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Carl Riedel
Carl Riedel

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I open-sourced a tiny PHP library that turns a photo into a Pinterest pin

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Making Pinterest pins by hand does not scale. If you publish content and want a pin for every post, you want it in code.

So I pulled the pin renderer out of my project and open-sourced it. It is pure PHP and GD, no dependencies, MIT licensed.

php
use SyndiKit\Pin\PinImage;

$pin = (new PinImage())
    ->font(__DIR__ . '/fonts/bold.ttf')
    ->accent(21, 88, 214);

$pin->save('photo.jpg', 'How to Grow Tomatoes in Pots', 'pin.webp', 'mysite.com');
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Give it a photo and a title, and it renders a clean 1000x1500 pin, plus a 1.91:1 version for Open Graph and Twitter cards. The photo fills the top, an accent bar divides the frame, and the title auto-fits onto a readable panel.

Install it with composer require carlstarus/syndikit-pin, or just drop in the single class file.

Repo: [(https://github.com/carlstarus/syndikit-pin)]

It came out of building SyndiKit, which automatically builds and syndicates full content sites to Pinterest. Happy to answer questions about how the rendering works.

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