Double Top Secret Way to Publish WordPress.com Posts on Facebook

Call me a control freak, but I’m guessing there are other people out there in WordPress world who want to add some but not every WordPress.com post to their Facebook Profile Newsfeed.

RSS Feed

The easiest way to add your WordPress.com Posts to Facebook is by creating an RSS feed on your Facebook profile.  To do this see below. But, if you are like me, you may not want every single WordPress post to automatically go to Facebook.

Hats off to Judi and Callahan for solving one of the great mysteries of the world with such a simple New Trick.

Add A Link To Your Post

Here’s what to do:

• Compose your WordPress post as normal.
• Somewhere in your WordPress post, add a link back to your post.  I stick a little tag, ‘Link to this post‘ at the very end of the post. If you want to be fancy, you could use a white font for the link text so that it doesn’t show on your post.
  
• Insert a link to the Post’s URL (either by grabbing the Permalink or publishing the post and copying/pasting the URL) in the tag.
  
• Publish the Post.
• View the published Post.
• Hover over the link.
• You’ll get the ‘WordPress Snap Shots’ dialog box like below:

• Select the ‘+SHARE’ button
• From the ‘Bookmark & Share’ dialog box, select Facebook
• Follow the prompts

A few notes:

WordPress.com is the online hosted version of WordPress.

There is a WordPress app for Facebook but it doesn’t appear to be working at the moment.

How to add your WordPress.com posts to your Facebook NewsFeed.

• Go to your Facebook Profile page
• Select the ‘Settings’ button (just under the Status bar)
• Select ‘Blog / RSS’
• Enter the URL for your WordPress.com blog
• Give it a few seconds, then your blog posts should appear

From now on, your WordPress.com Posts will automatically appear on your Newsfeed as soon as (or shortly after) they are published.

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