rss feeds, wordpress, podpress, feedburner, and related RSS stuff.

[ZarMattaThustra]

I started a podcast ages ago and used .htaccess to redirect the rss feed to feedburner.. Well now I'm changing how I'm doing things, moving into a wordpress blog, and I want to make it so that the old rss link, that I would give out, stays as the rss link for the podcast.

The plan thus far is to do wordpress with the podpress and feedsmith plug ins.. the thing I can't seem to figure out is how to get it so the wordpress rss links point to the old rss link.. so that new subscribers aren't subscribing via a different rss link.. I don't know if I'm describing this situation quite right..

I guess how it would work is.. I have my files stores on libsyn, podpress enclosures point to the files on that server, and generate an rss feed.. which then goes.. I guess via feedsmith.. or however, to feedburner.. and then the rss links on the site should point to the old rss feed link that redirects to the feedburner feed..

That last part being the crutial part that I'm not sure how to do.. as I think the links tend to want to go directly to the feedburner feed without going to the redirect. So to deal with this issue do I scrap using feedsmith? Must I go into wordpress or podpress php files and hack something? What do I do?

To add an extra layer of complexity to the problem the plan was that the wordpress blog would serve for both the podcast and as a blog.. where only the podcast part would be on a feed that iTunes would get. Does this even make sense to do? Should I maybe host two different blogs on the site.. one for the podcast and one for blogging?

I'm hoping to get all this stuff straightened out by podcamp boston

Thanks for any help ahead of time.

[Yotto]

You have a couple extra layers that I don't have, but the core of what you're trying to do sound like what I'm doing, so I'll try to explain what I do.

I have a wordpress/podpress blog. I have removed all references to the automated RSS feed that it generates, so my listeners don't see that. What they DO see is a link to http://planetretcon.com/podcast/volcanicast.xml (For Volcanicast, the cleanest example I have and what I'm working to get my other shows doing). Now, when they request that link, they don't get it. My .htaccess file instead redirects them to http://volcanicast.com/?feed=rss2&cat=1 which is the actual podpress feed.

This kind of sounds similar to what you had. THe key here is I actually edited the sidebar.php file for my theme and changed the code so the RSS link now says PODCAST and links to that XML. Then, I .htaccess *that* back to the RSS feed from wordpress. That way, no matter how many changes I make in the future, my listeners will never know (or need to know) and the only change I'll need to make on the server is the .htaccess line.