Author: joedolson

XPoster supports a number of user role specific permissions that help you control what your active users are allowed to do. There are five configurable permissions. Administrators always have permission to do everything. Can send Status updates Allows a user to send status updates to all connected services. This controls whether the XPoster metabox is […]

The jotURL shortener is a high-end shortener that applies a variety of safety checks and marketing information about about the content you’re linking. This is helpful if your sharing and following audiences need a higher confidence than normal that the content you’re sharing is safe, secure, and up to date. Configuration is much like any […]

YOURLS will need the URL where you send queries for shortening URLS and your YOURLS signature token. The YOURLS signature token can be retrieved from your YOURLS administration pages. Additionally, YOURLS supports a few different options within XPoster for how short URLS are created. They can use the post ID (which may look like https://your.ls/7328), […]

The link manager was removed from WordPress in version 3.5; but the base level code is still present, and can be enabled using the Link Manager plugin. If you have the link manager available, you can use these fields to configure Tweets when you add a link to your blogroll or another list of links. […]

Google Analytics settings allow you to configure UTM parameters for your XPoster links. These will work either with or without a URL shortener. By default, no analytics are enabled. You can set them up with either a static campaign identifier (the same code added to all links), or with a dynamic identifier. The dynamic identifier […]

Status update controls customize details about when post statuses will be sent. Do not post statuses by default This is separate from the Basic Setting that enables publishing post statuses. That enables status updates for that post type; this adjusts the default setting for whether a given post will be posted. With the default settings, […]

Template settings allow you to customize various additional aspects of how templates are generated. Post excerpt length in characters What portion of the post should be used as the post excerpt in status updates. The post excerpt is taken from the post excerpt field if that is filled in, but otherwise is extracted from the […]

Tag settings provide ways for you to customize how post tags are converted into hashtags in your templates – the output of the #tags# template tag. There are five key customizations available: Strip nonalphanumeric characters from tags By default, the basis for tags is to use the term name, capitalize individual words, remove spaces between […]

Shared posts can be filtered by taxonomy terms. Filters can be set to either inclusive or exclusive behavior. The default is exclusive. Exclusive Filtering If the setting “Check [taxonomy terms] will be shared”, then is not checked, then each term checked will exclude posts with that term from being shared. The inclusion of other terms […]

In basic settings, there are two templates you can configure for each public post type that has an enabled user interface. Each post type is enabled individually for each template. The basic templates are for publishing a new post, and for updating an edited post. By default, update when a Post is enabled only for […]