{"id":7756,"date":"2019-02-03T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=7756"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:33:19","slug":"podcast-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/knowledge-base\/podcast-rss-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"17.2 Podcast rss feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast feed produced by WordPress and Wpcast is compatible with any external podcast reader<\/p>\n<p>What is important to know: to be a valid podcast feed, your XML page needs to include the tag &#8220;enclosure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This tag is created when the post contains an mp3 track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you add an mp3 to the content, the Enclosure value is generated from the mp3 URL.<br \/>\n<strong>If you change the mp3 in a post,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> the Enclosure value WILL NOT BE REFRESHED.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY?<\/strong> because the value requires a heavy process and WordPress caches the result for faster processing. So, if you need to change the MP3 associated to a podcast episode, you will want to create a new post and delete the old one, in order to update the &#8220;enclosure&#8221; value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a basic WordPress functionality, and it has strict rules.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe theme does not add any modification to that functionality and<strong> the theme is as well not responsible for any malfunctioning with your Podcast RSS feed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more info and<strong> if you need support with your podcasting feed<\/strong>, please check the official WordPress support regarding this function:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic-tag\/enclosure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic-tag\/enclosure\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"more-info-about-the-feed-links\" >More info about the feed links:<\/h3>\n<p>The most important public for a podcaster are subscribers. This is what every podcaster should aim at: increasing the amount of peaple that you can reach with every new podcast.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we put so much effort in providing the best support with the theme to increase your feed subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Regular listeners always use feed readers. A feed reader can be installed as a browser plugin, or as a phone app, or as stand-alone desktop software.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have a reader installed, it will 99% intercept the feed links from a podcast, and automatically alert the listener once a new content is available, which spikes your listeners when you publish a podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The type of feed reader is up to the visitor\/listener as its purpose is, indeed, to facilitate the cunsumption of the listening paterial by adequating its functionalities on the listener&#8217;s habits.<\/p>\n<p>So, each listener choses its own software to subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>The feed linked in the theme&#8217;s episodes or series is automatically generated for every category\/serie\/author you can have on the website.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the feed targeted on the specific request of the user, or you can have just the global feed of the site.<\/p>\n<p>So, for regular podcast listeners, this button will instantly include your feed in the reader, and the listener will be notified immediately once you have a new content.<\/p>\n<p>The best suggestion I can give you is, based also on your possible external feed services, to make a page where you suggest to your readers which are the best readers they can install, offering different options to cover both pc\/mac and phone\/browser feed readers.<\/p>\n<p>This is possibley the most powerful took of the theme, and will help you grow the audience in no time, with the correct &#8220;suggestion&#8221; to your listeners \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The feed links also have another VERY important function: they will streamline the spider&#8217;s job while indexing your feeds and help you adding the podcast to external services as Google Podcast in a very short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht_kb_category":[814],"ht_kb_tag":[817,815,818,555,819,816],"class_list":["post-7756","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-17-podcasting-advanced","ht_kb_tag-enclosure","ht_kb_tag-feed","ht_kb_tag-itunes","ht_kb_tag-podcast","ht_kb_tag-podcasting","ht_kb_tag-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/7756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/7756\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}