Learn how to publish podcast episodes using wordpress. See my exact podcasting workflow and learn how you can quickly and easily publish new podcast episodes to your wordpress blog.

Hi and welcome to Start A Podcast Fast, the series where I show you how to get your podcast started really quickly. I’m Ryan McLane from Podcastfast.com and in this lesson you’re going to learn how to publish Podcast episodes using WordPress. I’m going to show you everything, from uploading your audio file to your media host all the way through to getting it live on air using your WordPress website.

The first step is to upload your audio file to your media house, that might be SoundCloud, it might be Libsyn, it might be another media host that I haven’t mentioned. There are two ways that you can upload your file to your media host. You can use auphonic.com which is a post production software that I recommend which helps level out your sounds and makes everything sound great or you can upload it directly to SoundCloud or to your media host which I don’t recommend. I’m going to show you right now how to upload to your media house using auphonic. If you want to see how to upload directly to SoundCloud then check out my free advanced tutorial on podcasting with SoundCloud. Just go to www.podcastfast.com/soundcloud to get direct access to that.

To upload your media file using Auphonic go to auphonic.com. Sign up if you don’t have an account, otherwise simply log in. Once you’re logged in you are going to need to integrate an external service so you are you going to need to integrate your media host, so for me that’s SoundCloud. To do that go up to the top menu bar and click on the Services tab. From the options at the top click on your media host and for me that is SoundCloud. You then need to authorize Auphonic to access your SoundCloud account so simply enter your SoundCloud login details and click Connect. We can now see down here we have the integration with SoundCloud for user name Podcastfast which is exactly what we want.

To upload a file we go up into the top menu bar again and we click on the production’s tab and we then click new production. The first thing we need to do is to select our file so I’ll go ahead and do that. We can then add intros or outros if we want. We then need to go ahead and name our file. I do suggest that you name your file using the same format every time – it needs to be at least three letters or numbers. For me I like to use the letters Ep and then the episode number. So in this case I’m going to do Ep1. This will prove important when it comes time to go to Step #2 finding our direct file link. It’s going to make life so much easier if we name these consistently and you’ll see that laid out in the video.

We then need to choose our cover image so go ahead and do that. We then need to put in our artist details and now album details. With the extended media data you can skip over that because iTunes actually pulls this data from your blog post summary. With the output files we want to make sure we just have mp3 there so if you have anything extra, (like for me I’ve got the video file) you just hit the X to get rid of it. And then down here on the publishing external services we want to click add service and then we want to find the service we just added. For me that’s SoundCloud and username podcastfast. We then want to change this type to podcast. Leave all the audio algorithms the same. Click start production and then click start production again. That will now begin uploading the file and it will then go through the process of making sure that the file is level but isn’t too loud, etc.

We can now see that the file has uploaded successfully and if I click on this link it should take me to SoundCloud and it should show us the file that we just uploaded.