MicroBlog poster qTranslateX

We have a new setting ‘Apply filters prior to auto publishing’ which when checked filters the following shortcodes before the auto publishing action.

Shortcodes filtered:
{TITLE} , {MANUAL_EXCERPT} , {EXCERPT} , {CONTENT_FIRST_WORDS}

This will probably resolve the issue you have.

Ok, thx, that might help.

Are you talking about filters in the meaning of WP hooks?

What’s the name of the filters/hooks that I have to use? Is there any documentation available?

If you check the setting ‘Apply filters prior to auto publishing’ your content will be cleaned up before it is sent to social networks.
No documentation needed, you only have to enable WP filtering of content and we do the rest.

We assume that qTranslateX registered a function with the content WP filter so it will be called prior to auto publishing. Normally your content auto published should be the same as on your site.

Ok, got it. Thought you’re talking about a hook and a plugin I would have to code myself.

AFAIK qTranslate’s filtering works according to an externally given language code that’s normally part of the URL (or a cookie). Both things (URL and cookie) are provided by the browser, but the cron job initiating Micro Blog Poster kind of works internally.

So, how can I tell Micro Blog Poster what language it has to use?

Right.. so the best is to give it a try. We didn’t test with qTranslateX so we can’t be sure that checking this setting will do it.
Maybe that when external language (url or cookie) isn’t set qTranslate has a default one. If our guess is right that it uses filter hooks to do the content filtering it should work.
Otherwise let us know and we’ll try to test ourself.

Well, filtering works and extracts the default language content, but there’s quite some unusual (not nice) behaviour left as the plugin starts posting things while automatic posting option is disabled. To boot that automatic posting publishes the same article 3 times. Check the following screenshots below:

3 equal posts on Facebook

Automatic posting disabled

Sorry guys, but paying for the pro version was wasting money…

Yeah, this is strange however..

When our ‘Auto publish old posts’ feature is disabled there is no chance that the plugin auto posts old entries.

Second we have an extra security which prevents auto posting more than once a single blog post.