Writing blog posts isn’t enough: Someone needs to actually read them. Your Facebook page is a good place for people to find your articles, but only if you remember to actually post them.
WordPress powers a little more than one-third of all sites on the web, including more than a few blogs. If your site runs on WordPress, you can use Zapier to quickly share your posts with fans of your Facebook page. Through our automated workflows—we call them Zaps—you can send information from one app to another.
Don’t use WordPress for your blog? Keep reading and we’ll show you how to connect a Facebook page to an RSS feed, allowing you to automatically share posts from basically any website.
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Before you begin: Install the Zapier plugin
Before you can create your Zap, you’ll need to install our free WordPress plugin and activate it on your site. This plugin allows Zapier to find and make changes to content on your site through any Zaps you set up. Once you’ve activated the plugin, we can move on to the fun part: creating your automated workflow.
How to share WordPress posts to a Facebook Page
Zapier lets you create automated workflows called Zaps, which send your information from one app to another. You can create your own Zap from scratch without any coding knowledge, but we also offer quick templates to get you started.
If you’d like to start with a template, click on the Zap template to go to the Zap editor. You’ll need to create a Zapier account if you don’t already have one. Then, follow the directions below to set up your Zap.
This template is best for sharing text-based WordPress posts to Facebook. If your blog focuses more on images than text, you can share your posts as images. Here’s a template for that:
Create your WordPress trigger
Once you’re in the Zap editor, you’ll need to set up your trigger first. A trigger is the event that will start your Zap. Search for and select WordPress as the trigger app, New Post as the trigger event, and click Continue.
You’ll be asked to sign in to your WordPress account. Once you’ve connected your account, click Continue.
For each app you connect, Zapier will ask for a general set of permissions which allows you to be flexible with your Zaps. The only actions Zapier takes on your app accounts are those a given Zap needs to accomplish what you’ve set up.
Now you can customize your trigger step.
Choose Published as your Post Status. Only touch the Post Type box if you want to share new pages or media instead of new posts. (If you don’t understand what that means, don’t worry. Leave that box alone.) Click Continue.