image is named “podcast.gif” and is placed inside of the “images” folder of the plugin. You can simply overwrite this if you want to.
   
• Language
  The written/spoken language used in the media of your podCast feed(s). The default value used is “en-us” which indicates that the language is in US English. Please see a list of RSS language codes which are available for you to use. 
   
• Copyright
  Display a copyright message to users viewing your feed(s) or content inside the feeds, notifying them that your content is protected by copyright. You can use a name/trademark and a licensed date.
   
• Author Name
  The first - and last name of the person who created (or made available) the content inside of the podCast feed(s)
   
• Author Email Address
  The full email address belonging to the Author Name mentioned above. Users viewing the feed(s) might want to contact the author of the content for further information or queries.
   
• Explicit
  This setting indicates whether or not the content inside all of the feeds published by your website contain offensive or explicit content. This is a global default setting and will be overwritten by each individual podCast file that you add if indeed you specify an explicit state for that file. 

The Wordpress podCast Plugin allows you, as an administrator, to create, manage and publish podCast feeds, using both audio and video files in a range of different formats.