Bit Social is a WordPress plugin that helps you to share your WordPress post on social media platform automatically. You can set schedule for each social media.

What kind of tasks does Bit Social?

Bit Social share wp post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram automatically according to schedule time and date.

How do I use the scheduling feature in Bit Social?

To use the Schedule feature in Bit Social, go to the Schedule section and click "Add Schedule." Give your schedule a name, choose the start date and time, set the post interval, and select how to order posts. Set a sleep timer, choose the posts by their published time, and select your accounts and template.

How do I use the share now feature in Bit Social?

To use the Share Now feature in Bit Social, navigate to the Schedule section and click "Share Post." From the left-side menu, select the social media accounts where you wish to post. Provide a title for your post, then compose your message. Once your post is ready, click "Publish" to instantly share it across your selected platforms. This feature simplifies the process of sharing content in real-time, making it easy to manage your online presence.

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Schedule WordPress posts on social media Platform with Bit Social

With the WP Post Schedules feature in Bit Social, you can automatically schedule your all WordPress posts to be shared on your social media platforms. This feature allows you to filter your posts, ensuring that only the content you want gets shared at the optimal times.

Note

To use this feature, you must connect your social accounts with Bit Social. Follow this documentation to connect your accounts.

Check out our easy-to-follow tutorial!

Setup WP Post Schedules

To set up the WP Post Schedules feature in Bit Social, go to Bit Social and click on “WP Post Schedules” from the top menu then “Create Schedule“.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Create Schedule

Settings

Name: Give a name for your schedule.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - give a name

Start date & time: Set your start date and time for sharing. Your post will automatically be shared to your selected platforms at the specified date and time. You can also view the local time.

Note

To use this feature properly, you need to set WordPress to your local time zone. To do this, go to Settings, then General. Scroll down to the Timezone and set it to your local time.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Start date & time

Post interval: The post interval feature lets you set the amount of time between each automatically shared post. This helps you maintain a consistent and well-spaced sharing schedule on your connected platforms.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Post Inverval

Note

What if you update your post interval

Let’s break down how your next post time works, especially when you change the interval:

Let’s say You have a post scheduled to go live at 5:00 PM. You have set the interval for posts to every 1 hour.
So start time is 5:00 PM and the first post time will publish at 5:00 PM. Next post will publish at 6:00 PM.
If you decide to change this interval before 5:00 PM, nothing will change for the first post. Your post will still publish at 5:00 PM.
Now, let’s say the current time is 5:30 PM and one of your post already published at 5:00 PM, and you realize you want to change the interval.
So, if you change the interval at 5:30 PM from 1 hour to 2 hours, the new post time will be 7:30 PM (current time of 5:30 PM + updated 2-hours interval).

Key Takeaways:

Before the Start Time: Changing the interval does not affect the next post time.
After the Start Time: The new interval is added to the current time to determine the next post time.

This way, you can ensure your posts are always scheduled as you prefer, even if you decide to adjust the intervals after the start time has passed.

Order posts by: The “Order Posts By” feature in Bit Social lets you decide the sequence of your shared posts. You can choose to share posts in different ways:

Randomly without repeats to ensure uniqueness,
Simply randomly for variety,
From oldest to newest for a chronological order,
From newest to oldest to highlight the latest updates first.

This helps you customize your content sharing to match your strategy.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Choose Order posts by

Set a sleep timer: This feature allows you to schedule a specific time duration for the plugin to pause its activity. It’s like setting a timer for the plugin to take a break from its tasks for a while.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Set a sleep timer

Set sleep days: This feature allows you to choose certain days when the plugin will not be active. It’s like giving the plugin scheduled days off, ensuring it takes a break on those selected days

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - choose sleep days

Post Filter

By the published time of the posts: With this feature, you can filter your WordPress posts. If you choose “Last 7 days,” only the posts from the past 7 days on your WordPress site will be shared to your selected social platforms. You can also use a custom date range to specify exactly which posts to share.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - By the published time of the posts

By post type: With this feature, you can filter your WordPress content by type. You can choose to share only specific types of content, such as posts, pages, media, custom post types or Bit Form pages, to your selected social platforms.

INFO

You can also use Custom Post Types (CPT) in Bit Social. However, you will need the Pro version of Bit Social to access this feature. Learn More.

Bit Social - WP Post Schedule - Choose By Post Type

By the post category and tag: With this feature, you can filter your WordPress content by category and tag. This means you can choose to share only posts from specific categories or with certain tags to your selected social platforms.

INFO

Ensure the taxonomy is associated with a post by adding a tag from it, as empty taxonomies won’t show in the schedule post filter.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - By the post category and tag

Select Specific Post: With this option, you can choose specific posts to share. Instead of sharing everything, you can select the exact posts you want to publish to your chosen social media platforms.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Select Specific Post

Accounts & Template

Choose Accounts: Choose the accounts from the left-side where you want to schedule your WordPress posts to be shared. You can also search for your accounts and filter them by platform.Click here to learn how to connect your accounts.

Customize post message: You can customize your post message too. Click “Show Smart Tags” to uncover extra tags. You can also choose to add the Featured Image, Product Image, Link Card and All Images to your posts.

Note

To customize post messages, you’ll need to customize them separately for each platform. In this case, let’s customize the messages for LinkedIn and Facebook individually.

Customize Template for LinkedIn

To customize template for LinkedIn, simply click on “LinkedIn.”

You can type your post and use Smart Tags. You can also add Featured Image, Product Image, Link Card and All Images.

WP Post Schedule - Smart Tags - LinkedIn

WP Post Schedule - Custom Message LinkedIn

Customize Template for Facebook

To customize template for Facebook, simply click on “Facebook.”

You can type your post and use Smart Tags. You can also add Featured Image, Product Image, Link Card and All Images.

If you want to connect more accounts, click on the “Connect Account” button.

After setting up your schedule, click the “Create” button.

WP Post Schedule - Click on Create Create

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - schedule created

You can pause your schedule too.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Pause your Schedule

You can also edit your schedule. Just click the Edit icon, make your changes, and then click the Update button.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Edit Schedule

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Update your schedule

You can also delete your schedule.

WP Post Schedule - Bit Social - Delete Schedule

INFO

If your scheduled posts aren’t being shared to your social media platforms, please refer to this documentation: Why Your Post Publishing Might Fail Using Bit Social?

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Schedule WordPress posts on social media Platform with Bit Social

Check out our easy-to-follow tutorial!

Setup WP Post Schedules

Settings

What if you update your post interval

Post Filter

Accounts & Template

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