Cross Posting WordPress to Social Media

As we work towards a Publish Once Propagate Widely strategy it is nice (essential?) if on publish the post is pushed out to the required social platforms automatically.

Goals:

• The post is propagated with it’s featured or first image
• -> ActivityPub (Mastodon)
• -> Facebook
• -> Instagram

Solutions:

• WordPress ActivityPub Plugin (Facebook usage is shrinking and open protocol social is what is replacing it)
• A solid OpenGraph Tag plugin to pop the rich links (we are testing a few Opengraph is the best so far and VERY simple)
• IFTTT WordPress Post to Facebook Page* (requires a WordPress login and Facebook permissions for the page)
• Auto post to Instagram from Facebook

_{* There are WP plugin options Jetpack works ok but is an annoying thing to have installed and keeps dropping the Facebook API connection, others do not seem well maintained. Can also do RSS triggered integrations but they do not catch the Featured image}