Social News Center

Social News Center plugin displays the latest posts from social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram & Twitter for specified pages & accounts. Page and account profiles can also be viewed together with support for performing actions such as Like, Share, Favorite, Retweet and more. Posts are displayed in item boxes which are sorted in date descending order based upon when they were posted, shared, or re-posted. The boxes are dynamically laid out within the web page based upon the width of the browser or section of the web page. The layout works on PC's, tablets and smartphones alike automatically adjusting to the browser or screensize. Each item box contains the following information about a post:

• Header:
• Profile image for the social media account from which the post is being displayed.
• Name of social media account which displays a popup profile if clicked.
• Username of social media account which is also clickable (Instagram & Twitter only).
• Social media network icon.
• Body:
• Photo if available which displays a larger image or content (e.g. video) if clicked.
• Textual post content with clickable links (e.g. Twitter hashtags display related posts in a popup).
• Footer:
• Time when posted (i.e. the second, minutes, hours, days, months, or years ago).
• Favorite or Like button with latest count.
• 'view post' link (Facebook & Instagram only) which displays the full post in a pop-up window or a Reply button (Twitter only).
• Share or Retweet button with latest count.

Note: most buttons within the Footer will show if they have already been used by the current user assuming this information is made available from the relevant social media network. This plugin caches results from calls to social media networks in order to improve overall page load times and to better utilize the quotas placed on developer API keys. When a web site user logs in the plugin will where possible use the user's quota leaving the development quota as backup for those who do not login.

This section describes how to install this plugin and get it working. Steps:

1. Log into WordPress and access 'Plugins -> Add New' menu option via Dashboard.
2. Upload file 'social-news-center.zip' via 'Upload Plugins' menu option.
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu.
4. Configure plugin settings via 'Social News Center' menu option within Dashboard. Each social media network will need configuring to access the relevant API (see 'Admin Settings' section within 'readme.txt' file).
5. Add [sncSocialMediaPosts] shortcode on Page(s) and/or Post(s) on which social media posts are to be displayed.

0.0.8

• Ensure compatibility with WordPress V4.8.

0.0.7

• Ensure compatibility with WordPress V4.7.4.

0.0.6

• Ensure compatibility with WordPress V4.7.3.
• Remove unnecessary "require_once" statements for 'includes/config.php' & 'includes/functions.php' in 'facebook.php', 'instagram.php' and 'twitter.php'. These had been causing PHP errors in some instances.

0.0.5

• Ensure compatibility with WordPress V4.7.1.
• Addition of support for Instagram social network including relevant fields within Dashboard settings page and support within user-facing or client-side plugin. Note that user Login button is hidden until needed in future versions.
• Rename cookie 'snc_access_cookie' to 'snc_twitter_access_cookie' to allow additional social networks using OAuth authentication.
• Replace the ability to 'Like' Facebook posts with a non-clickable icon due to Facebook changing this functionality to only being able to like pages. Pages can still be liked when viewing a profile via the popup.
• Removal of 'liked' icon and associated count against list of Facebook comments within View Post popup due to Facebook no longer providing this information in the API.
• Display non-clickable 'Share' icon if Facebook post has already been shared due to Facebook changing how this functionality works.
• Minor bug fixes including layout of Login/Logout buttons spacing to makeway for Instagram support.

0.0.4

• Upgrade Facebook Graph API call to latest V2.7 in function snc_getFacebookPosts() within 'social-news-center.php'.
• Ensure compatibility with WordPress V4.6.1.
• Fix JavaScript error "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data" caused by characters that were non UTF-8 being returned from AJAX call to function snc_getFacebookPosts_callback() within 'social-news-center.php'.
• Other minor bug fixes.

0.0.3

• Minor bug fixes and ensure compatibility with WordPress V4.6.

0.0.2

• Fix to SQL update in function snc_setSiteCredentials() within 'includes/functions-wp.php' concerning the updating of site credentials. Resolves some Twitter login problems.

0.0.1

• Initial beta release.