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The Wordpress podCast plugin includes a sidebar widget which allows you to show your podcast feed(s) to users viewing your site. The widget will display a list with your current podcast feed(s) in the plugin, each as a link pointing to the RSS feed with all the media files assigned to that feed.

In order to use the podCast feeds sidebar widget, go to the “Design” > “Widgets” section of your Wordpress dashboard and click the “add” link next to the “WP Podcast” widget to add it to the sidebar. After adding it, save the changes by hitting the “Save Changes” button and you’re set to go.

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.