PowerPress offers a wide range of settings to customize your podcasting experience. Let’s explore everything you need to know.

Welcome

When you access PowerPress in your WordPress dashboard, you’ll land on the Welcome tab. This tab provides an overview of your podcast’s performance at a glance.

If you’ve connected your Blubrry Hosting or Statistics account, you’ll see a snapshot of your downloads from the past week. You’ll also get a preview of how your podcast appears to listeners on platforms like Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Additionally, you’ll find the four latest Podcast Insider episodes and blog posts, offering valuable insights and updates to help you grow your podcast.

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Feeds

The Feeds tab in PowerPress is essential for managing your podcast’s RSS feed settings. It provides control over how your feed is structured and optimized for directories like Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Each submenu under Feeds serves a specific purpose in managing your podcast’s distribution.

Podcast Feeds

Enhance Feeds

These settings determine which feeds on your website will support podcasting:

• Enhance All Feeds (Recommended) – Enables podcasting support for all website feeds.
• Enhance Main Feed Only – Adds podcasting support only to your site’s main feed.
• Do Not Enhance Feeds – Limits podcasting settings to specific podcast feeds only.

Podcast Feeds Overview

Displays all podcast-specific feeds available on your site.

These feeds should be submitted to directories like Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

⚠️ Important: Do not submit your main site feed (e.g., yourdomain.com/feed) to podcast directories. These directories work best with feeds that contain only podcast episodes.

Additional Podcast Feed Settings

Prevent Other Plugins from Modifying Podcast Feeds – Ensures your feed remains valid by blocking changes from other plugins.

Accelerate Feed – Optimizes feed generation to improve loading speed.

Suppress Unused Item Tags

Removes outdated Apple tags: itunes:subtitle, itunes:summary, itunes:author, isClosedCaptioned.

Keeps your feed compliant with Apple Podcasts’ latest requirements.

Feed Discovery

Include Podcast Feed Links in HTML Headers – Helps browsers and services detect your podcast feed automatically.

Improves search engine discoverability.

RSS2 Image

Ensures your podcast artwork appears in supported podcast directories. You will set your image in the Podcast Artwork submenu.

Requirements:

• 1400 x 1400 pixels minimum
• 3000 x 3000 pixels maximum
• RGB color space
• File size: ≤ 0.5MB
• File type: JPG or PNG (no transparency)

Emoji Support

Enables emoji characters in podcast titles and descriptions.

Requires WordPress 4.2+ with utf8mb4 character encoding.

Compatible Apps: Apple Podcasts (iOS), Downcast (Android), Overcast (iOS).

MP3 Tags

Allows Blubrry Hosting users to embed MP3 ID3 tags (title, artist, album, year, artwork) before publishing.

Learn more about ID3 tags in the Podcast Manual.

Feed Settings

Your Podcast RSS Feed

Displays your primary podcast RSS feed URL.

This is the feed URL needed for podcast directory submissions.

Feed Title & Description

Feed Title – Keep it simple. Avoid adding host names or keywords to prevent spam issues.

Feed Description – Provide a brief, engaging summary (2-3 sentences) to attract listeners.

Feed Landing Page URL

Specify a webpage where listeners can find more details about your podcast.

PodcastMirror Feed URL

Use PodcastMirror to create a reliable, scalable podcast feed.

Alternatively, this field can be used to redirect your PowerPress feed to a new feed, should you decide to move away from PowerPress or WordPress.

Show the Most Recent Episodes

WordPress defaults to 10 episodes in RSS feeds.

You can increase this, but keep in mind:

• Max recommended: 300 episodes (Apple Podcasts and some others may go to 3,000 episodes, but we recommend 300 to maintain a smaller feed size).
• Feed size limit: 512KB for optimal performance.

Feed Episode Maximizer

Increases episode count while keeping feed size optimized.

Only the latest 10 episodes will have full metadata; older episodes contain minimal tags.

Feed Lock

Enabled: Prevents your podcast from being imported into another platform.

Disabled: Allows platforms to import your podcast.

Feed Language

Select your podcast’s primary language.

If your language isn’t available, contribute to PowerPress translations.

Copyright & Author Email

Copyright – Specify copyright details for your podcast.

Author Email – Required for some directories to contact you about your listing.

Caching Debug Comments

Allows WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache to add debugging HTML comments at the bottom of the feed.

Recommended: Leave unchecked unless troubleshooting feed issues.

Podcast Artwork

Upload or link to your podcast cover art.

Artwork Requirements:

• 1400 x 1400 pixels (minimum)
• 3000 x 3000 pixels (maximum)
• RGB color space
• File size ≤ 0.5MB
• File type: JPG or PNG (no transparency)

Podcast SEO

Episode Titles

Customize how episode titles appear in podcast feeds:

• Replace post title
• Prefix post title
• Append post title

Schema.org Integration

Adds Schema.org metadata to improve search engine visibility.

Enables AudioObjects and VideoObjects for better podcast indexing.

Basic Show Information

General Podcast Info

Location – Add an optional geographic location.

Episode Frequency – Specify if episodes release daily, weekly, or monthly.

Credits – List hosts and contributors with optional images and links.

Block Settings

Prevent your podcast from appearing on specific platforms.

Donate Link

Add a donation link (e.g., Patreon, PayPal).

Rating Settings

Set a TV Parental Rating for your podcast.

Apple Settings

Apple-Specific Metadata

Program Subtitle – A brief tagline for your show.

Program Summary – Up to 4,000 characters, no HTML allowed (except hyperlinks).

Category Selection

Choose up to three categories for Apple Podcasts.

Explicit Rating

Select Clean or Explicit – Apple requires one of these options.

Advanced Apple Feed Settings

New Feed URL – If migrating, set a new Apple-specific feed URL.

Block Podcast on Apple Podcasts – Prevents your show from appearing in Apple’s directory.

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Website

The Website tab in PowerPress allows you to configure how your podcast appears on your WordPress website. These settings control media player behavior, permalink structure, subscription options, and shortcodes for embedding content.

Website Settings

Enable or Disable PowerPress Media Players and Links

Choose whether PowerPress should automatically add media players and links to your site:

Enable PowerPress Media Players and Links (Default) – Automatically adds players and media links to posts/pages.

Disable PowerPress Media Players and Links – Prevents PowerPress from adding media players or links, allowing it to function only as a feed generator.

Permalinks – Define how PowerPress structures URLs for your podcast episodes. Example: Match Feed Name to Page/Category ensures URLs like yourwebsite.com/podcast/ match the podcast feed settings.

Episode Box Appearance

Enable Episode Settings Before Media is Verified – Allows you to configure episode settings before media files are uploaded.

⚠ Warning: If enabled, publishing an episode without media attached may cause data loss. Recommended only for advanced users.

Blog Posts and Pages

Display Media & Links

Control where the media player and episode links appear in blog posts and pages:

Below Page Content (Default) – Media player appears below the post content.

Above Page Content – Media player appears above the post content.

Disable – Prevents automatic placement of the player; must use shortcodes to add it manually.

Additional Media Display Options

Display Player/Links in WordPress Excerpts – Ensures players and links appear in excerpts (e.g., search results).

Hide Player/Links in Read More-tagged Posts – Prevents the player from appearing in truncated posts.

Player Settings

Display Player – Enables or disables the media player display.

Media Links

Play in New Window – Opens the media player in a separate browser window.

Download Link – Displays a download link for episodes.

Options: Include file size | Include file size and duration.

Player Embed Link – Generates an embed code for sharing the media player.

Option to include embed links in RSS feeds.

Subscribe Links Under Player

Enable Subscribe Links Below Player – Adds a “Subscribe” button below the player.

Customize Label – Define the text shown on the subscribe button (leave blank for default).

Subscribe Page

The Subscribe Page provides listeners with an easy way to subscribe to your podcast.

How It Works

Displays a “Subscribe to Podcast” link below the player.

Users can choose to subscribe via RSS or Apple Podcasts.

Creating a Subscribe Page

Click “Create a Subscribe Page from Template” to generate a pre-built page with the

shortcode.

Customize the page’s text to fit your branding and SEO strategy.

Subscribe Widget Settings

Shape Options: Choose between Squared or Rounded subscribe buttons.

Custom Styling:

• Default Styling (Recommended) – Uses PowerPress’s default CSS styles.
• Exclude Recommended Styling – Removes PowerPress CSS, allowing custom theme styling.

Subscribe Button Preview – Displays how the button will appear.

PowerPress Shortcodes

Shortcodes allow you to embed PowerPress players and subscribe links anywhere on your site.

Available Shortcodes

PowerPress Player: – Embeds the audio/video player.

PowerPress Playlist:

– Displays a playlist of multiple podcast episodes.

PowerPress Subscribe Button:

– Adds a subscribe widget linking to podcast platforms.

PowerPress Skip-to-Position: – Creates a link allowing listeners to skip to a specific time in an episode. Examples: 0:45 → Jumps to 45 seconds.

Troubleshooting Shortcodes

If shortcodes are not working, check for plugin conflicts or theme issues. Use the “Having Issues?” dropdown in PowerPress settings to troubleshoot any player issues.

Play in New Window Settings

Configure how the “Play in New Window” option behaves:

• Set Window Size – Define width and height (default: 420×240).
• Scroll Bar Adjustment – Choose whether to account for scroll bars when calculating window size.

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Destinations

The Destinations tab in PowerPress helps you manage where your podcast is available. This section allows you to submit and track your podcast listings across major podcast directories and platforms.

Select Destination Point

This section provides quick access to major podcast directories where you can submit your show. Popular platforms include:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Amazon Music
• Pandora
• iHeartRadio
• Blubrry Podcast Directory
• Podcast Index
• Subscribe on Android
• Subscribe by Email
• JioSaavn
• Podchaser
• Gaana
• TuneIn
• Deezer
• Anghami
• YouTube Music
• RSS Feed

💡 Tip: Submitting your podcast to multiple platforms helps increase visibility and attract more listeners.

Podcast RSS Feed

Your podcast RSS feed URL is displayed here. This is the link you will submit to directories to list your podcast.

📌 Example: https://www.yourwebsite.com/feed/podcast/

How to Use Your RSS Feed

1. Copy the feed URL displayed in the Destinations tab.
2. Submit it to podcast directories (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.).
3. Update your feed in these platforms if you ever change hosting providers.

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Advanced

The Advanced Settings tab in PowerPress provides additional customization options for managing multiple podcasts, podcasting SEO, media players, and more. These settings are intended for experienced users who need more control over their podcasting setup.

Multi-Program & User Management

Multi-Program Mode ✅ (Enabled in Screenshot)

Allows publishing multiple Blubrry-hosted podcasts from a single Blubrry account.

Useful for podcasters managing more than one show.

User Role Management

Enables administrators, editors, and authors to create and configure podcast episodes.

Uses WordPress Roles and Capabilities for access control.

Import & Migrate Podcasts

Import Podcast

Transfer an existing podcast from platforms like SoundCloud, Libsyn, or Podbean.

Migrate Media

Move media files to Blubrry Podcast Media Hosting in a few clicks.

Podcast Optimization & Player Settings

Podcasting SEO

Helps optimize your podcast’s search engine visibility.

Audio Player Options

Choose from different Blubrry audio players to enhance the listening experience.

Configure settings via “Configure Audio Player” link.

Video Player Options

Select from three built-in video players for podcast episodes.

Configure settings via “Configure Video Player” link.

Advanced Podcasting Features

Podcast Channels

Manage multiple media files and formats within a single podcast post.

Configure via “Configure Podcast Channels” link.

Category Podcasting

Assign podcasts to specific WordPress categories for organization.

Once enabled, it appears in the left-hand WordPress menu.

Taxonomy Podcasting

Similar to Category Podcasting but applies to custom taxonomies in WordPress.

Post Type Podcasting

Allows podcasting for specific post types in WordPress.

Useful for custom post types outside traditional blog posts.

PowerPress Network & Playlist Features

PowerPress Playlist Player ✅ (Enabled in Screenshot)

Enables creation of podcast episode playlists.

Useful for grouping episodes by topic or series.

PowerPress Network

Allows managing a network of podcasts under one WordPress site.

File Management & Uploads

Allow JSON Uploads

Enables uploading JSON chapter files to WordPress.

WordPress Editor & Block Support

Show Errors in Block Editor ✅ (Enabled in Screenshot)

Displays PowerPress Block Editor errors for debugging.

Disable this if you’re not using the PowerPress Block Editor.

Media Statistics & Tracking

Remove Statistics from WordPress Dashboard

Removes podcast download statistics from the WordPress admin dashboard.

Stats Prefix (For Blubrry Statistics Users)

Adds a tracking URL prefix to measure downloads accurately.

Example:

• Stats Prefix 1: https://media.blubrry.com/yourshow/
• Stats Prefix 2: https://diffs.podtrac.com/direct.mp3/

⚠ Important Notes:

• Prefixes must be GDPR/CCPA-compliant.
• If migrating from another service (e.g., Podtrac), ensure their tracking prefix follows Blubrry’s standards.
• Failure in a third-party prefix may cause download data loss.