WordPress and Social Media: A Comprehensive Integration Guide

Are you on a mission to bridge the gap between your social media content and WordPress site? Let's explore the best ways to connect your site to social networks!

Highlights
00:00 Intro
00:32 Embedding social media posts
00:55 Auto-publishing to social media
01:26 Making content look great on social media
01:45 Social media profile links
02:02 Share and like buttons
02:15 Clarifying expectations

Links
- Embedding Social Media Posts: https://youtu.be/-8d0gkVACLw
- Auto-Publishing to Social Media: https://youtu.be/mrW_90OYoH0
- Making Content Look Great on Social Media: https://youtu.be/9zsHLJrHy4U
- Fixing Open Graph Image Previews: https://youtu.be/g9WgdPFSEMs
- Share and Like Button Integrations: https://youtu.be/zOjBdzBaWSs

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Transcript

Intro

Steffen 0:00

Hey Dominik .

Dominik 0:01

Oh , hey , Steffen .

Steffen 0:03

How do you integrate social media into WordPress ? That is a tough question Like .

Dominik 0:11

What do you mean by that ?

Dominik 0:12

Like this is the first question that you have to ask , because a lot of the times , clients actually come to us and they ask exactly that question .

Dominik 0:19

Yes , i want to integrate WordPress into social media or social media into WordPress , and for us there are basically , like normally , three different ways how you can implement or integrate these two things together

Embedding social media posts

Dominik 0:32

.

Dominik 0:32

The first one is how to embed posts from social media . So when the client has a social media account and regularly posts there and they want to show the streams or timelines or whatever on their website , then this would be embedding social media content onto your WordPress website . Right ,

Auto-publishing to social media

Dominik 0:55

then you have the possibility to publish content that you publish on WordPress , like on your WordPress website , also on other social media channels . So this would be like the second way . So if they don't have a designated social media account or they want a streamline , like they're publishing , like workflow , then they might go that route . Or I don't want to , like , put a value on things , but

Making content look great on social media

Dominik 1:26

another way is how do I make my content that I publish on my WordPress website , how do I make that look good or great on social media platforms ? And yeah , i think first you have to distinguish between the actual goal , and then we can find an answer to that question .

Social media profile links

Steffen 1:45

And I think there's one more . Even , i think you could think about social media integration in terms of having your link to your social media profile on your website , like in the footer or something like that , and maybe even

Share and like buttons

Steffen 2:02

even one more beyond that , like having share buttons on your website to share posts and pages . This used to be very popular back in the days . It's not that popular anymore , but it still happens . So again ,

Clarifying expectations

Steffen 2:15

yeah , right , we get this all the time as a briefing , like it just mostly says , and also consider social media integration into your in your proposal for the WordPress website , and this is yeah , what do you mean ? All of that , some of that , let's figure that out .

Steffen 2:33

Yeah and we have recorded a couple of episodes around that topic , so go check them out in the links below . Yes , is that it Could be ? Could be .