Beschrijving

MKM Digital Social Publisher Bridge to Buffer allows you to connect your WordPress site directly to Buffer without any intermediaries, enabling you to publish updates to your social media channels automatically or manually.

Features:
* Direct Integration: Connects directly with the Buffer API.
* Post Types Support: Works out of the box with standard WordPress posts, custom post types (such as event management plugins like FAT Event), and WooCommerce products.
* Auto-publish: Automatically share your content to social channels when a post is saved or published.
* Publishing Controls: Choose between “Share Now” or “Add to Queue”.
* Custom Templates: Custom message formatting using dynamic tags.
* Freemius Integration: Easy license management and opt-in updates.

Note on Buffer.com Free Account:
With a free Buffer.com account, you can connect up to 3 social channels. Our plugin allows you to bypass Buffer’s queue management by publishing immediately (“Share Now” or scheduled WordPress posts when they go live), or you can choose to let Buffer handle the schedule by selecting “Add to Queue”.

Note on Upgrading to Premium:
The Premium version of this plugin is completely standalone. Once you upgrade to Premium, you can safely deactivate and delete the Free version of the plugin. Keeping both installed or active at the same time is not required and may cause conflicts.

Upgrade to Premium

Want to unlock the full power of your social media automation? Upgrade to the Premium version directly inside the plugin or via our website!

Premium Features:
* Unlimited Target Channels: Connect and share to all your connected social channels simultaneously (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Business Profile) with no channel limits.
* WooCommerce Gallery Slide & Carousel Support: Automatically shares WooCommerce product extra gallery images as beautiful carousels/slideshows on platforms that support them (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn).
* Interactive Real-Time Post Previews: See exactly how your post will look on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google Business before publishing, complete with image sliders for carousels!
* Advanced Analytics & Performance Dashboard: Track reach, clicks, likes, comments, and shares over time. Includes an interactive multi-line chart broken down by channel profile and a detailed list of individual social post performance.
* Smart Image Optimizations: Automatically handles WebP/AVIF to JPG/PNG fallback conversions to ensure your social shares never fail because of file format limits.

External services

This plugin connects directly to the Buffer API (https://api.buffer.com) to publish social updates to your connected accounts. It transmits the social message content, comments, and links of your post to Buffer’s servers.
Use of the Buffer API is subject to Buffer’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy:
* Terms of Service: https://buffer.com/legal/terms
* Privacy Policy: https://buffer.com/legal/privacy

This plugin also integrates the Freemius SDK (https://freemius.com) for license management, opt-in usage telemetry, and premium updates.
Use of Freemius is subject to Freemius’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy:
* Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/
* Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

Schermafbeeldingen

Main settings page and Buffer API token configuration.

Selection of target social channels for automatic or manual sharing. — Main settings page and Buffer API token configuration.

Installatie

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/mkmdigital-social-publisher-bridge directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
Go to Settings -> MKM Digital Social Publisher Bridge to Buffer to configure your Buffer API token and channels.

Beoordelingen

Er zijn geen beoordelingen voor deze plugin.

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Changelog

1.6.1

Analytics sorting optimization & SQL aggregation fix for reactions and engagement rates.

1.6.0

Complete residual tag cleanup: Automatically purges stray #post_excerpt, #post_title, #post_link strings embedded inside post excerpts or content.

1.5.9

Smart template tag sanitization & aliases: Automatically cleans up typos like #post_excerpt, #post_title, #post_link and supports {post_excerpt}, {post_title}, {post_link} tag aliases.

1.5.8

Smart network-specific URL resolution: URL Shortener automatically applies to Twitter/X, while Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn keep clean full canonical URLs for brand recognition.
Fix Analytics duplicate profiles in charts and sidebars by consolidating legacy profile IDs.

1.5.7

Updated Italian translations (it_IT) for all shortener options and Buffer link shortening tips.
Added explicit load_plugin_textdomain call in Free version.

1.5.6

Integrated TinyURL free instant shortener API with post meta caching (_mkm_dspb_tinyurl).
Added URL Shortener Provider setting option (Disabled, TinyURL, WordPress Native / Active Shortener Plugin).
Added helpful Buffer.com Link Shortening tip in settings.

1.5.5

Added {shortlink} tag placeholder support across custom message templates.
Added interactive, clickable tag pills under all custom message textareas for quick tag insertion.
Expanded custom text placeholder replacement to process {title}, {excerpt}, {link}, {shortlink}, {yoast_desc}, and {aioseo_desc}.

1.5.4

Implemented smart sentence extraction for default post excerpts, prioritizing Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and SEOPress meta descriptions.
Upgraded X (Twitter) text truncation to stop at full sentence or word boundaries without cutting words mid-phrase.

1.5.3

Added automatic 280-character limit truncation for X (Twitter) posts preserving URLs.
Added live 280-character counter in X (Twitter) options metabox.
Fixed Twitter custom text parameter transmission during manual shares.

1.5.2

Fixed duplicate PHP tag rendering in channel checklist.
Fixed LinkedIn preview card profile avatar fallback rendering.

1.5.1

Fixed X (Twitter) icon display in social channel checklists.
Fixed LinkedIn preview card user avatar rendering.

1.4.0

Added X (Twitter) social preview card and custom post text options in publisher metabox.
Added official SVG icons and brand colors for X (Twitter), Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok, Mastodon in admin pages and statistics.
Fixed multilingual permalink resolution for Polylang, WPML, and TranslatePress subdomains and subdirectories.

1.2.3

Fixed live interactive social preview in metabox: applied htmlToSocialText converter in JavaScript and PHP metabox rendering to strip raw HTML tags and format bullet points in real-time.

1.2.2

Added custom plugin icons (128×128 & 256×256) and update transient filter to display official plugin logo in WordPress Dashboard & Updates table.

1.2.1

Added automatic HTML to plain text converter for social sharing: converts HTML list items (
) into clean bullet points (•), strips raw HTML formatting tags (,

ul>, etc.), and formats paragraphs nicely.

1.2.0

Fixed HTML entity decoding for post titles, excerpts, and custom text sent to social channels (resolving & issues).
Added multilingual permalink support (Polylang, WPML) ensuring post URLs match the post’s native language.

1.1.9

Fixed LinkedIn sharing issue. Removed invalid “type” metadata parameter from LinkedIn posts, resolving the Buffer API validation error (“Field ’type’ is not defined by type ‘LinkedInPostMetadataInput’”).

1.1.8

Replaced uninstall.php with fs_after_uninstall_mkmdigital-social-publisher-bridge action hook to comply with Freemius uninstallation guidelines and avoid deployment warnings.

1.1.7

Added uninstall.php to completely delete plugin options and post meta data from the database when the plugin is deleted.

1.1.6

Wrapped main plugin functions, constants, and classes in conditional checks to prevent “Cannot redeclare” PHP fatal errors when transitioning from Free to Pro inside the WordPress dashboard.

1.1.5

Cleared zip file structure to resolve nested duplicates when deploying premium build from Freemius.

1.1.4

Implemented automatic JPG/PNG fallback check for featured images. If a WebP or AVIF image URL is passed, the plugin will look for the original JPG/PNG equivalent on the server and use it (solving the Google Business Profile image format error).

1.1.3

Moved the settings page to a top-level administration menu with a custom icon, resolving the issue where the Freemius “Account” submenu was not visible.

1.1.2

Enabled Freemius Account submenu in admin menu to allow license key activation and synchronization.

1.1.1

Fixed issue where editing and updating an already published post would trigger a duplicate share on social media.

1.1.0

Integrated Freemius SDK for license management.
Added Free vs Pro limitations (Free limited to 1 channel).

1.0.8

Fixed First Comment limitations.

1.0.0

Initial release with Buffer direct integration.