Cross-Posting from WordPress to Social Media Sites

Overview

Issues and information related to cross-posting WordPress content to various social media sites.

Desired workflow

• Maintain and update content in my custom CMS.
• The Custom CMS posts to WordPress via its built-in XML-RPC listener.
• Either the site CMS or WordPress then submits that content to social media sites:
  • Facebook (author page, not personal page)
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter
  • Flickr

WordPress plugins

Next Scripts: Social Networks Auto Poster

This plugin automatically publishes posts from your blog to your Social Network accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc.

It supports posting to Facebook pages (as opposed to a personal Facebook timeline).

Plugin page on WordPress.org

Tumblr

Tumblerize

WordPress plugin.

I think it’s set up with the expectation that you’d be manually creating WordPress posts and selecting the cross-post to Tumbler option from there. I.e. it’s all manual. Not sure if it can be set up to automatically post to Tumbler after remotely posting to WP via XML-RPC.

Facebook

The goal is to post to a Facebook page as opposed to a Facebook user's timeline.

It is easier to post to a person's Facebook timeline than it is to post to a Facebook page.

There are WP plugins that allow you to cross-post to your personal Facebook page, but nothing at this date (October 2011) that makes it simple to cross-post to a Facebook page.

RSS Graffiti

Facebook app.

• Possible solution. Still under consideration.
• Setup & configuration:
  • Grant it permission to your personal account
  • Then grant it permission to the Facebook page.
  • Then add the feed to the list of feeds for the Facebook page.
  • I set this up to pull content from the RSS feed for blog.damienjay.com and post it on the Damien Jay Comics Facebook page. More about this once I have seen it actually pull from my RSS.

Twitter

I have this set up successfully with calls from the site CMS to the Flickr API.

TODO: add specific documentation.

Flickr

I have this set up successfully with calls from the site CMS to the Flickr API.

TODO: add specific documentation.