Workbench by Sovrn

Description

The power of a large publisher tech team in one complete, free plugin. Publish, share, understand, and create WordPress mobile optimized content with ease. No technical expertise needed.

Mobile Optimized Publishing

Workbench automatically formats your content for:

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
* Super fast loading on mobile (relative to mobile version of your website)
* Available for cache by Google and inclusion as a card in mobile search results
* Boosts SEO for your content

Facebook Instant Articles
* Users remain in the Facebook app to view your content – making them more likely to engage with your content (reacting, sharing, commenting)

Apple News
* Digital newsstand where users can discover new publishers
* Small pubs are visually formatted same as top media giants

Social Sharing

Social platforms get your content in front of more eyes than your website alone. Workbench promotes your content by:

• Sharing posts to Facebook, Twitter, Google+
• Workbench’s API integration allows for custom messages in your posts – making it more relatable and noticeable to your readers
• Sharing becomes part of the standard WordPress publishing flow

Understand Engagement Data

Understanding how people engage with your content can bring your blog to the next level. Workbench gives you detailed reporting:

• Likes, Shares, Comments across Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ are tracked for each article in one, simple interface
• Aggregated engagement metrics give you insights into which articles resonate the strongest with your audience

Powered by Sovrn – a trusted partner to over 80,000 sites; building better tools and services to help them promote, understand, and make money from their content.

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Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘Workbench’
3. Click Install Now
4. Activate ‘Workbench’ from your Plugins page
5. ‘Workbench’ will now be enabled as a tab in your Sidebar Menu

From www.ads-software.com

1. Download Workbench (.zip file)
2. Go to your WordPress dashboard and visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
3. Click ‘Upload Plugin’ and upload the Workbench (.zip file)
4. Activate Workbench from your Plugins page
5. ‘Workbench’ will now be enabled as a tab in your Sidebar Menu

Once Activated

1. Visit the ‘Workbench’ tab in the Sidebar Menu of your admin view
2. Follow on screen instructions

FAQ

Installation Instructions

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘Workbench’
3. Click Install Now
4. Activate ‘Workbench’ from your Plugins page
5. ‘Workbench’ will now be enabled as a tab in your Sidebar Menu

From www.ads-software.com

1. Download Workbench (.zip file)
2. Go to your WordPress dashboard and visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
3. Click ‘Upload Plugin’ and upload the Workbench (.zip file)
4. Activate Workbench from your Plugins page
5. ‘Workbench’ will now be enabled as a tab in your Sidebar Menu

Once Activated

1. Visit the ‘Workbench’ tab in the Sidebar Menu of your admin view
2. Follow on screen instructions

How beta is beta?

Workbench is a completely stable plugin! In our case, beta refers to our work on optimizing workflows within the plugin.

What version of PHP has Workbench been tested with?

Workbench has been tested to work on PHP versions 5.5 and above. If you discover your web host uses an older version of PHP, please ask them to upgrade.

How do I contact Sovrn?

Post to our support forum in the WordPress store at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/sovrn-workbench or contact Sovrn support at [email protected].

I disconnected from Facebook/Twitter/Google+/AppleNews. Why aren’t my posts being removed from my social media account?

Workbench cannot retroactively remove shared posts even if the account is disconnected. You will have to delete them manually from your feed if you no longer wish to see them.

Why don’t my shares to Facebook show up on my personal account’s timeline?

You can only share posts to Facebook Pages. You will need to set up a Page for your blog in order to share to Facebook.

My post has new Likes/Shares/Comments. Why aren’t I seeing that reflected on the engagement metrics?

New likes, shares, and comments are gathered once per hour by Workbench. Depending on the timing of the engagement, you may have to wait up to an hour to see it reflected in the metrics.

Why aren’t my posts to Facebook showing up as Instant Articles?

You must first sign up for Instant Articles with Facebook and have your Page’s account approved.

If your Page is approved for Instant Articles, and you still are not seeing them appear:
* Check that Instant Articles has been activated.
* Make sure you are viewing on a mobile device.
* Check your page’s unpublished post feed to see if automatic publishing needs to be turned on.
* Verify that your blog’s url has been claimed by your Facebook page.

Reviews

Already a Sovrn customer, this works as needed

calijane January 25, 2017

I already use Sovrn for serving ads on my site, so was happy to hear they built a plugin for Facebook instant articles. The plugin also converts my blog to AMP and let’s me share to my blog’s Facebook page (which it reminds me to do every time I publish a new post). I would recommend this if you need a no nonsense plugin for these newer mobile formats.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.3.3

• UX/UI update for register/login flow

1.3.2

• UX enhancements for tab structure
• AMP for Ads – coming soon
• Bug Fix: AMP no longer enabled before user login

1.3.1

• UI update for connected accounts

1.3.0

• Support Meridian user registration and engagement metrics for Facebook and Twitter

1.2.6

• Bug fix

1.2.5

• AMP improvement

1.2.4

• Bug fix

1.2.3

• SSL timeout issue resolved
• Redirect after activation

1.2.2

• Performance and speed improvements (yes, even faster)

1.2.1

• Performance and speed improvements

1.2.0

• Share to Google+
• Bug fixes

1.1.0

• Added publishing to Apple News (BETA)
• Modified Material Design Library to fix potential conflicts

1.0.1

• PHP v5.4.0 compatibility
• Removed cURL dependency
• Optimized for performance

1.0.0

*Launch Release (beta)