how do you link to an existing itunes podcast feed???

See if these plugins are delivering what you need.

Podcasting
Podpress

Here is a Google search.

Hope this helps!

thanks buddah, but podpress won’t work with wordpress 2.7 I believe, and I had podcasting installed then upgraded from 2.7 beta to R1 and my podcasting plugin disappeared… on a side note I don’t recommend using the automatic update feature when upgrading either… I had to restore my database and upgrade manually.

I’ll try to reinstall the podcasting plugin and see if it reads my xml feed.

nope, didn’t work….
this is the feed podcasting sees…
https://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/feed/podcast/

I tried the blubrry powerpess as well and it sees…
https://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/feed/
https://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/feed/podcast/

but not….
https://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal.xml

housesibu,

see if this codex reference on podcasting helps.

I don’t really think that’s what I’m looking for either….

ahhhh, if only you could specify a feed url in wordpress and then import each episode to a post, or when you post it would start adding episodes to your already existing xml file….

there’s no way to replicate a feed at https://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal_001.xml with WP, so your options are either

1) redirect that URL to a URL that WP can provide a podcast on. you could do this via apache trickery or PHP trickery

or

2) put your xml file back at that position with metdata set in it (itunes:new-feed-url) to redirect your audience’s podcasting clients. See https://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html#changing

the second option is risky from an audience retention PoV, but is easier and more supportable and future-proof

for importing 2 years worth of old podcasts you could take the XML that almost imports and do a simple text editor search and replace to convert the elements that contain the content to a named element that WOULD import into WP via the current XML import. but it’s hard to say how easy that would be without seeing your original XML (or a sample of a couple of items in it)

yes, sorry the link I had was wrong… added an extra zero…
it’s https://www.blackmarketfunk.com/podcasts/poor_ragged_rascal_01.xml

let me know what you think after you view the source code.

Thanks for your help.

Your XML is iTunes namespace info only apart from the title (in each item), so the RSS importer doesn’t pick up anything but that title. if you did a search/replace to change the “itunes:summary” nodes to “description” i’m sure you’d get the content of posts importing, which is something.

sadly the WP RSS importer doesn’t import enclosure data – which might make your life easier. Trouble is that the most common podcasting plugin (PodPress) doesn’t even use enclosures anyway (last time i looked)

i wonder if an iTunes XML importer (adapted from the standard WP RSS importer) might not be a bad idea. But as it depends a bit on the plugin you are going to use, it’s tricky to get it right for everyone.

That is true, alanft, PodPress plugin does not put your mp3 attachments in the enclosure field.

PodPress *does* work with the latest WordPress if you disable WP’s Post Revisions feature (which you can do manually in your wp-config file with one line of code, or you can use another plugin).

I’m not really sure if PodPress would otherwise solve your issue. It does create an iTunes compatible feed for ya.

thanks for the idea,, I tried the search and replace to add the description and then re-import, but for some reason it did not import it….I still have only the title of the podcast imported.

As for podpress. I need the Wp revisions feature, and I don’t want to move the location of my feed or change the name because I don’t want to have all my subscribers have to re-subscribe to my podcast.

I appreciate your help, but at this point I think I’m just going to keep the same rss feed and keep doing it the same way… adding podcasts by editing my xml file. However, I’ll just use my wordpress blog to post tracklistings and descriptions without actually adding a podcast (mp3) file to the post. I guess I’ll just put a link to my itunes rss feed and my location in the itunes store. As well as put a link to my streaming radio player on my main site.

“I don’t want to move the location of my feed or change the name”

understandable. you can still redirect browsers with an apache rewrite? i did something similar when i moved from hand-written XML to using WP. in fact i still have the rewrites in my htaccess file i notice – thought pretty sure all these years later, i could drop them. It’s a bit like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^podcasts\/old_path_stem.*\.rss$ /new_podcast_category/feed/ [R=301,L]