Transcriptions, Podpress and Feedburner’s 512KB limit

Recently I’ve been setting up some WordPress blogs for clients who have their podcasts transcribed. As I mention in the book, I believe WordPress blogs make fantastic websites to host podcast, when used with the Podpress plugin. Transcriptions can be quite long and if you’re not careful this can cause the RSS feed automatically created by Prodpress to be too large for Feedburner which has a maximum size of 512KB.

If you find yourself in this sticky situation there are a couple of setting in WordPress to take a look at under Settings > Reading:

• For each article in a feed, show: select the Summary radio button. This causes only the first few lines of the post to go into each item description of the RSS feed for both the blog AND the podcast RSS feed created by Podpress.
• Syndication feeds show the most recent: select a reasonable number, not too big. This limits the number of items in both blog and Podpress feeds.

Meanwhile the book continues apace: approx word count: 17,600.