Oct 30 2008
PodPress with WordPress Mu
podPress is a podcasting module for WordPress created by Mighty Seek. It allows you to customize your feed, attach (but not upload) files to the feed, and track statistics about who’s doing what with the podcast (e.g. playing it on the site, downloading it, etc.)
It comes with an audio player (I haven’t mucked about with the video options yet) that allows audio to be played on the page. It supports built-in previews showing you how the podcast’s entry will look in the most popular podcasting directories (including iTunes and Yahoo).
The good news is that it appears to work out of the box with WordPress Mu, which is fantastic. One of our major goals for the WordPress pilot is to be able to support podcasting, and I think this would be a great tool for doing it. It also helps that almost every podcaster I know who uses WordPress also uses podPress … and I know a lot of podcasters.
The only downside to the app that I can see is that you can’t upload files as part of it; you need to upload the file using the “add media” buttons in WordPress, copy the path to said file, and then paste that path into the podPress portion of the page.
It’s clunkier than I expected; if nothing else I’d like for it to be able to browse the user’s media directory. I can see this cutting and pasting of urls being a little clunky for new users, but given the rest of podPress’s feature set, I think we can live with it.
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