In the world of online marketing, social media has become a staple. You can use it to grow your audience, expand brand awareness, and drive traffic to your site. Still, integrating social media with your website can be challenging.

This is why you should consider using a WordPress social media plugin. These tools can help you streamline your posting schedule and seamlessly share content across multiple channels. Installing one of these plugins on your website can save you a lot of time and energy. 

In this post, we’ll start by discussing the important features and functionalities to look for in a social media tool. Then we’ll provide you with a list of eight of the best WordPress social media plugins, detailing their main features, ease of use, and pricing. 

Whether you’re a small business owner, online merchant, or blogger, social media is a valuable tool to grow your audience. It gives you the opportunity to connect with people where they already spend their time and enables fans and customers to share your content with their own friends, family, and followers.

But you probably don’t have hours of extra time to spend on social media, and hiring a professional may not be in your budget yet. Thankfully, there are a number of ways to maximize your efforts without taking up your entire day.

Note: Publicize is now auto-share and is part of Jetpack Social.

One of the Jetpack features our users love the most is Publicize. And it’s easy to see why: a lot happens on social networks–Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others–and Publicize makes it easy to make sure your content is in the mix.

When you establish a Publicize connection between your WordPress-powered site and your social network accounts, your new posts are automatically shared in your feeds. As of March 1st, LinkedIn is making changes that will stop Publicize from sharing new posts to your feed there. To ensure your posts continue to be correctly shared, we’ve made some changes on our end to achieve full compatibility with these changes from LinkedIn.

To make sure the changes take effect for your site, you’ll need to disconnect and re-connect with LinkedIn. This will re-authenticate you with their systems, and then you can go back to not thinking whether your posts are getting shared–which is the point of Publicize!

1. Log in to wordpress.com, and select the site whose LinkedIn connection you need to update.
2. Go to the Sharing settings. You’ll find a link to this section in the sidebar:
3. Once in the Sharing settings, you’ll see a warning notice below the LinkedIn connection:
4. Click Disconnect button to turn off your LinkedIn connection.
5. You’ll see that button change to a Connect button again. Click it to start the connection process.
6. Authorize the LinkedIn connection in the pop-up that appears. You might need to log in to your LinkedIn account to complete this. All the instructions in this dialog come from LinkedIn.

This re-authenticates your connection and ensures that Publicize will continue sharing your posts to LinkedIn normally. Time to start writing again!