You can turn any wordpress blog into a podcasting platform with Blubrry. Learn how to set up the BluBrry Powerpress Plugin Correctly so you can begin podcasting.

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 set up the Blubrry PowerPress plugin correctly. This is the plugin that makes WordPress a podcasting platform that you can run your podcast from. I’m going to show you exactly how to set up correctly so you don’t make any mistakes.

The first step is to install the Blubrry PowerPress plugin which is really easy to do. First you need to log into the back end of your website by going to yourdomain.com/wep-admin and you’ll then come up to the dashboard page. We need to add the Blubrry PowerPress plugin and in order to do that on the left hand side we need to find this plugin section and we need to go down to add new. We can see a whole bunch of different plugins that we can add but in the top right we want to click on this search bar and we want to type blubrry and the first one to come up should be this Blubrry PowerPress podcasting plugin. Hit the Install Now button and then confirm it. It will then install and then we click the Activate plugin button. The Blubrry PowerPress plugin is now activated.

The second step is to publish your first podcast episode. It’s important to note that you cannot set up the Blubrry PowerPress Plugin correctly unless you publish a podcast episode. If you haven’t published your first episode please go back and do that lesson How To Publish Podcast Episodes Using WordPress.

Step number three is to enter the basic settings. If you’ve installed the Blubrry plugin which you should have by now you should see down the bottom this PowerPress option. We want to click on the Settings tab that drops down from the PowerPress option. We can see the Blubrry PowerPress settings in default mode which is where we want to be. If by some chance you end up on advanced mode and we will be editing this later, you can simply click the switch to simplify default mode to come back to the default mode. This is a really easy way to set up Blubrry.

What we need to do is go through. For the program title this is going to be the title of your podcast in iTunes so if you leave it blank it will just use your blow title which I always advise against. It’s just better to put in your title. So I’m going to put podcast fast podcast how to start and run a successful podcast. The iTunes program subtitle is a short description of your podcast. I actually don’t know where iTunes uses this. However I do still advise putting it in there just in case they use it and try and put in some key words at the same time. You can see here I’ve done tips and tricks on how to podcast successfully, how to start a podcast and how to make the most of your podcasting on an ongoing basis. I wanted this keyword: how to podcast, how to start a podcast and also the word podcasting in there. So that is what I have done.

We then need to go ahead and enter the iTunes program summary. The iTunes program summary will become the description of your podcast. So again try to put some keywords in there so when people search for you in iTunes they can easily find you. However you do want it to make sense. You can see my description here and I did include a lot of keywords in this description, however I did try to make it make sense. The Podcast Fast Podcast will show you the latest tips and tricks of how to make the most of your podcasting so I’ve got the word podcasting in there and I’ve got the word podcast fast which is my brand name.

Starting from the basics I will show you how to start a podcast and the best ways to run your podcast. We share tips for recording a podcast,