=== QuickPinMaker: Pinterest Agent, Save Buttons and Rich Pins ===
Contributors: quickpinmaker
Tags: pinterest, woocommerce, affiliate, rich pins, pin it button
Requires at least: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.8
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Connect your blog or WooCommerce store to Pinner, the QuickPinMaker Pinterest agent. Draft posts and pins from trends and sales. You approve everything.

== Description ==

QuickPinMaker helps bloggers, affiliate marketers and store owners grow with Pinterest.

Connect your site and Pinner, the QuickPinMaker agent, can work with your real content:

* Read your posts, categories and tags, so pin ideas match what you already publish.
* With WooCommerce, read your products and your store sales, so you promote what sells.
* Find topics and products that are trending in your niche and write draft posts for them.
* Add affiliate products to your store as drafts, with the buy button linking to the store.
* With ThirstyAffiliates or Pretty Links, see which affiliate links your readers click most, and pin those products first.
* With Easy Digital Downloads, see your best selling printables, courses and other digital products, and make pins for them.
* Make pin images, GIFs and video pins for any post or product with the free QuickPinMaker tools.
* Prepare a pin draft each time a post or product goes live.

Pinner never publishes on its own. Posts and products are always created as drafts, each change waits for your approval in the chat, and pins go to Pinterest only when you approve them.

The plugin also works on its own, without connecting:

* **Save buttons** on images in posts and products, so visitors can pin them. No outside script is loaded.
* **Rich pin tags**: the Open Graph tags Pinterest reads for article and product pins, with price and stock for products. Skipped when your SEO plugin already adds them.
* **Domain verification**: paste the code from Pinterest to claim your website.

== External services ==

This plugin connects to QuickPinMaker (https://quickpinmaker.com), a service for creating and scheduling Pinterest pins. It is only used after an administrator presses Connect on the settings screen.

* When you connect, your browser goes to platform.quickpinmaker.com to sign in and approve the site. The plugin then sends your site address, the address of its Pinner endpoint and a randomly generated access key to api.quickpinmaker.com.
* While connected, QuickPinMaker calls the Pinner endpoint on your site (/wp-json/quickpinmaker/v1/mcp) with that key, when you ask Pinner to work with your site. It can read posts, products, store sales, affiliate link names, destinations and click counts, and digital product sales, and create drafts.
* If "New posts to Pinner" is on, the title, link, excerpt and main image address of a post, product or download are sent to api.quickpinmaker.com when it is first published.
* When you disconnect, the plugin tells api.quickpinmaker.com to remove the connection and deletes the key.

The Save button links to pinterest.com when a visitor clicks it. Nothing is loaded from Pinterest before that click.

QuickPinMaker terms: https://quickpinmaker.com/terms/
QuickPinMaker privacy policy: https://quickpinmaker.com/privacy/
Pinterest terms: https://policy.pinterest.com/terms-of-service
Pinterest privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy

== Installation ==

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Go to Settings, QuickPinMaker.
3. Press Connect to QuickPinMaker, sign in or create a free account, and approve your site.
4. Open Pinner and ask, for example: "Which of my products should I pin this month?"

Your site must use https for Pinner to connect.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Can Pinner publish or change my live content? =

No. It can only create drafts, and every draft waits for your approval in the chat. Published posts and products are never edited.

= What does Pinner see? =

Posts, pages, categories, products and order totals (counts, revenue and best selling products). It does not receive customer names, emails or addresses.

= How do I stop it? =

Press Disconnect on the settings screen. The key is deleted, so QuickPinMaker can no longer reach your site.

= Does it work without WooCommerce? =

Yes. Without WooCommerce, Pinner works with your posts, and with your affiliate links or digital products if you use one of the plugins below.

= Which affiliate and shop plugins does it work with? =

WooCommerce (including external and affiliate products), ThirstyAffiliates, Pretty Links and Easy Digital Downloads. Pinner reads them; it never changes your links or downloads.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.
