Amazing social media features of WordPress A to z guide

This guide provides instructions for how to connect your WordPress.com site to various social networking services. Once connected to a service, you can share your posts with that service automatically.

To connect your site to your social networks, go to My Site → Sharing in your dashboard. You’ll see various services in the Publicize section: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Path, and Eventbrite. To connect to a service, click the Connect button and follow the prompts.

Need more information or having trouble with connecting to a particular service? Read on.

Using Publicize

Once you’ve approved a connection to any of these services, you’ll see a Publicize section in the Publish box on your post writing screen each time you write a new post.



When you publish your post as usual, you’ll see it show up on the services you’ve enabled. If you want to opt out of any of the Publicize services for a specific post, uncheck the boxes next to the Publicize connections you’d like to disable.

You can also customize the message that introduces your post on your services:



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Setting up Publicize

To set up Publicize on your WordPress.com site, go to My Site → Sharing in your dashboard.



In the Publicize section, you’ll see a list of services to which you can share your posts. Click Connect next to the service you’d like to enable.



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Facebook Profiles & Pages

Watch the video below for a quick overview of how it works, and read below for more examples and settings.



On the My Site → Sharing page, click the Connect button next to Facebook. A message will ask you to authorize the connection between your WordPress.com site and your Facebook account, providing access to your public profile and friend list.



Click the “Okay” button, and Facebook will then ask you to allow WordPress.com to post publicly on your behalf. Click the “Okay” button to allow this, too.



Finally, you’ll be prompted to allow WordPress.com to manage your pages. Click “Okay” for this as well.



You’ll be taken back to your dashboard and will see a success message. Here, you can choose if you’d like to publicize to your profile or one of your pages.



After clicking Connect, you can make this connection available to all users of the site. This means that when another user creates a post, it will also publicize to this Facebook profile or page.



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Google+ Profiles and Pages

On the My Site → Sharing page, click the Connect button next to Google+. You’ll be taken to Google where you’ll be asked to approve your selected connection between your WordPress.com site and your Google+ account. Click Allow.



On the next screen, you’ll see a message asking you to confirm the account you’d like to authorize. Click Connect.



You’ll see a message indicating you’ve successfully connected. In the dialog box, you have the option to connect to a different account. You can also check the box to make this connection available to all site admins. This means that when another user creates a post, it will also publicize to this Google+ profile or page.

Changing who can see your publicized posts on Google+

By default, Google+ sets the visibility of your posts to “Only You”. You can change this setting by following these steps:





Go to the Manage Apps page in Google+.
Beside WordPress, click on Edit.
From the dropdown menu, choose whether you’d like to share your posts to specific circles, a community that you manage or the public.
Click on Save to finish.
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Twitter

On the My Site → Sharing page, click the Connect button next to Twitter. You’ll be taken to Twitter where you’ll be asked to approve the connection between your WordPress.com site and your Twitter account. Click Authorize app.



After, confirm the account you’d like to authorize, then click Connect.



You’ll see a message indicating you’ve successfully connected. In the dialog box, you have the option to connect