Captivate Sync
by captivateaudio · WordPress.org page · Website
Captivate Sync has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 33,035 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on July 2, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Captivate Sync at a glance
Is Captivate Sync well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Unlimited podcasts and uploads
- Distribute your podcast to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and all other major podcast platforms
- Fully responsive, customizable podcast players
- Free, built-in podcast websites
- Private RSS feeds on any plan
- Innovative marketing tools to help you grow and promote your podcast episodes
- One-click PDF sponsor kit
- …and LOADS more! Check out the full feature list
Captivate Sync reviews and ratings
9 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Simple, Nice, and Effective
Missing some features, yet it fit nicely into our workflow.
askgenesis -
Great Improvements, Hoping for More Soon
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!
vacelso523 -
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. 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.
wigglypoppins -
Wrote a bad review about this plugin and they deleted it!
This was the review I wrote that Captivate deleted: AVOID THIS PLUGIN AT ALL COSTSIt 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!!
makeitbritish -
Badly coded - noindexed all our posts for months
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.
Lukas Cech -
Almost good
The idea is good but it's just not ready yet. 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. Also the sync feature needs to be able to work just one way meaning you can bring in from sync but then have the freedom to customize the word press end without effecting the captivate side. Again this ties back to the fact that captivate and Wordpress don't communicate well to each other so this just creates massive formatting issues, plus a lot of time you just want to be able to import your podcast quickly and efficiently and then have the ability to customize it only for the word press side.
jre1043
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Details
Captivate Sync™ is a WordPress plugin maintained and developed by Captivate, part of the Rebel Base Media family. With our background in Podcast Websi …
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- captivate
- itunes
- podcast
- podcaster
- podcasting
- Version
- 3.3.2
- Last updated
- Jul 2, 2026
- First published
- Nov 4, 2019
- Requires WordPress
- 5.7.0
- Tested up to
- 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- –
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Captivate Sync FAQ
What does Captivate Sync do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Captivate Sync offers Unlimited podcasts and uploads, Distribute your podcast to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and all other major podcast platforms, Fully responsive, customizable podcast players, Free, built-in podcast websites and Private RSS feeds on any plan.
How many active installs does Captivate Sync have?
WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Captivate Sync as of September 7, 2026.
Is Captivate Sync still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on July 2, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Is Captivate Sync free?
Captivate Sync is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.