Instagram: A new "Feed image layout" setting fits images on a background color or crops them into Instagram's 4:5 to 1.91:1 range. The default is fit on a black background.
Melhoria
Instagram: Images are now changed to JPEG and resized to a maximum of 1440px before posting.
Instagram: The image ratio error now tells you which ratios and format Instagram accepts.
Correção
Instagram: Images that are too tall or too wide no longer fail with an aspect ratio error.
Instagram: Share Now images now get the same ratio, size and format fixes as auto posts and schedules.
Auto Post: Newly published posts now wait until their publish data has fully settled before sharing, so taxonomy filters, custom fields and classic meta-box saves are all included in the auto-post.
Melhoria
Auto Post: A delayed rule still counts from the actual publish time even when the share waits for the post's data to finish saving.
Scheduling: Delayed auto-post events are no longer spaced apart during cron catch-up, so multiple due rules for the same post can all publish on time without pushing back other schedules.
Correção
Auto Post: Block editor follow-up saves no longer cause shares to miss their final taxonomy terms or meta values.
Auto Post (Pro): Delayed auto-post schedules now keep their intended publish-time timing even when a post matches multiple delayed rules.
Logs: The Logs screen is rebuilt around publish runs, one line per run with its date, schedule, post, type and tally, expanding into a card per account with the status, the one line worth reading and the raw platform response behind a button.
Logs: Added a search box and Type and Missed filters, and a schedule row now links straight to its own runs.
Logs: Every missed post is now recorded and retryable, a slot lost to a late or dormant cron leaves the same trail as any other failure, and can be retried per account or for the whole run. The retry in progress is shown and the other retry buttons are held until it comes back.
Schedules & Share Now: Rows expand to show where a schedule posts and what it posts, accounts, groups and post filters, without opening the edit modal.
Settings → Cron: New Cron Status panel showing whether WP-Cron is working, when it last ran and when Bit Social's next event is due, with an Overdue warning.
Settings → Cron (Pro): New Late post handling, decide separately for delayed Auto Posts and for Share Now and scheduled shares whether a late post is published anyway or marked as Missed, with the window set in minutes, hours or days. Free runs on a fixed one-hour window.
Notifications (Pro): New “Email on missed post” alert with its own toggle and “Last sent” line, sent to the same recipients as the failure alert. One email lists every post written off in a sweep.
Accounts: An account whose token could not be renewed now says “Reconnect needed” on its card, with the reason and how long it has been failing, instead of looking healthy while every publish fails.
Accounts (Pro): Reconnect now opens the account picker, listing every account the sign-in returned with the one being reconnected highlighted, instead of working behind a sticky toast that could never finish.
Social Templates: Templates auto-save with an inline Saving / Saved / Unsaved status beside the platform heading, replacing a toast per keystroke.
Share Now: Added a “See logs” button to each row, and row actions now keep a fixed column.
Auto Post: A single-post row shows why it cannot be re-scheduled instead of leaving the action column empty.
Melhoria
Cron catch-up: After downtime, overdue one-shot posts are re-queued five minutes apart instead of firing in one burst that trips platform rate limits and spam heuristics.
Missed slots: A recurring schedule that loses a slot anchors the next one to the slot it lost, so an outage costs one slot instead of walking the whole timetable forward.
Schedules, Share Now & Logs: The tables now fit the admin screen at every width instead of running off the right edge; dates read as a day with the time below it, and columns thin out on narrower screens.
Stability: Screens are wrapped in error boundaries, so a single failure shows a recoverable message instead of a blank page.
The log backfill this release needs runs in small batches in the background, so a site with a large log table is not held up by the first request after updating.
Correção
Scheduling: A recurring schedule that fell behind dumped its whole backlog at once. Overdue runs are realigned instead.
Scheduling: One-shot Auto Post and Share Now schedules could hang in “In Progress” forever. They are marked Missed, deactivating the plugin now really clears its scheduled events, and a Missed row shows a red status tag with a cron tooltip.
Late post handling (Pro): The setting never took effect in either direction, the licence was not readable at the point the check ran, so a five-minute window never bit and “publish anyway” did not either.
Facebook & Instagram: Every Meta Graph call is pinned to one current API version. Token renewal had been running against versions Meta no longer serves, so connections quietly aged out and posting stopped with nothing changed on the site.
Instagram (Pro): Accounts connected before Instagram Login can be reconnected again, they were matched by an id that flow never sees, so users were wrongly told they had signed in with the wrong account.
LinkedIn: Profiles are keyed by their stable member id instead of the display name, and a failed token refresh no longer overwrites the stored token.
Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok & Threads (Pro): Refreshed tokens are now actually saved (Instagram, Pinterest), TikTok's rotated refresh token is kept, and Threads' refresh endpoint URL was malformed so every refresh failed, each of these killed the connection at the original token's expiry.
X (Twitter) & Google Business Profile (Pro): The stored refresh token is kept unless the platform rotates it, token-exchange errors are surfaced, and a Google account with no business locations now gets a clear message.
Accounts: A failed connection no longer leaves the account picker on “Fetching data, please wait…” forever, and the reason is shown in the modal instead of a toast that scrolls away.
Accounts: A connection that fails at the network level now says the site's server could not reach the platform, rather than showing a raw cURL error.
Accounts: The connect popup's handover back to the plugin was unreliable, a successful authorization could be dropped, and an abandoned attempt could be picked up by the next connect.
Logs: Retrying a failed post now updates the row it was retried from on every platform, instead of adding a second row on five of them.
Logs: An auto post to several accounts reads as one run rather than one event per account.
Logs: The screen filled debug.log with a PHP deprecation every three seconds for as long as it was left open.
Schedules: A delayed auto-post is attributed to the post's author instead of reading “Unknown”.
Share Now: A run's log names its content “Custom written content” rather than “No post”.
Settings: The External Cron toggle snapped back silently when the stored Pro settings had no cron branch.
Social Templates: Malformed stored template data no longer crashes the template settings screen.
Templates: The LinkedIn template screen went blank on some setups when the custom message was left empty. Post previews now trim long text without breaking the page.
License & Updates (Pro): The license expiry notice showed the plugin name and the days remaining the wrong way round and never appeared on the screens it was meant to, and update checks no longer clear their cache on every admin page load.
Roles & Access (Pro): New Roles & Access settings tab to control which WordPress roles can open the Bit Social dashboard and menu. Administrators always keep full access.
Roles & Access (Pro): Per-account permissions, restrict which roles may publish through each connected account, enforced on Auto Post, Schedules and Share Now.
Accounts (Pro): Reconnect an existing account in place, tokens are refreshed without creating a duplicate, so its schedules and permissions stay intact.
Accounts: New account details modal with account info, connected/last updated timestamps and per-account role permissions.
Logs: The Logs table now shows the platform logo and the account avatar for each entry.
Logs, Schedules & Share Now: New “Created by” column showing who created each item, along with their role.
Melhoria
Account Groups: Redesigned the group list as cards with proper dark-theme colours, clearer rename/add/delete actions and real empty states.
Accounts: Switching between the Accounts and Groups tabs is now instant instead of rebuilding the page and refetching everything.
Correção
Facebook: Pages stopped publishing roughly 50 days after being connected because page tokens were needlessly run through the token exchange; refreshed tokens are now also saved correctly. A page that has already stopped publishing needs to be reconnected once, the stored token cannot be repaired.
Tumblr: Token refreshes are serialized so concurrent publishes no longer fail with 401 errors.
Bluesky & X (Twitter): Publishing no longer fails on hosts where the optional fileinfo or mbstring PHP extensions are disabled, and Bluesky link/mention offsets are correct for non-ASCII text.
Google Business Profile: Stopped refreshing the access token on every publish.
Pro: Enforced nonce validation on Pro AJAX requests.
Auto Post: Preserved the existing free-version behaviour for non-admin authors so their posts keep auto-posting.
Accounts: The delete confirmation now shows which account is being removed and no longer appears behind the modal.
Google Business Profile: Fetch locations from all accounts, including group and organization accounts, so locations that previously didn't appear during connect are now listed and can be selected for publishing.
Social Template Preview: Added per-platform preview cards so you can see how a post will look on each network before publishing, Facebook, Twitter (X), Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, Tumblr, TikTok, Telegram, Bluesky, Discord, Line, and Google Business Profile.
Preview cards now use your site name and the connected account in the header for a more accurate, true-to-platform look.
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Connect: Coerced the OAuth URL to a string at the window.open call sites so connecting accounts works with third-party window.open wrappers (e.g. Astra).
Pinterest: Added fallback to wp_remote_get when file_get_contents is blocked by Cloudflare or WAF, preventing image upload failures on restricted server environments.
PHP compatibility: Removed trait constants to support PHP versions below 8.2.
Google Business Profile: Resolved an issue where accounts were not found when retrying post publishing.
Images: Normalized social post images by converting unsupported formats (e.g. WebP → JPEG) and resizing oversized media for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profile.
Smart tag: {post_categories} and {post_tags} now return plain text. Enhanced {hashtags_[post_categories]} to generate clean camelCase hashtags like #postCategories.
AI Prompts enable dynamic control over WordPress post content and images using reusable prompt templates.: Supports Smart Tags to inject WordPress post data into prompts at runtime; Text prompts generate captions, descriptions, or rewritten content; Image prompts generate AI images based on post title, content, or custom instructions; Prompts execute during scheduling or publishing; Includes model, temperature, and fallback configuration
WP Schedule – Custom Image Selection: WordPress post schedules now support custom image selection.; Choose specific images instead of default featured images; Better control over post visuals per schedule; Useful for platform-specific image optimization
Hook: Action Hooks for Social Media Publishing. A total of 14 new action hooks have been added to enhance extensibility and automation in Bit Social.
Each social media platform now has its own publish hook (bit_social_{platform}_post_publish) that fires after a post is published and returns post details (content, media, link, comment) and response details (account_name, account_id, post_url, status).
Bit_social_all_platforms_post_publish fires once after publishing across all selected platforms and returns all combined platform post data.
