New 2 WP – social media

  • Hello,

    I have just added a WP blog to my joomla website. This is the first time i have worked with wordpress at all. There are 3 things I would like to know how to do:

    1) I would like my blog to automatically post to facebook and twitter whenever i create a new blog post. Is this something I can do with a wordpress extension or do I just use the feed feature in FB and Tw? The issue with the feed feature is that people will discuss the post on FB rather then on my blog. Is that just the way everyone does it anyway?

    2) I would like to be able to upload videos to youtube and for those videos to be automatically posted on my blog. Is that something that i do in youtube or in WP?

    3) I would like to make it possible for people who come to my blog to click a “like” button or a twit button if they like my post. Is there a WP extension that inserts those buttons automatically or do I need to embed them manually each time?

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  • Thread Starter dad7more

    (@dad7more)

    did i post in the wrong place or is it pretty normal not to get help here?

    Thread Starter dad7more

    (@dad7more)

    anyone?

    Thread Starter dad7more

    (@dad7more)

    HELLLLOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well hi there, I just happened to get a google alert linking here since you used New 2 WP in the thread title, as https://New2WP.com is my site. Usually I get them for pingbacks, so I came to check who was linking to what on new2wp.com.

    But you are just New, to, WP. lol. I see that you aren’t getting any answers, so here’s some.

    There are over idk, 40-50,000 free plugins available in the WP plugin repository, you can find more than one for everything you want/need to do on your site. If you go to your WP dashboard, click Plugins in the left nav, then Add New, there you can search for anything you can think of and you’ll find a plugin for it im sure.

    1. So, go there, search for Twitter Tools, click install, go to the Settings > Twitter tools page and configure the plugin. Thats done.

    For facebook, I use an app on facebook called Social RSS that’s pretty good and easy to use: https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=23798139265
    Add that to your facebook page, go to the edit settings page for the app, and enter in the RSS feed of your blog which is, https://yoursite.com/feed, configure the rest of the app and your all set.

    2. WordPress has built-in api support for most major video sites. So you can simply post a URL of a youtube or vimeo, etc. video into the post editor, and it will display the video for you in the post. But, if you want to have more control, I suggest installing Viper’s Video Quicktags. You can search for and install that through the dashboard the same way as I explained above.

    3. Search for the plugins, Twitter Button, and FBLikeButton, I used those on New2WP for my buttons, until I wrote a tutorial on how to make your own social buttons https://new2wp.com/rookie/create-social-bookmark-buttons/

    You should check out https://new2wp.com/levels/noob/ and https://new2wp.com/levels/rookie/ too, posts are organized by level of experience with WP, you may find some more useful stuff from the posts I’ve written.

    Welcome to WordPress!!
    It’s now the beginning of forgetting all about droopla for you ??

    Thread Starter dad7more

    (@dad7more)

    finally. i was beginning to think i wasn’t going to get any answers here.

    thanks for taking the time…

    You welcome ??

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