Post to Social Media – WordPress to Hootsuite

July 23, 2024

Post to Social Media – WordPress to Hootsuite Plugin

Automatically share WordPress Pages, Posts or Custom Post Types to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn using your Hootsuite (hootsuite.com) account.

WordPress to Hootsuite is a plugin for WordPress that auto posts your Posts, Pages and/or Custom Post Types to your Hootsuite (hootsuite.com) account for scheduled publishing to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Our API connects your website to Hootsuite. An account with Hootsuite is required.

WordPress to Hootsuite Pro
WordPress to Hootsuite Pro provides additional functionality:
Instagram and Pinterest Support
Post to Instagram (Personal Profiles only, using Reminders) and Pinterest Boards
Multiple, Customisable Status Messages
Each Post Type and Social Network can have multiple, unique status message and settings
Conditionally send Status Messages
Only send status(es) to Hootsuite based on Post Author(s), Taxonomy Term(s) and/or Custom Field Values
More Scheduling Options
Each status update can be added to the start/end of your Hootsuite queue, posted immediately or scheduled at a specific time
Dynamic Status Tags
Dynamically build status updates with data from the Post Author and Custom Fields
Separate Statuses per Social Network
Define different statuses for each Post Type and Social Network
Per-Post Settings
Override Settings on Individual Posts: Each Post can have its own Hootsuite settings
Repost Old Posts
Automatically Revive Old Posts that haven’t been updated in a while, choosing the number of days, weeks or years to re-share content on social media.
Bulk Publish Old Posts
Manually re-share evergreen WordPress content and revive old posts with the Bulk Publish option
The Events Calendar and Event Manager Integration
Schedule Posts to Hootsuite based on your Event’s Start or End date, and display Event-specific details in your status updates
SEO Integration
Display SEO-specific information in your status updates from All-In-One SEO Pack, Rank Math, SEOPress and Yoast SEO
WooCommerce Integration
Display Product-specific information in your status updates
Autoblogging and Frontend Post Submission Integration
Pro supports autoblogging and frontend post submission Plugins, including User Submitted Posts, WP Property Feed, WPeMatico and WP Job Manager
Shortcode Support
Use shortcodes in status updates
Full Image Control
Choose to display the WordPress Featured Image with your status updates, or define up to 4 custom images for each Post.
WP-Cron and WP-CLI Compatible
Optionally enable WP-Cron to send status updates via Cron, speeding up UI performance and/or choose to use WP-CLI for reposting old posts
Support, Documentation and Updates
Access to one on one email support, plus detailed documentation on how to install and configure the plugin and one click update notifications, right within the WordPress Administration panel.
Upgrade to WordPress to Hootsuite Pro

Support

We will do our best to provide support through the WordPress forums. However, please understand that this is a free plugin,
so support will be limited. Please read this article on how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it.

If you require one to one email support, please consider upgrading to the Pro version.

Data

We connect directly to your Hootsuite (hootsuite.com) account, via their API, to:
– Fetch your social media profile names and IDs,
– Send your WordPress Posts to one or more of your social media profiles. The profiles and content sent will depend on the plugin settings you have configured.

We connect to our own API to pass the following requests through to Hootsuite:
– Connect our Plugin to Hootsuite, when you click the Authorize button (this obtains an access token from Hootsuite, once you have approved authorization)
– Process image uploads to the ow.ly API, which is required by Hootsuite when sharing an image as part of a social media update.

Both of these are done via our own API, to ensure that no secret data (such as oAuth client secret keys) are included in this Plugin’s code or made public.

We never store any information on our web site or API during this process.

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Installation

Upload the wp-to-hootsuite folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Active the WordPress to Hootsuite plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Configure the plugin by going to the WordPress to Hootsuite menu that appears in your admin menu

Screenshots

Settings Screen when Plugin is first installed.
Settings Screen when Hootsuite is authorized.
Settings Screen showing available options for Posts.
Post-level Logging.

Changelog

1.5.5 (2024-07-22)

Added: Status: Text: Convert HTML links to plain text without link in brackets when using {excerpt}.
Fix: Status: Strip inline styles when using {content}

1.5.4 (2023-11-17)

Fix: Hootsuite API Error: #400: 5000: Unknown error occurred when attempting to publish a status with an image

1.5.3 (2023-10-09)

Fix: Correctly detect and differentiate REST API requests from Gutenberg REST API requests, ensuring REST API requests trigger status(es)

1.5.2 (2023-09-07)

Fix: Updated dashboard submodule

1.5.1 (2023-08-23)

Fix: Updated WordPress Coding Standards to 3.0.0

1.5.0 (2023-08-03)

Added: Plugins: Link to settings screen
Fix: Remove duplicate call to load_language_files()
Fix: PHP Deprecated notices in PHP 8.2

1.4.9 (2023-05-16)

Fix: Post: Log: Export Log: Check user can edit posts to permit export log functionality

1.4.8 (2023-01-26)

Added: Log: Log errors when image operations (resizing, converting, uploading to Media Library) fails
Fix: Use get_temp_dir() instead of assumed /tmp folder for writing temporary images when resizing, converting or generating text to image
Fix: Status: Clear profiles cache when deauthorizing and authorizing with a different Hootsuite account
Fix: Improved WordPress Coding Standards
Fix: Removed clipboard.js, as WordPress provides this library

1.4.7 (2022-10-25)

Fix: Remove unused 1200×1200 registered image size

1.4.6 (2022-06-21)

Fix: Status: Correctly sanitize and escape status textarea field value to prevent possible XSS

1.4.5 (2022-06-09)

Added: Support for WordPress 6.0

1.4.4 (2022-05-12)

Fix: Multisite: Activation: Conditionally load required hook depending on WordPress version

1.4.3 (2022-04-24)

Fix: Upgrade link would incorrectly redirect to WordPress Admin dashboard

1.4.2 (2022-03-08)

Fix: Call to undefined function _disable_block_editor_for_navigation_post_type when creating/updating Post in Gutenberg or via the REST API in WordPress 5.9+
Fix: Scheduled Posts: Publish action would not run when using Gutenberg
Fix: Customizer: Don’t load inline CSS for menu icon when loading WordPress Admin > Theme > Customize

1.4.1 (2022-03-03)

Added: Status: Insert Tags: Insert tag at textarea caret position, with leading/trailing space as applicable
Fix: Multisite: Activation: Use wp_insert_site hook when available in WordPress 5.1 and higher

1.4.0 (2021-12-22)

Added: Support for images added to the Media Library by Plugins that don’t store images locally e.g. External Media without Import
Added: Status: Tags: {date} uses WordPress Admin > Settings > Site Language and Date Format options. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/status-text-tags/#available-tags
Fix: Always include WordPress media functions when converting a WebP image to JPEG and storing it in the Media Library to avoid PHP errors

1.3.9 (2021-09-17)

Fix: Logs: Correctly escape search and form action

1.3.8 (2021-09-16)

Fix: PHP Deprecated notices in PHP 8

1.3.7 (2021-09-09)

Added: Status: Text: Convert HTML links to plain text with link in brackets, instead of just displaying the unlinked text
Added: Status: Text: Convert HTML lists to plain text with hyphens, instead of just displaying plain text
Added: Status: Image: Support for .webp images when Use Feat. Image enabled and .webp image used as Featured Image. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/featured-image-settings/#webp-image-support
Added: Status: Remove HTML from shortcodes included in status text

1.3.6 (2021-07-15)

Added: New Installations: Clearer workflow for connecting to Hootsuite and connecting social media profiles to Hootsuite account. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/authentication-settings/
Added: Status: Tags: Character Limit, Sentence Limit, Word Limit, Date and URL Encoding transformations. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/status-text-tags/#applying-transformations
Fix: Don’t minify Plugin Javascript if a third party minification Plugin is active, which would prevent status settings from sometimes saving
Fix: Status: PowerPress: Prevent PowerPress from appending podcast URL to Content and Excerpt tags.

1.3.5 (2021-06-10)

Fix: Authorization: Changed oAuth Authorization URL to prevent 404 error
Fix: Authorization: More detailed error message displayed when Hootsuite API fails

1.3.4 (2021-04-29)

Added: Status: Text: Autocomplete suggestions for Tags. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/status-text-tags/#autocomplete-suggestions

1.3.3 (2021-04-15)

Added: Settings: Post Type: Show prompt if changes made but unsaved when navigating away from the status settings
Fix: Log: Warning: Edit the Post link correctly loads the Edit Post screen

1.3.2 (2021-04-01)

Added: Settings: Post Type: Immediately show/hide green tick on Post Type tab after clicking Save, to confirm whether the Post Type is configured to send status(es) to Hootsuite
Fix: Settings: Post Type: Profile: Text order and links were incorrect when displaying a Timezone warning

1.3.1 (2021-03-18)

Added: Log: Enable wp-content/debug.log only when WP_DEBUG=true, WP_DEBUG_LOG=true, WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY=false and Plugin Logging enabled. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/repost-settings/#testing
Added: Localization support, with .pot file and translators comments
Fix: Status: Retain paragraphs when using {content} tag
Fix: Settings: Log Settings: Corrected link to Logs screen, and don’t link “Plugin Logs” text when logging not enabled
Fix: Log: Don’t show Logs in Plugin Submenu if Logging is disabled

1.3.0 (2021-01-07)

Added: Status: If a Featured Image is required, attempt to fetch it from the Post Content when a Featured Image has not been specified

1.2.9 (2020-12-22)

Fix: Status: Removed debugging code

1.2.8 (2020-12-21)

Fix: Status: Include Featured Image with status when required

1.2.7 (2020-11-27)

Added: Display error notice if PHP cURL extension is not installed
Added: Settings: Force Trailing Forwardslash: Updated description to clarify why this setting might need to be enabled i.e. for correct status image
Fix: Settings: Force Trailing Forwardslash: Truly force a forwardslash if Permalink settings don’t add one.

1.2.6 (2020-09-03)

Added: Logs: Screen Options: Choose table columns to display. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/log-settings/#define-table-columns-to-display
Added: Logs: Screen Options: Choose number of logs per page to display. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/log-settings/#define-number-of-logs-per-page
Fix: Status: Enabling/Disabling Publish or Update wouldn’t update green tick in tab UI in WordPress 5.5+
Fix: Status: Don’t display “Post sucessfully added” admin notification if Test Mode is enabled
Fix: Logs: Lighter success/error row background colors to make text easier to read
Fix: Logs: When filtering by date, include results matching the date, not just results between the dates

1.2.5 (2020-08-20)

Added: Settings: General Settings: Enable Test Mode. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/general-settings/#enable-test-mode
Added: Settings: Logs: Option to choose specific Log Levels. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/log-settings/#log-level
Added: Settings: Logs: Added Pending Log Level, for status(es) due to be sent when Use WP Cron enabled in Plugin’s Settings. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/log-settings/#log-level
Added: Logs: Confirmation when clicking Clear Log button
Fix: Logs: Set Clear Log button to red
Fix: Logs: Clear Log: Contextualized confirmation message based on whether the Log is being cleared at Post or Plugin level
Fix: Fatal error when detecting current admin screen on some Page Builders
Fix: Some notifications weren’t dismissible

1.2.4

Fix: Prevent fatal error when upgrading to Pro when Free is still active

1.2.3

Added: Settings: General Settings: Use Proxy option. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/general-settings/#use-proxy-
Added: Settings: Log Settings: Log Level option. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/log-settings/#log-level
Fix: Log: Honor Enabled Setting, ensuring logging does not take place if not enabled

1.2.2

Added: Status: Option to specify Taxonomy Tags
Fix: Status: Taxonomy Tags: Remove non-alphanumeric characters to avoid breaking tag links

1.2.1

Fix: CSS: Renamed option class to wpzinc-option to avoid CSS conflicts with third party Plugins
Fix: Log: Unknown column ‘status’ in ‘where clause’ for query when clearing pending status log entries
Fix: Elementor: Removed unused tooltip classes to prevent Menu and Element Icons from not displaying

1.2.0

Added: Forms: Accessibility: Replaced Titles with elements that focus the given input element on click
Added: General Settings: Option to force trailing forwardslash on {url}. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/general-settings/#force-trailing-forwardslash
Fix: Activation: Prevent DB character set / collation errors on table creation by using WordPress’ native get_charset_collate()
Fix: Log: Call to undefined method WP_To_Social_Pro_Log::clear_pending_log()
Fix: Log: Display Status Text’s breaklines
Fix: Status: Don’t send status(es) to Hootsuite for non-public Post Types containing Post-level Status Settings copied from a public Post.
Fix: Status: More verbose error message when a status is too long for the target social network
Fix: Status: Use AJAX to save statuses to avoid settings not saving or changing when PHP’s max_input_vars is exceeded due to e.g. several profiles and statuses defined
Fix: Status: Better method to remove double/triple spaces in text whilst retaining newlines/breaklines and unicode/accented characters
Fix: Status: Strip query parameters (added by e.g. Jetpack) from images before sending status to prevent errors
Fix: Settings: Removed disabled CSS class on tabs, as not used and avoids potential conflicts with third party Plugins
Fix: Settings: Display confirmation notice that settings have saved

1.1.9

Added: Log: Option to filter Logs by Request Sent Date. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/log-settings/#filtering-logs
Added: Log: Provide solutions to common issues
Added: Log: New Log screen with filters and searching to view Status Logs across all Posts for all actions (Publish, Update, Repost, Bulk Publish). See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/logs/
Added: Log: Improved messages explaining why a Post is not sent to Hootsuite
Added: Log: Use separate database table for storing Plugin Status Logs instead of Post Meta, for performance
Added: Status: Image: No Image option
Removed: Status: Image: Use OpenGraph settings. Hootsuite have disabled the ability for third party applications (such as this Plugin) to request that status messages read OpenGraph data for a given URL.

1.1.8

Added: Status: Tags: Content and Excerpt Tag options with Word or Character Limits
Added: Gutenberg: Better detection to check if Gutenberg is enabled
Added: Gutenberg: Better detection to check if Post Content contains Gutenberg Block Markup
Fix: Status: Removed loading of unused tags.js dependency for performance
Fix: Status: {content} would return blank on WordPress 5.1.x or older

1.1.7

Added: Status: Textarea will automatically expand based on the length of the status text. Fixes issues for some iOS devices where textarea scrolling would not work
Fix: Status: {content} and {excerpt} tags always return the full content / excerpt, which can then be limited using word / character limits
Fix: Publish: Add checks to prevent duplicate statuses being sent when a Page Builder (Elementor) fires wp_update_post multiple times when publishing
Fix: Status: Strip additional unwanted newlines produced by Gutenberg when using {content}
Fix: Status: Convert
and
in Post Content to newlines when using {content}
Fix: Status: Trim Post Content when using {content}

1.1.6

Added: Settings: Display notice if the Hootsuite account does not have any social media profiles attached to it
Fix: Publish: Display errors and log if authentication fails, or profiles cannot be fetched

1.1.5

Fix: Settings: Status: Display warning if a timezone in WordPress or Hootsuite is not a valid timezone, instead of throwing a fatal error

1.1.4

Added: Status: Secondary level tabbed UI for Profile actions (Publish, Update)
Added: Settings: Post Type: Profile: Display warning with instructions when the WordPress Timezone and Hootsuite Profile Timezone do not match
Added: Settings: Warning if the max_input_vars PHP setting might be too low for the Plugin’s settings to successfully be saved
Fix: Status: Documentation Tab Link

1.1.3

Added: New Installations: Automatically enable Publish and Update Statuses on Posts
Added: Plugin Activation: Enable Logging by default
Added: Status: Option to limit the number of characters output on a Template Tag
Fix: Log: Output dates according to WordPress’ installation date locale formatting
Fix: Log: Split data into more table columns for easier reading
Fix: Status: Don’t attempt publishing to any existing linked Google+ Accounts, as Google+ no longer exists.
Fix: Publish: Improved performance when sending several statuses for a single Post.
Fix: Publish: Display errors on Post Edit screen if status(es) failed to send to Hootsuite

1.1.2

Fix: Menu Icon size preserved when Gravity Forms no conflict mode is set to on
Fix: Display White Menu Icon unless the User is using WordPress’ Light Admin Color Scheme, in which case display the Dark Menu Icon

1.1.1

Fix: Publish: Removed global $post reference, which caused some installations to fetch the wrong Post to send to Hootsuite

1.1.0

Added: Status: Featured Image: Option to choose between using OpenGraph image (clicking image links to URL) and using image, not linked to URL. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/featured-image-settings/
Fix: Compatibility when using multiple WP Zinc Plugins
Fix: Minified all CSS and JS for performance

1.0.9

Fix: Multisite: Network Activation: Ensure activation routines automatically run on all existing sites
Fix: Multisite: Network Activation: Ensure activation routines automatically run created on new sites created after Network Activation of Plugin
Fix: Multisite: Site Activation: Ensure activation routines automatically run

1.0.8

Added: Settings: Header UI enhancements
Fix: Settings: Added Pinterest Board URL option for Pinterest Statuses. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/wordpress-to-hootsuite-pro/status-settings/
Fix: Settings: Display Twitter Usernames
Fix: Settings: Status: When using Custom Time, ensure it is at least 5 minutes after Publish, Update or Repost (required by Hootsuite’s API)
Fix: PHP warning on count() when trying to fetch an excerpt for a Post
Fix: Settings: Only load settings for the displayed screen, for better performance
Fix: Settings: Save settings more efficiently, for better performance

1.0.7

Fix: Settings: Changed Authentication Tab Icon
Fix: Settings and Status Settings: UI Enhancements for mobile compatibility
Fix: {title} would sometimes result in HTML encoded characters on Facebook

1.0.6

Fix: Status: Apply WordPress default filters to Post Title, Excerpt and Content. Ensures third party Plugins e.g. qtranslate can process content and remove shortcodes

1.0.5

Added: Gutenberg: Support for Custom Field Tags when Custom Fields / Meta are registered as a meta box outside of the Gutenberg editor.
Added: REST API: Support for Custom Field Tags when Posts are created or updated via the REST API with Custom Field / Meta data.

1.0.4

Added: Gutenberg Support
Added: Settings and Status Settings: UI Enhancements to allow for a larger number of connected social media profiles
Added: Status: Tag: Post ID option
Fix: Removed unused datepicker dependency
Fix: CRON Scheduled Posts: Don’t rely on wp_get_current_user() for User Access settings, as it’s not always available
Added: Status: Support for Shortcode processing on Status Text

1.0.3

Fix: Publish: Ensure Post has fully saved (including all Custom Fields / ACF / Yoast data etc) before sending status to Hootsuite
Fix: Publish: Removed duplicate do_action() call on save_post to prevent some third party plugins running routines twice
Fix: Log: Report ‘Plugin: Request Sent’ and ‘Created At’ datetime using WordPress configured date time zone.
Fix: Profiles: Serve social media profile images over SSL to avoid mixed content warning messages
Fix: Settings: Changed WordPress standard .nav-tab-active class to .wpzinc-nav-tab-active, to prevent third party plugins greedily trying to control our UI.

1.0.2

Fix: Publish: Only consider publishing statuses to Hootsuite on supported Post Types (resolves issues with Advanced Custom Fields Free Version saving Fields).

1.0.1

Fix: Call to member function get_error_message() on null when attempting to fetch Hootsuite User Profile.

1.0

First release.