How to Automatically Post Website Contents to Social Networks With IFTTT

IFTTT is an online tool that lets you automatically post your WordPress site posts and content to social networks.

With the growing use of social networking users, these media have become an extremely important and influential place to advertise online businesses and attract the audience.

If you’ve ever used these social networks for your business, you’ve got to know the hard work. This case becomes more pronounced when you want to post a post on several social networks.

By using the IFTTT online tool, you can easily connect your WordPress website to your social networking sites, and you decide on posting any content posted on the website from hereafter on social networks, You can use it to automatically submit content to your social network.

The IFTTT service stands for If This Then Then, and actually serves as an intermediary between social networks and online platforms, and aims to speed things up and inform the user about essential things.

For example, you can specify that when you publish a link to the social networking site, this post is also published on your Facebook page.

In this post, we are going to teach you how to use this unique service and its capabilities.

ارسال پست های وبسایت با ifttt

Create an account at IFTTT

Sign up for this site after logging in to the IFTTT website. You can also easily log in with your Google Account or Facebook.

Create a new Applet

ساخت applet جدید در iftttt

 

Choose the service you want to share with

انتخاب سرویس iftttt

In this section, clicking on This + will allow you to choose the platform you want to share from other social media.

Here, we want to share WordPress content on other social networks such as Facebook and to automatically post it, then in this section, we need to choose WordPress.

Connect your WordPress website.

اتصال وبسایت به ifttt

In this section, you must enter your website address, username and password and click Connect. IFTTT stores your information and connects to your site to automatically post content.

Choose your Trigger option to automatically post content

انتخاب نوع trigger برای ارسال خودکار مطالب

In this section you have 2 options to choose from:

By selecting Any new post, you will publish any new content you post on your website on your chosen social network.

By selecting New post with tag or category, you can select a tag or category to only be posted on the social network to post the content automatically when an item is published with that tag or category on your website.

Choose the social network you want to publish content from your site

انتخاب شبکه اجتماعی برای ارسال خودکار مطالب

Now that you have connected WordPress, you have to click on the Social + Social network that you want to publish the contents of your WordPress website.

This operation is the same as the previous one and you just have to enter the name of your social network and select it. We will choose Facebook in this section.

 

Choose your preferred Trigger option for this social network.

انتخاب trigger برای شبکه های اجتماعی

Now you have 3 options for the post that will be published on Facebook:

By choosing Create a Status, the post that will be published on Facebook will be an update or status.

The suggested option for the Portuguese team is the “Create a link post” post where your link is located.

By selecting Upload a photo from url, a photo of your link will be select and publish as an album.

Edit posting on this social network

ویرایش پست برای ارسال در شبکه های اجتماعی

In this section,

you need to specify what kind of content you want to publish on this social network, what features and sections.

In the Link URL section, you must select the Post Url,

and in the Message section, you must specify the text that you want to publish along with your site’s link.

پایان ارسال خودکار مطالب با ifttt

After completing this section, it’s all about! You have successfully connected your WordPress website to your social network,

and from now on, every post that you publish on your website will also be posted on your social page.

If you want to connect your website to other social networks,

which our recommendation is the same, the process is exactly the same as described in the steps,

and you just have to repeat the same for those social networks.

SUMMARY

Creating these applets is a great way to interact with your social audience by being notified when an opportunity presents itself. Additionally,  the more applets you have set up, the more active your social accounts are. By simply by doing and reading things you already do, you can automate your social media strategy without having to take out time in the day to make sure you share your activity, recommendations, and shout outs.

 

Just be mindful of how many times you share or like something that is set up to automatically push to be shared by one of your pages. Every social media platform is different and has different best practices for what and how often you share. For more information on how often you should share on each platform, check out our article, “Should I Post More or Less on Social Media”.

 

Remember, knowing how often to post is half the battle, it’s only going to benefit you if you know what to post on social media.

 

But if you’re still struggling to figure out what to post for your business and your niche, then I definitely recommend checking out our super awesome Monthly Marketing Solved. We’ll provide the content, scheduling, email subject lines, and much more!

 

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