Enclosure Tip for Podcasters!
Tip December 19th, 2004Here is a great tip for podcasters using Wordpress. To be listed in Audio.weblogs.com your RSS feed needs to have the enclosure tag inserted.
To make sure this happens, follow these steps.
1) Create a new wordpress category called “Podcasts” (or whatever you would like)
2) Make sure Permalinks are turned ON. I am using the default permalink structure for my example. Feel free to update yours with your preferences but make sure you change the link below properly.
3) Now use this link for your podcast feed: http://www.yourdomainhere.com/archives/category/podcasts/feed/
This creates a RSS2 feed exclusively for your podcast category. Simple as that, you can get your listeners to subscribe to this feed for only posts on your blog that contain enclosures.
There is a caveat to this though. Currently Wordpress 1.22 does not support enclosures. There is a hack available on the wordpress support site. Click here for the support page. Fortunately the CVS version does support enclosures but no word yet on when this will be released.
Enjoy, and I hope this helps.