Rating: 2 stars
Well where do I start?
It works, yes. (5 Stars)
But:
It says “now with Gutenberg support”, well no, not really. It either copies a shortcode into your clipboard, which you need to copy into a shortcode block. Or it creates a new post, which is a classic editor block.
So, it kind of works with Gutenberg, but calling it “Gutenberg Support” is exgagurated. (-1 Star)
Next, if you are a paying customer in the business tier for at least 65€/month, and you are using a custom subdomain, which likely is one of the reasons you’re paying a 40€ premium per month. The plugin will not work. (-1 Star) (*)
If you contact the Podigee Support (as paying customer) you’ll get the response, it’s known not to work with custom domains (which, just to remind us, we paid a lot of money to get in the first place). (-1 Star)
Now, my company has a custom domain, I had the choice of accepting this, or try to fix it.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);By adding the marked line in the podigee-quick-publish.php, the plugin works with custom domains.
I’ve sent this patch, among some minor fixes for broken code, to podigee at the 16th March 2023 and well… obviously no update, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this, and worst of all, not even a reply.
This deducts the next star, leaving us at 1 Star.
TLDR: If you are not using a custom domain, or if you are willing to add my patch above, the plugin is ok, and would rather get 3-4 stars at the current state. My biggest complaint is, that Podigee ignores a paying business tier customer and ignores a sent in patch file.
@podigee: I’m more than happy updating my review, once you update the plugin.
*) EDIT May 2024: Custom Domains are supported roughly 8 Months after I’ve done my initial review and roughly 10 Months after I’ve sent them my initial email. Since I can’t test it anymore the following update is untested and unverified. But I’ll revoke the -1 Star for not working custom subdomain, but I’m still behind the other deductions, leaving us with an updated 2/5 Stars.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
The plugin has evolved a lot since the last release and the Gutenberg support is really good. Really handy to transfer all data from the RSS feed into the post.
The only thing that I am missing now is an auto-publish function. I have to wait until the episode is published, before I can update the WordPress page.
As I take care of all the meta-data in the Podigee web-site, there is no real need for me to review the WordPress post before publishing.
Which makes it more complicated, I cannot see finished Podigee episodes that are finished but have a publishing date in the future in WordPress. If that was the case I could at least set a date to publish along with the Podigee publishing date. At the same time – since the RSS feed is the bridge, it is probably quite impossible to fix this.
Small feature request: I would like to be able to select the items that are taken over in the auto-post (my subtitle never changes for example but is then added into every post)
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