seriously-simple-speakers

Seriously Simple Speakers

Add speakers to your Seriously Simple Podcasting episodes.

guests hosts podcast seriously simple podcasting speakers

49.2 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

1.0Kactive installs

19.5Kdownloads

5.0rating

0unresolved threads

9complaints analyzed

4praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.9

Is this plugin abandoned?

Is this plugin abandoned?: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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WordPress says that this plugin may be abandoned and no Support questions have been replied to in over 3 years.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92

Plugin not working

Plugin not working: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Plugin not working I have the speakers plugin installed and enabled, but suddenly there is no speaker option available.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Speaker Links Not Working

Speaker Links Not Working: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Speaker Links Not Working Hi using Simply Simple Speakers and the links on speakers are redirecting to a page that says “OOPS!

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Problem when "podcast post types" is set to Posts

Problem when "podcast post types" is set to Posts: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Speakers (I renamed them Guests — thanks for that code) show up perfectly as part of the podcast meta text.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

SSP Stats Don’t Agree with Chartable

SSP Stats Don’t Agree with Chartable: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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SSP Stats Don’t Agree with Chartable Hello – I recently integrated Chartable using the new features of SSP Stats, and what I’m seeing is that the numbers don’t agree at all.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Speaker Links not Present

Speaker Links not Present: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Tried all of them – functions.php file mods (below), changed the theme to a WP basic theme, etc.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72

Links to speakers do not work

Links to speakers do not work: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I already contacted Castos support with screenshots and they told me to post it here.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69

No Speaker taxonomy panel in Gutenberg

No Speaker taxonomy panel in Gutenberg: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Good news is so far this is the first time we’ve run into any kind of compatibility issues…but this is something we’ll address before Gutenberg gets released in Core.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69

The Plugin appears to be abandoned

The Plugin appears to be abandoned: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Is it?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69

Podcasts are listed in author pages

Podcasts are listed in author pages: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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These podcasts aren’t showing up when I search for content produced by them: Author Page: http://jh.warriornews.net/author/reena-kim/ Podcast: http://jh.warriornews.net/podcast/episode-3-takano-talks/ The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I like being able to add speakers to podcast episodes, but I would also like to add them as multiple autho

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Collected Signals

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mixed Additional “Add to Menu” items not appearing for other admins support · 2026-01-29T17:17:53+00:00 · low severity · podcast

A long-time user reported that a new admin cannot see speaker-related Add to Menu options, making menu updates harder.

Evidence: she’s not seeing the Categories, Tags, Podcasts, and Speakers options that I can see…which makes it much harder for her to update the menus.

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neutral Create Person Tag in RSS Feed support · 2025-08-14T23:02:01+00:00 · low severity · podcast

The user requested podcast:person RSS feed tags so speaker information can appear in podcast app interfaces.

Evidence: Having the speakers from the plugin create a person tag element in the RSS Feed to populate this would be a great addition.

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complaint Speaker Links not Present support · 2025-06-28T19:09:50+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Speaker Links not Present: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Tried all of them – functions.php file mods (below), changed the theme to a WP basic theme, etc.

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mixed Links to speakers do not work support · 2024-05-23T07:14:24+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Links to speakers do not work: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I already contacted Castos support with screenshots and they told me to post it here.

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complaint Speakers do not show on each post support · 2024-03-10T07:44:42+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Speakers do not show on each post: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: You can check for example the https://innovationtalks.gr/podcast/105-o-giannis-o-michalis-kai-i-pythia-syzitoyn-gia-tin-exelixi-tis-technitis-noimosynis-kai-apantoyn-sto-erotima-ti-kerdizoyme-kai-ti-chanoyme/ Can you please help me on this ?

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complaint The Plugin appears to be abandoned support · 2023-04-25T06:40:26+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

The Plugin appears to be abandoned: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Is it?

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neutral create a speaker as “Podcast Manager” support · 2022-11-10T16:14:39+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

create a speaker as “Podcast Manager”: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: create a speaker as “Podcast Manager” Hi, can someone tell me how to create a speaker as “Podcast Manager”? Apparently I can only do this with the admin account. Regards dave Hi, can someone tell me how to create a speaker as “Podcast Manager”? Apparently I can only do this with the admin account. Regards dave

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complaint Is this plugin abandoned? support · 2022-10-17T19:33:43+00:00 · high severity · podcast

Is this plugin abandoned?: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WordPress says that this plugin may be abandoned and no Support questions have been replied to in over 3 years.

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neutral Change Speakers slug support · 2021-06-22T08:32:07+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Change Speakers slug: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Change Speakers slug Hi! How could I change the speakers taxonomy slug and name? I found this code for changing the podcast archive slug but I couldn’t do the same for speakers: add_filter( 'ssp_archive_slug', 'ssp_modify_podcast_archive_slug' ); function ssp_modify_podcast_archive_slug ( $slug ) { return 'new-slug'; } Thanks in advance! Hi! How could I chan

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question List of all Speakers and modifying the Speaker page support · 2020-07-27T21:33:20+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

List of all Speakers and modifying the Speaker page: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: List of all Speakers and modifying the Speaker page Hi all, Is there a way: To have a page with all speakers listed? To add a photo and attach files (like PDFs) in the Speaker page? I know this is not available out of the box but I was wondering if I can utilize other tools/plugins to achieve that. Thanks! This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Bi

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praise List of all speakers? support · 2019-12-19T15:55:18+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

List of all speakers?: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: best, Kaja Hi, I’d like to make a page with all my podcast speakers/guests, is there a shortcode to display all of them?

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complaint SSP Stats Don’t Agree with Chartable support · 2019-09-03T15:26:07+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

SSP Stats Don’t Agree with Chartable: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: SSP Stats Don’t Agree with Chartable Hello – I recently integrated Chartable using the new features of SSP Stats, and what I’m seeing is that the numbers don’t agree at all.

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complaint Plugin not working support · 2019-06-06T19:09:56+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Plugin not working: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin not working I have the speakers plugin installed and enabled, but suddenly there is no speaker option available.

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neutral Speakers on a newline support · 2019-03-06T06:38:22+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Speakers on a newline: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Speakers on a newline Hi guys , I was looking for a way to show the speaker list on a new line , instead of showing next to “download | Duration | Speakers” on each post of the frontpage Hi guys , I was looking for a way to show the speaker list on a new line , instead of showing next to “download | Duration | Speakers” on each post of the frontpage

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complaint No Speaker taxonomy panel in Gutenberg support · 2018-07-07T04:45:10+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

No Speaker taxonomy panel in Gutenberg: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Good news is so far this is the first time we’ve run into any kind of compatibility issues…but this is something we’ll address before Gutenberg gets released in Core.

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complaint Podcasts are listed in author pages support · 2018-03-02T19:02:38+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Podcasts are listed in author pages: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: These podcasts aren’t showing up when I search for content produced by them: Author Page: http://jh.warriornews.net/author/reena-kim/ Podcast: http://jh.warriornews.net/podcast/episode-3-takano-talks/ The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I like being able to add speakers to podcast episodes, but I would also like to add them as multiple autho

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question List all speakers support · 2018-02-16T18:13:46+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

List all speakers: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: List all speakers Is there a way I can list all the podcasts alphabetically by speaker name? I don’t even need the other meta, just the speakers name and when clicked it opens to the correct post Is there a way I can list all the podcasts alphabetically by speaker name? I don’t even need the other meta, just the speakers name and when clicked it opens to the

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mixed Speaker Links Not Working support · 2017-06-11T19:36:51+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Speaker Links Not Working: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Speaker Links Not Working Hi using Simply Simple Speakers and the links on speakers are redirecting to a page that says “OOPS!

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complaint Guests versus Hosts support · 2017-04-02T08:31:43+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Guests versus Hosts: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Guests versus Hosts I have found the information on changing the speakers label to guest.

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praise Very easy to publish your podcast’s episodes! (5 stars) review · 2016-09-26T21:25:44+00:00 · medium severity · podcast

Very easy to publish your podcast’s episodes!: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very easy to publish your podcast’s episodes!

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