Add-ons

This is the home of Broadcast, a content syndication / sharing plugin for WordPress. You can read more about the basic Broadcast plugin here. If you already have Broadcast and want to use it more effectively, perhaps you might be interested in the add-on packs below?

Premium pack v50.15, changelog

The premium pack consists of all four of the packs below – 160 add-ons!

3rd party pack v50.15, changelog

These add-ons act as glue between Broadcast and plugins from 3rd parties. They automatically detect features and do any extra work necessary to integrate the plugins during broadcasting. Some plugins don’t require their own special add-on.

Control pack v50.14, changelog

These add-ons give you extra control of what you broadcast and how.

  • All Blogs gives all users access to all of the blogs in the network.
  • All Blogs Superadmin allows only superadmins to broadcast to all blogs in the network without having to be a user of the blog.
  • All Images detects all referenced local images in post text fields and adds them to the broadcast.
  • Attachment Control allows better control of how attachments are handled during broadcasting.
  • Back To Parent updates the parent post with the new child content.
  • Comments adds support for broadcasting of comments.
  • Custom Field Attachments allows post custom field containing attachment IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
  • Custom Field Posts allows post custom field containing post IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
  • Custom Field Terms allows post custom field containing taxonomy term IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
  • Delete Before Broadcast deletes duplicate and similar child posts on each blog before broadcasting.
  • Gutenberg Attachments: Modify attachment IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
  • Gutenberg Menus: Modify menu IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
  • Gutenberg Posts: Modify post IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
  • Gutenberg Protect: Protects specific Gutenberg blocks from being overwritten during broadcasting.
  • Gutenberg Terms: Modify taxonomy term IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
  • Hreflang adds support for SEO-friendly hreflang html tags.
  • Keep Child Status keeps the status of post children to private, pending, published, draft, no matter the status of the parent.
  • Link Before Broadcast attempts to find unlinked children on each child blog during broadcast.
  • Local Files automatically copies local files to each blog and updates the links in the content.
  • Local Links automatically updates links to local posts on each child blog.
  • No New Terms prevents taxonomy terms from being created on child blogs.
  • More Children allows children to create more children of the parent.
  • Parent Pull allows content to be pulled from (parent) blogs.
  • Per Blog Author allows for individual control of the author for each child post.
  • Per Blog Taxonomies allows individual control of specific taxonomies for each child post.
  • Permalinks provides more precise control of permalinks for both parents and children.
  • Protect Child Properties prevent various properties of child posts from being overwritten.
  • Rebroadcast Parent Here: Rebroadcast the parent to this linked child..
  • Redirect All Children redirects single post views from visitors of child posts to the parent post.
  • Redirect Parent redirects all views of a parent post to the first child post.
  • Relink To Parent: Relink an unlinked child to the parent.
  • Same post ID: Create a new post on several blogs with the same post ID.
  • Scheduler automatically changes the publish date of child posts during broadcasting.
  • Search And Replace finds and replaces texts in posts during broadcast.
  • Shortcode Attachments automatically translates attachment IDs found in shortcodes when broadcasting.
  • Shortcode Menus automatically translates menu IDs found in shortcodes when broadcasting.
  • Shortcode Posts modifies post IDs found in shortcodes to match their equivalent posts on each blog.
  • Shortcode Terms automatically translates taxonomy term IDs found in shortcodes when broadcasting.
  • Skip If Unlinked does not broadcast to blogs that have an existing, unlinked post.
  • Term Meta Attachments: Allow taxonomy term meta containing attachment IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
  • Thumbnail Sizes allows for different thumbnail sizes for any additional sizes specified on each child blog.
  • Unlink On Edit unlinks child posts when they are modified.
  • Unlink On Edit Checkbox unlinks child posts when they are modified – via checkbox
  • Update Attachments updates existing attachments by copying over the files to the child blogs without first deleting the attachments.
  • Update Family updates the parent post and siblings when editing a child post.
  • User & Blog Settings (UBS) can hide the broadcast meta box and/or menu, modify the meta box to force/prevent broadcast to blogs, with separate settings for users / blogs / roles.
  • User & Blog Settings Post uses the modifications from the UBS plugin to broadcast posts with one click.

Efficiency pack v50.07, changelog

These add-ons allow you to broadcast more efficiently, saving you even more time.

  • Blog Groups 2 provides a means of groups blogs together, in order to be able to quickly select and unselect blogs from the Broadcast meta box.
  • Blog Search: Search and filter the blog list in the editor meta box.
  • Duplicate Attachments will duplicate the attachment and thumbnails, instead of letting WordPress regenerate them.
  • Find Some Unlinked Children can selectively link orphans / unlinked posts to parents, instead of automatically linking all found children.
  • New Blog Broadcast automatically broadcasts posts when creating a new blog.
  • Purge Children removes children and their attached files from child blogs.
  • Queue adds a broadcast queue which helps to broadcast posts to tens / hundreds / thousands of blogs.
  • Rebroadcast updates selected parent posts by using a bulk action.
  • Rebroadcaster: Periodically and automatically rebroadcast specific posts.
  • Send To Many allows mass broadcast of several posts to blogs at once.

Utilities pack v50.15, changelog

These add-ons do things semi-related to broadcasting, but are good to have none-the-less.

  • Bulk Cloner: creates clones of existing blogs on the network.
  • CDN Workaround: works around faulty CDNs that do not report the correct URL for attachments.
  • Code Snippets: Run code snippets on specific blogs.
  • Copy Options: copies blog options / settings between blogs.
  • Cron Everywhere: Runs WordPress cron periodically on all sites of the network.
  • Custom Field Cleanup: Cleans up the custom fields of a post.
  • Duplicate Post: Create a duplicate of a post using a bulk post action.
  • Lock Post allows users to lock editing of posts / pages to only themselves and super admins.
  • Manual Post Actions: manually runs bulk post actions on posts.
  • Media Cleanup: cleans up unused media by searching through the database.
  • Menus: copies menus between blogs (overwrite / update), with support for equivalent child posts on the child blogs and equivalent taxonomies.
  • Page Content Shortcode: provides a [bc_page_content slug="pageslug"] shortcode to display the contents of a page.
  • PHP Code: runs custom PHP code on selected blogs. Easily switch themes for all blogs, for example.
  • Shortcodes: provides arbitrary admin-defined global or local shortcodes.
  • Sitemaps: Generates network-aware sitemaps and robots.txt.
  • Sync Taxonomies: synchronizes the taxonomies of target blogs with those from a source blog.
  • User Role Sync: copies user roles between blogs.
  • Widgets: copies widget and sidebar settings between blogs.


Purchase the Premium Pack

  • Complete pack
  • $ 297
  • All add-ons from all four add-on packs
  • A download link to the pack
  • A license key, valid for one year, which is used for self-updates via the admin panel
  • The license is valid for all sites you run
  • Priority support via e-mail
  • Add to cart

Purchase individual packs

    • 3rd party pack
    • $ 97
    • All add-ons from the 3rd party pack
    • A download link to the pack
    • A license key, valid for one year, which is used for self-updates via the admin panel
    • The license is valid for all sites you run
    • Bug report support only
    • Add to cart
    • Control pack
    • $ 97
    • All add-ons from the control pack
    • A download link to the pack
    • A license key, valid for one year, which is used for self-updates via the admin panel
    • The license is valid for all sites you run
    • Bug report support only
    • Add to cart
    • Efficiency pack
    • $ 97
    • All add-ons from the efficiency pack
    • A download link to the pack
    • A license key, valid for one year, which is used for self-updates via the admin panel
    • The license is valid for all sites you run
    • Bug report support only
    • Add to cart
    • Utilities pack
    • $ 97
    • All add-ons from the utilities pack
    • A download link to the pack
    • A license key, valid for one year, which is used for self-updates via the admin panel
    • The license is valid for all sites you run
    • Bug report support only
    • Add to cart
  • Discounts are available to charities and developing countries. Contact me prior to purchase.


    Support

    For pre-sales questions, bug reports and support requests, please see my contact page.

    There is also a list of obsolete add-ons for the sake of archival.