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Captivate is always working hard to make your life easier and your podcast more successful. That’s why we’ve just released our biggest update to date for Captivate Sync, our WordPress plugin. The new update includes brand-new features and functionality, and a significant overhaul of the user interface. Let’s dig in!

What is Captivate Sync

Sync is Captivate’s free WordPress plugin. It automatically pulls across your podcast episodes to your WordPress site and lets any visitors see your latest and greatest content, and allows you to keep everything perfectly synchronised by publishing content from one platform to the other.

With Sync, you can:

• Create a dedicated podcast page where all your episodes live
• Create custom posts for each individual episode
• Generate shortcodes to display episode lists or grids
• Publish new episodes directly from your WordPress dashboard
• Edit previous episodes from your WordPress dashboard
• Manage multiple shows from your WordPress dashboard

All from a free one-time download!

What are the new updates to Captivate Sync?

Our talented devs have been working hard to overhaul and update Syncs features to make it even more useful for busy podcasters like yourselves.

An update to the overall user interface

We’ve overhauled and modernised Sync’s UI. As we make the Captivate dashboard even more user-friendly and intuitive with each release, we’ve done the same here for the plugin.

Settings Updates and Tweaks

• Sync users can now change single episode slugs, category archive slugs and enable or disable default archive pages.
• You can now display your artwork in place of the featured image
• You can now display your season and episode numbers with the episode title.

Shortcode Updates

• Ability to select multiple podcasts and specific episodes therein.
• You can now change the color of your title and read more links.
• We’ve added the option to hide/show the title.
• You can now change the size of the featured image.
• You can now change the HTML tag for your episode title.
• Your last generated shortcode will now be automatically saved for later use.
• You can now preview the shortcode you’ve generated.
• Your episode featured image is now linked to the episode to which it refers.
• We’ve added an option to “load more”

General (but still amazing) updates

• A permalink redirect will now use the actual episode URL.
• We’ve added support for dynamic show notes.
• You can now duplicate episodes.
• You can now activate and deactivate episodes.
• Private, exclusive, and early access episodes will no longer appear on front-end queries and searches.
• The “add/remove podcasts” menu now lets you set a default author for each podcast.
• Manual sync for each podcast
• Clear auto-saved data for each podcast
• We’ve implemented additional measures to prevent creating duplicate episodes, such as using an additional unique identifier for each episode.
• Podcasts database table converted to utf8mb4 (upon re-activation of the plugin) to store any Unicode character
• PHP version 8.0.0 compatibility
• Bug fixes and enhancements

Next steps

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