Do you want to automatically share your old WordPress posts with your followers?
Sharing your old posts can be a great way to maximize the traffic you can get from social media.
In this article, we’ll show you how to share your old WordPress posts automatically.
Why is it Important to Share Your Old WordPress Blog Posts?
By sharing your old blog posts with your followers, you can easily get more visitors to your WordPress website without any additional work.
If you’re only sharing your new blog posts on social media, then many of your followers won’t see your posts. By automatically promoting older posts too, more followers will see and click on your articles.
It’s also a great way to improve traffic from brand new followers and followers in different time zones.
Overall, sharing old posts can increase pageviews, which can lead to more email list subscribers, sales in your online store, and more.
With that said, let’s show you how you can automatically share your old WordPress blog posts easily.
Sharing Old WordPress Blog Posts on Social Media Automatically
The easiest way to share your old blog posts is by using the Revive Old Posts plugin. It lets you simply share your old WordPress blog posts on social media to help get more traffic and keep your accounts active.
Note: There’s a premium and free version of the plugin available. For this tutorial, we’ll use the free version since it lets us set up social sharing quickly.
However, the pro version is packed with even more features. It lets you completely customize how your old posts will display and lets you share on multiple networks like LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google My Business, and more.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin. For more details, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to go to Revive Old Posts » Dashboard and make sure the ‘Accounts’ tab is selected.
Then, click on the social media button for the account you want to connect.
If you’re using the free version of the plugin, then you can choose between Facebook and Twitter.
For this tutorial, we’ll choose Twitter.
This brings up a popup for the network you selected.
Simply click the ’Sign in to Twitter’ button.
Next, you’ll be asked to enter your Twitter username and password.
Once you’ve done that, click the ‘Authorize app’ button to connect to your account.
Now you need to set up how you want the plugin to share your posts.
Simply click on the ‘General Settings’ tab to configure the plugin settings.
First, you can change the ‘Minimum Interval Between Shares’. This is the number of hours the plugin will wait to share your posts.
You can also set the ‘Minimum Post Age’. This is the number of days that pass since the post was published for it to be considered old.
Below that, you can choose whether you’d like to share old posts again after all your old content has been shared.
Simply check the ‘Yes’ box if you want to enable this.
Next, you have a few more sharing options to customize. You can choose to include or exclude taxonomies and enable analytics tracking.
If you don’t have Google Analytics set up yet, then see our beginner’s guide on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress.
Simply check the boxes for the features you want to enable.
Then, you have a few different options for instantly sharing new blog posts.
Alternative: We recommend using Uncanny Automator to instantly share new blog posts on social media. It’s the best WordPress automation plugin that helps you create automated workflows without having to code.
For more details, see our guides on how to tweet new WordPress posts and how to post to Facebook from WordPress.
Once you’re done customizing your sharing settings, make sure to click the ‘Save’ button.
Next, click on the ‘Post Format’ menu option at the top of the page.
This brings you to a screen where you can customize how your posts will look when they’re shared. You’ll see different options based on the social network you connected.
First, select what post content you want to be shared in the ‘Share Content’ drop down. Then you can change the length of the social media post in the ‘Maximum Characters’ box.
After that, you can choose to add additional text, include a link back to your site, and include any custom fields.
Simply add text into the ‘Additional Text’ box and check the boxes for the features you want to turn on.
Then, you can decide to turn on the URL shortener or add hashtags to your post.
For post hashtags, you’ll have a few different customization options. Simply select how you want to generate hashtags from the drop down menu and add your hashtags to the ‘Common Hashtags’ box.
After that, click the ‘Save post format’ button at the bottom of the screen to save your settings.
Once you’re finished customizing the plugin settings, click the ‘Sharing Queue’ menu option.
Then, click the ‘Start Sharing’ button.
On this same screen you’ll be able to preview your posts before they’re shared on social media.
You can skip posts, edit them, and even stop certain posts from being shared.
That’s it! Now your old WordPress posts will automatically share on social media.
If you want more control over which old posts will get shared on social media, then you can use a tool like Buffer. It’s a social media scheduling app that lets you choose the posts that will get shared at a specific time.
For more details, see our guide on how to schedule WordPress posts for social media with Buffer.
It’s also important to share your new posts with subscribers and followers too. For ways on how to do this automatically, see our guide on how to share your blog posts with readers.
We hope this article helped you learn how to automatically share your old WordPress posts. You may also want to see our guide on how to properly move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS and our picks of the best payroll software for small businesses.
Do you want to automatically share your old WordPress posts with your followers?
Sharing your old posts can be a great way to maximize the traffic you can get from social media.
In this article, we’ll show you how to share your old WordPress posts automatically.
Why is it Important to Share Your Old WordPress Blog Posts?
By sharing your old blog posts with your followers, you can easily get more visitors to your WordPress website without any additional work.
If you’re only sharing your new blog posts on social media, then many of your followers won’t see your posts. By automatically promoting older posts too, more followers will see and click on your articles.
It’s also a great way to improve traffic from brand new followers and followers in different time zones.
Overall, sharing old posts can increase pageviews, which can lead to more email list subscribers, sales in your online store, and more.
With that said, let’s show you how you can automatically share your old WordPress blog posts easily.
Sharing Old WordPress Blog Posts on Social Media Automatically
The easiest way to share your old blog posts is by using the Revive Old Posts plugin. It lets you simply share your old WordPress blog posts on social media to help get more traffic and keep your accounts active.
Note: There’s a premium and free version of the plugin available. For this tutorial, we’ll use the free version since it lets us set up social sharing quickly.
However, the pro version is packed with even more features. It lets you completely customize how your old posts will display and lets you share on multiple networks like LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google My Business, and more.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin. For more details, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to go to Revive Old Posts » Dashboard and make sure the ‘Accounts’ tab is selected.
Then, click on the social media button for the account you want to connect.
If you’re using the free version of the plugin, then you can choose between Facebook and Twitter.
For this tutorial, we’ll choose Twitter.
This brings up a popup for the network you selected.
Simply click the ’Sign in to Twitter’ button.
Next, you’ll be asked to enter your Twitter username and password.
Once you’ve done that, click the ‘Authorize app’ button to connect to your account.
Now you need to set up how you want the plugin to share your posts.
Simply click on the ‘General Settings’ tab to configure the plugin settings.
First, you can change the ‘Minimum Interval Between Shares’. This is the number of hours the plugin will wait to share your posts.
You can also set the ‘Minimum Post Age’. This is the number of days that pass since the post was published for it to be considered old.
Below that, you can choose whether you’d like to share old posts again after all your old content has been shared.
Simply check the ‘Yes’ box if you want to enable this.
Next, you have a few more sharing options to customize. You can choose to include or exclude taxonomies and enable analytics tracking.
If you don’t have Google Analytics set up yet, then see our beginner’s guide on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress.
Simply check the boxes for the features you want to enable.
Then, you have a few different options for instantly sharing new blog posts.
Alternative: We recommend using Uncanny Automator to instantly share new blog posts on social media. It’s the best WordPress automation plugin that helps you create automated workflows without having to code.
For more details, see our guides on how to tweet new WordPress posts and how to post to Facebook from WordPress.
Once you’re done customizing your sharing settings, make sure to click the ‘Save’ button.
Next, click on the ‘Post Format’ menu option at the top of the page.
This brings you to a screen where you can customize how your posts will look when they’re shared. You’ll see different options based on the social network you connected.
First, select what post content you want to be shared in the ‘Share Content’ drop down. Then you can change the length of the social media post in the ‘Maximum Characters’ box.
After that, you can choose to add additional text, include a link back to your site, and include any custom fields.
Simply add text into the ‘Additional Text’ box and check the boxes for the features you want to turn on.
Then, you can decide to turn on the URL shortener or add hashtags to your post.
For post hashtags, you’ll have a few different customization options. Simply select how you want to generate hashtags from the drop down menu and add your hashtags to the ‘Common Hashtags’ box.
After that, click the ‘Save post format’ button at the bottom of the screen to save your settings.
Once you’re finished customizing the plugin settings, click the ‘Sharing Queue’ menu option.
Then, click the ‘Start Sharing’ button.
On this same screen you’ll be able to preview your posts before they’re shared on social media.
You can skip posts, edit them, and even stop certain posts from being shared.
That’s it! Now your old WordPress posts will automatically share on social media.
If you want more control over which old posts will get shared on social media, then you can use a tool like Buffer. It’s a social media scheduling app that lets you choose the posts that will get shared at a specific time.
For more details, see our guide on how to schedule WordPress posts for social media with Buffer.
It’s also important to share your new posts with subscribers and followers too. For ways on how to do this automatically, see our guide on how to share your blog posts with readers.
We hope this article helped you learn how to automatically share your old WordPress posts. You may also want to see our guide on how to properly move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS and our picks of the best HR payroll software for small businesses.
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Michael says
Changes in Facebook policy dictate that the plugin must achieve authorization manage_pages and publish_pages. I’ve gone three rounds with Facebook and have yet to receive approval. Two months!
Uriahs says
Hi Michael, this issue regarding has been fixed a while back, you no longer need to create an app to connect your accounts. All it takes now is a click of a button
Markus Martin says
I only use it with twitter because twitter cards ovewrite its premium featured image option. It shows ugly links on Facebook and resets cached facebook urls and featured images. They should make the option to show featured link with image free, but make posting with image attached a premium version if they so desperately want money.
Dorothy says
I installed plug in on Godaddy managed site and set up old according directions on your video. One post posted and no others have posted though it continues to say one will posts in 7 hr 30 minutes. What have I missed ? My settings: Min interval 8, min age 30, max age 0, share more once unchecked, posts box checked.
Also it says I have two accounts and I have only set up Twitter, unless I accidentally have two Twitter accounts by mistake. So how do I find out and how to rectify
I am not a computer person and new to WordPress. I may subscribe if I think it is beneficial. I have went to a local WP user group and it was over my head. Thanks for your assistance in this matter.
Rizwan says
This revive old post plugin is not tested with 4.5.2, what to do now? any other plugin?
Gemma says
This has just stopped working for me – giving a 301 instead of the link via Twitter. Deleted and reinstalled, played about with shortening link but no luck! Any resolution or alternative is appreciated, such a time saver!
Jim says
if you have your new posts set to trigger your MailChimp account; will the revived posts also trigger your MailChimp account?
WPBeginner Support says
If you revive posts in a way that they reappear in your RSS feed, then yes.
Admin
James Burnette says
Thanks for the great post.
Melissa says
The premium version is now $75.
Nouman Younas says
Nice,,, i lll surely try this method on my one blog for checking results..
i have a question How to Automatically Share Your Old new Posts?
i don’t want to share it manually . and i also don’t want to give access of social media profiles to my all authors.
DanCarr says
I assume you guys know about the free plugin “buffer old posts” so I’m curious why you would not mention it? It does the same as this plugin, but sends it all to Buffer instead. You can control how often it sends items and you can exclude posts and categories as well. I’ve been using it for a while and it works perfectly. I’d far rather send things to Buffer because then it slots in better with my normal daily postings.
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John says
Nice post. I basically use Revive old Posts. Its a great plugin. But I stopped it due to the fact that I do not have much posts. I have roughly 30…