I don’t mean to offend those that still use Podpress. But I’m not really that keen on hacking and patching together my site to fix a problem that has been around for multiple months now. I understand that it’s a free program, and I’m very appreciative for the work that went into it. But if it’s really as simple a problem as is repeatedly mentioned, then how can you not consider the support to be poor at this point as those small fixes still haven’t been incorporated.
I admit I haven’t ran the fixes yet, as I’m not even using WP 2.6 in the live environment. However, I’m curious if it actually fixes all the problems. For instance, Podpress in it’s current state also breaks WordPress’ ability to post thumbnail images and medium images. They get made fine, but when you choose to use them, nothing. Disable Podpress and it works fine. That’s in addition to the big “just won’t work” bugs that everyone else seems to be having the problem with. I’m not sure if it’s related to the same revision problem or not.
I wasn’t implying that you should take over the development of Podpress, Cavemonkey. I think that both products are nice in their own way, and it would be cool to have them both around. I do think you need a catchier name, so that it’s a bit easier to find info on the plugin (Podcasting isn’t a name you can easily google to find info on the plugin, unlike Podpress). BUT, I was just saying that it would be nice to see the plugin step up and fill the hole that Podpress has left open with the need for hacks or additional plugins to get it working.
Multiple Podcasts on Podpress isn’t the most elegant solution, but it works. It seems like you have a similar concept, but it’s not quite developed to the same level. Basically, with Podpress, when you view a category (Manage > Category), there is the option to “Enable Category Casting”. Checking that box will allow you to set the Feed information for that specific Category. So that when you view the RSS feed for that Category, instead of having one Name, one Author, one URL, etc… you have all that information for each Category you want to be a separate Podcast.
I have 6 podcasts currently. Each is setup on a separate category within the “Podcasts” category. While there is a default settings section for Podpress, by setting the info on each category individually, you can override what the feed will look like. That way, you can make sure each feed lists the correct name, Album art, categories, summary, etc.
IMO, if Podcasting already supports different RSS feeds for each category, this wouldn’t be that hard of an addition to make. You just need to be able to set each category’s itunes info individually.
