WordPress Podcasting Plugins

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In this episode, let’s look at premium and free podcasting plugins for WordPress. These are plugins that will complement your podcast website by providing extra value to the visitor.

PodcastLoving.com by Dave Toomey

It adds more podcast-focused social media links to your sidebar via widgets. Plenty of well-known (and not so well-known podcasters) use it.

As Heard On by Dustin Hartzler

It highlights other podcasts that you’ve appeared on, and displays podcast artwork in a widget or on a full page. Take a look at the plugin in action here.

Featured Podcast Widget for WordPress by Richard Farrar

Richard has a little plugin that he wrote himself. Featured Podcast widget enables you to display your latest podcast with a player from a given post category (or a specific episode), in any widgetized area of your WordPress site.

Subscribe & Follow by Daniel J. Lewis

This adds really cool and customisable retina-ready buttons to your WordPress sidebar. You can also use it to insert a beautiful and stylised call to action button anywhere in your show notes. iTunes, Stitcher, iHeartRadio and many of the other smaller podcast directories are supported, along with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ too.