Create a website for a podcast
A website is a must for every business, freelancer, and podcaster these days! Having a website ensures that you have somewhere to send your listeners to get more information or to better support you. In this blog post, we'll take a look at the options for hosting your podcasting website.
If you're starting a podcast, you may be completely new to the world of online marketing and websites, but that doesn't have to be a challenge at all. With today's tools that are included for free in a hosting package, you don't have to be a programmer to create a website. In fact, with most websites, you're a long way from a line of code. Tools like WordPress are designed to allow anyone to set up a website quickly and easily, and also make it look professional and attractive. With themes within WordPress, you can easily customize the entire layout and design of your website without having to manually change every block and menu. Let's take a look at how to create your podcast website!
Hosting package for podcasts
Choosing a hosting package for podcasts is quite easy, as we have a number of different hosting packages on offer. But an SSD package is the most convenient option for podcasts. With this, you have a standard SSD hosting where your website will be available faster. Plenty of disk space and everything you need to run a website, emails and your podcast.
With 25GB in the cheapest package, you can host many thousands of episodes of your podcast, along with your website and email itself. This makes creating and maintaining a podcast and website accessible to almost anyone. With an SSD package, you'll also always have the latest versions of the software, so you'll always be working with the latest stable technology.
Installing WordPress
WordPress is one of the ways to create a website for your podcast. With WordPress, you can easily create a website with a pre-built theme and then expand and customize it as you see fit. WordPress can be easily installed through our client panel with a single click. And then you can start using it right away. You'll also find plenty of articles in our knowledge base to help you along the way. And there are also thousands of tutorials on how to do it on external sources like YouTube. This makes WordPress the first choice for beginners.
After installing the theme, you can also extend WordPress with plug-ins. For example, creating a contact form or inserting a nice table. This and much more can be easily installed directly from the website's admin environment.
Special plug-ins for WordPress that make your life easier
There are a number of plug-ins in WordPress that can be installed to make your life as a podcaster a little easier. There are a number of ways to host podcasts. Or you can do this through an external provider like Soundcloud and insert that. You can also set up your own podcast hosting for it. Certain parties and third parties can help you with this. We recommend doing some homework yourself. There are a variety of ways to do this.
Below are a number of examples. We recommend you search for podcasts in WordPress' plug-ins. And take a look at them one by one.
Podcast RSS Feed
Podcasts also work with RSS feeds to ensure that the podcast can be easily downloaded and listened to via an app like Spotify, IOS and Google Podcasts. To do this, you'll need to prepare a few things on your website so that the latest episodes come through. If you are using WordPress for this, the RSS feed plugins can be applied automatically.Always check this via Spotify and the most popular channels, because you obviously don't want people to miss an episode of your podcast.
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