How to Automatically Share Your Old WordPress Posts

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Do you want to automatically share your old WordPress posts with your followers?

Sharing your old posts can be a great way to maximize the traffic you can get from social media.

In this article, we’ll show you how to share your old WordPress posts automatically.

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Why is it Important to Share Your Old WordPress Blog Posts?

By sharing your old blog posts with your followers, you can easily get more visitors to your WordPress website without any additional work.

If you’re only sharing your new blog posts on social media, then many of your followers won’t see your posts. By automatically promoting older posts too, more followers will see and click on your articles.

It’s also a great way to improve traffic from brand new followers and followers in different time zones.

Overall, sharing old posts can increase pageviews, which can lead to more email list subscribers, sales in your online store, and more.

With that said, let’s show you how you can automatically share your old WordPress blog posts easily.

Sharing Old WordPress Blog Posts on Social Media Automatically

The easiest way to share your old blog posts is by using the Revive Old Posts plugin. It lets you simply share your old WordPress blog posts on social media to help get more traffic and keep your accounts active.

Note: There’s a premium and free version of the plugin available. For this tutorial, we’ll use the free version since it lets us set up social sharing quickly.

However, the pro version is packed with even more features. It lets you completely customize how your old posts will display and lets you share on multiple networks like LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google My Business, and more.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin. For more details, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to go to Revive Old Posts » Dashboard and make sure the ‘Accounts’ tab is selected.

Then, click on the social media button for the account you want to connect.

If you’re using the free version of the plugin, then you can choose between Facebook and Twitter.

For this tutorial, we’ll choose Twitter.

This brings up a popup for the network you selected.

Simply click the ’Sign in to Twitter’ button.

Next, you’ll be asked to enter your Twitter username and password.

Once you’ve done that, click the ‘Authorize app’ button to connect to your account.

Now you need to set up how you want the plugin to share your posts.

Simply click on the ‘General Settings’ tab to configure the plugin settings.

First, you can change the ‘Minimum Interval Between Shares’. This is the number of hours the plugin will wait to share your posts.

You can also set the ‘Minimum Post Age’. This is the number of days that pass since the post was published for it to be considered old.

Below that, you can choose whether you’d like to share old posts again after all your old content has been shared.

Simply check the ‘Yes’ box if you want to enable this.

Next, you have a few more sharing options to customize. You can choose to include or exclude taxonomies and enable analytics tracking.

If you don’t have Google Analytics set up yet, then see our beginner’s guide on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress.

Simply check the boxes for the features you want to enable.

Then, you have a few different options for instantly sharing new blog posts.

Alternative: We recommend using Uncanny Automator to instantly share new blog posts on social media. It’s the best WordPress automation plugin that helps you create automated workflows without having to code.

For more details, see our guides on how to tweet new WordPress posts and how to post to Facebook from WordPress.

Once you’re done customizing your sharing settings, make sure to click the ‘Save’ button.

Next, click on the ‘Post Format’ menu option at the top of the page.

This brings you to a screen where you can customize how your posts will look when they’re shared. You’ll see different options based on the social network you connected.

First, select what post content you want to be shared in the ‘Share Content’ drop down. Then you can change the length of the social media post in the ‘Maximum Characters’ box.

After that, you can choose to add additional text, include a link back to your site, and include any custom fields.

Simply add text into the ‘Additional Text’ box and check the boxes for the features you want to turn on.

Then, you can decide to turn on the URL shortener or add hashtags to your post.

For post hashtags, you’ll have a few different customization options. Simply select how you want to generate hashtags from the drop down menu and add your hashtags to the ‘Common Hashtags’ box.

After that, click the ‘Save post format’ button at the bottom of the screen to save your settings.

Once you’re finished customizing the plugin settings, click the ‘Sharing Queue’ menu option.

Then, click the ‘Start Sharing’ button.

On this same screen you’ll be able to preview your posts before they’re shared on social media.

You can skip posts, edit them, and even stop certain posts from being shared.

That’s it! Now your old WordPress posts will automatically share on social media.

If you want more control over which old posts will get shared on social media, then you can use a tool like Buffer. It’s a social media scheduling app that lets you choose the posts that will get shared at a specific time.

For more details, see our guide on how to schedule WordPress posts for social media with Buffer.

It’s also important to share your new posts with subscribers and followers too. For ways on how to do this automatically, see our guide on how to share your blog posts with readers.

We hope this article helped you learn how to automatically share your old WordPress posts. You may also want to see our guide on how to properly move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS and our picks of the best payroll software for small businesses.