Hello friends! As you all know social networking sites are an important source of traffic for many websites today. There are many social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Delicious, and Plurk, etc. All of them are useful for introducing your new followers to your precious content. This helps you engage users on social media, build a strong following, and bring traffic to your website.
When you publish a new blog post, do you manually go to several different social networks and share your post? If your response is in the positive, you are on the right track. Sharing manually is good because you can add personal touch to each post, as opposed to sending out the same thing to all of your social networks. It is however a time-consuming process. On days when you may not have the time to spare for sharing your new content manually, you may consider posting it automatically. This is the option many bloggers are exercising in the market today for the sharing process. This is not only easier, but highly convenient as well. In this post we will show you how to automatically share your WordPress posts to keep them alive and make all your social accounts kicking.
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A Plugin from Next-scripts called social network auto-poster will help you do all the work with ease. This Plugin automatically publishes posts from your blog to your Social Network accounts. You just need to write a new post and back-link it with this Plugin and your post will get published in all your configured social networks. The most pertinent point here is to remember that the Plugin works with profiles, business pages, community pages, groups, etc. The first thing you need to do here is to install and activate Plugin. Social Networks Auto Poster [SNAP] is a regular WordPress plugin written according to all WordPress specifications for plugin development.
Steps to install the Social Networks Auto Poster Plugin in WordPress.
The way we install here is called 'automated installation'. There is also a process known as manual installation where you need to download the plugin and upload the contents of the zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/.
- Go to Plugins -> Add New from the list of menu. Search for the NextScripts Social Networks plugin and then click Install.
- Now Click "Activate Plugin".
- After activation of plugin -> Goto SNAP -> Click New Account.
- In our example, we will give steps to create facebook app whose guided information is posted here - http://www.nextscripts.com/instructions/facebook-social-networks-auto-poster-setup-installation/
- After creating facebook app we have got the Facebook App ID, Facebook App Secret, Facebook Canvas URL which is shown below.
- Later you can setup another social networks.
Settings & Configuration
- Once your plugin is activated, go to settings and configure the plugin. The action can be configured individually and you can setup the posts to be published to specified social networks.
- You can choose what networks this poster should post to.
- One can set the parameters through the option of Additional URL Parameters.
- Once your configuration completes just click on update settings at the end. Now your Plugin is ready to post as you would like.
This is how you can install and configure the Plugin to automatically share your blog posts to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Let us also know which particular method you use. Do you choose to manually share your blog posts, or prefer to share them automatically through the method discussed above or by some other method? Please stay connected with us and do share your experiences in the 'comments' below.
