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<p>Social Bridge is a WordPress plugin that connects your website with social media platforms, importing comments, likes, and shares from social posts to display them on your WordPress site.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Integrates WordPress with Bluesky and Mastodon</li>
<li>Supports plugin extensions for additional platforms</li>
<li>Imports comments, likes, and shares from social media posts</li>
<li>Displays social interactions as WordPress comments</li>
<li>Shows shares as pingbacks</li>
<li>Includes a block and shortcode to display user like avatars</li>
<li>Periodic synchronization via WordPress cron</li>
<li>Custom meta boxes in post editors to link social media posts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h3>Bluesky Integration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge and click on the Bluesky tab</li>
<li>Enter your Bluesky handle (e.g., username.bsky.social)</li>
<li>Generate an App Password in your Bluesky account settings and enter it in the plugin settings</li>
<li>Save changes</li>
</ol>
<h3>Mastodon Integration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge and click on the Mastodon tab</li>
<li>Enter your Mastodon instance URL (e.g., https://mastodon.social)</li>
<li>Generate an access token in your Mastodon preferences under Development <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Applications</li>
<li>Enter the access token in the plugin settings</li>
<li>Save changes</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h3>Connecting Social Media Posts</h3>
<ol>
<li>When creating or editing a post/page, you’ll see platform-specific meta boxes in the sidebar</li>
<li>Paste the URL of your social media post in the appropriate field</li>
<li>Update the post</li>
<li>The plugin will automatically sync comments, likes, and shares from the social media post</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manual Sync</h3>
<ol>
<li>Edit a post that has connected social media posts</li>
<li>In the Social Interactions meta box, click the Sync button next to a platform</li>
<li>The plugin will immediately import any new interactions</li>
</ol>
<h3>Comment Appearance</h3>
<p>In Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge, you can configure how social media comments appear:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fully integrated: Comments look like native WordPress comments</li>
<li>Styled differently: Comments retain their social media identity but appear in the same section</li>
<li>Separate section: Social media comments appear below WordPress comments</li>
</ul>
<h3>Extending the Plugin</h3>
<p>Social Bridge supports extensions for additional social media platforms. Developers can create add-on plugins that register new platform integrations using the provided API.</p>
<p>To create an extension:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a new plugin that depends on Social Bridge</li>
<li>Create a class that extends <code>Social_Bridge_Integration</code></li>
<li>Implement the required abstract methods</li>
<li>Register your integration using the <code>social_bridge_integrations</code> filter</li>
</ol>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
<p>// Register a new integration<br />
function my_plugin_register_integration($integrations) {<br />
    $integrations[‘twitter’] = new My_Twitter_Integration();<br />
    return $integrations;<br />
}<br />
add_filter(‘social_bridge_integrations’, ‘my_plugin_register_integration’);<br />
    `</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>Social Bridge includes built-in integration for two social media platforms: Bluesky and Mastodon.<br />
When enabled, Social Bridge interacts with the APIs of these platforms to retrieve data<br />
from social media posts specified by authors on your site.</p>
<p>These integrations do not transmit any user data from your site to the third-party<br />
platforms. However, they will use the authentication or API credentials you provide<br />
in the Social Bridge settings to access the respective platforms.</p>
<p>The plugin will only communicate with these platforms when explicitly configured to<br />
do so—such as when a post on your site includes social media links in the Social Interactions metabox.</p>
<p>After configured both in the plugin settings and on individual posts, Social Bridge will routinely<br />
re-communicate with these platforms, in order to update its cache of social media comments, likes and shares.</p>
<p>You can review Bluesky’s privacy policies <a href="https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a><br />
and <a href="https://bsky.social/about/support/network-services-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>For Mastodon, each server maintains its own privacy policy. You should review the policy<br />
of the specific server you use. As an example, the mastodon.social policy is<br />
available <a href="https://mastodon.social/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


Social Bridge

Social Bridge integrates WordPress with social media platforms and allows for comment synchronization.

Automattic

Daniel Post

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Paul Bunkham

Manzoor Wani

Gergely J

<h3>Write once, publish everywhere.</h3>
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<p><strong>Set it and forget it!</strong></p>
<p>Jetpack Social has scheduling tools that allow you to set your posts to publish at the time and day that works for your plan. Schedule your posts in advance so you’re not chained to your desk and publish at the time of day your fans are most engaged on social media.</p>
<p><strong>Social Image Generator</strong></p>
<p>With the Jetpack Social plan, you can have engaging imagery created automatically using the Social Image Generator feature. You can overlay custom text onto your images and choose from a variety of styles to increase engagement on your social posts. Most importantly, you’ll save time by doing it all within the WordPress editor.</p>
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Jetpack Social

Was great until they pulled the rug out and started charging.  Their free plan is ridiculous.  Sad that it was free for so long and costs them nothing and now they're charging.

Now a Paid Plugin


it is good and was excellent.



now you have to pay for it or use it 30 times per month.



one more thing, it does not share pages it shares only posts.


good plugin


So I thought I'd give Jepack a social chance and at least appreciate that they finally provide individual functions independently from the juggernaut Jetpack. Unfortunately, Jetpack social sticks to the woefully outdated XML-RPC and simply doesn't work without it. So again it didn't disappoint and nothing changes. Maybe that will change over time with one star reviews.


Too bad the missed chance - XML-RPC


I am loving the Jetpack Social Notes update! It could use some features like tags and comments, but overall I really like this addition to my blog. Social Notes make it easy for me to post quick thoughts without investing in full post writing, and having the posts auto publish to my LinkedIn profile have actually boosted engagement and traffic. I recommend trying Jetpack Social Notes.


Social Notes is one of the best additions to Jetpack!


Everything works, of course not all social networks are there, but at least it’s like that without errors



I have the Jetpack Social subscription on my self-hosted Wordpress blog. The problems I have with the plugin are:




The formatting isn't consistent across all platforms so I have to spend some time formatting hashtags before posting each time. Would be helpful if the formatting could be saved across each platform so I wouldn't have to do it every time. 



Images are not automatically adjusted. They have to be exactly 1:1 when using Bluesky or you get bars on either side of your image and it just looks ridiculous. 



Also, even though you post less characters than the Bluesky limit, my posts still get cut off and replaced by "..." even times when I've had 26 character spaces left. 



The plugin also seems to be rather buggy with no way to fix it from the customer end because it isn't working at all now after I reinstalled Wordpress which I suspect because the subscription is still linked to my previous install. I just keep getting JSON errors on the paid portions of Jetpack Social, and I have now waited more than 24 hours without a reply to my support request. 



The priority of your support request doesn't change just because you paid. I sent support requests through their web form and through the plugin support forum for my above issue, but it seems like I have to wait "in line" along with the free people. Waiting days just for a reply for something I paid for is unacceptable. Should just make it free for everyone until the plugin is stable



Too expensive. The cost of Jetpack Social doesn't justify the means. You're essentially just paying to be able to post a better formatted image with your posts to social media, a random AI image and "priority support" that doesn't actually exist. I paid $120 to get ripped off and that was with the discount. 



Buggy

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