This video tutorial, via gigafide, looks at how to create a podcast with Audacity. Sites referenced in this video include: Audacity Podango Podpress MyPodcast Podcast411 This video covers how to create a podcast in about 4 minutes, so it doesn’t go into much depth. More information is available under these categories: How To Podcast Podcasting […]

Is time for WordPress-based podcasters to dump the once-pioneering podcasting plugin PodPress?

blubrry has announced that PowerPress 1.0 is now available, and it supports all the key PodPress features……

PodPress, a WordPress plugin that adds features for podasters, has been updated to 8.8.1, removing compatibility issues with recent versions of WordPress, according to its developer: Version 8.8.1 is temporary maintenance release to make podPress compatible with the post revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6. If somebody is interested in maintaining podPress while the main […]

RawVoice‘s Angelo Mandato has released a new free WordPress plug-in designed to help you promote your blog and podcast. Subscribe Sidebar displays subscription icons with links in the WordPress sidebar. The plugin detects the presence of the Podpress podcasting plug-in and can display the Podpress podcast feed, if configured. Subscribe Sidebar options: RSS 2 Feed […]

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg let us know about a new development in the WordPress 2.6/PodPress meltdown. “Two WordPress developers have volunteered fixes for both the 8.8 and 8.9 branches of PodPress,” says Mullenweg. “It’s only a few lines of code to cure the problem.” The unofficial fixes are available at developer Andrew Ozz’s blog, and […]

WordPress 2.6 has been a disaster for a lot of podcasters. The update, which WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said “should be pretty painless,” has broken a lot of podcasts, leading to a lot of kludgie workarounds. Some, like Dan McKeown, think the WordPress/PodPress fiasco highlights broader problems with the way WordPress is handling releases: This […]

A lot of people are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6. Earlier in the week, we reported a simple hack you could use to get things working again.  A reader, John Leavitt, sends word of an even easier fix – the No Revisions plug-in. It disables the new […]

Updating your WordPress-based site to WordPress 2.6 may break your podcast. Users are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6. Here’s a typical message from the PodPress forum: I installed WordPress 2.6 (the full version, not the Release Candidate) today but am having problems […]