Blog2Social

Blog2Social is a freemium plugin that allows you to post your website content and blog posts on multiple social media profiles simultaneously. It has a pretty comprehensive free version and premium plans that give you access to more advanced features. It also gives you the option to customize your posts for each network separately.

Features: 

Social networking sites have emerged as a major source of drawing traffic to websites. Each of these sites has different rules, which make it difficult to share content on them. To cite an example, hashtags are essential if you are posting on Twitter, not so when posting on other social networking platforms. Therefore, managing the content you are looking to share on the various social networking sites is quite a challenge in itself.

This is where Blog2Social comes into the picture. It helps you make necessary changes to your posts or blogs to make them compatible with multiple social networking platforms. You can also add separate comments and hashtags for this purpose. You can also schedule your content on different networks when it’s the best time to do so.

Hence, by mixing functions like auto-posting, scheduling, and customizing features, Blog2Social helps you market your posts and blogs efficiently. The moment your post is published on WordPress, Blog2Social gets to work and shares the post on various social media platforms either only once or on a recurring basis. What makes Blog2Social so very convenient is that it automatically adds @handles or hashtags to your content when it’s necessary to do so.

Let’s now look into some of the stand-out features in detail.

Image Selection: Blog2Social selects the featured image and other images from your blog post over WordPress. As long as these are the very images you want to share, it’s not a problem at all.

However, if there’s an image on Instagram on Pinterest you want to share, Blog2Social allows you to upload it from your device or the WordPress Media Library. There are several options you can choose from.

• Pick an image from the blog posts
• Select a single image for a particular social media network
• Select an image to be shared across all social media networks you are connected to
• Select and upload images from the WordPress Media Library

Custom Scheduling: With the custom scheduling feature, you can choose how many times you want the post to be shared, apart from customizing it, of course. These are the options for you to pick from:

• Share Now, which shares the post immediately, albeit only once
• Schedule Once, which shares the post at the time selected, but just once
• Schedule Recurrently, which allows you to share the posts at the scheduled times recurrently

Custom Sharing: The custom sharing screen allows you to customize messages instead of posting similar content on all social networking sites. This is made possible by individual panels for each site that you can select and share posts accordingly. This helps you curate your posts, making them suitable for the various social media sites. You may make shorter posts on Facebook and longer ones on Google Plus as users on the latter engage better when the posts are longer.

Auto-Posting: Blog2Social gives you the option to post your blog immediately on multiple social network sites that you select automatically. As mentioned above, you may also schedule the publishing of your posts. A small panel has been added on the WordPress editor on the right of the blog, which allows you to pick your option.

Select Profiles: Blog2Social also gives you the option to select profiles you want to share the blog on. You may choose between a single network or a group of networks and configure your settings accordingly.

Immediate Sharing or Scheduled Sharing: This gives you two options-

• Sharing the posts immediately as soon as they are published
• A scheduler allows you to-Manually pick your date and time

The post is published at the time saved in the settings if you check the box

In case you have no such preferences, the plugin uses the built-in Best Time Scheduler to share your blog at a suitable time

It’s a small selection box that offers so many options and helps you save a lot of time. Even if no schedule is created for posting, the plugin automatically uses predefined best times.

8Expert Score

Overall: Blog2Social is continually adding more features helping make scheduling and marketing posts easy for you. This is the best option for you if you are looking to share your posts automatically over several networks.

PROS

• You can share your posts on multiple pages, profiles, and groups and schedule the sharing only once or make it recurrent
• For scheduling the post, you can use either the Best Time Scheduler or customize a schedule
• Every time you publish a new blog post, it can be posted on your social media accounts automatically
• You can increase the relevance and visibility of your social media posts by using individual network messages
• A free version is available, and the premium version offers flexible licensing options

CONS

• As Blog2Social always puts the URL at the end of your message, it may be edited or removed by someone else who may re-tweet it.