Pinterest Automatic Pin WordPress Plugin

Pinterest drives more traffic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined. This is why we have coded this plugin that will pin images from your posts automatically to pinterest.com.

Just install and forget your Pinterest account as Pinterest Automatic will do all the pinning work for you.

Key Features

Pin unlimited number of images: Pinterest Automatic can pin from one image to all images from the posts directly to your Pinterest account.

Bulk Pin: Posts can be queued for pinning in bulk. Select the desired posts, and the plugin will pin them one by one according to the set schedule. Number of images to pin per post can be set from one to all.

Automatic Images detection: Pinterest Automatic auto-detects images from your post then list them, where you can decide which images should be pinned.

Automatic boards detection: Pinterest Automatic will auto-detect boards in your Pinterest account so that you can choose which board you want to pin images to.

Queuing System: The Plugin queues images that are eligible for pinning in the queue and pin them separated by a random interval. That allows the pinning of an unlimited number of images without any problem.

Auto-link pins to your post: All pins are directly hyperlinked to your posts, so once any Pinterest user clicks on the pin, it redirects him to your post on your site. Pin link can still be a fixed set link or a link from a custom field. The image can also be uploaded without a link back like images uploaded from the computer.

Default pin text and pin board: You can set a default pin text or a default pinboard where all pins will be pinned, so you don’t need to enter text every-time

Supported Tags : 9 Tags can be used in the pin text, where each tag will be replaced with it’s equivalent value from the pinned post

• [image_alt] : get replaced with the image alt text
• [post_title] : get replaced the post title
• [post_tags] : get replaced by the post tags after converting it to pinterest hash tags
• [post_excerpt] : get replaced with the post excerpt
• [post_link] : get replaced with the post link
• [post_author] : get replaced with the post author
• [post_category] : get replaced with the post category
• [product_price] : gets replaced with WooCommerce product price
• [customFieldName] : gets replaced with the custom field value

Custom post types support : if you have a portfolio or gallery or any post type then Pinterest automatic support them

WooCommerce support : if you have a WordPress eCommerce or WooCommerce based website then Pinterest Automatic can pin thier products to Pinterest

Bots support : Pinterest Automatic can pin bots posts like posts from WordPress Automatic. It can pin the featured image, a specific number of images or all images from each post.

Custom field image support: if you have an image URL stored in a custom field, you can tell the plugin to pin the image from that custom field

Detect images to pin from the fron-end: if your images do not appear in the backend, Pinterest Automatic can still detect them from the front end. for example, some galleries are displayed using a shortcode in the backend.

Pin full sized WordPress images from thumbnails : Pinterest automatic checks if a full sized image is available to pin instead of thumbnail.

Specific WordPress category to Pinterest board support: You can set which board, the image will be pinned to according to its category. Set unlimited number of a category to board rules *Note that, the image will go to one board only.

Specific WordPress tag to Pinterest board support : You can set which board the image will be pinned to according to its tags.

Custom jQuery selector: If the images are not located in the editor and are visible elsewhere on the editing page, a custom jQuery selector can be set which can be used by the plugin to grab the images.

Custom Taxonomies: In the category to board section, The plugin can list categories from custom taxonomies.

Spintax enabled :Spintax Form can be used for pin text like {awesome|cool|nice},only one word will be chosen randomly for each single pin

Post featured image as a pin:The plugin can pin the featured image to Pinterest.

Scheduled posts support: Select images to be pinned and once your scheduled post gets published it will be pinned.

Cron job : The Plugin can use the internal wordpress cron job and a dedicated cron job can be used as well.

Show to administrators only option : The plugin has the option to only display for administrators.

Proxy support : Pinterest atuomatic can use proxies to connect to Pinterest.

Excluded categories : Pinterest atuomatic can exclude the post from pinning if it is in a specific category.

Automatic excerpt generation : Pinterest Atuomatic can auto generate an excerpt automatically from your content with a pre-specified charachters length.

Exclude small images : Pinterest Atuomatic can exclude images that are smaller than a specific width from being pinned.

Skip duplicates : An option exists to skip pinning the same image from the same post twice

Exclude by category : Pinterest Automatic can skip pinning from categories that you set

Exclude images containing a specific text : You can set a specific text if found in the pinned image URL, it will be excluded from pinning

Flixible tags number : Pinterest atuomatic can include the post tags as Pinterest hashtags in the pin description. It also can select a specific number of tags to include

Search and replace in image src link, pin link or pin tags : You can replace specific parts with another in the final values sent to Pinterest.

Random pin interval : You can set a random pin interval between pins starting from 3 minutes. The plugin will pin images with a random interval between them.

Plugin visibility filter : You can optionally set the plugin to be visible only for admins.

Auto-append parameters to pin links : The plugin can automatically append pre-defined parameters to the pin link for tracking purposes

Automatic updates : The plugin can be updated directly from the wordpress dashboard.

Detailed action log : Automatically updated action log detailing each action done by the plugin

Version 4.17.0 22 January 2024
NEW: Option to set the pin alt text from the image alt text or the post title
Fix: Support for post types that have exclude_from_search enabled 

Version 4.16.0 20 (September 2023)
- NEW: Rank math SEO plugin compatibility, now [post_except] tag gets replaced by the SEO description- 
- Fix: View server IP now works correctly

Version 4.15.1 (20 July 2022)
- Fix: tab char in post description now gets handled, was returning t error

Version 4.15.0 (5 May 2022)
- New: option to set pin method to either Save from a website or Create a pin

Version 4.14.4 (23 August 2021)
- Fix: Urgent core bug fix, all users must upgrade

Version 4.14.3 (2 May 2021)
- Fix: WPBakery JS composer integration updated 

Version 4.14.2 (14 August 2020)
- Fix: Plugin updated to work with WordPress 5.5

Version 4.14.1 (27 December 2019)
 - Fix: fetch boards now works again without the need to reload the page

Version 4.14.0 (15 November 2019)
 - Urgent: Fetch boards back to work after a recent Pinterest change
 - NEW: option to set pin link as the attachment image link 
 - NEW: Search and replace in link now supports regular expressions
 - NEW: Pin link points to now accepts multiple links comma separated
 - Fix: Polylang integration back to work

Version 4.13.0 (17 August 2019)
 - NEW: Additional queue processing interval 
 - NEW: PolyLang plugin support
 - Improved: Pin URL from a custom field now can detect URLs inside Arrays
 - Fix: Titles with new lines/carriage return was showing 404 error, now sorted

Version 4.12.3 (17 July 2019)
 - Fix: Now detects all images from WP Automatic eBay/Amazon posts
 - Fix: Titles with new lines/carriage return was showing 404 error, now sorted

Version 4.12.2 (21 June 2019)
 - Urgent: Code updated to cope with new Pinterest changes
 - NEW: SOCK5 proxies support

Version 4.12.1 (12 June 2019)
 - Fix: Check more text now returned to the pin description
 - Fix: remove extra spaces/carriage returns from added proxies

Version 4.12.0 (6 May 2019)
 - NEW: added support for fooGalleries plugin
 - Fix: Excerpt auto generation for non-latin chars now works correctly
Fix: Title trim for non-latin chars now works correctly

Version 4.11.2 (21 April 2019)
 - Fix: tags as hashtags now works for queued pins
 - Fix: Queue now displays correct pin text

Version 4.11.1 (13 April 2019)
 - NEW: option for the pin title 
 - Improved: capture images uploaded option now gets the image alt
 - Fix: tags as hashtags now back to work
 - Fix: blob images when uploading now get skipped

Version 4.11.0 (10 April 2019)
 - NEW: option to capture images uploaded to the post even if not visible in the admin area
 - NEW: option to skip images lower than a specific height 
 - Fix:  post_tags now only consider added tags taxonomies added to the plugin settings 
 - Fix: image from the custom field now work when the option to skip the featured image 
 - Fix: Checked images now display pending icon when clicking publish using the block editor

Version 4.10.4 (14 Mar 2019)
- NEW: Queue button to reset the update interval and force cron trigger
- Fix: Proxies now back to work 

Version 4.10.3 (6 Mar 2019)
- Urgent: Code updated to cope with a new change from Pinterest that stopped fetching
- NEW: Sections support, fetch boards button now returns the sections 
- NEW: page break support so images from multi-page posts now get pinned
- Improved: The plugin can now revert to the default board if the selected board was deleted 

Version 4.10.2 (9 January 2019)
- Urgent: Code updated to cope with a recent Pinterest change that  removed the cookie 
- New: description new tags  product_cat, product_categories, post_categories 
- Fix: Correct pin link now get reported to the plugin log/queue page

Version 4.10.1 (21 November 2018)
- Fix: the recent version of Yoast SEO conflicted with the plugin UI. now sorted

Version 4.10.0 (28 October 2018)
- NEW: option to skip queuing already pinned images from the same post
- Improved: Now displays a notice if the queue processing time was configured improperly
- Improved: Now the plugin can detect images after next page tags when bulk pinning
- Fix: post_excerpt tag now removes the shortcodes
- Fix: successful pin link in log page now is correct

Version 4.9.0 (22 September 2018)
- NEW: Gutenberg support
- NEW: WooCommerce product attributes can now be added to the pin description
- Fix: Idle time is now 1 hour 

Version 4.8.0 (02 September 2018)
- NEW: Complete random a new option to post randomly from the queue
- NEW: option to skip images from bulk pinning if the image URL contains a specific word
- NEW: option to skip the featured image from pinning 
- NEW: Alternate cron command was added
- NEW: Now the     queue feature can detect images coming from shortcodes
- Fix: Auto check first image now works for all post types
- Fix: Code updated to cope with a minor change from the Pinterest side
- Improved: exclusion rules now get applied to the featured image as well

Version 4.7.0 (10 March 2018)
- Change: Now the plugin does not require a username and a password, but a cookie session.
- Fix: Parse front-end now supports the "more" tags.
- Fix: image alt text for gallery images now gets captured

Version 4.6.1 (14 November 2017)
- NEW: new tag [post_category]
- Fix: conflict with divi icon sorted.
- Fix: [post_tags] back to work

Version 4.6.0 (10 October 2017)
- NEW: Custom fields support in pin text
- Fix: Pin text now supports quotes

Version 4.5.2 (26 August 2017)
- Fix: recent Pinterest change resulted in boards not found issue now sorted
- Fix - failed to be pinned images now gets automatically removed

Version 4.5.0 (5 August 2017)
- NEW: option for the number of images to pin when added to the queue & auto pinned
- NEW: excluded categories
- NEW: Now captures the images from the text editor
- NEW: option to exclude small images from being pinned
- NEW: option to limit the number of tags added to the pin text
- NEW: option to set pin link from a custom field or a fixed link
- improvement: log and queue page now stop updating when not active
- fix: log page now auto updates

Version:4.4.0 (18 April 2017) 
- NEW: PHP 7 compatible
- NEW: All in one SEO pack plugin compatibility.[post_excerpt] tag for SEO description
- NEW: option to skip checking if a full sized image exists
- NEW: option to add additional parameters to the pin link
- Fix: Recent Pinterest changes made the previous version login not work. now sorted
- Fix: Spintax class renamed to remove any conflict with other plugins
- Fix: at some cases the plugin pinning images although the idle option is active now fixed 
- Fix: proxy now gets trimmed removing any extra white space that may cause a proxy issue. 

Version:4.3.1 (6 September 2016) 
- Fix: Recent Pinterest change made the plugin no more display the username fixed.

Version:4.3.0 (3 July 2016) 
- NEW: Thrive content builder integration so use parse front-end for images
- New: option to upload images with no link back to the source by default
- Fix: Empty src images now get skipped
- Fix: Now pre_get_posts filters get removed as some plugins were excluding posts
- Fix: 401 unauthorized reply from Pinterest now makes the plugin reauthorize itself 
- Fix: Plugin now displays the username extracted after login at the log page 

 Version:4.2.2 (7 May 2016) 
- Fix: Recent Pinterest change stopped pinning from non-us servers now handled.

Version:4.2.1 (10 April 2016) 
- Fix: Pin link at the plugin log page now works after a recent Pinterest change

Version:4.2.0 (15 March 2016) 
- Fix: Plugin recoded to work with major recent Pinterest changes
- Fix: Now shortcodes get skipped manually if it was not stripped using wp
- Update: now the plugin truncates description to 450 instead of 500   

Version:4.1.2 (6 Feb 2016) 
- New: product_price tag for the woo-commerce price to be posted to Pinterest
- NEW: justified image grid full image extraction from thumbnails 
- Fix: Tags to board, Category to board rewritten to work for wp 4.4.x
- Fix: the warning from the plugin updater now fixed

Version:4.1.0 (19 January 2016) 
- NEW: PressThis support added so now the plugin detect pressThis posts
- Fix: Truncate the post content if it's size is over 500 chars which is Pinterest limit
- Fix: If a draft post got published, it now doesn't get pinned twice
- Fix: trim title to chars option empty posts were getting created with the title "..." fixed 
- Fix: Full sized image check now works with CloudFlare hotlinking disabled

Version:4.0.5 (20 APRIL 2015) 
- NEW: Visual composer compatibility out of the box
- Fix: bug fix that verifies the existence of the original image was returning always true
- Improved: Fetch boards link updated to use the back-end ajax URL
- NEW: Auto delete old log records freeing the database

Version:4.0.5 (20 APRIL 2015) 
- Code update: updated to cope with recent Pinterest changes
- Fix: queue stop fixed for some users
- Fix: false items appeared in the queue now fixed

Version:4.0.4 (10 March 2015) 
- Fix: | character now can be added to pin text without problem
- Security improvements

Version:4.0.3 (1 March 2015) 
- Fix: Recent Pinterest change stopped the plugin from functioning sorted.
- Fix: curl follow location with full sized image existence  check now used
- Fix: pin them button now appears only in supported post types
- NEW: Queue processing time  from to

Version:4.0.2 (11 NOV 2014) 
- Fix : some users get license deactivated automatically now fixed

Version:4.0.1 (29 October 2014) 
- New: Remove pinned image from queue instantly via ajax
- New: Search and replace texts for URL 
- Fix: Recent Pinterest change in boards fetching now updated to work for all users
- Fix: Detect image from the front end now works for all post types
- Fix: added new option to add all to the queue

Version:4.0.0 (15 October 2014) 
- NEW: Tags to board so you can now point posts with a specific tag to a specific board 
- NEW: Remove single post/pin from the queue 
- NEW: Responsive pinning queue which fits all screen sizes 
- NEW: Trigger cron via ajax by clicking run now 
- NEW: Auto clear log so you can set how many days log should be kept in DB 
- UI Improvements: Queue was rewritten to auto-update its items via ajax 
- UI Improvements: WordPress timezone considered before the plugin was using UTC time  
- UI Improvements: log rewritten to auto updates it's items via ajax 
- UI Improvements: Now you can see what was the last pin and visit it
- UI Improvements: New plugin icon with unicolor 
- Improvements: One request pin so the plugin can pin an image with just one call
- Improvements: Now the cron cannot be triggered twice at the same time
- Fix: Image src with + char in it was not pinned URL now get posted encoded 
- Fix: Some users get login failed due to recent Pinterest change now fixed

Version:3.3.0 (3 September 2014) 
- Fix: Recent Pinterest changes were generating weird chars at log now updated
- Fix: new lines in pin text was giving an error of invalid content. now fixed
- Fix: special characters at pin text were posting HTML chars like #am p now fixed
- Fix : [post_link] tag now shows the permalink instead of guid
- Fix: HTML tags stripping with post_excerpt and content before posting 
- Fix: categories parent-child now hierarchical in settings category to page option
- NEW: Proxy support: now users with blocked IP from Pinterest can use proxies
- NEW: images that are only visible via front-end can pin like shortcode generated images
- NEW: Full image now get extracted and posted from resized image
- NEW: Automatic updates support: now you will be able to automatically update the plugin
- NEW: Pinterest password is not shown as plain text in settings
- NEW: Auto excerpt generation
- NEW: Remove single item from the queue or single post support
- NEW: Auto update pin alt

Version:3.2.0   
- Fix: gallery images pinned as thumbnails 150X150 px now pins the full sized image.
- Fix : [post_tags] tag was not returning tags for custom post types. now it does.
- Fix : 3 minutes interval for pins were not accepted by the plugin it accepts it like 3-4
- Fix: some pinned image was getting auto checked.
- New: next pin arrival time added
- New: old support widget updated with opt-in removal and button to hide

Version:3.1.0 (28 June 2014)
- New: now you can reset the queue any time just visit the queue and click "Clear" 
- New: Cron interval: now you can set random value for pinning the items from the queue 
- Fix: TinyMCE editor separator caused an empty image in the pin box now sorted
- Fix: Main class was named Pinterest. class name changed.
- URGENT Fix: Pinterest changes something that made the plugin stop working as expected.

Version:3.0.1 (20 MAY 2014)
- URGENT Fix: Pinterest changes something that made the plugin stop working. sorted

Version:3.0.0 (25 FEB 2014)
- New: bulk pin option to select posts and pin them
- New: Category to board section to set image board according to the category
- New: Queuing system where one image get pinned every minute from the queue
- New: Custom field support where the plugin can now post from a custom field
- New: Custom taxonomies to list categories from in the category to board section
- New: added a Cron job 
- New: select all option to select all images at once
- New: custom jquery selector for listing images from
- New: instant update pin icon 
- Added: license verification

Version:2.0.4 (23  JAN 2014)
- bug fix: a recent bug fixed that made the plugin give an error when pinning.

Version:2.0.3 (16  JAN 2014)
- Fix: recent Pinterest change made the plugin get boards names as "undefined". Sorted.

Version:2.0.2 (27  OCT 2013)
- code update: fetch boards fixed after stopping work as Pinterest changed and plugin.

Version:2.0.1 (30  September 2013)
- Fix: code updated to work with a recent Pinterest change  
- Fix: Special characters in the title no more generate an internal server error  
- Fix: already pinned featured image now marked as pinned  

Version:2.0.0 (18  September 2013)
- New: Custom post types support  
- New: Bot posts support  
- New: WordPress e-commerce support  
- New: Custom post types support  
- New: Pinned images now marked as pinned   
- New: New pin text tags [image_alt],[post_content],[post_excerpt],[post_link],[post_author]
- Improvement: log is now more handy and informative 
- Improvement: curl exisit check added
- Improvement: plugin 'wp pinner' conflict exisit check added

Version:1.4.2 (21  July 2013)
- code update: Pinterest changed and plugin updated to work with the latest change.

Version:1.4.1(2  July 2013)
- Bug Fix: Pinterest changed its login form. plugin updated

Version:1.4.0 (6 June 2013)
- New Feature: option added for auto-checking the first image for being pinned.
- New Pinterest look support. old look no more supported 

Version:1.3.1 (4 MAY 2013)
- plugin now compatible with the Pinterest new look (old look no more supported)

Version:1.2.4 (8 JAN 2013)
- plugin now compatible with the last version of WordPress 3.5

Version:1.2.0 (25 APR 2012)
- Post featured image option addition
- Scheduled post support

Version:1.0.1 (25 APR 2012)
- Update Boards issue fix