Burnpedia Pin Scheduler for Pinterest

Changelog

1.0.42

• New: when your Pins older than a week have had few views, Pins from this
  site says what is normal for new Pins, then compares your own Pins: tall
  and wide pictures, titles with the post’s main words, and boards, only where
  each group has at least 5 Pins. A button opens the free check-up.

1.0.41

• Fixed: on Pin older posts, “Pins per day” is now the most Pins the run
  sends on any day, also with several Pins per post. Before, 1 a day with 3 Pins
  per post sent 3 Pins a day. The “about N days” estimate now gives the run’s
  real last day.
• New: a Pinterest account that is new to Burnpedia starts slowly: 5 Pins a day
  in its first week, 10 in its second, then the usual pace. The Activity tab
  says why the other posts wait.
• New: a picture too small for Pinterest is caught before the Pin is made. The
  post’s next picture takes its place at the same time; with none left, the
  post gets a cover designed from its title, or the Activity tab says why it was
  skipped, with a button to choose another picture.

1.0.40

• Fixed: the server cron line on the Connection tab now calls your site’s plain
  wp-cron.php address, quoted for the shell. The old line ended in
  ?doing_wp_cron=1, which WordPress ignores, so it never ran anything. If you
  added it to your server, replace it with the new one; the tab says so too.
• New: once your first Pin is out, Pins from this site and the Connection
  tab name one next step: turn on automatic Pins, choose a board, or queue your
  older posts one a day. Pin older posts opens at 1 a day from that link.
• Changed: the one-time “How is it going?” card now also shows on the Connection
  tab, once your Pins have been seen on Pinterest, and pressing either of its
  links counts as your answer, so it is not shown again. Nothing is offered in
  return.
• The changes for 1.0.0 to 1.0.20 moved to changelog.txt in the plugin’s folder.

1.0.39

• New: a Pin that failed now says why on the Pins from this site tab, in one
  plain sentence, with a button for the one thing to do — reconnect Pinterest,
  choose another picture or board for the post, or open the Automation settings.
• New: in the last days of a Burnpedia Pro trial, and the week after it ends,
  Pin older posts and Pins from this site show what the trial did for
  this site — its Pins, their views and the clicks to your site — and how long
  your posts with no Pin take at the free plan’s pace.
• Changed: the plugin’s links to burnpedia.app (sign up, the API key page, terms,
  privacy, a Pin on Burnpedia) now carry the plugin’s name and version, as its
  other links to Burnpedia already did. They travel only when you click one; the
  plugin sends nothing new.
• Changed: switching the optional install count off now sends nothing at all. It
  used to send one last report so Burnpedia would stop counting the site.
• Fixed: every request the plugin makes now carries its own User-Agent, so
  WordPress no longer adds your site’s address to install-count and bug reports.
• Fixed: Pins sent from Pin older posts no longer carry a header saying which
  screen sent them, and the weekly install count (if you allowed it) is sent only
  while an administrator is on a wp-admin page.

1.0.38

• Fixed: when the day’s Pin allowance is used up, the waiting posts now go out
  one at a time, in order, at the day’s best posting times after the reset —
  never all at once — and waiting never uses up one of a post’s retries.
• New: if Pinterest blocks your website’s links as possible spam, the Activity
  log and the Results tab say so in plain words — which site, that it is about
  the address and not the Pin, and the day one Pin is tried again — with a link
  to ask Pinterest to unblock the site. Nothing else is sent to that site until
  then, which protects your Pinterest account.

1.0.37

• New: when a newer version of the plugin is out, the plugin’s own screen says so
  with an Update now button and a link to what is new. It reads only what
  WordPress already checked, sends nothing, is shown only to people who may
  update plugins, and Not now hides it until the next version.
• New: after the weekly re-check, the Pinterest check-up says in one line what
  changed — for example “3 posts became ready and 2 new posts need a picture”.
• Fixed: picking older posts to pin while a bulk run is already going no longer
  replaces that run. The new posts are added behind it, and posts or kept covers
  already waiting keep their place.
• Fixed: after a fix on the check-up, the list counts and the readiness score
  update at once, without a reload. Nothing extra is sent.

1.0.36

• Corrected the “Is it GDPR-relevant?” answer: besides the Pin fields sent once
  an API key is saved, a bug report is sent only if you send one. No code changed.

1.0.35

• New: Report a bug in the Burnpedia menu. Describe a problem and it reaches us
  directly, with the plugin, WordPress and PHP versions we need to reproduce it.
  Your site’s address is included only if you leave its box ticked, and nothing
  is sent until you press Send.
• New: More plugins in the Burnpedia menu lists our other free plugins, each
  installed in one click through WordPress’s own installer from WordPress.org.

1.0.34

• New: the Pinterest check-up re-checks your posts by itself once a week —
  pictures, Pin words and alt text — so the readiness score keeps up with what
  you publish and fix. It runs inside WordPress and sends nothing; “never
  pinned” is still only asked when you press Scan, and the tab says when each
  was last checked.
• New: alt text for every picture a post’s Pins use. On a site that makes
  several Pins per post, the check-up says how many of a post’s Pin pictures
  have no alt text, and Write alt text with AI writes them one picture at a
  time, priced for all of them first. Undo the alt text puts back each
  picture nobody has edited since. Optional.
• Changed: Pin the kept covers no longer refuses while older posts are being
  pinned in bulk. The covers are added behind that run, one a day at a best
  time to post, and Cancel on the bulk tab stops both.
• Fixed: after AI writes a post’s Pin words or alt text, that post’s row on the
  check-up stops listing what was just fixed, and the AI points shown at the top
  follow what the run has spent. No reload needed; nothing extra is sent.
• The listing now says in plain words that the check-up is a Pinterest SEO
  check (title length, description, alt text, image shape).

1.0.33

• New: Write alt text for the ticked pictures — tick posts on the
  Pinterest check-up and AI writes alt text for every ticked post whose Pin
  picture has none, one after another, with the price shown first, a Stop
  button and Undo the alt text on each post. A picture that has alt text is
  never sent. Optional.
• New: on the check-up’s “No big Pinterest image” list, one button uses the tall
  picture on every post that has one, showing how many first. One press puts
  them all back; a post you changed since is left as you set it. Free; nothing
  is sent.
• New: Make cover previews for the ticked posts on the Pinterest check-up’s
  “No big Pinterest image” list — AI words and a cover for each ticked post, one
  at a time, priced first. Nothing is pinned until you keep them; Pin the kept
  covers queues them one a day at a best time to post. Optional.
• New: Fix it beside each Pinterest check-up finding opens the post with the
  field to change already selected — Pin title, description, Pin picture or alt
  text. Free; nothing is sent.
• New: Your best posts on Pinterest on the “Pins from this site” tab (paid
  plans): the five posts sending the most clicks to your site, each with
  Pin it again with a new picture. Built from numbers already loaded; it
  sends nothing new.
• New: a Pin now carries its picture’s alt text from your Media Library, which
  Pinterest uses for accessibility and search. Nothing is sent for a picture
  with no alt text (see External services, item 3).

1.0.32

• New: the Pinterest check-up finds a tall picture further down a post whose
  Pin picture is wide, and Use this tall picture makes it the Pin picture. The
  post editor’s Pinterest panel gains a Pin picture menu listing the post’s
  own pictures with their sizes, the tallest marked. Free; nothing is sent.
• New: Write titles & descriptions — tick posts on the check-up and AI writes
  their Pin titles and descriptions one after another, with the price for the
  whole selection shown first, posts with their own words skipped by default, a
  Stop button, and Undo on each post. Text only; nothing is pinned. Optional.
• New: Write alt text with AI on a check-up post whose Pin picture has no
  alt text. Burnpedia looks at the picture and writes one sentence, saved in
  your Media Library. Optional; nothing is charged if it cannot be written.
• New: a Pinterest readiness score on the check-up and “Pins from this site”
  tabs — how many posts are ready for Pinterest, and how that changed since the
  scan before.
• New: the check-up tab suggests scanning again once 30 posts have been
  published since the last scan. Inside the tab only — never a dashboard notice.

1.0.31

• New: the Pinterest check-up tab. One press scans every published post and
  lists the ones with no big, tall image for Pinterest, the ones not optimized
  for Pinterest (a title Pinterest would cut, a description too short, an image
  with no alt text, pinning switched off) and the ones you have never pinned,
  each with a link to view and edit the post. Free; the picture and text checks
  run inside WordPress. Large sites scan in steps you can continue.
• New: “Make it with AI” on any post in the check-up writes its Pin title and
  description and makes a cover preview, using AI credit. Nothing is pinned
  until you press “Pin with this cover”. Optional.
• New: the check-up shows your AI points and Burnpedia’s AI credit bundles with
  their prices. Buying credit is optional and needs no plan.

1.0.30

• Fixed: if the connection to Burnpedia dropped after a Pin had been created but
  before the answer reached your site, the automatic retry could create the same
  Pin a second time — and, for an AI cover, use AI points twice. Each Pin is now
  sent with a one-time key, and a retry of that Pin gets back the Pin that was
  already made instead of a new one.

1.0.29

• New: “Try an AI cover” in the post editor’s Pinterest panel. On a post that
  already has a photo, you can use AI points from your Burnpedia account on a
  cover made for it: a photograph made from the Pin title, with the title set on
  it. You see a preview first, with the cost and your balance, and it is pinned
  only if you press “Pin with this cover”. It is shown only when your account has
  enough AI points.
• If a preview cannot be made you are not charged, and your post’s own photo is
  never changed.

1.0.28

• Fixed: with automatic pinning switched off, which is how the plugin starts,
  “Pin older posts” marked posts in a category you had excluded as ready, and
  could queue them. Excluded categories are now respected whether automatic
  pinning is on or off.
• Every queued post is now checked again just before it is sent. A post you
  exclude or switch off after it was queued — including one an earlier version
  had already queued — is skipped, and the Activity log says why.
• “Send a test Pin” no longer picks a post from an excluded category, or a post
  you switched off.
• Fixed: the Activity log showed every post queued by “Pin older posts” as an
  error. It now says queued.
• Fixed: when a post has no picture and AI images are on, the plugin now waits
  long enough for Burnpedia to finish making the image. Before, a slow image
  could make the plugin give up and try again, which could create a second Pin
  and use AI points twice.
• Fixed: if Burnpedia briefly cannot make a free designed cover, the post is now
  tried again later instead of being marked as failed for good. An AI cover is
  not retried automatically, because each attempt would use AI points again.

1.0.27

• Fixed the site totals on “Pins from this site”. They were adding up only your
  200 most recent Pins, which on a site with more than that showed a number far
  smaller than the truth — and because the newest Pins are the ones Pinterest has
  had least time to show, the figure could read as almost nothing while the Pins
  were in fact doing fine. The totals now cover every Pin for the site.
• The table still lists your most recent Pins, and now says so in one line when
  there are more Pins than it shows.
• Your Pin count on that screen is now the real number of Pins for the site,
  rather than however many fitted in the table.

1.0.26

• Names the Pinterest analytics this plugin has shown since 1.0.10. The feature
  is unchanged; the listing simply never used the words people search for, so
  nobody looking for “Pinterest analytics” in WordPress could find it.
• The new entry states the same free/paid split as the rest of the page: the
  site-wide total on every plan, the per-post breakdown on the paid plans.
• No code change.

1.0.25

• Corrected the listing: the per-post breakdown of how each post’s Pins are
  doing is on the paid plans, and this page said it was free. The site-wide
  total is on every plan, free included, and always was. Everything on the
  publishing side – automatic pinning, boards, templates, UTM tags, scheduling,
  retries, the backlog run and the Activity log – is unchanged and still free.
• No code change.

1.0.24

• New: Copy diagnostics on the Activity tab. One button gives you a
  paste-able summary of everything a support answer normally has to ask for
  first – WordPress and PHP versions, whether the scheduler is running, your
  settings, and the last ten log entries.
• Your API key is never in it, and nothing is sent anywhere: the block is built
  on your own site and you choose where to paste it.

1.0.23

• The plugin’s WordPress.org listing now describes what it already does in the
  words people actually search for: pinning pages and WooCommerce products as
  well as posts, working through an archive of older posts in bulk, the Pinterest
  impressions, saves and clicks it reports, and the UTM tags it adds for Google
  Analytics.
• Seven new questions answered on the listing, including the two that matter most
  before you install: yes, a free Burnpedia account is required, and no, hitting
  the daily Pin allowance does not lose a Pin – it waits for the reset.
• No functional change. Nothing in the plugin itself behaves differently.

1.0.22

• Once your site has been publishing Pins for a couple of weeks and they are
  being seen on Pinterest, the Pins tab asks — once — how it is going.
• Two links, side by side: tell us something is wrong, or leave a review.
  Nothing is offered in return, and “No thanks” means it never comes back.

1.0.21

• During a Pro trial the Connection screen now says how many days are left and
  gives you one button to keep it, instead of describing your plan as Starter.
• The button opens checkout with the plan already chosen — the link is created
  by Burnpedia, expires within a day, and never appears if no trial is running.

1.0.20 and earlier

• See changelog.txt in the plugin’s folder.