How to Automating Your Social Media Accounts For Your WordPress Site – All in One Go! With If This Then That

In all most all cases, social media marketers and every other pro out there tries to find ways to automate repetitive tasks. It saves a huge amount of time! And Time is Money – Spend your time on something that makes you more productive.

The automation options are categorized into 2 groups:

Automation tools that cover a whole range of social media channels

Tools which cover a limited number of channels – 5 to 10, or even one, as in the case of channel specific plugins.

Social Automation Tools – Multiple Channel Options

If you want to automate all of your social media accounts, an all encompassing tools might be best for you. Here are a few different options to consider for your WordPress site.

If This Then That

The first one that comes to mind is not a plugin but a service called IFTTT, which expands to If This Then That. With this service, you can create a set of triggers which, when set off, can initiate a set of responses.

As an example, you can pick WordPress under ‘This’ as below

After you have filled in your site details, you can pick the social media channel that you want to post to under ‘That’. Some of the Social media channels that are covered are,

Once this is done, you have established the channels you want your content to be automatically posted to. For this service to work, you must also configure your WordPress site to post automatically. This is quite simple – head to General Settings > Writing and enable XML-RPC. For versions of WordPress 3.5 and higher, this functionality is automatically enabled.

And remember, this service can be made to work in reverse as well, by switching the ‘This’ and ‘That’ options. By reversing, you can use this feature to gather all the social media blips about yourself and archive it in one place.

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