These are instructions on how to get the podcast feed URL; for controlling what audio is used in individual episodes, please see the article on podcast episode settings.
Either a category or a tag can be a podcast in WordPress.
To get the podcast feed URL for a category or tag, just add /podcast at the end.
Tag example
- The category https://www.ktoo.org/tag/ktoo/ turns into https://www.ktoo.org/tag/ktoo/podcast
Category example
- The category https://www.ktoo.org/category/community/ turns into https://www.ktoo.org/category/community/podcast
Exclude child categories
Categories have a setting to exclude child categories from the podcast feed (specifically, the /podcast feed mentioned above; this setting does not affect built-in WordPress URLs like /feed).
For example, “Culture Rich Conversations” is a sub-category (or child category) of “Juneau Afternoon”. By checking the box to “exclude subcategories in podcast feed” for Juneau Afternoon, only posts assigned to Juneau Afternoon itself will be in its feed, not any of its child categories like Culture Rich Conversations.
Note: a lot of directions online will tell you to just add /feed (instead of /podcast) to the end of a category. The problem with this is that it includes everything, not just posts with audio attached to them. Our custom /podcast feed template will filter out anything without audio.
Technical note: the custom feed /podcast is defined in the KTOO theme (functions.php)