2 Easy Ways To Embed Podcast Player In Your WordPress Blog

Nothing is more powerful than being able to connect with your viewers as directly as possible. Podcast and online video are the 2 cutting-edge media intermediaries that let you come closer to your visitors.

For both podcasts and web videos, producing them to desired quality and embedding them in a webpage remain as the common hurdles faced by website owners. This blog has many free tutorials to help you on both counts.

But if you wish to have a good idea on how to go about, consider enrolling for our flagship online course to learn making training video.

Coming to podcasting, there are quite a few free ways to embed podcast player in your WordPress blog. We’ll discuss 2 of them in this article. To begin, here are 2 podcasts in this WordPress blog, each representing one of the 2 techniques. Click the start buttons to listen to them.

1. [powerpress url="http://www.2webvideo.com/video-production/videos/embed-podcast-player-in-wordpress.mp3"]

1) Using PowerPress Plugin

Blubrry’s PowerPress podcasting plugin for WordPress is simple yet versatile, and has many features to it. The first podcast player above is an example of that.

PowerPress is powerful. It’s not just a simple podcast player. You can do a lot with it. Click here to have a feel of the plugin and also to download it for your use. A brief checklist of some features according to my preference is as under:

• Integrated Media Players: Audio/video web players with video embed support from sites such as YouTube and Ustream.tv.

 

• Media Modifiers: Easily add, modify and remove podcasts form blog posts and pages.

 

• Migration tools: Quickly migrate from PodPress, Blogger or Movable Type without losing episodes.

 

• Supported Media Formats: mp3, m4a, ogg, wma, ra, mp4a, m4v, mp4v, mpg, asf, avi, wmv, flv, swf, mov, divx, 3gp, midi, wav, aa, pdf, torrent, m4b, m4r.

 

• Media Statistics: Get FREE Blubrry Media Statistics (basic statistics) from your WordPress dashboard. For advanced stats there is a minimal monthly charge.

Take a look at the following image. I’ve selected the MP3 Maxi as my podcast player. You’ve a choice to select from 5 types of players. You can also change the appearance of the player as shown in the image.

Using PowerPress plugin to embed podcast player

To embed the PowerPress podcast player in WordPress, simply use the code

[powerpress url="your podcast.mp3"]

to where you want the podcast to come.

All in all, the PowerPress plugin is a must as the podcast player in your WordPress blog.

2) Using Google Podcast Player

The second one at the top is the free podcast player from Google. It’s the same podcast as the one in this post on embedding podcast with free audio player.

The embed code for the podcast player is as under. Remember Google’s URL for the flash player changes often and without notice (what notice, and why, Google may smugly ask!). The onus is thus on you to check often if the player is ‘still’ working.

What Else!

Well, as I said above, podcasts and videos, especially the latter, are the new-age tools which you must explore and use for your web business to succeed and flourish in the future. While there, do check out how you can embed an audio clip in your PowerPoint presentation.

All the best!