How to Host a Podcast With WordPress Using PowerPress:- Are you thinking to host a podcast with WordPress? If yes then you will surely like our today’s post. Today, we will show you how exactly a successful podcast is created on your WordPress site using a nifty plugin known as Powerpress. Now the question arise why powerpress? Well, the plugin ships with a lots of features that helps you host podcasts just like a boss.
Additionally powerpress helps you in distributing podcasts to Apple Podcasts formerly iTunes Podcasts, Spotify & Google Podcasts among other places. Similar to this, the plugin enables you to reach millions of listeners without bending backwards. The most amazing part of this plugin is that it is available for free and incredibly easy to setup & use.
How to Host a Podcast With WordPress Using PowerPress:-
Without wasting another moment of time, let we setup PowerPress to build and host a podcast with WordPress. Don’t you get worry if you don’t have knowledge about powerpress. You can configure powerpress plugin without having any coding knowledge.
Installing PowerPress:-
This plugin is available at WordPress.org plugin repo that means you can directly install it from WordPress plugin dashboard. How?
- On WordPress admin menu visit Plugins and then Add New.
- Next enter Powerpress in the search box & once you find the powerpress plugin. Click on Install button
- After that click on hit button.
- Activating Powerpress will add a new item to your WordPress admin menu. Click the WordPress menu item.
Configuring Powerpress:-
At the next screen, configure the basic setting of your podcast. You can add settings like your podcast title, setup apple podcasts, integrate bluberry services among other thing.
Configure your plugin settings and scroll down to bottom of the page and hit the save buttons.
Creating your first podcasts:-
- With your basic settings you are ready to create your first podcast with powerpress. Tap on create a blog post with an episode link.
- Creating this link redirects you to familiar WordPress post editor.
- Next, enter your podcast title and content in the similar way you build a blog post but the podcast is incomplete without audio/video file.
- How do you do that? Its simple, scroll towards the page till you see the section to enter media url.
- At this point, you should have your podcast ready. The good part of this is you can host files on any media hosting sites.
- Uploading huge files to same server where your site is live could lead to slow page speed depending on your host.
Submit your podcasts to podcast directories:
Now that you have ready a podcast, that’s a perfect time to get it more eyeballs. Obviously, you need to put together a marketing plan for the podcasts
Additionally, you can submit it to podcast directories. Now the powerpress plugin made it incredibly easy to submit your podcast to various directories. Navigate back to admin dashboard and click on submit your podcast to iTunes and other podcast directories.
You will be redirected to blubrry website. If you haven’t created a account then you will be prompted to build one. If you are an existing user you will be redirected to login page.
In this page you can submit podcasts to apple podcasts, spotify, google podcasts, Google play music, TuneIn and stitcher Podcast Radio. All the necessary things to submit your podcasts to these directories are available in the navigation menu.