Connector for VozCaster

Changelog

1.10.1

• Fix: strings added in recent versions (the AI content notice, the VozCaster pages, the connect shortcode) showed in English on sites using a language pack from translate.wordpress.org that did not have them yet. The translation shipped with the plugin now fills in whatever the language pack is missing.

1.10.0

• New: [vozcaster_connect] shortcode — the “Connect in Telegram” buttons on any page of the site, with a login link for visitors and a notice for users without access. Optional feed attribute to show a single podcast.
• New: Review before publishing (VozCaster → Access). Episodes and posts from roles that cannot publish posts in WordPress are saved as “Pending review”, and the administrator receives an email to approve them.
• Change: episode numbering also counts pending and scheduled episodes, so episodes waiting for review never share a number; ties between episodes created in the same second are broken by ID.

1.9.0

• New: podcast data from the bot. /podcast shows and changes the show data PowerPress publishes in the feed — title, description, artwork, Apple Podcasts category, author/owner, owner email, language and explicit — for the main feed, custom channels and category feeds, with a checklist of what platforms need. New REST endpoint GET/POST /podcast.
• New: distribution to platforms. VozCaster → Distribute (and /difundir in the bot) lists Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, iVoox, Amazon Music, Podcast Index, Pocket Casts, Castbox and Deezer by importance, with submit and search links and a status per platform. New REST endpoint GET/POST /distribution.

1.8.1

• Fix: saving a form on the Audio, Access or History page went back to the Episodes page instead of staying on the same page.

1.8.0

• New: VozCaster menu in wp-admin. Everyone authorised sees Connect; administrators also get Episodes, Audio, Access and History, which replace the single long page under Settings → VozCaster (old links redirect).
• New: connect the bot from wp-admin. VozCaster → Connect has a “Connect in Telegram” button for each podcast; it opens the bot, which asks for confirmation and connects you. No address to type and no second login. /conectar still works.
• New: permissions by role. The per-user allowlist and the per-podcast permissions are gone: every role that can publish posts (Author and above) can publish from the bot, in every podcast, and administrators can authorise custom roles as well. The settings screen lists the connected users with a Revoke button.
• New: AI content notice. Posts whose text was written by AI show a short notice, on by default, with customisable text and position, and a per-post option to hide it. It is rendered by the plugin, so changes apply to all posts.
• New: optional “Published with VozCaster” credit line, off by default.
• Fix: an allowlisted user without the capability to publish (e.g. a Contributor) could publish episodes directly.
• Security: bot tokens are now stored hashed. Existing connections are migrated automatically and keep working.

1.7.1

• Fix: episodes published by the bot never set PowerPress’s per-episode “Apple Podcast Episode Artwork” (itunes_image) — only the regular WordPress featured image. It had to be filled in by hand every time. New episodes now get it automatically from the same image (the one uploaded by the bot, or the podcast’s default cover as fallback). Episodes published before this fix are unaffected — their Apple Podcasts artwork field stays empty until edited manually or the episode is republished.

1.7.0

• New “Image style” setting under Settings → VozCaster: fixed text prepended to every AI-generated cover image prompt for this podcast (e.g. a recurring subject or look). Previously only settable from the bot with /estilo, and stored only in the bot’s own database — it now lives on the site (GET/POST /settings), so /estilo and wp-admin both read and write the same value.

1.6.1

• Season change now reports the real next episode number instead of always announcing E1: reverting to a season that already has published episodes continues from the last one (e.g. back to T3E6, not T3E1). New season with no episodes still starts at E1.
• POST /season/increment returns next_episode_number and next_episode_in_season.

1.6.0

• Season number: any authorised user who can edit posts can now view and change the podcast season from the bot with /temporada — it no longer requires a WordPress administrator. /temporada 4 fixes the season to a given number after a confirmation prompt; /temporada on its own shows the current season and offers a one-tap jump to the next one.
• Season number is now shown and editable under Settings → VozCaster.
• Reconciliation: if an editor bumps the season directly in the PowerPress episode box, the connector adopts it instead of silently reverting to the stored value. Moving to a season below the latest published episode still requires editing that episode.

1.5.15

• Performance: the episode log no longer autoloads on every request. Existing installs are migrated automatically on first load after the update.
• Hardening: the PowerPress enclosure field is now read with unserialize() restricted to allowed_classes => false, ruling out PHP object injection.
• Accessibility: added accessible labels to the per-user permission checkboxes and to the intro/outro file pickers on the settings screen.
• Code quality: the category-feed lookup now goes through $wpdb->prepare(), and uninstall.php carries an explicit ABSPATH guard.

1.5.14

• Fixed a fatal error on audio episode upload: wp-admin/includes/media.php (which defines wp_read_audio_metadata()) was not loaded in the REST API request context, causing attachment metadata generation to fail for audio files.

1.5.13

• Added plugin banner, icon and screenshots for the WordPress.org listing.

1.5.12

• Documentation: corrected the “paid account” FAQ to describe the free and Pro tiers of the VozCaster bot (removed outdated “beta” wording).

1.5.11

• Settings-changing REST endpoints (global intro/outro, mix settings, plugin options, season) now require an administrator capability, not just an authorised bot user.
• The media picker script on the settings screen is now enqueued via admin_enqueue_scripts and wp_localize_script instead of inline output.
• Core admin includes in the REST upload helpers are loaded only where needed, immediately before the function that uses them.

1.5.10

• Passes Plugin Check with no errors. File operations during chunked audio assembly now use the WordPress Filesystem API; output escaping, input unslashing and wp_parse_url() applied where flagged.
• The Telegram connection result pages are now fully translatable (English source strings with an updated Spanish es_ES translation).

1.5.9

• Hardened the REST authentication token handling (sanitised header input).
• Documentation: the “External Services” section and FAQ now disclose the AI providers used by the VozCaster bot to generate episode text (Anthropic) and cover images (OpenAI). Your audio is never sent to these providers; only text is.

1.5.8

• Spanish (es_ES) translation added. The plugin automatically displays in Spanish on WordPress installations set to Spanish.

1.5.7

• Renamed from VozPress Connector to Connector for VozCaster to align with WordPress.org plugin guidelines on naming.
• Endpoint /episode/next-number now also returns the chapter number within the current season so the bot can name uploaded media files using the season+chapter scheme.

1.5.6

• /episode/next-number includes episode_no_in_season for season-aware media file naming.

1.3.2

• Feed detection now includes PowerPress “category podcasting” feeds. Each linked category is exposed as a feed using the category slug.
• assign_podcast_category() no longer creates new categories — prevents duplicate “Podcast” categories on sites with custom slugs.

1.3.1

• Season and chapter-within-season numbering derived from the previous published episode’s PowerPress metadata, instead of the previous year-based heuristic.
• Multi-feed detection now reads from powerpress_general.custom_feeds — the per-podcast permissions UI in wp-admin now appears correctly on sites with PowerPress custom channels.

1.3.0

• All admin UI strings translated and properly wrapped in i18n functions.
• Added == External Services == section to readme.

1.2.x

• Multi-feed support: per-feed permissions, automatic category assignment, per-feed episode counters.
• Chunked audio upload with gzip compression for large files (>25 MB).
• Manual season increment via REST endpoint and /temporada command in the bot.

1.1.x

• Intro and outro mixing with configurable ducking.
• Settings endpoints for remote configuration from the bot.
• Transcript attachment via REST endpoint.

1.0.x

• Initial release: /ping, /auth/verify, /media/audio, /media/image, /episode REST endpoints.
• Token-based authentication using wp_check_password().
• Settings page with access token and episode log.