How to Schedule WordPress Post to Social Media

Juniors blog
4 min readMar 16, 2021

Are you trying to schedule WordPress post to social media for your website?

Publishing good content is very important for any website but you need to make sure to reach that contents to your users. If the users are not able to view your content then there is no value for your quality contents. Now a days social media is the best platform to share contents with friends and family. If you utilize the social media in a proper way you can get more audience engagement for your website contents.

Creating content for the website and share it on social media can be very tough and time consuming task. But if you have the right tools you can easily handle it properly. There are a lots of plugin available for WordPress to auto post and schedule social media share.

Here in this article we are going to show the process of scheduling WordPress post to social media.

How to Schedule WordPress post to social media

Using plugin we can easily set scheduling and auto posting to social media. Here in this tutorial we are using Blog2Social WordPress plugin. So let’s start –

Step 1

At first install and active the Blog2Social plugin. Download the plugin from it’s official website and then upload and install it. After install activate the plugin and you will be able to see the Blog2Social option in your WordPress dashboard.

Sep 2

After successfully active the plugin now we need to connect our social media profile to Blog2Social. Go to your WordPress admin dashboard and then go to Blog2Social > Networks.

This plugin offers almost all the social media to connect with your website. You can connect your social media profile, pages or groups.

To connect your account just click on the option available. If you want to connect your Facebook profile click on profile option under Facebook. After that a pop up window will open up you need to give permission to your Facebook account to connect with Blog2Social plugin.

Select the option what the plugin can access and click okay. Your Facebook profile will be connected with the Blog2Social plugin.

Step 3

After connecting our social profile now you need to setup auto post for our website content. It will post whatever we update in our website to social media.

Again go to the dashboard and then Blog2Social > Setting > Auto post.

From here you can set up the auto post option. You can choose which elements to post on social media and also set the future elements to updated on social media.

You can also set autoposter for imported post. Set up your autoposter to automatically share your imported posts, pages and custom post types on your social media channels.

Step 4

If you want to shedule any specific post to social media then go to Blog2Social > Social Media Post option.

Enter your post link to the field and then click on the continue option.

After that you can set the schedule time to post it to your connected social media. You can add any caption if you want for social media post. You can set the date and time and with that time period your website post will be shared on social media.

Some other features of Blog2Social plugins are

  • Multiple social media channel
  • Time scheduling
  • Re-share content
  • Social media tracking

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