Todd Cochrane Doesn’t Like MT4′s Podcasting Support, and What That Really Means For WordPress

Todd Cochrane who wrote the book on podcasting, Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide, wrote a harsh post about Movable Type 4 not living up to its announced podcasting support claims. The article begins:

From today forward I will no longer recommend Movable Type as a viable new media blogging / podcasting platform. I will recommend WordPress to any and all that ask my advice.

Todd elaborates in the comments on the experience in WordPress that has contributed to his conversion:

Wordpress does have native support when you are publishing a post you will see add media at the bottom of the page.

If you add your media there and hit publish the media will be included as a enclosure in your RSS feed.

While you will not have all the fancy itunes tags you can manually edit your rss template and add that data to be included.

To make it easy the podpress plugin makes it easy for you to add the itunes data to the feed.

Another thing to consider is that at least you can publish a podcast with WordPress today. You cannot say the same with MovableType Version 4 it is simply not possible to publish a podcast with the current version of the blogging software.

Welcome to the team Todd!

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WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire

Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:

Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the biggest impression in their time of need. In fact everyone who joins Automattic, regardless of position, does support for 3 weeks. The customers range from the everyday blogger to VIPs like CNN, Flickr, and People Magazine. The job requires:

  • Patience and grace.
  • Excellent writing skills.
  • Working knowledge of WordPress, HTML, and CSS.

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