Description
ADStn Auto Poster is a professional WordPress plugin designed to seamlessly auto-publish and synchronize your WordPress posts, articles, and custom post types with the ADStn social platform (https://www.adstn.ovh).
Increase your reach, boost social engagement, and drive traffic back to your website automatically every time you publish new content.
✨ Key Features:
- Seamless OAuth 2.0 Authentication: One-click authorization flow with secure token exchange and automated token refresh (
refresh_token). - Direct Access Token Support: Optional manual bearer token input for developers and custom setups.
- Smart Content Template Builder: Fully customizable post templates supporting dynamic tags:
{title}– Post title{url}– Direct permalink to the post{excerpt}– Post excerpt or trimmed summary (configurable character length){hashtags}– Automatically generated hashtags{author}– Post author display name{site_name}– WordPress site title{categories}– Comma-separated post categories{tags}– Comma-separated post tags
- Live Feed Simulation Preview: Interactive real-time preview showing exactly how your post will render on the ADStn platform before publishing.
- Intelligent Hashtag Generator: Automatically converts WordPress tags and categories into clean, social-friendly
#hashtags. - Granular Filtering & Publishing Rules:
- Select supported post types (Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types).
- Filter by category inclusion and exclusion.
- Choose trigger events (on first publish or on post updates).
- Set default ADStn post privacy (
public,followers, orprivate).
- Post Editor Metabox (Sidebar):
- Enable/disable auto-publishing on a per-post basis.
- Write a custom message overriding the default template for specific posts.
- Instant “Share to ADStn Now” AJAX button to share immediately without reloading.
- View previous publishing date, status, and error logs directly inside the editor.
- Detailed Activity & Sync Logs:
- Full audit trail of every publishing attempt with status badges (
Success,Failed,Pending). - Inspect full request payloads and API responses for easy troubleshooting.
- One-click “Retry” action for failed attempts.
- Full audit trail of every publishing attempt with status badges (
- Modern & Multilingual Dashboard:
- Clean, responsive UI with Glassmorphism styling and dark/light accents.
- 100% WordPress i18n/l10n standard compliant with
.pottemplate for seamless community translations via translate.wordpress.org.
Third-Party Services
This plugin integrates with and connects to the ADStn Developer Platform (https://www.adstn.ovh) in order to publish articles and manage social account connectivity.
- Service Name: ADStn (https://www.adstn.ovh)
- Purpose: User OAuth 2.0 authentication, profile validation, and publishing post content to the authenticated user’s ADStn feed.
- Data Transmitted: Post title, URL, post excerpt, generated hashtags, and user OAuth tokens. No private site data or visitor information is sent.
- Terms of Service: https://www.adstn.ovh/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://www.adstn.ovh/privacy
Installation
- Upload the
adstn-auto-posterdirectory to your WordPress plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/). - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
- Navigate to ADStn Poster → Connection in your WordPress admin menu.
- Create an application in the ADStn Developer Platform at
https://www.adstn.ovh/developer/apps/create:- Set your App Name and Website Domain.
- Copy the Authorized Redirect URI displayed in the plugin settings and paste it into the Redirect URIs field on ADStn.
- Enable the required scopes:
user.identity.read,user.content.write.
- Copy your Client ID and Client Secret into the plugin settings and click Connect & Authorize with ADStn.
- That’s it! Your published posts will now automatically sync to your ADStn account.
FAQ
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Does this plugin require an ADStn account?
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Yes, you need an active account on https://www.adstn.ovh and must register an app in the Developer Platform.
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How does the token refresh work?
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The plugin handles OAuth 2.0 token expiration automatically. If your access token is near expiration, the plugin uses the refresh token behind the scenes without interrupting your publishing workflow.
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Can I exclude specific categories from being published?
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Yes. In ADStn Poster → Publish Rules, you can select specific categories to include or exclude.
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Yes. Open the post in the WordPress editor, scroll down to the ADStn Auto Poster sidebar metabox, and click Share to ADStn Now.
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Is this plugin translation-ready?
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Yes. The plugin is 100% internationalized with a template
.potfile included in/languagesand is fully ready for translate.wordpress.org.
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Contributors & Developers
“ADStn Auto Poster” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.0.1
- Fix: Enhanced API Authorization header delivery resilience with fallback query parameters and request payload support for Apache/FastCGI environments.
- Fix: Streamlined OAuth 2.0 scopes to
user.identity.readanduser.content.write, eliminating Web Application Firewall (WAF) and ModSecurity false-positive blocks. - Fix: Added fail-early state token validation in the OAuth callback handler for improved CSRF security.
- Fix: Improved backward compatibility with WordPress 5.8+ by replacing
str_contains()withstrpos(). - Security: Hardened input sanitization and unslashing for incoming query parameters with full WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) compliance.
- Tweak: Updated admin connection and setup guide views to reflect required OAuth scopes.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Full integration with ADStn Developer REST API v1 and OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow.
- Smart template engine with dynamic tags and hashtag generator.
- Real-time simulated feed preview.
- Post editor sidebar metabox with AJAX instant share.
- Comprehensive activity logging and error inspection with one-click retry.
- Full WordPress i18n/L10n multilingual support (English & Arabic).