Larry Igna
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- Nov 25, 2016
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Recently I started a new site and wanted it to have some social properties connected. I'm a lazy guy when it comes to social media stuff, so this thing had to be automated. One of the posts on BHW that I bookmarked and check it often is @Sherb 's guide here. Basically it's about auto posting images on Twitter and monetizing the traffic.
Since his method involved scheduling hundreds of posts manually and since many tools in that thread are a bit outdated, I had to do it differently.
I know there are bots for this thing, but most are paid and i don't need all features they offer, like follow/unfollow stuff, which i can still handle as described in Sherb's thread.
So how i did it?
I made a new Wordpress website, this can be on a free host, no need to buy a domain for it, it's just for automation purposes.Free hosts have their limits, so be careful if you go this route.
Then I've searched for plugins that auto post images. There are a few, not many, but don't work well for what I need. So i crafted a new plugin for this, not a real PHP programmer here, just copied snippets of code from here and there and made things work.
What this plugin does is very simple
You upload a ton of images to your Wp site and for every image you uploaded, it will create a post in draft mode.Post title will be image name, post content will be the image itself plus (and that's where nice things happend) it will add text based on text you provide in spintax format
Next thing to do is get a plugin to schedule the posts to be published (remember, there are only drafts now)
I found this to be working very well
https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-scheduler/
Few simple settings and we are done here.
Next, IFTTT
Not much to say here, just one thing to be noticed: for me, recipes based on RSS feed don't work well for some reason. To make it work, i went to Services > Wordpress and gave it login details for the site.
With RSS, it couldn't retrieve images from feed, this was the only way to make it work.
I connected Twitter,Tumblr,Facebook Page and Pinterest so when new article is posted, IFTTT auto posts it on every one of them.
For setting this up, upload an image and test how your applets work, depending on the network, you have different ingredients, so chose wisely to make things look nice.
So.. that's all, if anyone wants to automate their social posts using these steps, feel free to use my plugin (also, if anyone wants to add improvements to it, feel free to do it, just share it with us)
About spintax: you have to write it, this is not an article rewriter, it doesn't have any thesaurus or fancy features. You must input synonyms like this
{Hello|Bye} {Whitehat|Blackhat}world
You can use a service like http://www.checkspintax.com/ to verify it.
Bellow is the link to Auto Image Post plugin, use it or improve it. For questions, reply to thread, don't PM, please.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/k19qne
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/0...21e24e3657d84bc585999cfada77f547055/detection
Since his method involved scheduling hundreds of posts manually and since many tools in that thread are a bit outdated, I had to do it differently.
I know there are bots for this thing, but most are paid and i don't need all features they offer, like follow/unfollow stuff, which i can still handle as described in Sherb's thread.
So how i did it?
I made a new Wordpress website, this can be on a free host, no need to buy a domain for it, it's just for automation purposes.Free hosts have their limits, so be careful if you go this route.
Then I've searched for plugins that auto post images. There are a few, not many, but don't work well for what I need. So i crafted a new plugin for this, not a real PHP programmer here, just copied snippets of code from here and there and made things work.
What this plugin does is very simple
You upload a ton of images to your Wp site and for every image you uploaded, it will create a post in draft mode.Post title will be image name, post content will be the image itself plus (and that's where nice things happend) it will add text based on text you provide in spintax format
Next thing to do is get a plugin to schedule the posts to be published (remember, there are only drafts now)
I found this to be working very well
https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-scheduler/
Few simple settings and we are done here.
Next, IFTTT
Not much to say here, just one thing to be noticed: for me, recipes based on RSS feed don't work well for some reason. To make it work, i went to Services > Wordpress and gave it login details for the site.
With RSS, it couldn't retrieve images from feed, this was the only way to make it work.
I connected Twitter,Tumblr,Facebook Page and Pinterest so when new article is posted, IFTTT auto posts it on every one of them.
For setting this up, upload an image and test how your applets work, depending on the network, you have different ingredients, so chose wisely to make things look nice.
So.. that's all, if anyone wants to automate their social posts using these steps, feel free to use my plugin (also, if anyone wants to add improvements to it, feel free to do it, just share it with us)
About spintax: you have to write it, this is not an article rewriter, it doesn't have any thesaurus or fancy features. You must input synonyms like this
{Hello|Bye} {Whitehat|Blackhat}world
You can use a service like http://www.checkspintax.com/ to verify it.
Bellow is the link to Auto Image Post plugin, use it or improve it. For questions, reply to thread, don't PM, please.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/k19qne
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/0...21e24e3657d84bc585999cfada77f547055/detection
