FormatoCD Publish with Buffer is a powerful, lightweight plugin that automates the publishing of your WordPress posts to your social media channels using the modern Buffer GraphQL API.
Stop copying and pasting links! With this plugin, you can easily share your content across multiple social networks as soon as you hit "Publish", or add them to your Buffer queue.
🚀 Features
- Automatic Publishing: Automatically sends your WordPress posts to Buffer the moment they are published.
- Multiple Publishing Modes: Choose between Share Now or Add to Queue.
- Customizable Message Templates: Create your own message format using dynamic variables like
{title}, {url}, {author}, and more.
- Smart Hashtags: Automatically converts your WordPress tags into #hashtags for social media.
- Category Filtering: Restrict automatic Buffer posting only to posts belonging to a specific category.
- Featured Image Support: Automatically attaches the post's featured image to the Buffer publication.
- Duplicate Prevention: Internally tracks when a post has already been shared to Buffer to avoid duplicate submissions upon post updates.
- Translation Ready (i18n): Fully prepared for translation. English and Spanish (
es_ES) languages are included by default.
1.2.1 - 2026-09-15
Fixed
- Wrong versions and texts.
1.2.0 - 2026-09-14
Added
- Full support for WordPress 7.1 and its new iframe-based block editor.
Changed
- Replaced asynchronous API calls with synchronous ones, adding robust error logging to
debug.log for failed Buffer posts.
- Updated settings registration to follow modern WordPress array standards.
Removed
- Removed custom scheduled option for individual Buffer posts (non functional, the post is scheduled by WordPress).
- Deprecated
load_plugin_textdomain function call.
Fixed
- Updated the GraphQL
assets input format to comply with Buffer API's May 25, 2026 breaking changes.
- Decoded HTML entities in post titles and excerpts for cleaner display on social networks.
- Suppressed
error_log Plugin Check warnings using standard phpcs:ignore comments.
Security
- Renamed all functions and hooks to use the
formatocd_buffer_ prefix to prevent conflicts.
- Masked the API Token field in settings for better privacy.
1.1.0 - 2026-05-30
Changed
- Updated compatibility for WordPress 7.0.
1.0.0 - 2026-04-04
Added
- Initial public release on the WordPress repository.
- Support for GraphQL Buffer API.
- Dynamic variables and UI improvements to prevent duplicate posts.