Simple Podcasting

Add content to your podcast

• Create a new post and assign it to one or more Podcasts using the panel labeled Podcasts.
• Upload or embed an audio file into this post using any of the usual WordPress methods. If using the new block-based WordPress editor (sometimes referred to as Gutenberg), insert a Podcast block. Only one Podcast block can be inserted per post.
• For more advanced settings, use the Podcasting meta box to mark explicit content or closed captioning available, season number, episode number, episode type, add a transcript and to optionally specify one media item in the post if you have more than one in your post. In the block-based editor, these are the block settings that appear in the sidebar when the podcast block is selected.
• Transcript: If desired, an optional transcript can be added from the settings of the Podcast block. This will add a Podcast Transcript block, allowing you to add a transcript consisting of time codes, citations, and paragrah text that can be embedded in the post, linked to an external plain HTML file, or linked in a special <podcast:transcript> XML element.

Submit your podcast feed to Apple Podcasts

• Each podcast has a unique feed URL you can find on the Podcasts page. This is the URL you will submit to Apple.
• Ensure you test feeds before submitting them, see Apple’s “Test a Podcast page” for more information.
• Once the validator passes, submit your podcast. Podcasts submitted to Apple Podcasts do not become immediately available for subscription by others. They are submitted for review by Apple staff, see Apple’s “Submit a podcast” page for more information.

Submit your podcast feed to Pocket Casts

• Validate your feeds at [https://www.castfeedvalidator.com/ Cast Feed Validator] before submitting them.
• Submit the podcast feed to https://pocketcasts.com/submit/.

Control how many episodes are listed on the feed

If you want to adjust the default number of episodes included in a podcast RSS feed, then utilize the following to do so…

<?php add_filter( 'simple_podcasting_episodes_per_page', 'podcasting_feed_episodes_per_page' ); /** * Filter how many items are displayed on the feed * Default is 250 * * @param int $qty Items count. * @return string */ function podcasting_feed_episodes_per_page( $qty ) { return 300; }

Customize RSS feed

If you want to modify RSS feed items output, there is a filter for that:

<?php function podcasting_feed_item_filter( $feed_item = array(), $post_id = null, $term_id = null ) { if ( 42 === $post_id ) { $feed_item['keywords'] = 'one,two,three'; } return $feed_item; } add_filter( 'simple_podcasting_feed_item', 'podcasting_feed_item_filter', 10, 3 );