Settings tab

Settings tab

How to make auto-posts?

You can set how to publish your posts.

Publish Immediately – Once you click “Publish” button plugin will start pushing your update to all configured social networks. You need to wait and look at the turning circle. Some APIs are pretty slow, so you have to wait and wait and wait until all updates are posted and control released back to you.

Use WP Cron to Schedule autoposts – Will release the control immediately back to you, so you can proceed with something else and will schedules all auto-posting jobs to your WP-Cron. This is much faster and much more efficient, but it could not work if your WP-Cron is disabled or broken.

If you are using WP Cron, you can limit autoposting speed. You can define that your posts won’t be auto-posted to the same social network more often then some defined time interval. You can also set what to do if you have more posts then can be posted during the day. You can discard additional posts or schedule them for tomorrow.

How to make autoposts

User Privileges/Security

You can set what users can see the SNAP options for each post and what users can actually autopost.

Also there is an option to disable the security verification completely.

User Privileges/Security

Include/Exclude WordPress Pages and Custom Post Types

You can turn on/off autoposting for WordPress pages and Custom Post Types.

Include/Exclude WordPress Pages and Custom Post Types

Categories to Include/Exclude

Each blogpost will be autoposted to all categories selected below. All categories are selected by default. Uncheck categories that you would like NOT to auto-post by default. Assigning the uncheked category to the new blogpost will turn off auto-posting to all configured networks.

Include/Exclude WordPress Pages and Custom Post Types

URL Shortener

Choose and configure the URL Shortener. Then you will be able to use %SURL% tag in “Message Format” to get shortened urls.

URL Shortener

Auto-Import comments from Social Networks

Plugin will automatically grab the comments posted on Social Networks and insert them as “Comments to your post”. Plugin will check for the new comments every hour. You can set how many posts should be tracked. Setting two many will degrade your website’s performance. 10-20 posts are recommended.

Auto-Import comments from Social Networks

URL Parameters

Force HTTPS/SSL?

Include/Exclude WordPress Pages and Custom Post Types

You can leave the links untouched, you can force SSL/HTTPS link or your force NON-SSL/HTTP links. This is useful if you want only secured links to me posted or if your wordpress supplies https links, but you wand regular http links.

Additional URL Parameters

You can set additional URL parameters that will be added to autoposted backlinks.

You can use %NTNAME% for social network name, %NTCODE% for social network two-letter code, %ACCNAME% for account name, %POSTID% for post ID, %POSTTITLE% for post title, %SITENAME% for website name. Any text must be URL Encoded.
Example: utm_source=%NTCODE%&utm_medium=%ACCNAME%&utm_campaign=SNAP%2Bfrom%2B%SITENAME%

Include/Exclude WordPress Pages and Custom Post Types

Auto-HashTags Settings

Set how to generate hashtags if tag is longer then one word. What should be used instead of the space.
Set how to to separate hashtags is there is more then one hashtag.
Hashtags

%ANNOUNCE% tag settings

By default, plugin will take text until the tag. Please specify how many characters should it get if tag is not found.
ANNOUNCE tag settings

“Open Graph” Tags

“Open Graph” tags are used for generating title, description and preview image for your Facebook and Google+ posts.

Please note: Our OG metatags implementation is very basic and limited. It will only add tags needed for autoposting. If you ​need something more advanced or if you have any issues with it, we recommend you to uncheck “Add Open Graph Tags” checkbox in the SNAP settings and use one of the specialized plugins. There are dozens of them: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/open-graph/

Open Graph Tags

Advanced “Featured” Image Settings

Advanced Featured Image Settings

Alternative “Featured Image” location

Plugin uses standard WordPress “Featured Image” by default. If your theme stores “Featured Image” in the custom field, please enter the name of it. Use prefix if your custom field has only partial location.

Alternative Featured Image location

Explanation:

1. What are custom fields: https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

If your custom field contains something like “https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/h1000000.png” just enter it’s name this “Custom field name” and you are done.

2. If you custom field has something like:

Array
(
[images] => Array
(
[featured] => https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/h1000000.png
[backup] => https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/b200.png
[alt] => https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/a30.png
)
[thumbs] => Array
(
[featured] => https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/thumb-h1000000.png
[backup] => https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/thumb-b200.png
[alt] => https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/thumb-a30.png
)
)

Then in addition to the “Custom field name” you need to enter “[images][featured]” to the “Custom field Array Path”

3. If you custom field has something like:

Array
(
[images] => Array
(
[featured] => /2014/05/h1000000.png
[backup] => /2014/05/b200.png
[alt] => /2014/05/a30.png
)
[thumbs] => Array
(
[featured] => /2013/04/thumb-waterfall-4.jpg
[backup] => /2014/05/thumb-b200.png
[alt] => /2014/05/thumb-a30.png
)
)

Then in addition to the “Custom field name” and “Custom field Array Path” you need to enter “https://www.nextscripts.com/wp-content/uploads” to the “Custom field Image Prefix”

Examples:

1. Your featured image is stored in the custom field “MyCustImage” and this field contains the full path: https://mySuperCDN.com/a/b/c/image123.jpg

Enter MyCustImage to the “Custom field name” field.

2. Your featured image is stored in the custom field “MyCustImage” and this field contains only partial path or just image name: image123.jpg

Enter MyCustImage to the “Custom field name” field. Enter https://mySuperCDN.com/a/b/c/ to the “Custom field Image Prefix” field.

3. Your featured image is stored in the custom field “MyCustImage” and this field contains some array: [‘images’][‘imageBig’] => ‘image123.jpg’, [‘images’][‘imageMed’] => ‘image123.jpg’, …

Enter MyCustImage to the “Custom field name” field. Enter https://mySuperCDN.com/a/b/c/ to the “Custom field Image Prefix” field. Enter [‘images’][‘imageBig’] to the “Custom field Array Path” field.

** Added in version 1.0.1
** Updated in version 3.0.1

SNAP Features

Accounts

Most Major Social Networks are supported.

Settings

SNAP has a lot of settings to configure.

Powerful Filters

Set what posts go to each network based on categories, tags, type, format and many more criteria.

Limit Autoposting Speed

Importing many posts at once? Not a problem. SNAP can query your autoposts and publish them one by one in defined time intervals.

Custom URLs for AutoPosts

You can set a custom URL for the link shared by SNAP
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Autopost New Blogposts

SNAP will automatically post your newly published blogposts (pages, events, products, custom post types) to all your defined social media accounts.

Quick Post

Send a quick post to all configured social networks without creating a WordPress blogpost.

"Spin" message post templates

Automatically change/alter the words or sentences in your social media posts 

Emoji Support

Emoji Support
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Export/Import Plugin settings

You Export and Import all plugin settings as backup or to move it to another site

Format your posts

Format your posts using flexible replacement tags. make text posts, share links, or post images.

Hashtags

SNAP can post tags, categories and any other custom WordPress taxonomies as Hashtags

Additional URL Parameters

Add additional parameters to the links posted by SNAP.

URL Shorteners

URL Shorteners: bit.ly, is.gd, Rebrandly, YOURLS and built in WordPress URL Shortener

See what was posted

You can see the direct links to the posts published by SNAP on the "Post Edit" page

SNAP Pro for Wordpress

Pro version upgrade adds the ability to configure more than one account for each social network and some additional features.

Get SNAP Pro

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