Description
Newspaper Social Media Photo Card allows you to easily generate beautiful, high-quality photo cards for your articles with a single click. Ideal for news portals, blogs, and social media marketers who want to share visually appealing featured images with titles and branding.
Features
- One-Click Generation: Generate a photo card directly from the WordPress post editor screen.
- Custom Logo/Watermark: Upload your logo and set the watermark opacity dynamically.
- Background Customization: Choose a specific background image or use dynamic gradients.
- Color Controls: Full color picker support for text, date badges, title area backgrounds, and footers.
- Social Media Badges: Add multiple social links (Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, or custom images) with text handles to the photo card footer.
- Responsive Layout: Automatically adjusts font sizing and image scaling depending on the length of your post title.
- High Quality PNG: Downloads high-resolution, responsive PNG images perfect for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
- Live Admin Preview: See exactly how your photo card looks right from the plugin settings page.
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Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/newspaper-social-media-photo-carddirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Go to
Settings -> Photo Cardto upload your logo and customize the colors, backgrounds, and fonts. - Go to any Post edit screen. Below the title, you will see a “Download Photo Card” button.
FAQ
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Does this plugin require Imagick or GD Library?
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No. This plugin uses modern browser-side rendering (
html2canvas) to guarantee perfect Bengali (and complex script) font rendering without server-side font installation issues. -
Can I use it on Custom Post Types?
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Currently, the button appears on standard WordPress “Posts”.
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Contributors & Developers
“Newspaper Social Media Photo Card” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.2.0
- Added: New template system added with multiple professional photo card designs.
1.1.0
- Added: Option to select from 20 bundled popular Bangla fonts for the card Title and Date badge. Downloaded seamlessly from local plugin files.
- Added: Social Media Badges repeater option. Users can now add multiple social media pages/handles along with predefined SVG icons or custom image icons directly to the footer of the generated photo cards.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Features: Admin settings, live preview, color pickers, watermark opacity, html2canvas browser-side generation.