Any way of automatically importing new podcast episodes into my blog?

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  barrygcooper · Member · Oct 20, 2017 at 6:54 pm

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  Hi there,

  Apologies if this has been covered somewhere – I couldn’t find anything when I searched just now.

  I have a podcast, and I’d love to have each new podcast appear automatically on my blog (barrycooper.com) every time a new podcast is published.

  Is there any way of doing that? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2017 at 7:04 pm

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  Hi there,

  Note that WordPress.com does not provide a free way to host your podcast. See https://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/

  See also https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/

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  barrygcooper · Member · Oct 20, 2017 at 7:06 pm

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  Hey timethief, thanks for the super-quick response.

  To clarify, I already have a host for my podcast. What I’m looking for is a way to automatically “pull in” a link to the podcast, or automatically create a blog post which links to the podcast (which is hosted externally).

  Any ideas?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2017 at 7:53 pm

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  Did you check this out also https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/ ?

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  barrygcooper · Member · Oct 20, 2017 at 9:55 pm

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  I did, and it behaves pretty oddly – the small orange RSS icon actually takes people to the relevant page; the heading next to it takes people to the url of the podcast website. And neither the titles of the episodes (nor their descriptions) act as links, which is less than helpful.

  Think I’ll just use the custom HTML widget and put a link up to the podcast page instead.

  Anyway, I appreciate the effort! Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2017 at 9:58 pm

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  Okay then and best wishes.