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Title: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 09:00:57 AM
Anybody have any experience in this? Looking to set this up on my Wordpress based blogs. There seems to be a few different ways of doing it...
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: KingIsaacLinksr on September 21, 2011, 09:53:07 AM
Quote from: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 09:00:57 AM
Anybody have any experience in this? Looking to set this up on my Wordpress based blogs. There seems to be a few different ways of doing it...

Easy.  Go to your Dashboard - Settings - Sharing - Connect to _________ network.  :)

King

P.S...wait are you or Wordpress hosting your blogs?
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 10:05:10 AM
Quote from: KingIsaacLinksr on September 21, 2011, 09:53:07 AM
Quote from: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 09:00:57 AM
Anybody have any experience in this? Looking to set this up on my Wordpress based blogs. There seems to be a few different ways of doing it...

Easy.  Go to your Dashboard - Settings - Sharing - Connect to _________ network.  :)

King

P.S...wait are you or Wordpress hosting your blogs?

My websites are wordpress installed on the dreamhost provider.
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: KingIsaacLinksr on September 21, 2011, 10:15:27 AM
Quote from: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 10:05:10 AM
Quote from: KingIsaacLinksr on September 21, 2011, 09:53:07 AM
Quote from: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 09:00:57 AM
Anybody have any experience in this? Looking to set this up on my Wordpress based blogs. There seems to be a few different ways of doing it...

Easy.  Go to your Dashboard - Settings - Sharing - Connect to _________ network.  :)

King

P.S...wait are you or Wordpress hosting your blogs?

My websites are wordpress installed on the dreamhost provider.

Ahh...my bad, then I'm not so sure..

King
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Rico on September 21, 2011, 10:50:47 AM
I have an addon (plugin) setup on my Wordpress (main TSF page) to do this.  I still have to click the little Facebook or Twitter icon after I make a new post.  Can't recall the exact name of the plugin, but I can get it for you later.  Go to this post and look near the bottom and you will see the little tag icons I mean.

http://treksinscifi.com/podcast_notes/?p=1890 (http://treksinscifi.com/podcast_notes/?p=1890)
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 11:04:30 AM
Quote from: Rico on September 21, 2011, 10:50:47 AM
I have an addon (plugin) setup on my Wordpress (main TSF page) to do this.  I still have to click the little Facebook or Twitter icon after I make a new post.  Can't recall the exact name of the plugin, but I can get it for you later.  Go to this post and look near the bottom and you will see the little tag icons I mean.

http://treksinscifi.com/podcast_notes/?p=1890 (http://treksinscifi.com/podcast_notes/?p=1890)

Ah yes thanks I'll check this out. Probably better than auto post actually.
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: billybob476 on September 21, 2011, 11:09:48 AM
I don't really care for auto posting, doesn't take much to write up a little tweet pointing at your blog post. More genuine :)
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 12:09:27 PM
Quote from: billybob476 on September 21, 2011, 11:09:48 AM
I don't really care for auto posting, doesn't take much to write up a little tweet pointing at your blog post. More genuine :)

True. Not that I've really started posting yet. Really got to get my finger out! :)
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: RickPeete on September 21, 2011, 12:45:22 PM
I use a free service at twitterfeed.com that will monitor your blogs and post statuses on FaceBook and Twitter whenever new postings have been made on them.  It works pretty well.
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 12:57:20 PM
Quote from: RickPeete on September 21, 2011, 12:45:22 PM
I use a free service at twitterfeed.com that will monitor your blogs and post statuses on FaceBook and Twitter whenever new postings have been made on them.  It works pretty well.

Thanks Rick
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Rico on September 21, 2011, 06:55:11 PM
The plugin I'm using is called, Share This.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/ (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/)

The neat thing about this is it lets other who read a post of yours then click the little button and post it to their Facebook or Twitter accounts.
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Dangelus on September 21, 2011, 07:14:48 PM
Thanks Rico I'll check it out. :)
Title: Re: Auto posting blog posts to Facebook / Twitter?
Post by: Kevin Bachelder on September 22, 2011, 12:43:59 PM
I use the WordTwit plugin to auto post on Twitter...

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordtwit/ (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordtwit/)

This plugin is done by the folks who do the awesome WP Touch plugin that makes your blog look great on smartphones and smaller browsers.

http://www.bravenewcode.com/store/plugins/wptouch-pro/ (http://www.bravenewcode.com/store/plugins/wptouch-pro/)

To paste on our Facebook fan page I use the Facebook app 'RSS Graffiti'.  It can post things from any RSS feed.

http://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti (http://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti)


Good luck,

Kevin