Topic-icon Automatic post of articles to Facebook

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10 years 11 months ago #53662 by picht
Hi

Is it possible to setup JFBConnect so that all articles posted to a specifik Joomla category are automatically submitted to a facebook page also ?

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Picht
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10 years 11 months ago #53669 by alzander
Picht,
No, we do not currently support automatic posting of content to any social networks. For now, all posts must be initiated from the front-end using the Create Post button from the social toolbar of JFBConnect.

In general, we recommend the manual posting method as it allows you to add your own message and control the time/day of the status update. Additionally, our system works with any URL of your site from any component, not just Joomla articles.

At some point, we do plan to investigate and possibly implement automatic posting, but for the reasons above, we'd still recommend the manual posting method for best user engagement.

I hope that helps,
Alex
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10 years 11 months ago #53670 by picht
Hi

I'm not sure i follow you.

What I want is the following:
On my webpage i have a news column. Right now i have to post my news both as a joomla article and as a status update on FB.
I have seen the posibility to have an activity stream shown on my webpage, showing updates from Joomla. That works fine and saves half of the work.
But i would rather have it the other way around, as i want all the updates saved in my Joomla webpage for reference.

Is there any way this can be achieved with JFBConnect ?

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Picht
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10 years 11 months ago #53676 by alzander

I have seen the posibility to have an activity stream shown on my webpage, showing updates from Joomla.

What are you using, or thinking of using, for showing updates from Joomla? There's nothing in JFBConnect that is meant to show activity from your own website. We do have the SCSocialStream module which can show feeds from your social network accounts.

But i would rather have it the other way around, as i want all the updates saved in my Joomla webpage for reference.

We don't have any method to import and save status updates from your social networks permanently in the Joomla database. Our SCSocialStream module can be configured to show the feed from your social networks though, and it sounds like that's what you want.

I may be missing what you're looking for. If you can give step by step instructions of what you're looking to do and how you want that displayed either in social networks or on your site, we may be able to help give some recommendations, but right now.. I'm a bit confused.

Thanks,
Alex
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10 years 11 months ago #53687 by picht

alzander wrote:

I have seen the posibility to have an activity stream shown on my webpage, showing updates from Joomla.

What are you using, or thinking of using, for showing updates from Joomla? There's nothing in JFBConnect that is meant to show activity from your own website. We do have the SCSocialStream module which can show feeds from your social network accounts.


Sorry, my mistake. I have seen the posibility to have an activity stream shown on my webpage, showing updates from FACEBOOK.

alzander wrote:

But i would rather have it the other way around, as i want all the updates saved in my Joomla webpage for reference.

We don't have any method to import and save status updates from your social networks permanently in the Joomla database. Our SCSocialStream module can be configured to show the feed from your social networks though, and it sounds like that's what you want.

I may be missing what you're looking for. If you can give step by step instructions of what you're looking to do and how you want that displayed either in social networks or on your site, we may be able to help give some recommendations, but right now.. I'm a bit confused.


OK
I want to be able to write updates/news in my Joomla webpage. They will be shown on my Joomla webpage with the standard Joomla News module, showing the newest articles in a selected category.

The same news i want to be sent to Facebook (and maybe other social networks). The sending should be automatically og by selecting something inside Joomla. Copy/paste from Joomla the each social media is not an option.

I have seen there are extensions that do that and i have it like that on another WordPress site. I just want to have as few extensions as possible

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Picht
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10 years 11 months ago #53693 by alzander
Thanks for the clarifications and explanations. It helps.

The same news i want to be sent to Facebook (and maybe other social networks). The sending should be automatically og by selecting something inside Joomla. Copy/paste from Joomla the each social media is not an option.

We don't have the ability to automatically post articles. Our social Channels feature does let you post content from the front-end of your site to multiple networks at once, so you can simply click "Create Post", add a comment and select the social networks you want to post too. It's not automatic, but in one step, you can post any content to dozens of Facebook Pages, Twitter Streams or LinkedIn Company Pages if you wanted. Each of those posts will be tagged with Open Graph titles and descriptions and likely images as well so that they robustly show up in any feeds they go to.

That's what JFBConnect can currently offer you for posting content and while we get requests periodically for more automation, the above works for the majority of users.

I hope that helps answer your question and gives some suggestions.
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10 years 11 months ago #53712 by picht
Hi

alzander wrote: Our social Channels feature does let you post content from the front-end of your site to multiple networks at once, so you can simply click "Create Post", add a comment and select the social networks you want to post too. It's not automatic, but in one step, you can post any content to dozens of Facebook Pages, Twitter Streams or LinkedIn Company Pages if you wanted.


But this is not saved in Joomla as a Jommla article, right ?

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Picht
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10 years 11 months ago #53714 by dalewyngaard
Hi Forum,

I thought this was the main feature of this extension???

What's the point of saying that you can post articles directly to Facebook and then it doesn't really have that feature???

Can you please direct us in correct direction as to where we can find the set up documentation for the frontend posting you mentioned above?

Thanks,
Dale
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10 years 11 months ago #53716 by alzander
Picht,
No, we don't pull the feed in and save it to an article. Each post in a social network feed is unique and not necessarily related to any specific article on your site. The way our Channel feature works is to pull the feed from each network and store it in a cache on your site. Then, we display that cached data to the user and only refresh it whenever the cache expires. We don't have a way to update a specific article with the whole feed contents.

Dale,

What's the point of saying that you can post articles directly to Facebook and then it doesn't really have that feature????

We can post articles directly to Facebook Pages & Groups, Twitter Streams and LinkedIn Company pages. We never indicate that the feature is automatic on publication of content. Our process is very streamlined though and, with 2 clicks, (Create Post -> Post) you can post any URL from your site to as many social channels as you have configured, with your own custom message as well as the Open Graph Tags and Twitter Card tags that JFBConnect can automatically set on your page.

If you know of somewhere that we've advertised automatic posting of your content to social networks, please let us know and we'll investigate where the mis-communication is coming from.

Thanks,
Alex
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10 years 11 months ago #53718 by dalewyngaard
Hi Alex,

Its probably within your SEO, your rankings are quite high up when users search for Joomla auto push extensions.

Please see bold text below, quoted from your extension description:

"Authentication, Social Profiles, Social Auto publish, Facebook integration, Open Graph
Social network integration for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Instagram, VK, Github, Amazon, Meetup, Windows Live and more for Joomla! Post content to Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups, Twitter Streams and LinkedIn Company Profiles. Use Facebook Open Graph tag and Twitter Card tags to manage the looks of all content shared from your site. Show your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn streams easily on your site. And much more!"

Thanks,
Dale
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