SocialCards Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
SocialCards connects WordPress to the SocialCards service to generate social images from reusable visual templates. Map WordPress content into template variables, preview current edits, and save generated PNGs in your WordPress Media Library.
A SocialCards Pro account and API key are required to connect WordPress, access saved templates, use Preview/rendering, and run automatic or bulk generation. Account, template, and rendering functionality is provided by the external SocialCards service. You can install the plugin without connecting; onboarding and preserved local configuration/images remain available, but API-dependent actions require a connection.
Features include:
- Posts, Pages, and enabled supported public custom post types.
- Text mappings for titles, excerpts, author display names, publication dates, site names, and custom text.
- Image mappings from local Featured images, with JPEG, PNG, and WebP support.
- Optional WooCommerce Product mappings for price, regular/sale price, SKU, stock status, and the first gallery image.
- Site defaults, content-type defaults, taxonomy/term rules, and per-item Inherit, Custom, or Disabled configuration.
- A visual picker for your saved SocialCards templates.
- Private Preview of current editor values without creating a Media Library attachment.
- Manual Generate image, Update image, and Refresh image actions for saved eligible content.
- Opt-in automatic generation through WP-Cron after published content is saved.
- Bulk Generate / update and Refresh images actions, with generation progress.
- An Images dashboard with Current, Outdated, and Missing status workflows, plus failure and job status feedback.
- Image-only integrations with SEOPress, Rank Math, and Yoast SEO, or standalone social metadata output.
Generated images do not replace the Featured image. Normal generation reuses an unchanged image; Refresh image or Refresh images forces a render. Changing defaults or rules does not immediately regenerate existing images: review affected items in Images and use Generate / update.
External services
SocialCards relies on the external service at social.cards. The plugin contacts this service only after an API key is configured. API keys are available with SocialCards Pro. The configured API key authenticates server-side requests and is not exposed in browser settings or thumbnail URLs.
Account connection
Check connection contacts SocialCards to verify account/API access and retrieve account identity and access capabilities. Saving an API key alone does not check the connection.
Templates
When connected, template selection, refresh, and related admin/editor workflows retrieve the account’s owned saved template metadata, variables, revisions, and private template thumbnails. Connected admin screens may also refresh template revision information. These requests send authentication, template identifiers, and pagination values as needed.
Preview and rendering
Preview, manual generation, bulk generation, and opted-in automatic generation send the selected template identifier and configured values needed to render that template.
Mapped text may include post/page titles, excerpts, author display names, publication dates, site names, custom text, and WooCommerce product values such as prices, SKU, and stock status. Mapped images may include local Featured images and WooCommerce gallery images. JPEG, PNG, and WebP image bytes and their MIME types may be transmitted privately to SocialCards for rendering; mapped image values are not WordPress media URLs or filesystem paths.
Standard HTTP metadata, such as the WordPress server’s IP address and WordPress HTTP User-Agent, may also be visible to the service. The default User-Agent may include the site’s URL and WordPress version.
Normal public frontend page requests do not call the SocialCards API. Previously authorized generation jobs run separately through WP-Cron. Rendered final PNG images generated through this integration are saved in the site’s WordPress Media Library. Preview responses do not create an attachment.
Processing and retention by the SocialCards service are governed by the SocialCards Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
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