I’m glad it exists, but…
At the end of the day, it feels like this plugin is just a glorified accordion dropdown in the editor. Yes, you can add a transcript file (as in, a caption/subtitle file? At least, that’s what SRTs and VTTs are, usually, but the FAQs mention a PDF, and the plugin itself suggests TXT), but that has no impact whatsoever on the Transcript widget/block that shows up in your editor, which is just plain text. It adds a download link below the Castos Player widget. For some reason, mine had the open/close chevron show just fine in the editor, but on the published page, it rendered as incomplete HTML (the num-code for the character). Since there seems to be no connection between the subtitle FILE and the subtitle widget/block, I just replaced it on my podcast episode page with an Elementor Accordion widget, which works better for my purposes. The screenshots on the Installation page at out-of-date; the plugin does NOT show up in the block/widget selection as “Castos Transcripts” or even use the same icon (at least not in Elementor); it uses just the word “Transcripts” and is very basic in its functionality; you can’t change the icon used for the dropdown, but you can set the general Typography and Color, and you can opt to hide it from your RSS feed.
I’m glad it exists, but…
At the end of the day, it feels like this plugin is just a glorified accordion dropdown in the editor. Yes, you can add a transcript file (as in, a caption/subtitle file? At least, that’s what SRTs and VTTs are, usually, but the FAQs mention a PDF, and the plugin itself suggests TXT), but that has no impact whatsoever on the Transcript widget/block that shows up in your editor, which is just plain text. It adds a download link below the Castos Player widget. For some reason, mine had the open/close chevron show just fine in the editor, but on the published page, it rendered as incomplete HTML (the num-code for the character). Since there seems to be no connection between the subtitle FILE and the subtitle widget/block, I just replaced it on my podcast episode page with an Elementor Accordion widget, which works better for my purposes. The screenshots on the Installation page at out-of-date; the plugin does NOT show up in the block/widget selection as “Castos Transcripts” or even use the same icon (at least not in Elementor); it uses just the word “Transcripts” and is very basic in its functionality; you can’t change the icon used for the dropdown, but you can set the general Typography and Color, and you can opt to hide it from your RSS feed.
I’m glad it exists, but…
At the end of the day, it feels like this plugin is just a glorified accordion dropdown in the editor. Yes, you can add a transcript file (as in, a caption/subtitle file? At least, that’s what SRTs and VTTs are, usually, but the FAQs mention a PDF, and the plugin itself suggests TXT), but that has no impact whatsoever on the Transcript widget/block that shows up in your editor, which is just plain text. It adds a download link below the Castos Player widget. For some reason, mine had the open/close chevron show just fine in the editor, but on the published page, it rendered as incomplete HTML (the num-code for the character). Since there seems to be no connection between the subtitle FILE and the subtitle widget/block, I just replaced it on my podcast episode page with an Elementor Accordion widget, which works better for my purposes. The screenshots on the Installation page at out-of-date; the plugin does NOT show up in the block/widget selection as “Castos Transcripts” or even use the same icon (at least not in Elementor); it uses just the word “Transcripts” and is very basic in its functionality; you can’t change the icon used for the dropdown, but you can set the general Typography and Color, and you can opt to hide it from your RSS feed.
I’m glad it exists, but…
At the end of the day, it feels like this plugin is just a glorified accordion dropdown in the editor. Yes, you can add a transcript file (as in, a caption/subtitle file? At least, that’s what SRTs and VTTs are, usually, but the FAQs mention a PDF, and the plugin itself suggests TXT), but that has no impact whatsoever on the Transcript widget/block that shows up in your editor, which is just plain text. It adds a download link below the Castos Player widget. For some reason, mine had the open/close chevron show just fine in the editor, but on the published page, it rendered as incomplete HTML (the num-code for the character). Since there seems to be no connection between the subtitle FILE and the subtitle widget/block, I just replaced it on my podcast episode page with an Elementor Accordion widget, which works better for my purposes. The screenshots on the Installation page at out-of-date; the plugin does NOT show up in the block/widget selection as “Castos Transcripts” or even use the same icon (at least not in Elementor); it uses just the word “Transcripts” and is very basic in its functionality; you can’t change the icon used for the dropdown, but you can set the general Typography and Color, and you can opt to hide it from your RSS feed.
