Thanks, jonathanwagner. I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying to set up podcasting at our site, PittsburghNewChurch.org. I only just took over responsibility for the site, and am new to wordpress. (My experience is with Blogger, MT, and a couple of home-grown disasters.)
Anyway, in case someone else is struggling the way I was, let me post a quick description so they can find the solution when they search the forums faster than I did.
First, I tried ftp’ing the mp3 files up to the server, into a new dir called “audio”. No go. Hyperlinking to them produced nothing. Then I tried uploading via the wp admin screens, but it kept choking on the file sizes. After chod’ing the wp-content dir to 777 I got smaller files to work, but still 7mb files would timeout with a weird script error saying “this” script was not meant to be called directly.
Then I found this post:
The default path is wp-content/uploads. For instance, if I wanted to link to a solar panel photo I uploaded last month, the direct link would be jonathanwagner.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/solarPanel3.jpg since my WordPress installation is located in the root folder of my web directory. If your WordPress installation is in a subdirectory such as /blog then the direct link would be something like yoursite.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/image.jpg
Now, the weird thing is, there is no wp-content/uploads/ anywhere to be found. Manually creating it made no difference. However, prepending a “blog/” to the link to the ftp’d file did the trick thusly:
[audio src="https://pittsburghnewchurch.org/blog/audio/blahblahblah.mp3" /]
Of course, this doesn’t fix the problem uploading very large files via the wp interface, nor does it explain why there is no uploads/ directory, but it gets the job done with expedience.
