Social Engine: Schedule Posts for Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon and Twitter

Description

Take your social media game to the next level with Social Engine – the ultimate scheduling tool for your content and photos! And it’s completely free! Unlike other tools like TweetDeck, Buffer, Falcon, and ContentCal, Social Engine has no limitations on scheduling posts. You have full control of the system once it’s installed on your WordPress, and you can even customize it to your needs with easy-to-use coding.

Currently, it supports:

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn (Pro Version)
  • Pinterest (Pro Version)

Current features:

  • Plan your SNS Posts with a pretty UI
  • Create Post with Photos
  • Automatically schedule your WP Posts
  • Select images which has never been published on SNS
  • Revive your old content
  • Draft Support (Pro Version)
  • Statistics, such views and likes (Pro Version)
  • Revive Posts or Pages (Pro Version)

Consider the Pro Version for additional one-to-one support, and to help me developing it. This plugin is, as you can guess, quite a lot of work! Many companies are running expensive platforms for the same services. I think they are way too expensive and not always made, so this is my attempt to make things cheaper and better. I need you!

No third-party service 💕

Say goodbye to third-party services with Social Engine. Enjoy no limitations, no hidden costs (except for the optional Pro version), and the security of keeping your data to yourself. Plus, you can customize and automate everything to fit your specific needs. Note that you’ll need to create your own “Facebook App” (and the same goes for Twitter, Instagram, etc.) It’s easy and straightforward, and if you need any help, just check out my tutorial or ask a friend for assistance! 🤓

Extensibility

We provide actions, filters and an API so that you can extend the plugin the way you like. Please let us know what you would like to do, and we’ll give you everything you need. Please check the section about extensibility in the documentation.

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Installation

  1. Upload the plugin to your WordPress.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu.
  3. Try it with one file first! 🙂

Reviews

11 de mayo, 2023 3 replies
I don't see an option to delete my review, so I'm just going to leave a 5 star here for now. 👍
25 de abril, 2023
Overview:This is a really nice plugin for posting to social media. You can post manually entered text and photos (in tweets, toots, etc.), or set up the plugin to post whenever you publish a new page or blog post (a feature which I haven't really used much yet; it seems to still be a work in progress at the moment). Pros: I love that you can schedule posts way in advance, and that you can do this from your website. I think it makes using social media to promote your website content so much easier, as often times I want to post about new blog posts, and even when I don't I may peruse my past blog posts for topics I can address on social media. Cons:The plugin is still new, so there are a few hiccups at the moment. I ran into an issue where the plugin won't let me back out of a post when I start to schedule it and then change my mind, or want to change the date, for example. I use other plugins from this author, and I'm sure any issues like this are only temporary. So I don't think it's worth it to deduct a star because of this. Cons that are Not MeowApp's Fault:Another issue (not MeowApp's fault in any way) is that it takes some time to set up the plugin to work with the various social media sites you want to use. The author provides documentation on this, so I suggest anyone wanting to use the plugin take a look at that while setting it up. Finally (again, not the author's fault), Twitter, because of what it's been doing lately, doesn't seem to be possible to set up for free. To fix this, I would just suggest using Twitter directly, or perhaps a free scheduling service like Buffer. Buffer is a large company that offers SaaS, so they have the money and the means to work around Twitter's tom-foolery, while MeowApps can't. Summary:I recommend this app whole-heartedly! It's great for scheduling social media posts, and it just makes sense having this functionality inside your admin space. The paid version is so cheap ($29 a year for one website) that you might as well get that, if for no other reason than to support the developer and help him keep making this and other plugins great!
31 de marzo, 2023
It is very easy to use, and powerful vs other saas solutions. You can publish unlimited posts in your own premises :-).
28 de marzo, 2023
You just can't go wrong with any of their plugins, they are awesome! And they work great together! Don't miss the upcoming AI integration for the Social plugin. Jordy is an awesome developer who listens to users. I'd give 100 stars if I could. Thanks, Jordy!
26 de marzo, 2023
it's a great idea to have your social media management directly connected to your website and in your own hands. it's simple, easy and efficient. facebook made it a bit tricky to set it up, but the tutorial was very helpful and it was worth the few extra clicks. the meow apps support is truly excellent (and already worth getting the pro-version #supportthesupport :))!
23 de febrero, 2023
Hi used Buffer for years and paid a lot of money to schedule my social media posts for Facebook and Twitter. Social Engine is a great replacement. Build right into WordPress and with the complete control over the content. Jordy Meow has always an open ear for suggestions and has implemented many of them in no time. Thanky you!
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Contributors & Developers

“Social Engine: Schedule Posts for Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon and Twitter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.4.8 (2023/04/30)

  • Add: Blue badge support for Twitter.
  • Add: Warnings when the content is too long.
  • Info: Social Engine is packed with features, very easy to use and basically free! Compared to other services, it’s a bargain. However, it’s difficult to make it more known for me. For the adventure to continue, please leave a nice review for Social Engine on WordPress. That will help a lot, thank you! ♥️

0.4.7 (2023/03/28)

  • Add: Link to the URL for the Revive function.
  • Add: New UI framework, lighter and better.

0.4.6 (2023/02/21)

  • Add: We can now create post for multiple accounts at the same time.

0.4.5 (2023/02/09)

  • Add: Support for Mastodon! My first post on Mastodon was made through Social Engine: https://piaille.fr/@meow/109834132065562645. Cool, right!? 🥳

0.4.4 (2023/02/08)

  • Add: Ligther version, less files.

0.4.2 (2023/02/04)

  • Add: Can now create Social Post directly from the Posts/Pages list.

0.4.1 (2023/01/27)

  • Fix: Revive function gives better instructions and warnings if needed.
  • Fix: Some UI elements could be hidden by others.

0.4.0 (2023/01/14)

  • Fix: When the text was too long, it was overriding the placeholder.
  • Fix: The counter of characters was annoying when the text was too long.
  • Fix: The common dashboard was broken.

0.3.8 (2022/12/26)

  • Fix: Should be able to see today when we hide the previous days.
  • Fix: Various JS fixes.

0.3.7 (2022/12/09)

  • Fix: Revive function now uses the correct date based on the settings.

0.3.6 (2022/11/30)

  • Add: Possibibility to find which images haven’t been already uploaded.

0.3.5 (2022/11/26)

  • Add: Support for WordPress 6.1.
  • Update: Latest packages and everything!

0.3.2 (2022/09/27)

  • Add: Handle errors from services better.
  • Update: Bigger lightbox.
  • Add: Revive (to create Social Posts automatically based on the current content)

0.3.1 (2022/09/06)

Update: The statistics data is stored more constantly.

0.3.0 (2022/08/31) =
* Fix: Stats for Facebook.

0.2.9 (2022/08/22)

  • Add: Better logs (especially for Twitter).
  • Fix: It was not possible to edit at the same time similar content.

0.2.8 (2022/08/04)

  • Fix: Better refresh of the Published Social Posts.
  • Update: More UI enhancements.

0.2.7 (2022/08/01)

  • Fix: The statistics are back.
  • Update: Many enhancements in the UI.

0.2.5 (2022/07/25)

  • Update: Many enhancements in the UI.

0.2.3 (2022/07/11)

  • Add: Option to automatically schedule social posts for blog posts.

0.2.1 (2022/07/04)

  • Add: Calendar view.
  • Update: Enhanced UI.

0.2.0 (2022/06/23)

  • Updated: Fix many things in the UI.

0.1.9 (2022/06/17)

  • Update: Removed the + within the main UI, and added a “New Post” button in the sidebar.
  • Add: A modal to create social post.

0.1.8 (2022/06/14)

  • Info: Lot of fixes and improvements. We are still working on a beta, to make the UI more and more powerful. We will be working on new exciting features when everything is stable and nice. It’s going to be awesome!

0.1.6 (2022/05/17)

  • Add: Gallery Post for Instagram.
  • Add: Settings for Posting Times (more to come in the UI to make this really user-friendly).
  • Update: Improved the way the posts are loading.
  • Fix: Issue when uploading images and using the Uploader.
  • Add: Draft is now an option disabled by default.

0.1.5 (2022/05/03)

  • Fix: LinkedIn.
  • Fix: Number of characters depending on the service.

0.1.4 (2022/04/21)

  • Fix: There was issues with LinkedIn.

0.1.3 (2022/02/21)

  • Add: More icons in the admin, for clarity.

0.1.2 (2022/01/25)

  • Fix: Fresh builds with enhanced Neko UI framework.

0.1.1 (2022/01/25)

  • Add: UI improvements.
  • Add: Sort the posts ASC or dESC.

0.1.0 (2022/01/21)

  • Add: Many UI improvements.
  • Add: Support for Instagram.

0.0.9 (2021/12/07)

  • Add: The day can be locked now (that way, we can mark a day as “done” when preparing the posts).

0.0.8 (2021/12/03)

  • Update: Better icons and buttons.
  • Add: Show parts of the content in the bar when posts are minimized.

0.0.7 (2021/11/22)

  • Info: Pro Version released on the store.

0.0.6 (2021/11/02)

  • Fix: So many more fixes and enhancements.

0.0.3 (2021/10/12)

  • Fix: A lot of them!
  • Add: Support for LinkedIn.

0.0.2 (2021/09/14)

  • Info: First release.