Podcasting Plugins for WordPress, Head to Head

Starting a podcast is relatively easy if you are using WordPress to power your site, it’s just a matter of finding the plugin that works for you. Here are a few options and my experiences with each:

1. Podpress – I used it on a blog last year and it had a lot of bugs and a steeper than necessary learning curve. It worked and my podcast published properly in the end but I thought it should be easier
2. Powerpress – I am testing this out as we speak. In fact, check it out in action:[podcast]http://www.produceeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/produce_everything-no_deal.mp3[/podcast]
   I literally installed this one and got it up and running in about 3min.
3. Podcast Plugin by TSG – not as original a name as the previous two, which is why I haven’t tried it out yet. I’ll be trying it out next and updating this post.

The nice thing about these plugins is that they include a sleek small mp3 player that is embedded right on the page. You just enter the url of the mp3 in the new “podcasting” section when you add a post, and the plugins take care of the rest (except for Podpress, which I had to tweak a whole lot). Also, when you set up the plugin in the first place it creates a podcast feed which people can subscribe to using iTunes or the podcast player of their choice. Here’s mine. Visitors can access the feed from their browser like any other feed.

What are your experiences with the available podcasting plugins?

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