Getting FaceBook auto-post to include YouTube video?
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In the screenshot here:
you can see the results of posting via email to WordPress and Posterous, and how they both auto-posted to FaceBook side-by-side.
As you can see, the Posterous post manages to embed the YouTube video. But the WordPress post does not.
Is there a way of specifying in my email post to WordPress to please include the YouTube video when it auto-posts to FaceBook?
Thanks,
doug
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Is there a way of specifying in my email post to WordPress to please include the YouTube video when it auto-posts to FaceBook?
No I’m sorry there isn’t.
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OK, thanks, Timethief.
I really like the WP format and lots of things about it, but between followers not getting comment notifications, the inability for followers to reply to posts by email and the decreased auto-post abilities, I guess I can’t switch from Posterous yet. :{
I hope before Posterous disappears that WordPress becomes a more viable alternative for Posterous users needing to switch!
Thanks for all your support answers!
doug
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This is your feed for posts http://douglerner.wordpress.com/feed/ and as you can see the media files are there.
Here’s a brief summary of what can be done > Facebook integration
You can have Facebook both like & share buttons on your posts.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/its-possible-facebook-share-and-like-buttons-at-the-same-time-update?replies=5
You can use a Twitter widget > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-widget/
You can post a twitter follow button > http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-follow-button/
How to Add a Tweet Button With Your Twitter Username into WordPress.com
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Hi, Timethief.
Yes, the media ends up in my WordPress posts themselves. But it doesn’t help FaceBook readers who have no reason to think there is any media there if not so much as a thumbnail appears in the autopost to FB, right?
What I’ve decided to do was auto–post from Posterous to WordPress for now. And not auto-post from WP elsewhere.
The problem there (nothing is perfect) is that the tags don’t come over from Posterous to WordPress (though they do in the auto-post from Posterous to Tumblr).
No situation is ideal.
But I do have 74 actual followers of my Posterous blog. (WP says I have 154, but I really only have 3. WordPress is inflating the figure by adding in my FB friends count and Twitter followers count.) And I can’t think of a reasonable way of bringing them over so they can reply to posts like they can now.
Thanks,
doug
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Autoposting from Posterous to WordPress? If that works, staff will suspend it. They are AGGRESSIVELY against autoposted content into WordPress.
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Posterous has a feature for auto-posting to WordPress. My most recent post (about elevated radiation levels at Fukushima) was an auto-post from Posterous to WordPress.
Anyway, WordPress has a whole API which includes updating content, tags, pages, comments, etc. See http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp for example.
Why do you think WordPress is against autoposting content into WordPress?
doug
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Please check our page on types of blogs for more information about what content is and isn’t welcome on WordPress.com. Note “Scraper blogs” and “Automated blogs” as the blogpshere is full of suplicated content being posted to multiple sites over and over day in and day out. The result of this duplication, tripication, etc. is Google’s Panda alogrithm which detects duplicated content. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
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Hi, Timethief.
Well, looking over the “types of blog” page I certainly don’t see anything there which suggests Posterous auto-posting of my personal blog posts to WordPress violates any of WordPress policies.
Do you?
doug
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No but you asked above: “Why do you think WordPress is against autoposting content into WordPress?” so I supplied the link to the only information I am aware of.
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OK, thanks. The other poster seemed to think that autoposting is not allowed on WordPress. But that seems not to be the case.
It would be strange if it were the case, since there is (1) an API for it and (2) WordPress has their own features to autopost elsewhere.
Thanks,
doug
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I believe what raincoaster was pointing to and the policy I posted the link to is the fact that other places allow bloggers to autofill posts and pages with content and that’s not the case here. Yes, wordpress.com has provided the abilty to crosspost “snippets” of posts elsewhere.
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Well, what raincoaster said was:
Autoposting from Posterous to WordPress? If that works, staff will suspend it. They are AGGRESSIVELY against autoposted content into WordPress.
Yet the policy you pointed me to does not say that. And you also agreed with me that my Posterous blog’s autoposting to WordPress did not seem to violate any WordPress policy.
Yet what Posterous is doing is, in fact, creating a full post containing my full post from Posterous blog post (less the tags). And they are doing it automatically, presumably with WP’s own API.
So I can’t help but feel that in this case that perhaps raincoaster was incorrect, that the staff will not suspend my autoposts and that they are not opposed to autoposted content from Posterous.
If they are opposed to it, why do they have the API for it to allow Posterous to do it?
What are we left with? Is autoposting from Posterous allowed or not allowed? If it is allowed, raincoaster is not correct. If it is not allowed, than why does WP have an API for it?
I certainly don’t want to do anything in violation of WP’s policies. But right now it seems a bit ambiguous.
doug
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Well, “posting to WordPress” and Posting to WordPress.COM” are two different things. Roboposting is disabled here, the same as it is on Google+, because staff want this to be a home for entirely original content. I doubt the “post to WordPress” will work, but if it does, my money says it will subject your blog to suspension.
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This post on my blog:
was auto-posted by Posterous.
I emailed my post to Posterous, and it also ended up here. And also ended up at Tumblr.
The WordPress.com API must have allowed Posterous to do this, right?
If my blog gets suspended for that so be it. If the blog was suspended for (1) allowing Posterous to auto-post using WordPress’s own API while (2) WordPress also autoposts elsewhere would be plain hypocritical.
doug
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Hypocrisy is not against the terms of service.
Why don’t you save yourself the headache and just ask staff?
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Timethief already said she marked the thread for staff response. I am waiting for the response.
doug
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