# DailyBrief  DailyBrief is a WordPress plugin that provides a post summary of all WordPress posts written a during a day. **Contributors:** [dfroberg](http://profiles.wordpress.org/dfroberg) **Tags:** [content+generation](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content+generation), [generation](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/generation), [exxp](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/exxp), [blockchain](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blockchain), [hive](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hive), [briefs](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/briefs), [monetization](http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monetization) **Requires at least:** 4.7 **Tested up to:** 5.7 **Stable tag:** trunk (master) **License:** [GPLv2 or later](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) **Donation Link:** https://steemit.com/@dfroberg ## 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. ## 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  ## 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](http://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](http://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). ## Frequently Asked Questions ## ### 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**. ## 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. ## 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.