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So you have a show on talkshoe and would like to do more with your RSS feed by integrating it with your wordpress blog. It is easier than every with just a few tools.

Tina Ferguson has integrated her blog with talkshoe and here is how she did it. Well her husband and Troy at http://veluzarwebdesign.com/ design did it.

 

What  you need for talkshoe and wordpress before you get started.

• Feed wordpress Plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/
• A self hosted wordpress blog – http://www.site5.com or some other host
• FTP access to your website or some way to get files into your blog directory
• A talk shoe show on http://www.talkshoe.com
• Ability to copy and past information and type at least 2 words a minute

Easy as 1 to 3.

Open note pad so you can have a place to copy some code you will be using.

Step 1 

Download feed wordpress and unzip to a directory on your desktop.

Step 2

Follow feed wordpress instructions

New Installations

1. Download the FeedWordPress archive and extract the files on your computer.

2. Create a new directory named feedwordpress in the wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation. Use an FTP or SFTP client to upload the contents of your FeedWordPress archive to the new directory that you just created on your web host.

3. Upgrade the copy of MagpieRSS packaged with WordPress by installing the new copies of rss.php and rss-functions.php into the wp-includes directory of your FeedWordPress installation. These files are stored in the MagpieRSS-upgrade directory of your FeedWordPress archive. Strictly speaking, upgrading MagpieRSS is optional; FeedWordPress will run correctly without the upgrade. But if you hope to take advantage of numerous bug fixes, or support for Atom 1.0, multiple post categories, RSS enclosures, or multiple character encodings, then you need to install the upgrade.

4. Log in to the WordPress Dashboard and activate the FeedWordPress plugin.

Step 3

Get links for TalkShoe

1. Goto http://www.talkshoe.com
2. Login and click on my talkshoe button at top then proceed to your show page
3. Just below and to the right of your logo or show picture you should see some little feed buttons. Click in the one that says rss podcast
4. This will open the XML RSS Link. Copy this link and past it into notepad you will need it in just a bit.
5. In the wordpress admin section create a new category for posts called Whatever your radio show is called. Tina Fergusons is called Queen of Dreams Radio.

Step 4

Continue Feed Wordpress Setup

1. Once the plugin is activated, you can go to Syndication –> Options and set (1) the link category that FeedWordPress will syndicate links from (by default, “Contributors”), and (2) whether FeedWordPress will use automatic updates or only manual updates.
2. Go to the main Syndication page to set up the list of sites that you want FeedWordPress to syndicate onto your blog.
3. Copy the link for your talkshoe feed you pasted into notepad and paste it into the box that says Add new source and click syndicate. The Main Syndication link will always be on your admin sidebar under the calendar section
4. After your feed is added you should see it at the bottom. Click on the title that comes over from talkshoe and we can then configure options.
5. The main settings on the feed page should all be set to automatic.
6. Now on the left menu goto syndication and then settings to set sitewide settings
7. Syndication Feeds should all be Syndicated Link category: = 292: Contributors 2: Resources : Check for updates: automatically only when I request Time limit on updates: no time limit on updates limit updates to no more than… seconds ALL other boxes should be checked and then Save settings
8. Now All we have to do is set the Categories to Don’t create new categories and then check all posts goto the new category you crated for your radio show.

Step 5

Past new code for your single page, archives page, and main index.php template by going to edit them. This may vary for different templates.

Here is the example of my new title tag that adds click here to listen to posts that are from your radio show. You will need to know the category ID for your wordpress radio show category for this to work.

Tina Ferguson Example:

<div class=”title”>
<?php  if (in_category(’293′)) { ?>                   
<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?><font color=”#ea1a78″> – Click to Listen</a></font>  </h2>
<?php } else { ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php } ?>

Last Step – Yeah

Goto the Syndication link on the wordpress left admin link and click syndication. Then click on update and you are finished.

Now when you look at your blog you should see an import of your Talkshoe radio show in your blog with description and direct link to the show mp3 that is in your talkshoe feed. Be sure to write good descriptions of your show in talkshoe because they will come over with the posts.

See Example code in action at http://www.tinaferguson.com you can click on Tina’s blog or the categories section on the left side bar etc and Queen of Dreams Radio.

Have a great one everyone.

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