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FormatoCD Publish with Buffer is a powerful, lightweight plugin that automates the publishing of your WordPress posts to your social media channels using the modern Buffer GraphQL API.
Stop copying and pasting links! With this plugin, you can easily share your content across multiple social networks as soon as you hit “Publish”, or schedule them to be added to your Buffer queue.
<h4>🚀 Features</h4>
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<li>Automatic Publishing: Automatically sends your WordPress posts to Buffer the moment they are published.</li>
<li>Scheduled Posts Support: Works seamlessly with native WordPress scheduled posts (<code>publish_future_post</code>).</li>
<li>Multiple Publishing Modes: Choose between Share Now, Add to Queue, or Custom Scheduled.</li>
<li>Customizable Message Templates: Create your own message format using dynamic variables like <code>{title}</code>, <code>{url}</code>, <code>{author}</code>, and more.</li>
<li>Smart Hashtags: Automatically converts your WordPress tags into #hashtags for social media.</li>
<li>Category Filtering: Restrict automatic Buffer posting only to posts belonging to a specific category.</li>
<li>Featured Image Support: Automatically attaches the post’s featured image to the Buffer publication.</li>
<li>Duplicate Prevention: Internally tracks when a post has already been shared to Buffer to avoid duplicate submissions upon post updates.</li>
<li>Translation Ready (i18n): Fully prepared for translation. English and Spanish (<code>es_ES</code>) languages are included by default.</li>
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<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the third-party Buffer GraphQL API (https://api.buffer.com) to automatically publish or schedule your social media posts.
Data is sent to Buffer ONLY when a WordPress post is published (or automatically published via WordPress cron) and the user has actively checked the “Send to Buffer on publish” option.
The specific data sent to the Buffer API includes: 
* Post Title 
* Post URL 
* Post Excerpt 
* Author Display Name 
* Post Categories and Tags (formatted as #hashtags) 
* Featured Image URL
This service is provided by Buffer. By using this plugin, you agree to their legal terms: 
* Buffer Terms of Service: https://buffer.com/legal/terms 
* Buffer Privacy Policy: https://buffer.com/legal/privacy
API Documentacion can be found here: https://developers.buffer.com

FormatoCD Publish with Buffer

Generates Buffer posts automatically from WordPress posts. Connect your site to the Buffer GraphQL API.

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Use your Website as a free and simple social media tool for a maximum of 5 Zapier Webhooks. 
Each hook can represent a different social media channel (or possibly any connection Zapier offers).
Save time and money as you don´t need any paid third party software to start with if you don´t want to.
Just like for standard posts you got a separate section in the WordPress admin for Simple Postings including categories and tags. 
The only difference is that you can select an Alt-Tag and the social media channels (Zapier webhooks) where you want it to be sent.
Like scheduling a standard post you can schedule your Posting for a specific date. 
As soon as you hit the Planning-Button the Posting gets sent to every activated webhook which schedules your data in Buffer for example.
Every Posting consists of a title, a text, a featured image and an Alt-Tag for this image. No videos possible.
Tipp: After scheduling a Posting you can replan it for another date and reuse it.
<h3>Who is Simple Posting for?</h3>
Simple Posting is for any person who is mainly posting text with image on social media channels like Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
<h3>Important Note</h3>
Please note this is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) plugin. 
You need a free <a href="https://zapier.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Zapier</a> account to use this plugin. 
Zapier itself uses other third party connections where your data is transferred.

Simple Posting – Free social media scheduling with WordPress & Zapier

Send planned Post(ing) to a maximum of 5 Zapier Webhooks. Free Zapier account needed in order to use this plugin.

FormatoCD Publish with Buffer vs Simple Posting – Free social media scheduling with WordPress & Zapier