Wordpress to Facebook

[mmegaera]

Does anyone know if it's possible to cross-post from a Wordpress.com blog to a Facebook page?

It would make my book marketing life so much easier if I could set that up to happen automatically...

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Failing anything more direct, if the WordPress blog has an RSS feed, you could probably set something up using If This, Then That as the glue.

[mmegaera]

Interesting! I'd never heard of that before.

[azurelunatic]

It's pretty new! I only heard of it and started using it last September myself. And apparently I was a pretty early adopter, since they launched last September.

[mmegaera]

Well, there is a setting on Wordpress to share on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and apparently I had set it up originally to share on Twitter and LinkedIn, but I just hadn't ever gone in and added another share thingy after the original setup before.

Live and learn [g].

[annathepiper]

Yes, this is totally doable. You just need to grab an appropriate plugin.

The one I use to crosspost from Wordpress over to Facebook is called Wordbooker. There's another one called Wordbook. Very similar names so you might want to look both of them up and see which one works better for your purposes.

[mmegaera]

I thought I understood that you could only use Wordpress plug-ins if you were hosting your blog on your own site -- Wordpress.org vs. Wordpress.com.

Am I wrong?

[annathepiper]

I don't know, you may not be; I haven't ever run a Wordpress.com blog, so I don't have direct experience with this. I wasn't aware of any restrictions Wordpress.com has on running plugins, though I could see why they might do so. (Maybe they have an approved repository of plugins? I dunno!)

If you find out for sure, let me know. I'd be curious to know.

[mmegaera]

There's a setting to choose, and I was led to it by someone else [g].

But I thank you for your input!

[annathepiper]

You're quite welcome!