Jetpack Social makes it easy to share your site’s posts on several social media networks automatically when you publish a new post. Our Complete plan users can also share content that has already been published, and schedule their posts to be shared at a specific time.
Note: Publicize is now called “auto-sharing” and is a feature of Jetpack Social.
For general information about Jetpack Social features, please see this page.
Using Jetpack Social
Jetpack Social can be enabled within Jetpack or installed as a standalone plugin.
Once Jetpack Social is active, you’ll be able to use its features like auto-sharing new posts.
Related Support Articles
These support articles go over topics that are helpful when using Jetpack Social:
- Jetpack Social: Connecting to Social Networks
- Jetpack Social: Auto-Sharing Posts
- Jetpack Social: Troubleshooting
- Jetpack Social: Facebook
- Jetpack Social: Twitter
- Jetpack Social: LinkedIn
- Jetpack Social: Tumblr
Privacy Information
This feature is de-activated by default. It can be activated at any time by toggling the Automatically share your posts to social networks setting in the Jetpack Social connections section from Jetpack — Settings — Sharing in your WP-Admin.
More information about the data usage on your site
Data Used | |
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Site Owners / Users In order to process cross-service sharing of new blog content, the following information is utilized by the Jetpack codebase: WordPress site URL, site owner’s local user ID, WordPress.com-connected site ID, two automatically-generated WordPress.com secret access tokens (and the expiration timestamp of those tokens), and the post data that is to be shared (ID, excerpt, content, permalink, etc.). Service-specific access tokens (only for connected services) are also used.Additionally, for activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. |
Site Visitors None. |
Activity Tracked | |
Site Owners / Users
We track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We track when, and which, configuration settings are modified (and by which user). Additionally, we track a usage event when a site owner adds a new service connection. |
Site Visitors
None. |
Data Synced (Read More) | |
Site Owners / Users
We sync options that identify whether or not the feature is activated and how its available settings are configured, including the necessary connection data for specific services. |
Site Visitors
None. |