Publicize

Publicize makes it easy to share your site’s posts on several social media networks automatically when you publish a new post. Our Security and Complete plan users can also share content that has already been published, and schedule their posts to be shared at a specific time.

For general features and FAQs, please see our information page.

For issues with Publicize, visit the troubleshooting section.

To enable Publicize:

• Go to Jetpack → Settings → Sharing in your site’s WP Admin.
• Click the toggle to activate Automatically share your posts to social networks.

Connecting to Social Networks

You can connect your site to any of your social network profiles by following these steps:

1. Log in to https://wordpress.com, and from the My Sites menu item at the top of the page, select the Jetpack-connected site you want to connect your social media accounts. Note: you may need to click on ‘Switch Sites’ to find the site you want to manage Publicize on.
2. Navigate to Tools → Marketing → Connections.
3. Click Connect next to the Social Network you want to connect to.
4. Log in to that Social Network site and authorize the connection.

• Facebook Pages
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• LinkedIn

Global Connection

After you add a new connection, you have the option to make the connection ‘global’, meaning it can also be used by any other user on your site who has the ability to publish posts.

To make the connection available to all users, check the box labelled Connection available to all administrators, editors, and authors:

Note: Making a connection global only allows other users to share their posts to the social network. They do not have access to do anything else such as getting access to the social network account directly.

Sharing New Posts

To configure the Publicize options when writing a new post, click the green Jetpack icon at top right of the edit screen:

You’ll then see the Publicize options under the Share this post section, where you can toggle social media connections, connect new services, and write a custom message to be used when your post is shared.

Note: if you have Pre-publish checks enabled in your editor settings, you’ll also see the Publicize options after clicking the Publish… button.

Publicize in the Classic Editor

If you’re using the Classic Editor, the Publicize options will look slightly different. You’ll find them in the Publish box on your post edit screen when writing a new post.

If you want to toggle any of the Publicize services for a specific post, click Edit next to the list of connected publicize accounts. You can then uncheck the services you do not want to use for this post and add a custom sharing message.

How to add custom excerpts

There are a few different ways to set up different messages when your post is shared to your Social Media account. The easiest is to use the Custom Message option in the publishing options box prior to publishing your post.

To add a custom message, you can follow the steps under Sharing New Posts and Publicize in the Classic Editor.

Sharing a post as a Twitter thread

There are two options for sharing a post to Twitter:

1. Single Tweet: Share a link to your post in a single tweet, with an optional custom message.
2. Twitter Thread: Share the entire post (text, images, videos) as a series of Tweets in a Twitter thread.

If you select the Twitter Thread option, you’ll see vertical bars in the post editor, indicating where your content will be split into separate tweets.

Note that there are certain limitations around the type of content which can be shared to Twitter, so it’s possible that not everything in your post will be included in the Twitter thread. If you click on any block in your post you’ll see a Twitter icon at the bottom of the block. Any relevant information about the content will be displayed here.

Re-sharing your content

This feature is for sites with a Security or Complete plan.

With Publicize, you are able to schedule shares or re-shares of your published content for specific dates and times in the future. This does not work for posts that are scheduled that have not yet been published.

To re-share your content, go to My Sites (on WordPress.com) , select your site, then go to Site → Posts and look for the post you want to share. Click the 3 dots icon next to the post, then click Share.

Click the toggle next to the connected accounts to which you’d like to share your post. That will activate the text box where you can write a custom message for your social media audience.

If you don’t want to write a custom message, you can use the default sharing message (the title of the post). When you are happy with your message, click Preview to see a preview of how it will appear once shared, or click Share post to publish it.

By selecting connected services for each Publicize action, you can craft your message according to your audiences, or use different messages for each of your accounts.

Please note that this feature is not currently supported for Custom Post Types or scheduled posts.

Scheduling your shares

This feature is for sites with a Security or Complete plan.

With Publicize, you are able to schedule shares or re-shares of your published content for specific dates and times in the future. This does not work for posts that are scheduled that have not yet been published.

To schedule shares of your content, go to My Sites (on WordPress.com), select your site, then go to Site → Posts and look for the post you want to share. Click the 3 dots icon next to the post, then click Share.

At the bottom left you will see a Share post button. Click the calendar icon beside this button to choose a date and time that you would like your content to be shared.

When you are happy with your message, click Preview to see a preview of how it will appear once shared, or Schedule to schedule the share for the date and time you have selected.

By selecting different connected services for scheduled shares, you can craft your messages for different networks, audiences, or time zones.

Please note that this feature is not currently supported for Custom Post Types or scheduled posts.

Further Reading

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Troubleshooting Publicize

If you are having trouble with Publicize, take a look at our Troubleshooting page, or feel free to contact us.

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 Publicize connections section from Jetpack — Settings — Sharing in your WP Admin.