Joost

<p>PostCaster publishes WordPress posts to Bluesky and Mastodon when a post goes live. It supports both site-wide accounts and personal author accounts, with previews, test posts, and per-post overrides on the post edit screen.</p>
<p>This plugin is intended for editorial sites that want social posting to stay close to the WordPress publishing workflow.</p>
<p>Key capabilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Publish automatically when a post moves from unpublished to <code>publish</code></li>
<li>Use site-wide accounts in <code>PostCaster > Global socials</code></li>
<li>Let authors use their own accounts in <code>PostCaster > My socials</code></li>
<li>Preview the exact text before publishing</li>
<li>Override the text per article</li>
<li>Choose featured-image behavior per network</li>
<li>Re-publish manually from the post edit screen when needed</li>
</ul>
<p>Quick start:</p>
<ol>
<li>Activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Enable PostCaster in <code>PostCaster > Settings</code>.</li>
<li>Choose which post types may be published automatically.</li>
<li>Configure one or more site-wide accounts in <code>PostCaster > Global socials</code>.</li>
<li>Send a test post for each configured network.</li>
<li>Publish a test article and confirm the result on the target network.</li>
</ol>
<p>Supported networks:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bluesky</li>
<li>
<p>Mastodon<br />
Permissions and publishing model:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Editors and administrators can publish through configured global accounts.</p>
</li>
<li>Authors can publish through their own personal accounts when personal publishing is enabled for them.</li>
<li>A user who has access to both global and personal targets can choose which targets to use during manual publishing.</li>
<li>If Co-Authors Plus is active, linked co-authors are also recognized for personal publishing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Templates and previews:</p>
<ul>
<li>The default message template is based on post title and URL.</li>
<li>You can set a general template, network-specific templates, and post-specific overrides.</li>
<li>The post edit screen shows previews for the currently available publish targets.</li>
<li>If the final message is still too long for a network, PostCaster skips that target and stores an error on the article.</li>
</ul>
<p>For template details and examples, see <code>docs/templates.md</code> in the plugin repository.</p>
<p>Troubleshooting highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li>Always use the built-in test-post buttons after changing credentials.</li>
<li>If a network is enabled but not posting, first check credentials and article-level errors.</li>
<li>If encrypted credentials can no longer be read, re-save them in <code>Global socials</code> or <code>My socials</code>.</li>
<li>Publishing runs through Action Scheduler in the background; low-traffic sites still benefit from a real server cron job or scheduled task for reliable timing.</li>
</ul>
<p>External services:</p>
<p>PostCaster connects to external social networks only after an administrator or user explicitly configures that network and saves the required credentials.</p>
<p>When configured, PostCaster may send:</p>
<ul>
<li>text rendered from post fields and templates</li>
<li>featured image bytes and alt text</li>
<li>the configured account identifiers required by that network</li>
</ul>
<p>Relevant service documentation and terms:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bluesky developer docs: https://docs.bsky.app/</li>
<li>Bluesky terms: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos</li>
<li>Mastodon API docs: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/<br />
Privacy note:</li>
</ul>
<p>PostCaster does not send usage analytics or telemetry to the plugin author. Network requests are only made to the configured social networks for test posts and actual publishing.</p>


PostCaster

Publishes WordPress posts with featured images to Bluesky and Mastodon.

Geoffrey

<p>This plugin provides your website with Gutenberg blocks including a configurable profile banner (followers, posts and followings counts, banner, avatar, and name) and a list of your latest posts on BlueSky.<br />
A Shortcodes (<code>[bluesky_profile]</code> and <code>[bluesky_last_posts]</code>) and Widgets are given as well for older sites.</p>
<p>An option is available for the syndication of your posts for BlueSky Social. This syndication allows you to display BlueSky discussions directly in the comment section of your WordPress posts. (it’s an option)</p>
<p>Some other included features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Configurable Bluesky Profile Card</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Choose to display a banner, or not</li>
<li>Choose to display an avatar, or not</li>
<li>Choose to display your bio, or not</li>
<li>Choose to display your counter, or not</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Embedded posts in the feed</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Youtube URL detection</li>
<li>Embedded video</li>
<li>Quote embedded</li>
<li>Link reference (embedded card with image)</li>
<li>Starterpack display</li>
<li>Gallery of images (displaying an accessible lightbox)</li>
<li>Multiple available layouts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Auto-post new WordPress posts on BlueSky</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Preview the post for BlueSky on WordPress pre-post checks panel (if activated)</li>
<li>Edit the future BlueSky post right in the Gutenberg editor’s sidebar if needed.</li>
<li>Syndication can be triggered based on post categories: associate one or multiple account to one or multiple categories. (Include/exclude mechanics)</li>
<li>You have a “stop all syndication” option, just in case.</li>
<li>In case you unlink, or wanna link former posts, a “Link to Bluesky” feature is available right from the post editor.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Make BlueSky discussions for syndicated posts visible</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Activate the “Discussions” option to display Bluesky discussion even if the comment section of your posts is deactivated.</li>
<li>Choose to display only first level, or multi-level comments.</li>
<li>Choose between collasped or visible multi-level comments.</li>
<li>Choose to include photos, videos and attachments.</li>
<li>Important: people you mute or block on Bluesky won’t be visible in the discussions.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Encrypted App Password for a more secure connection.</p>
</li>
<li>Cache for a more performant display and avoid BlueSky request limitations.</li>
<li>Asynchronous load of data from BlueSky for a better UX.</li>
<li>Dark/Light mode (by default system/user choice).</li>
<li>Custom font sizing for both blocks/shortcodes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Available Languages</h3>
<ul>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Chinese (traditional & simplified)</li>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Korean</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Thai </li>
<li>Turkish</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode usage</h3>
<p>In the shortcodes below, the complete list of attributes is displayed. You can omit them if you want, as the default values or the global values will be used if you omit them.</p>
<h3>Display your profile card</h3>
<pre><code>[bluesky_profile theme="system" layout="default" styleclass="" displaybanner="true" displayavatar="true" displaycounters="true" displaybio="true" account_id=""]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><code>theme</code>: displays a different set of colors supporting dark and light modes (values: <code>system</code>, <code>light</code>, <code>dark</code>)</li>
<li><code>layout</code>: choose the profile card layout (values: <code>default</code>, <code>compact</code>)</li>
<li><code>styleclass</code>: accept any string class-valid to customise the class attribute</li>
<li><code>displaybanner</code>: either you want to display your profile banner image or not (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>displayavatar</code>: either you want to display your profile avatar or not (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>displaycounters</code>: either you want to display your followers, following and posts, or not (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>displaybio</code>: either you want to display your profile description or not (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>account_id</code>: the UUID of a specific account to display. Leave empty to use the active account (multi-account feature)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Display the last posts</h3>
<pre><code>[bluesky_last_posts displayembeds="true" theme="system" noreplies="true" noreposts="true" numberofposts="5" layout="" account_id=""]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><code>displayembeds</code>: either you want to display only your posts, or include the embeds too (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>noreplies</code>: either you want to hide your replies, or include them in your feed (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>noreposts</code>: either you want to hide your reposts, or include them in your feed (values: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>nocounters</code> – Whether to hide like, repost, reply, and quote counters (value: <code>true</code>, <code>false</code>)</li>
<li><code>theme</code>: displays a different set of colors supporting dark and light modes (values: <code>system</code>, <code>light</code>, <code>dark</code>)</li>
<li><code>numberofposts</code>: any number of posts to display. (advice, don’t set a too high value)</li>
<li><code>layout</code>: override the default feed layout (values: <code>default</code>, <code>layout_2</code> or <code>compact</code>). Leave empty to use the global setting</li>
<li><code>account_id</code>: the UUID of a specific account to display. Leave empty to use the active account (multi-account feature)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>This plugin is open source and licensed under GPLv2 or later. Contributions are welcome via GitHub.</p>
<h3>Known Bugs & Improvements</h3>
<h4>Known Bugs</h4>
<ul>
<li>On the Gutenberg editor, the blocks are not clickable. You need to open the block layers panel to select them. I’m working on it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Planned Improvements</h4>
<p>Follow the roadmap on <a href="https://github.com/users/geoffreycrofte/projects/1/views/2" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Project</a>.</p>


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