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Captivate Sync

Captivate Sync™ is a WordPress plugin maintained and developed by Captivate, part of the Rebel Base Media family. With our background in Podcast Websi …

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0
First vulnerability, now removing content after 3.3.0

First vulnerability, now removing content after 3.3.0: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
First vulnerability, now removing content after 3.3.0 Hello, the latest update fixed apparently a vulnerability but it comes with a bug that removes all content on Elementor websites (tested with 3.34.0 – 3.34.2).Happens on two (Elementor) websites.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
Need help to integrate ACF with Captivate Sync plugin

Need help to integrate ACF with Captivate Sync plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Need help to integrate ACF with Captivate Sync plugin Hi, Please can you help to integrate Advanced Custom Fields with Captivate Sync plugin.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Can you recommend a way to enable podcasts to support custom taxonomies?

Can you recommend a way to enable podcasts to support custom taxonomies?: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Can you recommend a way to enable podcasts to support custom taxonomies?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Sync not working

Sync not working: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Sync not working The automated sync stopped working awhile back.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Issues or conflicts with staging sites?

Issues or conflicts with staging sites?: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Issues or conflicts with staging sites?
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Almost good

Almost good: users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
It doesn’t quite communicate with WordPress so formatting between WordPress and captivate do not show up correctly, so by using this you are essentially creating double or triple the work completely negating the sole purpose of making your life easier.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Latest version force no-follow, no-index meta tag in all posts!

Latest version force no-follow, no-index meta tag in all posts!: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
And like other users, it also breaks the backend, making it impossible to upload new podcasts.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
6.7

6.7: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
6.7 I’ve upgraded to WordPress 6.7 Captivate Sync Version 3.0.0 (on a staging server) & I’m now getting this error message Nothing found.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Error in site error file

Error in site error file: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error in site error file Hi I have lots of entries like this in my error file: PHP Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$media_duration in /…wp-content/plugins/captivatesync-trade/inc/functions.php on line 395 I realise it’s only a warning but the error file gets huge – is it something that can be sorted out?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Error when syncing

Error when syncing: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
Investigate Pain card complete media publishing and video operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error when syncing I’ve linked and activated the plugin to my client’s Captivate Sync account.

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6 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor elearning access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures
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mixed Simple, Nice, and Effective (5 stars) review · 2026-01-23T03:03:51+00:00 · low severity · itunes

The reviewer says CaptivateSync Trade lacks some features but still fits their workflow well.

Evidence: Missing some features, yet it fit nicely into our workflow
missing feature quality trade workflow sync media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint First vulnerability, now removing content after 3.3.0 support · 2026-01-21T05:38:21+00:00 · high severity · itunes

First vulnerability, now removing content after 3.3.0: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: First vulnerability, now removing content after 3.3.0 Hello, the latest update fixed apparently a vulnerability but it comes with a bug that removes all content on Elementor websites (tested with 3.34.0 – 3.34.2).Happens on two (Elementor) websites.
security bugs compatibility performance media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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neutral Missing iframe title support · 2025-11-21T14:02:08+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

A Captivate Sync user requests title attributes on plugin iframes so embedded episodes meet screen-reader accessibility requirements.

Evidence: To meet accessibility requirements an iframe must have a title attribute
missing feature podcast iframe accessibility media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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mixed Great Improvements, Hoping for More Soon (5 stars) review · 2025-10-01T00:12:31+00:00 · low severity · itunes

The reviewer praises the new version's improvements but wants more features and improvements in future updates.

Evidence: I’d love to see even more features and improvements added in future updates
missing feature quality sync feature set media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Keep having to flush permalinks support · 2025-07-21T16:41:06+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Podcast episode links periodically break into 404s, requiring permalink flushes, and the user questions whether the plugin is still supported.

Evidence: Periodically, the links on these break and return 404 pages and we have to flush the permalinks.
bugs support episode shortcode links media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Error in site error file support · 2025-04-17T12:41:04+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Error in site error file: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error in site error file Hi I have lots of entries like this in my error file: PHP Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$media_duration in /…wp-content/plugins/captivatesync-trade/inc/functions.php on line 395 I realise it’s only a warning but the error file gets huge – is it something that can be sorted out?
bugs compatibility media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Poorly developed plugin and no response from the developers (1 star) review · 2024-12-05T11:30:47+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Poorly developed plugin and no response from the developers: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Poorly developed plugin and no response from the developers I spotted an issue where this plugin was breaking some thumbnails on a clients site which I reported and added a fix for, I’ve had no response from a developer and other people are reporting the same issue.
bugs support seo media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Wrote a bad review about this plugin and they deleted it! (1 star) review · 2024-11-29T12:26:31+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Wrote a bad review about this plugin and they deleted it!: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: They know about the ‘noindex’ issue but have not been quick to fix it and have not warned customers about it.
bugs support easy media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Latest version force no-follow, no-index meta tag in all posts! support · 2024-11-25T18:51:57+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Latest version force no-follow, no-index meta tag in all posts!: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: And like other users, it also breaks the backend, making it impossible to upload new podcasts.
missing feature support seo media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Badly coded – noindexed all our posts for months (1 star) review · 2024-11-21T10:26:00+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Badly coded – noindexed all our posts for months: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This plugin doesn’t even have any settings, it doesn’t tell you it is noindexing everything, it just does it upon activation.
missing feature media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint has_post_thumbnail filter breaking regular usage support · 2024-11-19T14:43:45+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

has_post_thumbnail filter breaking regular usage: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: has_post_thumbnail filter breaking regular usage There’s an issue in your plugin where you’re adding a filter for has_post_thumbnail (function filter_has_post_thumbnail() ), you’re checking the global post ID and ignoring the passed through variable.
bugs easy media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint 6.7 support · 2024-11-13T19:02:55+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

6.7: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: 6.7 I’ve upgraded to WordPress 6.7 Captivate Sync Version 3.0.0 (on a staging server) & I’m now getting this error message Nothing found.
bugs support media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Captivate Sync™ 3.0.0 Breaking the Elementor styling support · 2024-11-11T08:24:38+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Captivate Sync™ 3.0.0 Breaking the Elementor styling: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Captivate Sync™ 3.0.0 Breaking the Elementor styling After updating the plugin, its dashboard is fully unstyle.
compatibility elementor media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Almost good (2 stars) review · 2024-04-17T00:07:53+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Almost good: users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It doesn’t quite communicate with WordPress so formatting between WordPress and captivate do not show up correctly, so by using this you are essentially creating double or triple the work completely negating the sole purpose of making your life easier.
bugs missing feature migration easy media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Extremely disappointing plugin – avoid if you can (2 stars) review · 2024-04-13T18:53:06+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Extremely disappointing plugin – avoid if you can: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Extremely disappointing plugin – avoid if you can This plugin technically works.
missing feature support reliable media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint ACF Support? support · 2024-04-10T17:34:18+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

ACF Support?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: ACF Support?
support media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Sync not working support · 2024-04-01T16:01:28+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Sync not working: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sync not working The automated sync stopped working awhile back.
bugs compatibility support media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Pagination – Shortcode support · 2023-12-12T13:10:30+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Pagination – Shortcode: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Right now, a user can only go through the pages one at a time and can’t jump to a page.
support value media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Issues or conflicts with staging sites? support · 2022-10-31T20:15:29+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Issues or conflicts with staging sites?: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Issues or conflicts with staging sites?
bugs compatibility setup media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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complaint Error When Syncing support · 2022-08-04T05:59:43+00:00 · medium severity · itunes

Error When Syncing: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error When Syncing I’ve linked and activated the plugin to my client’s Captivate Sync account.
bugs value media publishing and video operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test podcast embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
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