How to Create episode

Hi icetechy,

I’m not sure what you are trying to do with the front end, but posting an episode using PowerPress is done in the back end, in a post. See: https://youtu.be/mdCtkKBE3_k

-Mike
Blubrry Support

I am only able to upload one episode in one post. But I want to be able to upload several episodes in one post. this is my problem.

The podcast spec for RSS is one media file per item in the feed.

You can use Custom Podcast Channels to publish more than one episode per post, but each channel will have it’s own RSS feed.

-Mike

Please how can I do that? is there tutorial to get this done? and how can I change the default audio player?

Enable Custom Podcast Channels in the Advanced settings at the bottom of the PowerPress settings pages.

Then there is a menu called Podcast Channels. You can add/edit channels in that menu.

The audio player options are in the “audio player” menu under PowerPress in the sidebar.

-Mike

Hi thanks but I will like to use the Blubrry podcast player but it says its only for “The Blubrry Audio Player is only available to Blubrry Hosting Customers”

Is it not possible for me to use any other player?

Hi,

The blubrry player comes from Blubry’s servers, not PowerPress so it can’t work unless the files are on blubrry.com. You can pick from the other players. You can also change the play button on the HTML5 player.

-Mike

Hi Mike, I really don’t know much about podcast, Here is what I want:

1. I want the podcast do be like Apple podcast whereby you click on a profile and see a LIST of the podcast by the speaker clicked on.

2. I want to be able to add more than one episodes per post (cause of now, I can only add one episode per post).

How can you assist me realize this?

Apple doesn’t work that way. The only way to do that is to have a separte RSS feed (show) for each “speaker”. Not one show but how ever many you need for the number of speakers you have. The problem with that is your listeners would have to subscribe to several podcasts, not just one.

-Mike

Hello @icetechy,

I assume you figured this out but just in case, I wanted to give a quick 101 on how podcasting works with WordPress and PowerPress.

First, podcasting is nothing more than an extension to blogging. Once you know this, the genie is out of the bottle and things make a lot more sense. This is why WordPress with PowerPress is so powerful. Essentially, for every episode you want to create, create a new post. The title and the description of your blog post is also your title and description of your podcast episode. Only difference to the blog post and a podcast episode is the attachment of the media file, thus you have a podcast episode. As far as a blog reader is concerned, this is a blog post with an audio file, where-as a podcast service will then pull the extra Apple tags to show evne more meta information associated with the episode.

With that knowledge, if you want to create separate podcasts that are listed on Apple podcasts (and other podcast directories) but you want all of the shows (series of episodes) to come from the same WordPress website, an optimal solution would be Category podcasting. If you enable this, please enable the strict category podcasting option as well, this will guarantee no overlap as that can negativity impact your podcasts if the same episode appeared in 2 different podcasts on Apple podcasts.

You can then create “category” pages on your website per speaker, with your main blog roll page being a mashup of all of your podcast episodes across all of your speakers.

I hope this clears things up for you,
Angelo