Social Media Sharing with FS-Poster

Click the Rocket icon and the Share Panel appears from the right. Click on the icon for the target platform to reveal its options, Facebook in this example.

For the custom message you will see the default placeholders where you can change or update the message if desired.

Click the ADD button to select an account or group of accounts to which this post will be shared.

Once you’ve selected the accounts and updated the custom message if needed, click the Share button. A modal popup window will show you your progress and provide a link to your new post on Facebook. Note it you toggle the Share in Background option the share will occur without the confirmation.

Click the Clock icon and the Add a New Schedule Panel appears from the right.

The first Tab allows you to input name and basic scheduling options for the post.

• The Name field is pre-populated with from the headline, but you will want to update this before sharing. This name is only for the schedule itself so call it something representative.
• Choose a start date and time and if you want to share the post more than once. Schedules do not have an expiration and will share as long as posts fall under its settings.
• If you want to share repeatedly you can then set an interval for the subsequent posts.

Under the Filters tab you will find the WordPress post ID for the story you are sharing, and if needed other post IDs can be added to be shared on this same schedule. Will will look at another method for manually posting multiple articles shortly.

The Accounts tab is similar to the other selection panels. Click the ADD button and select the accounts or account groups you would like to share to.

The Custom Message tab offers the same placeholder options to customize the content included with this share.

Once all options are set click the Add a Schedule button and you will be taken to the Schedules tab of FS-Poster listing all the current schedules. We will look at the schedule listing and the calendar view shortly.

From the article list you can select multiple entries by clicking the small square to the left of the Title. FS-Poster utilizes this to allow you to schedule multiple posts at once.

Select several stories and under the Bulk actions dropdown, select FS Poster: Schedule and click the Apply button.

Again the Add a New Schedule panel appears from the left.

With multiple posts scheduled the plugin now prompts you for how often you want to share from this set of posts and in what order: Randomly without duplicates, Randomly, Start from oldest to newest, and Start from latest to old posts.

The other panels are exactly the same although you will notice the multiple post IDs on the Filters page.

Finally click Add a Schedule to be taken again to the Schedules tab of the FS-Poster plugin.

From the Article Editor, make sure the setting panel is visible and on the Article tab. Scroll down until you find the FS Poster section. Twirl it open to reveal the sharing options.

First you will note that you can select a custom image for the share by clicking in the camera box and picking or uploading one from the Media Library. If not set, the share will use the featured image of the post.

Just beneath the custom image option will be a list of all previous shares of this post if any have occurred.

Finally the Share and Schedule buttons bring up the same sharing or scheduling panel as our other methods.

Several other sections relevant to our social shares are any taxonomies we may want to use as hashtags. You can learn more about this setting here, but in this case we are using the article category and any tags as hashtags in our social posts.

Also if you are using the {EXCERPT} placeholder as we have been in the custom message it can be set here in the Article editor as well.

When you create a new schedule with these various methods, you will always be taken to the Schedules tab of FS-Poster listing all of the current schedules. You can see the status, number of log entries, and how many social accounts are being targeted for each schedule.

Clicking on the pause button will halt sharing on that particular schedule.

Clicking the pencil icon brings up the same Schedule panel we have seen before so that you can make any necessary updates.

To view the individual posts assigned to a schedule, click on the Calendar button.

The Calendar page contains a month view showing when and how many posts are scheduled for a particular day, while a second panel lists all of the scheduled posts with dates and times assigned to them. By hovering over the new tab icon to the right of the share name it will reveal the post headline and ID. You can go directly to the post by clicking on the icon.

All of the shared posts will appear in the Logs tab of the FS-Poster plugin.

Each entry contains a new tab link to the profile to which the post was shared, the original post on your website and the post on the social site itself. Depending on the platform, you will also find some simple metrics by hovering over the graph icon to the right.

Additionally you can filter and export this data for your team.