=== Evergreen Content Poster Plugin by User Growth === Contributors: usergrowth Tags: auto post, auto publish, social media scheduling, social media automation, share to social media, social media auto posting, social media marketing, social media sharing, buffer Requires at least: 4.7 Tested up to: 5.6 Stable tag: trunk License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Automatically share your best WordPress content (posts/pages/custom post types) to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Keep your content alive and attract more visitors to your website! == Description == Easily double your traffic from social media. Many businesses are publishing content as a way to build their audiences and increase traffic to their websites. However, they may not be getting everything they could from each piece of content they create. If you are serious about your content, then you also need to be serious about driving as much traffic to it (over social media) as possible. One great way to do this is to *share your content on social media more than once.* But wait, doesn't that turn me into a spammer? One aspect of marketing we often forget is that no one notices everything we do. Your social media followers aren't like RSS subscribers who see and read every post. In fact, sharing more than once *probably is an essential part of providing your audience with the value you promised them.* If you don't share your links a few times, they may never see any of your updates. So how can you share your evergreen content multiple times in a way that doesn't turn you into a spammer? Sure, you can install a plugin that shares your old blog posts (randomly) once every single hour. Or you can be smart about it. This is where Evergreen Content Poster comes into play. Evergreen Content Poster is a **must-have** WordPress plugin created to help business owners **boost their website traffic**, grow their **social media followers** and keep their existing **followers engaged** by **automatically** sharing your post and content from your WordPress website in unlimited different ways to your social media accounts. Places like your LinkedIn company page, your Instagram account, your Twitter account are all supported to name a few. Our plugin allows you to create as many variations on a single post as you want, so you never have to share the same message twice. If you want to: - Ask a question to trigger intrigue for your content - Cite a fact from your content - Share a quote The possibilities are limitless. Save time in your social media marketing efforts, add the power of having unlimited unique posts sharing your content to your accounts by using Evergreen Content Poster. ## Who Should Be Using The Evergreen Content Poster Plugin? - People with **small blogs** that are just starting out - **Large blogs and sites** with hundreds of **posts** - **Social media and content marketers** - **Mom-and-Pop bloggers** - Business owners that use the power of content marketing **to attract new clients** ## How Can Evergreen Content Poster Help Me? Evergreen Content Poster is much more than just a WordPress to Facebook, WordPress to Twitter or yet another auto posting plugin. Evergreen Content Poster can be used for many use cases and help many different blogs and sites boost their social media traffic. We do this by introducing social media automation functionality that doesn't spam your social accounts with the same old boring messages. In fact, it can act as all of the following in one: ### A WordPress **Social Media Scheduling** Plugin With our plugin, you can set a schedule for how often you'd like your **old and newer content** to share to social media. Set specific times that you want your evergreen content to be pushed to your different social media accounts, or set the number of posts you want to publish every day. Want it even more laid back? Only push content to your Buffer account, the moment your Buffer queue is empty. And the best part? There's no need to mess around with App IDs, authorization tokens or complicated technical steps. Connecting your social media profiles is done in a few clicks through Buffer, taking seconds. #### Buffer Partner #### In October 2020, we're proud to have been selected as a Partner by Buffer. This ensures continued access to Buffer's API, meaning that the Evergreen Content Poster will continue to work and continue to improve. ### A WordPress **Social Media Analytics** Plugin You can't improve what you don't measure! Are you tired of manually adding UTM tags to your links to see which posts are performing the best and are resulting in the most traffic? With Evergreen Content Poster, you can automatically include UTM tags in all content shared. Now you can identify which social network is bringing in the most results, straight from your Google Analytics. ### A WordPress **Content Curation** Plugin We all know the amount of work that goes into creating a piece of content. And while making the best piece of content there is, is needed if you want to rank your content. Content creation itself is only half the battle, the rest is gaining notice. That's why we give you the unique ability to create as many variations on a single post within your WordPress backend as you want. With Evergreen Content Poster **you decide** which of your posts and how your posts are shared to which social media channel. ## What can I do with Evergreen Content Poster ## Evergreen Content Poster isn't like every other social media marketing tool. As content marketing ourselves, we know the importance of: - Sustaining and growing traffic to your website - Growing social media following - Keeping your existing social media followers engaged - Promoting and sharing of your evergreen content That's why, with our plugin **you can automatically share posts from:** - WordPress to your Facebook pages - WordPress to your Facebook groups - WordPress to your Instagram Business accounts - WordPress to your Twitter profiles - WordPress to your LinkedIn Profile - WordPress to your LinkedIn pages - WordPress to your Pinterest boards We're able to do this using our partnership with Buffer, the leading social sharing tool available. = Data = The plugin connects your website to [Buffer](https://buffer.com) (an account with Buffer is required.). We connect directly to your Buffer (buffer.com) account, via their API, to: - Fetch your social media profile names and IDs, - Send your WordPress Posts to one or more of your social media profiles. The profiles and content sent will depend on the plugin settings you have configured. We connect to our own API to pass the following requests through to Buffer: - Connect the Evergreen Content Poster to Buffer, when you click the Authorize button (this obtains an access token from Buffer, once you have approved authorization) Both of these are done via our own API, to ensure that no private data (such as oAuth client secret keys) are included in this plugin's code or made public. We **never** store any information on our web site or API during this process. == Installation == 1. Upload the `evergreen-content-poster` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the Evergreen Content Poster plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 3. Configure the plugin by going to the `Evergreen Content` menu that appears in your admin menu on the left 4. Get yourself a good cup of joe (or tea if you like tea better), sit back and see your traffic increasing. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Will this plugin slow my website? = Absolutely not! Since this plugin is built only to be used in the backend of your WordPress, you won't notice any difference in speed on the frontend (the place where your visitors are consuming your content) = Will you be able to see my password for Buffer? = Nope, don't you worry. We use a system call oAuth to connect your Buffer account with Evergreen Content Poster. This allows for you to authorize us adding items to your Buffer queue without the need for a password. If for whatever reason you want to deactivate the plugin, this connection will automatically be reset. = Isn't the Buffer API retired? = No; in October 2020, we're proud to have been selected as a Partner by Buffer. This ensures continued access to Buffer's API, meaning that the Evergreen Content Poster will continue to work. == Screenshots == 1. Evergreen Content Poster Settings screens (with no accounts connected) 2. Settings screen with accounts connected, creating a schedule for posting (posting on a fixed timeslot) 3. Settings screen with accounts connected, creating a schedule for posting (x posts per day) 4. Settings screen with accounts connected, creating a schedule for posting (only adding items to your Buffer queue when your queue is empty ) 5. Adding content to your content library choosing which network you want to send your content too. 6. Giving you tips on creating the best post for your social media channels while writing your content. You can fully customise each item. == Changelog == = 1.0 = * First release.