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Unofficial Plugin to send WordPress Pages, Posts or Custom Post Types to your bufferapp.com account for scheduled publishing to social networks.

Author:WP Zinc (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.0
WordPress version tested:6.3.1
Plugin version:3.9.1
Added to WordPress repository:30-04-2012
Last updated:09-10-2023
Rating, %:90
Rated by:105
Plugin URI:http://www.wpzinc.com/plugins/wp-to-buffer-pr...
Total downloads:416 762
Active installs:8 000+
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Whenever you publish or update a Post, Page or Custom Post Type, WordPress to Buffer will auto post your content to your Buffer account (buffer.com), scheduling publication to social media profiles including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Business and Mastodon.

Don’t have a Buffer account? Sign up for free

Looking to auto publish to Instagram and Pinterest? Upgrade to WordPress to Buffer Pro

Smart Social Media Automation

WordPress to Buffer isn’t another WP to Facebook, WP to Twitter or yet another auto posting plugin.

Our plugin adds your content to your Buffer queue, which is a smart social media scheduling system designed to drip feed your content to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Business and Mastodon social media profiles.

You can use Buffer’s default schedule, or set your own social media scheduling with days and times that work best for your audience.

With Dynamic Tags, you can build truly unique status updates, pulling in your WordPress Post’s Title, Content, Excerpt and more.

Buffer’s technology ensures you don’t accidentally send the same status twice, and with built in protection to prevent your social media profiles being suspended, you’ll safely grow, sustain and engage web site traffic and social media following.

Simple Social Media Scheduling

There’s no need to mess around with App IDs, authorization tokens or complicated technical steps.

Connecting your social media profiles is done in a few clicks through Buffer, taking minutes.

Then just choose which of those profiles to use in the plugin, set your status message and your social media scheduling is set.

Supports Twitter

If you’re a Jetpack Social, Blog2Social or NextScripts Social Networks Auto-Poster user looking for a replacement to auto publish to Twitter, WordPress to Buffer is one of the best auto post to Twitter solutions that still works in 2023, as Buffer is not impacted by Twitter’s recent API changes.

Buffer Partner

In October 2020, we’re proud to have been selected as a Partner by Buffer.

This ensures continued access to Buffer’s API, meaning that WordPress to Buffer will continue to work and continue to improve.

What can I do with WordPress to Buffer?

  • Automatically share Posts, Pages and Custom Post Types to social media when scheduling, publishing or updating your WordPress content
  • Define the status text dynamically, pulling in your WordPress Post’s Title, Content, Excerpt and more
  • WordPress to Facebook Page Auto Post
  • WordPress to Facebook Group Auto Post
  • WordPress to Twitter Auto Post
  • WordPress to LinkedIn Page Auto Post
  • WordPress to LinkedIn Profile Auto Post
  • WordPress to Google Business Auto Post
  • WordPress to Mastodon Auto Post

What can I do with WordPress to Buffer Pro?

WordPress to Buffer Pro provides additional functionality:

  • Instagram and Pinterest Support
    Pro supports Direct Posting to Instagram Business Profiles (Feed and Stories) and Pinterest Boards
  • Multiple, Customisable Status Messages
    Each Post Type and Social Network can have multiple, unique status message and settings
  • Conditionally send Status Messages
    Only send status(es) to Buffer based on Post Author(s), Taxonomy Term(s) and/or Custom Field Values
  • More Scheduling Options
    Each status update can be added to the start/end of your Buffer queue, posted immediately or scheduled at a specific time
  • Dynamic Status Tags
    Dynamically build status updates with data from the Post Author and Custom Fields
  • Separate Statuses per Social Network
    Define different statuses for each Post Type and Social Network
  • Per-Post Settings
    Override Settings on Individual Posts: Each Post can have its own Buffer settings
  • Repost Old Posts
    Automatically Revive Old Posts that haven’t been updated in a while, choosing the number of days, weeks or years to re-share content on social media.
  • Bulk Publish Old Posts
    Manually re-share evergreen WordPress content and revive old posts with the Bulk Publish option
  • The Events Calendar, Event Manager and Modern Events Calendar Integration
    Schedule Posts to Buffer based on your Event’s Start or End date, and display Event-specific details in your status updates
  • SEO Integration
    Display SEO-specific information in your status updates from All-In-One SEO Pack, Rank Math, SEOPress and Yoast SEO
  • WooCommerce Integration
    Display Product-specific information in your status updates
  • Autoblogging and Frontend Post Submission Integration
    Pro supports autoblogging and frontend post submission Plugins, including User Submitted Posts, WP Property Feed, WPeMatico and WP Job Manager
  • Shortcode Support
    Use shortcodes in status updates
  • Full Image Control
    Choose to display the WordPress Featured Image with your status updates, or define up to 4 custom images for each Post.
  • WP-Cron and WP-CLI Compatible
    Optionally enable WP-Cron to send status updates via Cron, speeding up UI performance and/or choose to use WP-CLI for reposting old posts
  • Support, Documentation and Updates
    Access to one on one email support, plus detailed documentation on how to install and configure the plugin and one click update notifications, right within the WordPress Administration panel.

Upgrade to WordPress to Buffer Pro

Support

We will do our best to provide support through the WordPress forums.

However, please understand that this is a free plugin, so support will be limited. Please read this article on how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it.

If you require one to one email support, consider upgrading to the Pro version.

Data

Our API connects your website to Buffer. An account with Buffer is required.

We connect directly to your Buffer (buffer.com) account, via their API, to:
– Fetch your social media profile names and IDs,
– Send your WordPress Posts to one or more of your social media profiles. The profiles and content sent will depend on the plugin settings you have configured.

We connect to our own API to pass the following requests through to Buffer:
– Connect our Plugin to Buffer, when you click the Authorize button (this obtains an access token from Buffer, once you have approved authorization)

Both of these are done via our own API, to ensure that no secret data (such as oAuth client secret keys) are included in this Plugin’s code or made public.

We never store any information on our web site or API during this process.

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