Category: Publishing

If you have a lot of evergreen content, then you may benefit from regularly sharing your older content. XPoster Pro supports a number of rules for automating this type of status update. Autopost Interval You can select from any registered cron interval available in your installation. WordPress core provides four: XPoster provides 7 additional intervals: […]

Filters allow you to add detailed custom parameters that will prevent certain types of content from being posted as status updates. Each filter gets a field to test against, a type of test, and a value to test for. You can filter against the Post title, Post content, permalink, short URL, post status, post type, […]

XPoster Pro allows you to configure your site to post comments as status updates. It sets a number of parameters on this to ensure that undesirable content doesn’t make it to your social media, however. Like other content, comment updates can be delayed, but don’t have any reposting options. If a user has sufficient access […]

XPoster supports multiple users, each with their own separate connections to social media accounts. When connected, posts send by the site can behave in several different ways. When user account settings are enabled, users who have the appropriate permissions will be allowed to set up their own accounts, and can send status updates to their […]

Differentiating your repeated status updates is a good way of improving engagement and reducing the general “automated” look of your status updates. XPoster allows you to adjust each re-post differently. Posts can either be prefixed with custom text or you can provide fully customized templates; you can also choose to omit media on some or […]

Scheduling tools help you control when and how often a post is shared. Render Templates when sent By default, templates are rendered into a status update when you hit “Save”. When you’re publishing status updates on the fly, synchronized with your publication or with your edit, this is fine – but if you’re scheduling posts […]

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 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, […]