Move your podcast to a new WordPress website

Before Starting

  • Confirm your new WordPress website has the exact same version of WordPress and the SSP plugin installed as the website you're leaving.
  • Create backups of both WordPress websites
Jump to: Move an existing Seriously Simple Podcasting podcast to a new WordPress installation

Redirect your podcast's RSS feed from old site A to new site B

Connect your new WordPress website to Castos using the API Key.

Move your podcast managed by WordPress and Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin to a new WordPress page

This step-by-step guide will be useful for a few reasons, including:

  • You’re merging your content with another website and need to move your podcast to an already existing site
  • You're redesigning or restructuring your website, starting from scratch with a new theme, or
  • You want to update a staging site with just your podcast episodes

Using a WordPress website migration or backup plugin will help avoid bringing over unwanted files or database tables.

Why Can't I Just import the RSS Feed?

The Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin (SSP) stores extra data in your WordPress database that is not included in your podcast’s RSS feed in custom fields. This includes data like Castos episode IDs, file IDs, and post IDs to properly sync to Castos.


To ensure your podcast works on your new website, you'll need to move all the data the plugin stores + the information included in your RSS feed. This guide will show you how.

Move an existing Seriously Simple Podcasting podcast to a new WordPress installation

In the steps below, we'll call the website you're leaving old site A and the website you're moving to new site B.

  1. On new site B, install and set up the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin using the SSP setup guide (you can skip the steps to connect your account to Castos hosting for the time being)
  2. Is the podcast being added to new site B as a secondary podcast (formerly called series)? If so, complete the steps outlined in the following guide: Working With Multiple Podcasts
  3. Export your podcast episodes from old site A: In the WordPress dashboard of old site A, go to Tools → Export, then select Episodes and click Download Export File (tip: save the file to your desktop or a location you can easily find later).
  4. In the WordPress Admin dashboard of new site B, go to Tools, select Import → Run Importer

If you're prompted to install the WordPress Importer plugin, click Install and follow the on-screen steps to import the XML file.

  1. In the WordPress Admin dashboard of new site B, go to Podcast → All Episodes and click each episode and check the box to assign it to the appropriate podcast series if needed. If you have a lot of episodes, doing this from the list table and QuickEdit is more efficient than opening each post individually:

Note: Episodes that have multiple (secondary) podcasts selected will not sync to each podcast on your Castos dashboard. See how to include multiple podcast's episodes in your default feed here.

Redirect your podcast's RSS feed from old site A to new site B


Remember to keep your old WordPress site active for at least four weeks to ensure all podcast directories have seen the redirect and change in RSS feed

Connect your new WordPress website to Castos using the API Key


To re-sync your podcasts on new site B to Castos, go to Podcasting → Hosting, then check the podcast(s) to sync, then press Trigger Sync.

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