Jordy Meow

<p><strong>Social Engine is the self-hosted social media scheduler for WordPress.</strong> Connect directly to X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Mastodon—no middleman, no monthly fees, complete control.</p>
<p>Unlike Buffer, Hootsuite, or Later, Social Engine runs entirely on your WordPress site. Your data stays yours, your connections are permanent, and there’s no monthly subscription. Set it up once (15-30 minutes per platform), then enjoy unlimited scheduling forever.</p>
<p>Stop paying for features you already own! 🚀</p>
<p>Social Engine implements full MCP support for AI-powered social media automation. Visit <a href="https://meowapps.com/social-engine" rel="nofollow ugc">our official site</a> and check out <a href="https://meowapps.com/social-engine/tutorial/" rel="nofollow ugc">the docs</a> to get started.</p>
<h3>Core Modules</h3>
<p>📅 <strong>Smart Scheduling</strong><br />
Visual calendar with drag-and-drop, per-account posting times, and intelligent queue management. Schedule weeks ahead or let AI handle it.</p>
<p>🤖 <strong>AI-Powered Enhancement</strong><br />
Built-in AI Post Enhancer rewrites content naturally, suggests hashtags, and maintains your brand voice. Works with AI Engine for advanced features.</p>
<p>🌍 <strong>Multi-Language Support</strong><br />
Full Polylang and WPML integration. Filter by language, auto-schedule per locale, maintain tone across translations.</p>
<p>🧠 <strong>Intelligence Features</strong><br />
Full MCP support means AI assistants like ChatGPT or Claude can schedule posts, manage your queue, and create content—all through conversation.</p>
<h3>📅 Smart Scheduling</h3>
<p>Control when and how your content reaches social networks.</p>
<p><strong>Calendar View:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful drag-and-drop interface</li>
<li>Month, week, or list view</li>
<li>Color-coded by platform</li>
<li>Quick post editing</li>
<li>Bulk operations</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Auto-Scheduling:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Automatically post new WordPress content</li>
<li>Filter by post type, tag, or language</li>
<li>Customizable templates with variables</li>
<li>Featured image support</li>
<li>Smart timing based on your schedule</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Queue Management:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Per-account default posting times</li>
<li>Multiple time slots per day</li>
<li>Smart slot detection (avoids conflicts)</li>
<li>Draft workflow for review</li>
<li>Locked dates to prevent scheduling</li>
</ul>
<h3>🤖 AI-Powered Enhancement</h3>
<p>Let AI perfect your social content before it goes live.</p>
<p><strong>Post Enhancer:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Rewrites content naturally for each platform</li>
<li>Suggests relevant hashtags</li>
<li>Maintains your brand voice and language</li>
<li>Quick Test mode to preview changes</li>
<li>Works with all supported languages</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>AI Vision (requires AI Engine):</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Analyzes images and suggests captions</li>
<li>Describes product photos automatically</li>
<li>Creates alt text for accessibility</li>
<li>Multi-image gallery support</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌍 Multi-Language Support</h3>
<p>Perfect for multilingual sites using Polylang or WPML.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Filter posts by language in calendar</li>
<li>Auto-schedule only specific languages</li>
<li>AI Enhancer respects original language</li>
<li>Template variables work per locale</li>
<li>Separate queues per language</li>
</ul>
<h3>🧠 Intelligence Features</h3>
<p>Social Engine has full MCP (Model Context Protocol) support, so AI assistants can manage your entire social media workflow through conversation.</p>
<p><strong>What AI Can Do:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>“Schedule my latest post to Twitter tomorrow at 3pm”</li>
<li>“Show me what’s in the queue for next week”</li>
<li>“Rewrite this post for Instagram and add hashtags”</li>
<li>“Delete all draft posts older than 30 days”</li>
<li>“Publish this content to all my accounts now”</li>
<li>“Create 5 posts from my recent articles”</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Setup Guide:</strong></p>
<p>Check the <a href="https://ai.thehiddendocs.com/mcp/" rel="nofollow ugc">MCP documentation</a> to connect ChatGPT or Claude to your WordPress site. Social Engine’s tools will appear automatically alongside AI Engine’s core features.</p>
<p><strong>Automation Examples:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Daily content generation from blog posts</li>
<li>Automated hashtag research</li>
<li>Bulk post creation from content calendar</li>
<li>Smart scheduling based on engagement patterns</li>
<li>Multi-platform content adaptation</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔌 Platform Support</h3>
<p>Direct connections to major social networks.</p>
<p><strong>Supported Platforms:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>X (Twitter):</strong> Text, images, polls (via API v2)</li>
<li><strong>Facebook:</strong> Posts, images, links with previews</li>
<li><strong>Instagram:</strong> Images, galleries, captions</li>
<li><strong>LinkedIn:</strong> Professional content, images</li>
<li><strong>Pinterest:</strong> Pins with images and descriptions</li>
<li><strong>Mastodon:</strong> Federated network support</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Connection Method:</strong></p>
<p>Unlike third-party schedulers, Social Engine uses your own app credentials. This means:</p>
<ul>
<li>No data sharing with intermediaries</li>
<li>No rate limits from scheduling services</li>
<li>Permanent access (not subject to service changes)</li>
<li>Full API feature support</li>
<li>Complete privacy</li>
</ul>
<p>Setup takes 15-30 minutes per platform (one-time), then you’re independent forever.</p>
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Instagram Support</li>
<li>Pinterest Support</li>
<li>LinkedIn Support</li>
<li>Revive Posts (auto-repost old content)</li>
<li>Draft Workflow</li>
<li>Priority Support</li>
</ul>


Social Engine

I completely replaced Buffer by Social Engine. I used to have my posts marked as "Posted by Buffer", now it's marked as "Posted by Jordy Meow" (since you can choose the name of your app created on the different SNS platforms). It's much cooler! Also, you can create a huge amount of posts in advance, or even automate the creations of those posts and push them into Social Engine... so much freedom!

Replaced Buffer by Social Engine


Hi used Buffer for years and paid a lot of money to schedule my social media posts for Facebook and Twitter. Social Engine is a great replacement. Build right into WordPress and with the complete control over the content.



Jordy Meow has always an open ear for suggestions and has implemented many of them in no time.



Thanky you!


Finaly a Buffer Replacement


It is very easy to use, and powerful vs other saas solutions. You can publish unlimited posts in your own premises :-).


Great Plugin!


Took some guesswork on the Facebook Explorer permissions needed to get it working, but just added them all, and that solves, can probably find out which by trial and error, but I think Jordy just needed to recheck this and update the documentation.



Keep up the great work, the world needs and thanks you!


Briliant plugin alternative to Buffer, Blog2Social, etc

Schedule posts without subscription fees. Self-hosted, AI-powered, with full MCP support for intelligent automation.

Stachethemes

<h4>WooCommerce Seat & Table Booking System</h4>
<p>Stachethemes Seat Planner is a WooCommerce plugin for selling assigned seats, tables, and event tickets. Interactive maps, temporary holds during checkout, QR validation at the door, and a single dashboard to run the venue.</p>
<p><strong>Ideal for:</strong> cinemas, theaters, concerts, events, and restaurant table booking.</p>
<p><strong>Replace separate booking, seating, and ticketing plugins in WooCommerce</strong> with a single unified seat-based system—no second checkout, no disconnected inventory.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>Seat Planner Lite is the core seat booking system for WooCommerce—maps, holds, checkout, and check-in in one plugin. Upgrade to <strong>Stachethemes Seat Planner</strong> (Pro) for multi-date events, discounts, custom fields, PDF tickets, CSV import/export, unlimited layout objects, and more – see <strong>Premium Features</strong>.</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Table & seat support</strong> – Build both table layouts and seating charts in the same system.</li>
<li><strong>Drag-and-drop seat planner</strong> – Design your venue with seats, tables, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li><strong>Interactive seat selection</strong> – Customers pick seats in real time on a map with zoom, pan, and seat details.</li>
<li><strong>Cart hold timer</strong> – Temporary seat holds while customers checkout to help prevent double bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Handicap / accessible seats</strong> – Mark accessible seats so they stand out on the map.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fill and pattern tools</strong> – Place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li><strong>Per-seat pricing</strong> – Set prices by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li><strong>On-site-only seats</strong> – Restrict selected seats to on-site purchase via seat status.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Standard WooCommerce cart and checkout</strong> – No separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li><strong>Configurable redirect after adding seats</strong> – Send customers to the cart, checkout, or a custom URL; optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li><strong>Unique QR code per seat</strong> – Generated for each purchased seat for validation at the door.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders</strong> – Configurable, including mixed-cart behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Front-end dark mode and accent color</strong> – Brand the seat-selection experience.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce coupon seat limits</strong> – Require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Run the venue from one screen</strong> – See what is free, block seats for holds or VIPs, and fix availability without waiting on a customer order.</li>
<li><strong>Sell at the door or comp a seat</strong> – Create a single-seat order from the floor when someone pays in person or gets a complimentary ticket.</li>
<li><strong>Fix mistakes without re-checkout</strong> – Move a customer to another seat on an existing order when they picked the wrong one.</li>
<li><strong>Know who is inside</strong> – Filter by scanned tickets and reset check-in when staff scans the wrong code.</li>
<li><strong>Detect and fix double bookings and stale inventory</strong> – Automatically find conflicts, seats stuck as taken, and unpaid orders still blocking sales.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Built-in web scanner</strong> – Validate tickets with a camera QR scanner in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Scan records</strong> – Each scan updates ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong> – Embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.</li>
<li><strong>Elementor widgets</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg blocks</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count blocks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>See how the event is selling</strong> – Seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and order counts at a glance; trends over time; breakdown by order or date; a simple read on how fast you are filling the house.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<p>Upgrade to <strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stachethemes Seat Planner</a></strong> on WooCommerce for the full feature set, including everything in Lite plus:</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unlimited layout objects</strong> – No 100-object cap in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple event dates on one product</strong> – One seat map, many performances.</li>
<li><strong>Best Available</strong> – Auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li><strong>Optional sales rules</strong> – Stop sales before the event; prevent isolated empty seats; min/max seats per purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Seat-level discounts</strong> – Percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups; optional role restrictions.</li>
<li><strong>Custom fields per seat</strong> – Free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>PDF tickets</strong> – Attach ticket details and QR codes to order emails; optional My Account downloads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bulk create orders</strong> – Create orders for multiple seats at once from Manager.</li>
<li><strong>Full booking edits</strong> – Change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.</li>
<li><strong>Move bookings to another date</strong> – For multi-date products (bulk action supported).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Free Android app</strong> – Door check-in; pairs with your site via integration settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV import & export</strong> – Seat layouts in the seat planner editor; export bookings from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<li><strong>Script embed</strong> – Run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics, reports & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV export</strong> – Statistics tables and booking exports.</li>
<li><strong>Automated email reports</strong> – Scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check it out on WooCommerce</a></p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><a href="https://stachethemes.com/seat-planner/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a></p>
<h3>Source Repository</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zbozhilov/stachethemes-seat-planner-lite" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Material UI Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://react-hot-toast.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">React Hot Toast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-zoom-pan-pinch" rel="nofollow ugc">React Zoom Pan Pinch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Gutenberg blocks – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product).</li>
<li>Added: Site Health tools – now check for problems with QR Code.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Dark mode option for the front-end interface. Turn it on in Dashboard -> Settings -> Colors to apply a dark theme to the date/time picker, seat selector form fields, and cart timer.</li>
<li>Added: WooCommerce coupon seat limits for auditorium products. On the coupon edit screen you can set a minimum and/or maximum number of auditorium seats required in the cart before the coupon applies.</li>
<li>Added: Elementor widgets – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product and optional date). Find them under the Stachethemes Seat Planner category in the Elementor editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Update: QR Code now supports PHP 8.5</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.1</h3>
<p>Added: A new option for “Redirect Customers After Successful Addition” enabling admins to send customers to a custom URL after seats are added to the cart.</p>
<h3>1.6.7</h3>
<p>Added: Stalled Orders check in Dashboard -> Tools -> Booking Integrity. Lists pending/failed orders that hold auditorium seats without payment markers or an active slot lock (same rules as checkout conflict auto-cancel). Report only; does not modify orders.<br />
Update: Refreshed General tab UI for auditorium products in the admin.<br />
Fixed: Saving the seat planner, dates, discounts, or custom fields no longer fails when text includes certain characters (for example in seat labels).</p>
<h3>1.6.6</h3>
<p>Added: QR code scanner – choose which camera device to use<br />
Update: Various small improvements to the Seat Editor</p>
<h3>1.6.5</h3>
<p>Update: Security improvements<br />
Added: Better protection against double bookings. The plugin now checks seat conflicts earlier and helps prevent stale pending reservations from blocking available seats.</p>
<h3>1.6.4</h3>
<p>Update: Faster and more reliable seat updates when order statuses change (e.g. payment received, order completed)<br />
Update: Manager section now processes seat changes more efficiently</p>
<h3>1.6.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: RTL Support (beta) for right-to-left languages</li>
<li>Fixed: Orders with only seat tickets now automatically move to “Completed” after payment (e.g. Stripe) instead of staying at “Processing”</li>
<li>Update: Clearer description for the “Force Auto-Complete Mixed Orders” setting</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Option in Manager -> Availability to filter seats by scan status using the “Scanned” toggle, showing only seats that have been scanned (QR code checked in)</li>
<li>Added: Option in the Manager Edit Seat page to unscan a ticket, view scan details, and clear scan status when needed</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: Closing the color picker without choosing a new color no longer clears the color from your selected items</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Price input now allows decimal values</li>
<li>Added auto-fill mode in the Seat Planner Editor for faster objects creation</li>
<li>Added arc transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
<li>Added flip transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.5.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Statistics page in the Manager section with product analytics: summary cards (seats sold, occupancy, revenue, orders), revenue and sales over time (by event date or order date), sales-by-order and sales-by-date tables with CSV export, and velocity projection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>QR code styling updated to use accent color</li>
<li>Added rotation feature in the Seat Planner Editor for rotating elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added option to create Order from the Manager section</li>
<li>Added new shortcode [stachesepl_count] for displaying the total seat count for auditorium product(s).</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added seat details tooltip on mobile devices</li>
<li>Added new option in general settings to show or hide the seat details tooltip</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Manager section in the Admin Panel</li>
<li>Added option to hide the QR Code</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New tool “Edit Order”, enabling admins to modify existing orders data, such as changing seat ID.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New general option “Enforce WooCommerce Cart Calculation”. This option helps fix the issue with missing cart price on certain themes.</li>
<li>Fixed issue where the cart timer may not work properly on certain carts</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.42</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug where setting a non-existent or invalid product ID in the shortcode caused a crash.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.40</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the “Select Seat” button on product listings (product loops) such as the Shop page and category pages.</li>
<li>New Accent Color option for simpler front-end UI color customization. Legacy color customization options have been removed.</li>
<li>Merged Cart Timer and Add to Cart settings into a new Cart Behaviour tab in the plugin settings.</li>
<li>Front-end UI now displays the Close button at all times.</li>
<li>Front-end UI buttons and elements now follow the Accent Color setting.</li>
<li>Converted the Round Corners option to a slider for better control over element border radius.</li>
<li>Minor fixes and improvements.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.38</h4>
<ul>
<li>The Plugin now uses it’s own “Select Seat”, “View Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added option to change colors for “Select Seat”, “View Cart”, “Add to Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added Front-end seat tooltip</li>
<li>Added Compatibility mode for cache plugins (e.g. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed) when lazy loading breaks due to JS optimization.</li>
<li>Added New editor option “Additional Class Name” allowing custom CSS classes to be attached to objects.</li>
<li>Improved UI for adding dates to the product.</li>
<li>“Seat Reservation Time” and “Auto-Complete Orders” options moved to the new General tab in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.36</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added new plugin dashboard centralizing settings and features.</li>
<li>Added new option “Auto-Complete Orders”: automatically marks orders as Completed when payment is received for auditorium products.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether users are redirected after adding seats to the cart.</li>
<li>Added new option to choose whether users are redirected to the cart or checkout page.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether customers are shown a message during redirection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.35</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Dashboard Widget showing Seats Sold & Revenue for the last 30 days</li>
<li>Added Option to Lock objects in the Drag & Drop Editor </li>
<li>Added Visual UI for turning grid-snap on/off, grid color, grid size</li>
<li>Added message when user is redirected to cart/checkout page on the front-end</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.34</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where product can be incorrectly flagged as Unavailable</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.33</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where deleting a draft order can accidentally release slot reservation</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.32</h4>
<ul>
<li>UI/UX improvements</li>
<li>Added UI for Auto Incremental Patterns</li>
<li>Added Booking Integrity Checker Tools</li>
<li>Added option to check Reservation Details from the front-end if the user has Shop Manager role</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.28</h4>
<ul>
<li>Minor fixes & improvements</li>
<li>Enabled option to Scan QR Codes from the Dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add to cart seat validation improvements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial public release with core seat selection features.</li>
</ul>


Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite

Let customers select and reserve exact seats or tables in WooCommerce, prevent double bookings during checkout, and validate entry with QR tickets.

Social Engine vs Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite