Publicize

Publicize makes it easy to share your site’s posts on several social media networks automatically when you publish a new post.

Using Publicize

Once you’ve approved a connection to any of the services available, you’ll see a Publicize section in the Publish box on your post writing screen each time you write a new post.

Just publish the post as usual, and you’ll see it show up on the services you enabled.

If you want to opt out from any of the Publicize services for a specific post, just click the Publicize Edit link. You can then uncheck whichever services you want. You can also customize the message that gets sent by typing it in to the Custom Message box.

Setting up Publicize

To set up publicize on your site please go to Settings → Sharing in your site Dashboard.

At the top of the screen that appears, you will see a list of the services to which you can share your posts. Click on any service you would like to add and follow the prompts.

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Facebook Profiles & Pages

On the Settings -> Sharing page click Add new Facebook Connection.

A message will appear asking you to authorize the connection between your site and your Facebook account.

Click the Go to App button and Facebook will ask you to approve the connection between your site and your Facebook account. To complete the connection, click on the Allow button.

You’ll then be taken back to your dashboard and will see a success message and dialog. You can chose if you would like to publicize to your profile or one of your pages. You can also make the connection available to all users of the site. Meaning that when another user creates a post it will also publicize to this Facebook connection.

Note for connecting to pages: You will need to use a Facebook account that has a Profile with administrative rights to the Page. A Page-only account can not be used with Publicize.

Here are some examples showing how Publicize Facebook looks when completed:

Twitter

On the Settings -> Sharing page click Add new Twitter Connection.

You’ll be taken to Twitter where you’ll be asked to approve the connection between your site and your Twitter account. Click Allow.

You can also make the connection available to all users of the site. Meaning that when another user creates a post it will also publicize to this Twitter connection.

Here is an example showing how Publicize Twitter looks when completed:

Tumblr

On the Settings -> Sharing page click Add new Tumblr Connection.

You’ll be taken to Tumblr where you’ll be asked to approve the connection between your site and your Tumblr account. Click Allow.

If you have more than one Tumblr blog you will then be prompted to choose which blog to publicize to.

You can also make the connection available to all users of the site. Meaning that when another user creates a post it will also publicize to this Tumblr connection.

Here is an example showing how Publicize Tumblr looks when completed:

LinkedIn

On the Settings -> Sharing page click Add new LinkedIn Connection.

You’ll be taken to LinkedIn where you’ll be asked to approve the connection between your site and your LinkedIn account. Click OK, I’ll Allow It.

You can also make the connection available to all users of the site. Meaning that when another user creates a post it will also publicize to this LinkedIn connection.

Images in Publicize

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Publicize select images that are at least 200 x 200 pixels in the following order:

  1. Featured image
  2. An image attached to the post and inserted
  3. Any other image in the post (not attached but perhaps linked)
  4. Gravatar

Tumblr Publicize will display an image if your post is an image post format or if there is an image embedded within the first 256 characters of the post.

Reconnecting Facebook

Sometimes, the connection between Facebook and Jetpack might get disconnected. Not to worry, the following steps should get you up and running again quickly.

  1. Log into your site. Go to your dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing and click the X next to the link to the Facebook profile or page you wish to disconnect.
  2. Reload the page and confirm the link now says Create new Facebook connection, but don’t click that link yet.
  3. Log into your Facebook account. Then go to your Facebook Account Settings > Apps page by clicking this App Settings link.
  4. Remove the WordPress.com app by clicking the X in its row. (If there is no WordPress.com row, don’t worry, just skip this step). If you see a popup asking for confirmation, click the “Remove” button.
  5. Log back into your site. Go to your dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing and follow these steps to reconnect.

Reconnecting Twitter

If the connection between Twitter and Jetpack gets disconnected for some reason, don’t worry, just follow these steps and you’ll be back on track again in no time.

  1. Log into your site. Go to your dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing and click the X next to the link to the Twitter account you wish to disconnect.
  2. Reload the page and confirm the link now says Create new Twitter connection.
  3. Clear your browser’s cookies (this clears some cookies that Twitter sets which are often part of the problem).
  4. Log back into your site. Go to your dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing and follow these steps to reconnect.

Reconnecting LinkedIn

If your LinkedIn connection gets disconnected for some reason, don’t worry, just follow these steps and you’ll be back on track again in no time.

  1. Log into your site. Go to your dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing and click the X next to the link to the LinkedIn acount you wish to disconnect.
  2. Reload the page and confirm the link now says Create new LinkedIn connection.
  3. Clear your browser’s cookies (this clears some cookies that LinkedIn sets which are likely part of the problem).
  4. Log back into your site. Go to your dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing and follow these steps to reconnect.

Additional Information

  • Saving a post as a Draft will not publicize it.
  • Static pages will not be publicized.
  • Scheduled posts do get publicized – at the time they’re scheduled to publish.
  • After connecting/re-connecting the services, you will need to publish a new post in order to publicize it.
  • Publicize only works for brand new posts that have never been published before. You cannot re-publicize something once it has already been published.
  • You can connect to multiple different accounts (i.e. more than one completely separate Facebook account), however, you cannot make more than one connection to the same account (i.e. you cannot connect to a wall and a page on the same Facebook account).
  • Publicize works for Administrator, Editor, or Author user roles. If you’re a Contributor for a blog, you cannot use Publicize.
  • if you use your own URL shortener, such as bit.ly, Publicize will use this short URL instead of wp.me.
  • Google+ has not been added yet because Google currently does not offer an API to allow us to send Publicize data to Google+. If Google adds an API in the future, we will look into adding Google+ to Publicize.
  • We don’t currently support Company Pages on LinkedIn, but we’re looking into supporting them in the future.
  • When you add new connections, you have the option to decide whether it will be available to just your account or all of the other users on the blog as well. To make the connection available to everyone, just check the prompt for that at the time you add the connection.
  • When making a connection available to all users of a blog, the only thing any other user on your site can do is post to the social network. They do not have access to do anything else such as getting access to the social network account directly.

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