Foliocast – Portfolio Post Scheduler

Changelog

2.9.2

• Live preview: clearer demo (sample studio with a job and a city in captions, no misleading “sent automatically” or “feed unavailable” messages, a note on the Settings and Help pages).

2.9.1

• Instagram connection: while Meta reviews the Foliocast app, only invited tester accounts can connect. The plugin now explains it and lets you request your tester invitation from a short form.
• Live preview: try Foliocast on WordPress.org without installing it (demo mode, nothing is published).

2.9.0

• Languages: Foliocast now speaks Spanish, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch (interface, e-mails, captions, hashtags).
• Translations: every other language can be translated on translate.wordpress.org; installed language packs are used automatically.

2.8.1

• Wording: “early access” replaces “beta” in the licence screen, help and diagnostics.

2.8.0

• Overview: a “Your last 30 days” card shows posts published and visits from Instagram.
• Alert two weeks before your schedule ends, with a button to extend it.
• Simpler labels in New post.

2.7.1

• More varied schedule: the same project no longer appears twice in a week.
• Settings: reconnect Instagram in one click; technical fields are folded away.
• Instagram search line: you can set the profession shown.
• Link-in-bio page: WordPress’s default tagline is no longer shown.

2.7.0

• Instagram search: captions can start with your profession and the project location; image alt text mentions the location.
• Link-in-bio page: the latest post is featured, Reels are marked, and the most opened projects are counted.

2.6.6

• “This week” screen: the week dates now read correctly in English.

2.6.5

• New option: post the project link as the first comment (“Full project here: link”) under every post.

2.6.4

• New Foliocast logo in the app, the WordPress menu and the browser tab icon.

2.6.3

• Visit counting no longer stores any IP address or fingerprint on the server: a technical cookie with no identifier (“foliocast_seen”, value 1), deleted by the browser after one hour, avoids counting the same visit twice. Fingerprints left by 2.6.2 are deleted at update.
• The suggested privacy policy text has been updated accordingly.

2.6.2

• Visitors can object to the counting of visits from Instagram at any time: new [foliocast_opposition] shortcode (link to stop or resume being counted), added to the suggested privacy policy text.
• The fingerprint used to avoid counting a visit twice is only kept for the current hour and is deleted as soon as the hour ends.

2.6.1

• Visits from Instagram are no longer counted when the visitor’s browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track. The suggested privacy policy text describes the counting precisely.
• The link page for the bio loads its styles the WordPress way (no inline style tag).
• The free edition ships only readable JavaScript (no minified file); the readme lists every source file of the app.

2.6.0

• New “Grow the account” section in Settings.
• Link page for your Instagram bio: one click creates a page on your site with your latest published projects, each tile leading to the project. Visits from it are counted as Instagram visits.
• Your best projects back in the spotlight: once a week, Foliocast can suggest a new post for a project that did well a few months ago, with different images when possible. It arrives as a draft: nothing goes out without your OK.
• First comment: write one per post (editor, Options), or move your hashtags to the first comment to keep captions clean. If Instagram refuses, the option turns itself off and the hashtags go back into the caption.

2.5.4

• Setup prepares three projects at a time: about 40 % faster on large portfolios (36 s instead of 61 s for 60 projects in our tests).
• A video placed on a project page (from your Media Library) now becomes that project’s Reel, as is.
• Invite up to 3 accounts as collaborators on a post (editor, Options): if they accept, the post also shows on their profile.
• Three more fields recognised from your site: landscape and gardens, jewelry, product design (hashtags, caption wording and alt texts).
• Instagram limits updated (Reels from 3 seconds to 15 minutes, videos up to 300 MB). When Instagram can’t fetch an image, the message now suggests Cloudinary.
• The grid preview shows your account or site name instead of a placeholder.
• Lighter interface script (minified; the readable source stays in the plugin).
• After your first published post, a single card presents Foliocast Pro. “Not now” hides it for good.

2.5.3

• Instagram refusals are explained in plain words, with what to do (image not reachable, format, size, daily limit, expired connection), instead of Instagram’s raw English message.
• Image alt texts now describe your field (“an architecture project”, “a handmade piece”) instead of a generic category.
• A post that missed its time is shown “To approve”, with a “Publish now” button right on the line.
• The first post goes out on the first slot after setup (often the next day), not the following week.
• Clearer editor: one save button, the reason of a failure shown first, no invented “likes” in the preview.
• Keyboard: Escape closes the editor, focus stays in open windows and is always visible. Missing labels and alt texts added.
• Phone: week and month views fit the screen, larger tap targets and labels.
• Week headings now read Monday to Sunday; file fields and wording (“images” rather than “renders”) are clearer.

2.5.2

• Images pasted in a project page as HTML (imports, page builders) are now found in the media library, including resized copies.
• HTML tags in a project title no longer end up in the caption.
• Setup assistant: “wedding” alone no longer makes a wedding photographer an event agency.
• End of the setup assistant: the number of Reels to be made right away is now accurate (those of the next 10 weeks).

2.5.1

• Sites whose security plugin restricts the REST API to logged-in users: the automatic-publishing check (/tick) now gets through when it presents its key; every other address stays restricted.
• Ready for PHP 8.5: no more deprecation notices (image, file-type and cURL handles are freed the PHP 8 way).
• Tested with WordPress 6.0, 6.6 and 7.1 on PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
• Setup assistant: finds where your projects live (posts, pages, a “Project” or “Portfolio” type, WooCommerce products) and suggests your field for the starting hashtags; you can change both.
• Projects whose images are stored in fields (ACF galleries, WooCommerce product galleries) now bring all their images.
• Captions start with the presentation sentence written on the project page, and describe the work done according to your field.
• Multilingual sites (Polylang, WPML): each project is planned once, in the site’s main language.
• A project published between installing Foliocast and finishing the setup assistant no longer leaves the other projects unchecked.

2.5.0

• Internal changes shared with Foliocast Pro (redesigned Reel layouts, music library in Pro). No visible change in the free version.
• Uninstall with “delete data” now also removes the settings added since 2.2.

2.4.0

• Internal changes shared with Foliocast Pro (new Reel layouts and music styles in Pro). No visible change in the free version.

2.3.0

• Photos in Adobe RGB, ProPhoto or Display P3 are converted to sRGB when they are formatted: no more dull, washed-out colors on Instagram.
• Credits and place read from the project page (“Photo: …”, “Architect: …”, “Location: …”, definition lists, common custom fields) and added to the caption; a street address is never used.

2.2.2

• Assets enqueued the WordPress way: the app page’s accent color and settings are added with wp_add_inline_style() and wp_add_inline_script() (no style or script tag printed by the plugin).
• Uploads (images and videos) go through WordPress’s file uploader, wp_handle_upload(), with the same file-type checks and limits.
• The Foliocast menu now takes WordPress’s default position, after the core menus.
• Source code notes: the JavaScript sources of the app are shipped in assets/app/src/, with the command that assembles assets/app/app.js (see “Source code”).
• In-app title: Foliocast – Portfolio Post Scheduler.

2.2.1

• New plugin name: Foliocast – Portfolio Post Scheduler.
• Code review fixes for WordPress.org: error messages escaped, WordPress file and HTTP APIs used everywhere (Cloudinary uploads of large videos are now sent in parts, with no size limit of their own).

2.2.0

• Internal rename of the code prefix for WordPress.org; automatic migration of settings and data.

2.1.0

• Redesigned interface, with its fonts bundled in the plugin (no request to another site).
• One status vocabulary everywhere: to prepare, to approve, scheduled, published, failed.
• “This week” overview: posts waiting for your approval with an “Approve all” button, the week’s lineup, 7-day totals.
• Planner in list, week or month view: drag a post onto another day to change its date.
• The post editor adapts to the post: one main action, date at the top, live posts are read-only.
• Settings: status at a glance, accent color taken from your logo or theme, automatic-publishing key hidden on screen.
• Phone layout with a bottom tab bar; nothing overflows the screen anymore.

2.0.0

• First version on WordPress.org: the complete free plugin (unlimited posts and carousels, captions, hashtags, schedule, grid preview, automatic publishing, statistics).