Captivate Sync

Missing some features, yet it fit nicely into our workflow.

This new version is a big improvement! The added features work seamlessly and make a noticeable difference. I’d love to see even more features and improvements added in future updates—great work so far!

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.

Additionally, I’ve discovered from another support request that this plugin is blocking ALL blog posts from being indexed in Google, this is an SEO nightmare and a massive flaw in their code, this issue has also not received a response from the developers.

Terrible code, no testing, no response, would not reccommend.

This was the review I wrote that Captivate deleted:

AVOID THIS PLUGIN AT ALL COSTS
It took me weeks to work out why the traffic to my site dropped off a cliff. 
Finally discovered that an update to this Captivate plugin had added ‘noindex’ to ALL of my website posts. Search engines stopped crawling my site as a result and I literally lost all my business overnight. I am still fighting to get it back.
What’s worse, Captivate don’t care at all. They know about the ‘noindex’ issue but have not been quick to fix it and have not warned customers about it.
They are very good at marketing their podcast hosting service, but their tech support is shocking.
Regret the day I ever signed up with Captivate.

They’ll probably delete this one too claiming it’s a support ticket and not a review!!

• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by makeitbritish.

I can’t believe how poorly this plugin is coded. It set <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex’> to all our posts, even the ones without anything to do with podcasts. Blank overwrite of all meta tags to no index, our traffic was suffering for months, now we know why.

This plugin doesn’t even have any settings, it doesn’t tell you it is noindexing everything, it just does it upon activation.

That is very bad practice – to apply such a disruptive setting cross-site without a word of warning.

Stay away from it.