=== podPress === Tags: post, podcast, podcasting, audio, video, admin, feed, widget, stats, statistics, iTunes, mp3, m4a, ogg, ogv, xspf Contributors: seek3r, macx, iscifi, ntm Donate link: http://www.manvswebapp.com/podpress/podpress-donors Requires at least: 2.3 Tested up to: 3.5.1 Stable Tag: 8.8.10.17 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html A plugin for Podcasters using WordPress. == Description == podPress adds a lot of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast. podPress 8.8.10.17 includes a lot of bug fixes and some new festures like a Post Type Filter for the podPress Feeds and customization settings for tag feeds. You can read more about this and the other bug fixes of this version in the [Changelog](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/changelog/) and pay attention to the [Upgrade](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/other_notes/) section. Features: * Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM and XSPF playlist) * Podcast Download stats, with graphs. * View MP3 files ID3 tags when your Posting * Control over where the player will display within your post and what it will look like. * Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting * Supports unlimited number of media files. * Automatic Media player for MP3, OGG, OGV, MP4, M4A, M4V, MOV, QT, FLV, ASF, WMA, WMV, AVI, RM, and more, with inline and Popup Window support. * Supports also PDF and EPUB files * Preview image for videos * Support for seperate Category podcasts * Support for Premium Content (Pay Only) Available in these languages: * English * German If you discover a problem with this plugin, please report it in the [WP.org forum](http://wordpress.org/tags/podpress?forum_id=10) and add the tag "podpress" to your post.
Thank you to all who have reported bugs and have made improvement proposals. Special thanks to [Ray (raymer)](http://wordpress.org/support/profile/68146) who did extensive tests with the development versions since v8.8.5 and helped a lot! This plugin is currently maintained by [Tim Berger (ntm)](http://profiles.wordpress.org/ntm/).
Latest news and announcements regarding podPress on Twitter: [podpress2010](http://twitter.com/podPress2010) If somebody else is also interested in maintaining podPress while the main developers are out, please send an email to admin [at] laptoptips.ca. For further information you may also visit the website http://www.manvswebapp.com/podpress/changelog == Installation == If you have ever installed a plugin, then this will be pretty easy. 1. Extract the files. Copy the "podpress" directory into `/wp-content/plugins/` 1. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in WordPress 1. Configure the Feed/iTunes Settings and add eventually one of the podPress widgets to one of the sidebars (OR If you are using a WP version that is older than WP 2.5 and you want to add a link to itunes on your website then set the FeedID in the podPress options page, and then add this code in your template ``) Details about all the optional_files are in optional_files/details.txt = Requirements = podPress requires at least WP 2.1 but it is very recommended to use at least WP 2.3. Many features like the widgets, the custom feeds or the CategoryCasting feature will work only with WP 2.3 or later WP versions. Multiple Widgets are available in combination with WP 2.8.x or newer. The auto detection of the duration and other meta information requires PHP 5.0.5. But all other elements of the plugin work with PHP 4.x, too. = Included Software = podPress v8.8.10.18 includes: * 1PixelOut Audio Player v2.0.4.6 - http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/ * Podango player - http://sites.google.com/site/podangohibernate/ * XSPF Jukebox v5.9.6 - http://lacymorrow.com/projects/jukebox/ * Cortado Player 0.6 (cortado-ovt-stripped-0.6.0.jar and cortado-signed-0.6.0.jar) - http://www.theora.org/cortado/ * a flvplayer.swf * getID3 v1.8.5 (1.8.5-20110218) - http://www.getid3.org * jQuery 1.4.2 + jQuery UI 1.8.5 Dialog + Accordion (jQuery is integrated with the object name podPress_jQuery for parallel usage with the jQuery versions of the different WP versions.) == Frequently Asked Questions == Please, use the WP.org [Plugins and Hacks forum](http://wordpress.org/tags/podpress?forum_id=10) to ask your questions or for bug reports. When you post in this forum please add at least the tag "podpress" to your post. That makes it very much easier to get a notice of your post (There is a [RSS feed of forum posts which are tagged with "podpress"](http://wordpress.org/support/rss/tags/podpress).). (The domain name of the official [podPress FAQ](http://podcasterswiki.com/index.php?title=PodPress_FAQ "Official podPress FAQ") page is currently (03/2010) unavailable resp. parked. You can still find some [traces of this Wiki at Archive.org](http://web.archive.org/web/20080708140114/podcasterswiki.com/index.php?title=PodPress).) = What does podPress with the Feeds? = * podPress adds automatically additional elements (e.g. [iTunes RSS tags](http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#rss)) to the default RSS Feeds of your weblog. But it can be used to modify also diverse elements of the ATOM Feeds of a blog. You can find most of the related options at the Feed/iTunes settings page of podPress. Furthermore it is possible to configure these options for each category Feed separately. This feeature is called Category Casting and you can activate and configure it for existing post categories at the page where you can edit the settings of a category. * But podPress adds also completely new Feeds to your weblog. These Feeds might be RSS or ATOM Feeds and you can control the content of the Feed for instance with a category filter or a file fype filter. You can configure those Feeds also at the Feed/iTunes Settings page of podPress in the section podPress Feeds. = How can I create multiple Podcast Feeds? = There are basically two ways: * One way is to use the Category Casting feature to adjust all kinds of podcast related elements in the category feeds of the blog. WordPress produces these category Feeds and you can customize them with podPress. These Feeds containing posts of one category. You activate the Category Casting feature while you edit an existing category in which you edit an existing category. * The other possibility is to add one or more additional, new Feeds to the blog with the help of the settings of the podPress Feeds section at the Feed/iTunes Settings page of podPress. You can influence the content of these podPress Feeds with the help of a category filter and a file type filter. With the file type filter you can determine that a Feed contains for instance only posts with .mp3 or .m4a podcast episodes regardless of the categories of the posts. But it is also possible to create something like category Feed with the category filter. But with the differences that you can select more than category per Feed and that such podPress Feeds have maybe nicer URLs. (Notice: After creating a podPress Feed, after changing a slug name or after (de-)activating such a Feed, you need to re-save the Permalink settings of your blog.) = How can I add podcast episodes with podPress? = First you need to upload the podcast files with WordPress or probably with a FTP client software. (Often podcast files are to big to upload them with a web formular like the WordPress Media Uploader. in such case you will need to use a FTP client software or comparable program.) It is basically a good idea to store the podcast files in sub folders of the /wp-content/uploads/ folder of your blog. After you have uploaded a media file, you create or edit the post (or page) which should contain an episode. Below the editor box you will find a separate box with the title "podPress - postcasting settings for this post". There you insert the complete URL of the podcast file and enter or determine automatically some meta information about the current episode like the duration or the file type and size. While saving or publishing the post these podcast information are getting saved as well. (You can get probably a good impression how it works from [this WP.org forum thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/356947) although the original question is a little bit different. This [other WP.org forum thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/425141) might also be helpful.) = Does podPress has HTML5 support? = Yes. podPress (since 8.8.10) embeds .mp3, .ogg and .ogv media files with the HTML5 `