Title: DailyBrief Author: Danny Froberg Published: February 25, 2019 Last modified: June 2, 2021 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/dailybrief/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2039014) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/dailybrief/assets/icon.svg?rev=2039014) # DailyBrief By [Danny Froberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfroberg/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dailybrief.zip) * [Details](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/dailybrief/#description) * [Reviews](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/dailybrief/#reviews) * [Development](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/dailybrief/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dailybrief/) ## Description DailyBrief is designed to solve two fundamental problems many new WordPress users find themselves with; first what to send people subscribing to a email newsletter and second when they first begin to publish on the blockchain; The dreaded SPAM label. Producing too many posts daily on steem hits a cultural bias many anti-abuse teams adhere to “More than 4 posts a day is always SPAM”. DailyBrief compiles a summary of all posts made during a particular day complete with featured images, meta information, and excerpts. It also creates a table of contents, inserts headers and footers with optional macros that auto-fill in article counts, tags and categories used in the processed articles. > **Important: The plugin is primarily intended to be used alongside [Exxp](https://wordpress.org/plugins/exxp_wp/) > the WordPress to Hive integration solution. If you want to publish your daily > briefs to steem you need to install [Exxp](https://wordpress.org/plugins/exxp_wp/) > first.** > **Note: This plugin requires PHP 5.6 or higher to be activated.** ** > Note: Automated tests for PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7,3, 7.4 are made on each commit.** > [](https://github.com/dfroberg/dailybrief) ### Features * Daily automated brief generated for previous day (if any posts was published that day). * Automatic integration with your Exxp installation. ### Languages We plan to use GlotPress on WordPress.org, so if you want to translate DailyBrief to your language please [follow this guidelines](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/rosetta/theme-plugin-directories/=translating-themes-plugins). ### See room for improvement? Great! There are several ways you can get involved to help make Dailybrief better: 1. **Report Bugs:** If you find a bug, error or other problem, please report it! You can do this by [creating a new topic](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dailybrief) in the plugin forum. Once a developer can verify the bug by reproducing it, they will create an official bug report in GitHub where the bug will be worked on. 2. **Suggest New Features:** Have an awesome idea? Please share it! Simply [create a new topic](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dailybrief) in the plugin forum to express your thoughts on why the feature should be included and get a discussion going around your idea. 3. **Check out our Github:** Take a look at the code; [GitHub](https://github.com/dfroberg/dailybrief) Thank you for wanting to make DailyBrief better for everyone! [We salute you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPf6L0XNvM). ### Roadmap * Multi-user functionality to work with StemPress 2.3+ * Multi-focus categories. * Multi-period support; daily, weekly, monthly briefs. * Ajaxify the options panel to make things a lot easier!!! * High frequency post sites support for sites that requires multiple briefs per day. ## Screenshots * [[ * Automatic Preview gives you a pretty good overview on how your post will look on Steem. * [[ * Table of Contents. * [[ * Footer and Manual Brief Generation button. * [[ * Options 1 * [[ * Options 2 * [[ * Options 3 ## FAQ ### Can daily briefs be generated via WP CLI? Yes, check [WP-CLI-README](https://github.com/dfroberg/dailybrief/blob/master/WP-CLI-README.md) to learn how. ### Can I temporarily disable generation of daily briefs? Yes, go to settings and set pause to Yes. ### Can I generate daily briefs as drafts? Yes, go to settings and set publish to No. ### If I haven’t written any posts will Daily Brief publish empty briefs? No, if it detects that there is nothing to summarize it will skip post creation. ### Can I create the Briefs manually and not rely on CRON jobs? Yes, Set “CRON Pause” to on and use the preview windows “Generate Now” button to create the briefs. ### How do I fix 404 / page not found when clicking on a post link in a brief? Take a look at the URL Suffix ‘?campaign=xxxxx’ etc and prefix it i.e. ‘?utm_campaign =xxxxxx’ and see if it helps, there is a slew of reserved parameters that is a terrible idea to use; [Reserved Terms](https://codex.wordpress.org/Reserved_Terms), many plugins also take ownership of specific parameters, so a bit of trial and error might be required. **Test links in your Preview**. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “DailyBrief” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Danny Froberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfroberg/) [Translate “DailyBrief” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dailybrief) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dailybrief/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dailybrief/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dailybrief/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dailybrief/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.05 — 2 of June, 2021 * Fixed some stability issues in debug information. #### 1.1.01 — 1 of June, 2021 * Fixed typo in Helper plugin detection #### 1.1.00 — 27 of May, 2021 * Replaced integration of SteemPress with Exxp 2.6.8 plugin, plus added warnings if SteemPress plugin is still in use and disable publishing if that is the case. #### 1.0.40 — 3 of March, 2021 * Compatibility check with WP 5.5 #### 1.0.39 — 24 of August, 2020 * Compatibility check with WP 5.5 and SteemPress 2.6.3. #### 1.0.38 — 11 of June, 2020 * Compatibility check with WP 5.4.2 and SteemPress 2.6.3. #### 1.0.37 — 8 of January, 2020 * Compatibility check for WP 5.3 and SteemPress 2.6. #### 1.0.36 — 30 of September, 2019 * Compatibility check for WP 5.2.3 and SteemPress 2.6. #### 1.0.35 — 10 of June, 2019 * Compatibility check for WP 5.2.1 and SteemPress 2.4.1. #### 1.0.34 — 5 of April, 2019 * Fix: More workarounds setting featured image of the post dynamically while using CDN etc. #### 1.0.33 — 4 of April, 2019 * Fix: Workaround for catching and setting featured image of the post dynamically while using CDN etc. #### 1.0.32 — 3 of April, 2019 * Fix: Show warning in debug screen if steempress is detected and post is too large. #### 1.0.31 — 1 of April, 2019 * Fix: Ensure character limit is only respected if SteemPress is installed and active, as there are other uses for DailyBrief. * Add: Enable or Disable Article title links. * Fix: Strip shortcodes from excerpts. * Fix: Some display fixes in preview and generated posts. * Fix: Make sure your text is smaller than 65280 characters. #### 1.0.30 — 18 of March, 2019 * Fix: Debug aside covered options screens on small screen devices. * Fix: Fixed select2 JS error on multiple=true and removed it since it’s not needed. #### 1.0.29 — 7 of March, 2019 * New: Enabled select2 & multiple focus categories. #### 1.0.28 — 26 of February, 2019 * Fix: Filled out some more information on how to get support. #### 1.0.27 — 26 of February, 2019 * Fix: To avoid conflicts change the default url suffix from campaign to utm_campaign, there seems to conflicts where campaign parameter causes 404’s. #### 1.0.26 — 22 of February, 2019 * Fix: Add extra checks for missing CRON job, plugin not activated properly or upgraded without activate/deactivate. #### 1.0.25 — 22 of February, 2019 * Fix: Ensuring compatibility with Windows 5.1 * Fix: More preview window style fixes. * New: Added generate manually now button to Preview window for those that really want to do things manually. * Fix: An logical error in CRON pause resolved. #### 1.0.24 — 21 of February, 2019 * Fix: Rework Admin GUI & Try getting the timezone to display properly. * Add: Make sidebar display debug information of Debug option is on. #### 1.0.23 — 20 of February, 2019 * Fix: Date selection for periods and single day to include hours * Fix: Reorder Period selection fields plus adding more verbose debug information. * Fix: Category exclusions * Fix: Add new options to Internal CRON job. #### 1.0.22 — 19 of February, 2019 * Fix: Admin GUI layout and position of options. * Fix: WP Cron activator / de-activator. * New: Make cron_pause an option, pause post creation, this will skip post creation entirely. #### 1.0.21 — 14 of February, 2019 * Fix: Add try catch for scheduling timestamp in cron. * New: Make cron_publish an option, this is practical if you’re not quite ready with your setup or wish to pause creation of daily briefs. #### 1.0.20 — 13 of February, 2019 * Fix: Set internal CRON to fire “tomorrow” after midnight taking WP timezone into consideration. #### 1.0.19 — 8 of February, 2019 * New: Implement internal CRON to fire once a day for now. Should suffice for basic usage. #### 1.0.18 — 8 of February, 2019 * New: Implement focus category setting; Enable briefs about a particular subject. #### 1.0.17 — 8 of February, 2019 * Fix: Ensure that the category you post Daily Briefs to is always skipped from daily brief sourcing. * Fix: User names now full names for readability on settings screens. #### 1.0.16 — 7 of February, 2019 * Improvement: Added Admin GUI preview for Dailybrief posts (steemit:ish version). #### 1.0.0 — 4 of January, 2019 * Improvement: Added Admin GUI for settings. #### 0.0.9 — 17 of December, 2018 * First initial WP_CLI version. ## Meta * Version **1.1.05** * Last updated **5 years ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.7.15** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dailybrief/) * Tags * [blockchain](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blockchain/)[generation](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/generation/) [hive](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hive/) * [Advanced View](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/dailybrief/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dailybrief/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dailybrief/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Danny Froberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dfroberg/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dailybrief/)