PlanBatch

PlanBatch connects your WordPress site to your PlanBatch account (https://planbatch.com). When you publish a post, PlanBatch renders a branded image for it from one of your own templates and schedules a social post on the channels you connected: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Bluesky. You can also share the link with a caption instead, if that is all you want. You choose per site:

• Which post types trigger auto-share.
• Whether to share the link with a caption, or generate a branded image from one of your PlanBatch templates.
• A caption pattern with {title}, {url} and {excerpt} placeholders.
• Which platforms to post to.

The plugin is a thin client. Image generation, caption building, scheduling and publishing all happen in your PlanBatch account, and every scheduled post is visible and editable in your PlanBatch calendar before it goes out. A PlanBatch account is required. PlanBatch has a free plan; higher volumes need a paid plan.

1.0.4

• Changed: a template's emoji field, in a post's PlanBatch panel and in Bulk Share, is a list of the emoji PlanBatch can draw on the image. Any other emoji used to come out as a box; PlanBatch now refuses it.

1.0.3

• Changed: the link to connect accounts now opens the Connections page in PlanBatch, where connected accounts now live, instead of Settings.

1.0.2

• New: Bluesky. A Bluesky account connected in PlanBatch can be chosen in the settings, in a post's PlanBatch panel and in Bulk Share, with its own first comment. Evergreen recycling does not post to Bluesky.
• Changed: Pinterest is no longer offered among the site-wide auto-share networks, because it could never auto-share: Pinterest wants every Pin chosen by hand. Tick it on the post itself, in its PlanBatch box, as before.
• New: a Pinterest board picker in each post's PlanBatch box, shown once Pinterest is ticked. The settings page keeps a default board, which the picker starts from.
• Changed: the PlanBatch box greys out networks that are not connected in PlanBatch, as the settings page already did.
• Fixed: uninstalling the plugin also removes its cached templates and boards.

1.0.1

• Changed: auto-share no longer sends to Pinterest from the site-wide defaults. A post is pinned only when Pinterest is ticked in its own PlanBatch panel, because Pinterest requires each Pin to be chosen. If the defaults include Pinterest and a post has no such choice, the other platforms are shared as before and the PlanBatch column says Pinterest was left out. Bulk Share, where you pick each post, is unchanged.
• Changed: the PlanBatch panel no longer ticks Pinterest for you from the site defaults.
• Changed: the sign-up links on the settings page and in this readme say they came from the plugin, so PlanBatch can tell how people find it. Nothing is sent from your site.

1.0.0

• First public release.
• The plugin now tells PlanBatch which version it is, so a site running an old copy can be recognised rather than guessed at.

0.2.0

• New: a PlanBatch panel on the post editor, so a post can have its own template, placeholder text, caption, platforms and time instead of the site-wide settings.
• New: fill a branded template's own text fields per post, so templates that need a headline and a subline can be used from WordPress at all.
• New: turn sharing off for a single post, without changing the settings for every other post.
• New: choose whether a post scheduled in WordPress reaches the calendar when it publishes (recommended) or as soon as it is scheduled.
• New: a share is taken back off the calendar automatically if the post is trashed before it publishes, or corrected if its address changes.
• Fixed: WooCommerce prices were shared with the currency symbol as raw HTML, so a caption read "$249.00" instead of "$249.00". Affected every currency.
• Fixed: a product on sale shared a caption repeating itself ("Original price was... Current price is..."). It now reads as the shop shows it, "$249.00 $199.00".
• Fixed: a post built with Divi, WPBakery or Fusion and no hand-written excerpt shared its layout markup ("[et_pb_section][et_pb_row]...") as the caption. The words inside are shared instead.
• Fixed: on Divi 5 the same post shared an empty caption instead, because the newer builder registers its shortcodes and WordPress then removed the text along with them.
• Fixed: a page built in Elementor shared no caption text at all, since Elementor keeps its content outside the post body. Its text is now read.
• Fixed: an [elementor-template] embed appeared in the caption as raw shortcode.
• Fixed: the PlanBatch box could sit below the visible area of the editor, so it looked like the plugin had no per-post settings at all. It now appears under the editor in the classic screen and in the sidebar in the block editor.
• New: the PlanBatch box shows the summary it will share and lets you replace it for one post, so you can see the wording before it goes out instead of after.
• New: a post with content that PlanBatch cannot read a summary from now says so on the posts list, instead of quietly sharing the title alone.
• New: if the summary PlanBatch reads still looks like page-builder code rather than a sentence, it is left out and reported instead of being posted to your accounts.

0.1.1

• Bulk Share: large selections are submitted in batches so the whole selection is scheduled, with visible progress.
• Bulk Share: warns before scheduling when link mode would exclude a channel that requires an image, instead of reporting it afterwards.
• Bulk Share: Add time now starts each new row half an hour after the last one.
• Fixed: a batch split into several requests could place two items on the same time slot.
• Fixed: a connected Instagram account could be reported as not connected.

0.1.0

• Initial release: connect flow, auto-share on publish with link or branded-image mode, caption pattern, per-platform selection, status column.