Description
Post Updates from WordPress to Bluesky, Mastodon, and X.
- New in version 4.3: Bluesky support.
- New in version 4.2: Mastodon support.
XPoster is a time-saving tool for keeping your social media accounts up to date with news and posts from your site.
XPoster uses customizable status templates for updates sent when updating or editing posts, pages, or custom post types. You can customize your messages for each post, using custom template tags to generate the status update.
Free Features
- Support for Bluesky, Mastodon, and X.
- Use post tags as hashtags
- Use alternate URLs in place of post permalinks
- Support for Google Analytics
- Support for XMLRPC remote clients
- Use YOURLS, Bit.ly, jotURL, or Hum as external URL shorteners.
- Rate limiting: make sure you don’t exceed X.com’s API rate limits.
Premium Features in [XPoster Pro](https://xposterpro.com)
- Authors can set up their own accounts in their profiles
- Time delayed status updates
- Scheduled update management
- Simultaneously post updates to site and author accounts
- Preview and send status updates for comments
- Filter updates by taxonomy (categories, tags, or custom taxonomies)
- Upload images with alt attributes
- Integrated Card support
- Support for Player Cards with integrated captions where supported
- Automatically schedule updates from old posts
Want to stay up to date on XPoster? Follow me on Bluesky! or Follow me on Mastodon!
Translations
Visit the XPoster translation site to see how complete the current translations are.
Translating my plug-ins is always appreciated. Work on XPoster translations at the WordPress translation site! You’ll need a WordPress.org account to contribute!
Extending XPoster
Check out my GitHub repository of plug-in extensions.
Screenshots
XPoster Set up. 
XPoster Post Meta box. 
XPoster post meta box with XPoster PRO active. 
XPosterPro settings. 
Basic XPoster Settings
Installation
- Upload the
wp-to-twitterfolder to your/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin using the
Pluginsmenu in WordPress - Go to Settings > XPoster
- Adjust the XPoster Options as you prefer them.
- Create a Bluesky, Mastodon, or X application and configure your application with XPoster.
FAQ
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Why are you still calling things Tweets?
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As of version 5.0.0, I’m not. But if you see something still referencing a Tweet, let me know it!
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Do I need to pay for an API plan at X.com?
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If you’re publishing more than about 50 Tweets a day, you’ll need to pay for a premium API plan. This is out of my control.
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X.com’s Application creation process is very difficult. Why do I have to do this?
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XPoster has always followed the principle that you are the owner of your own application. Many other applications require you to pass your data through a 3rd party that you authenticate to post to Twitter. With the new API policies at X.com, this is a significant benefit to most users. X.com allows up to 1500 Tweets per month on their free API plan, which is practical for most independent sites.
Reviews
January 30, 2024
I was so relieved to find this after Twitter changes. Works as it should. Thank you for a great plugin.
January 21, 2024
1 reply
I had been using WP to Twitter until some drug addict took over ex-Twitter. Not only did he name it that way but he also disconnected me from it. I have been having such difficulties since then as I had to ex-tweet manually. Then I found a new version. The developer says that it requires WP 6.0 or later, but I installed it on my WordPress 4.9.24 anyway. Oh my dog! It works all right. Now I can get back to ex-Twitter. I am so happy because I will never go beyond 4.9.x. I must add that the developer’s document also helped significantly.
November 27, 2023
2 replies
It does not work because OAuth 2.0 Authentication is required when I make up a new twitter project or edit default project . Any way I tried to post then this error come up. “403: Client Forbidden: When authenticating requests to the Twitter API v2 endpoints, you must use keys and tokens from a Twitter developer App that is attached to a Project. You can create a project via the developer portal.” I do not know when this x developer “User authentication settings” changed. Thank you.
August 19, 2023
2 replies
My review is no longer accurate, since it was written after a possible announcement of the end of support for this plugin. To this day, seeing it upgrade to “Xposter” (due to the platform name change), I can only be more than grateful. I am not lying when I say that it is the oldest plugin that I have in my installation of more than 12 years, and the one that I have seen applied the most love and work in all these years. Others have given up for less. Joe proves to be passionate about his work and his creation.
The plugin is simple and does just what it’s supposed to do. This last month I have only tried a couple of alternatives, which worked, but did not have basic functions; it’s clear that this plugin is based on the user’s real needs, not just posting to a social network. Other alternatives left important issues unresolved.
In addition, it has a PRO version that really transforms it into a totally different tool, since it expands its possibilities far beyond its basic use of sharing your posts. Among the most basic functions of the PRO version, you have the possibility of scheduling posts, delaying their sharing time, refloating old ones… they are essential options to be able to give more life to your content. In short, it is a real added value to a paid version.
So I have changed the content of this review, but the title of the post, however, does not need to be changed: THANKS FOR SO MUCH, Joe Dolson!!!
ORIGINAL POST:
Over a decade, I’ve had minor issues a couple of times with this plugin. In the support forums you find that this does not work, that if you do not post images, etc… problems that were not related to the plugin, but to the knowledge of the user or problems with his WordPress site configuration.
As of today, however, the plugin doesn’t work due to recent radical changes made by Twitter, and it looks like it won’t be updated anymore, according to what the creator of the plugin said.
Why rate it 5 stars? Well, because its creator deserves no less, for all the effort and dedication, and the few times he will have received thanks for creating the simplest and most effective solution for something as simple as sending a WordPress post to Twitter. For me, it’s the best plugin I’ve ever had installed on my WordPress.
Thank you very much for so much Joe Dolson, I hope you have success in all your current and future projects <3
November 28, 2022
WP to Twitter failed to connect with Twitter. Error: 453: You currently have Essential access which includes access to Twitter API v2 endpoints only. If you need access to this endpoint, you’ll need to apply for Elevated access via the Developer Portal. You can learn more here: developer .twitter .com /en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/about-twitter-api#v2-access-leve
April 10, 2022
1 reply
It works well enough, but the basic, free version does not post images to Twitter. In 2022, that’s not the sort of functionality that can be upgraded to. Useless unless you pay.
Contributors & Developers
“XPoster – Share to Bluesky and Mastodon” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“XPoster – Share to Bluesky and Mastodon” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
5.0.1
- Bug fix: Remove whitespace from status update template shown for non-admins.
- Bug fix: Improve layout of settings message for non-admins.
- Bug fix: Incorrectly nested closing
divbroke classic metabox layout for non-admins.
5.0.0
- Feature: Ability to disable connected services without disconnecting.
- Feature: Select which services you wish to send a given update to.
- Feature: Pass custom update text for each connected service.
- Feature: Define an excerpt length unique to each service.
- Change: Extend default excerpt length.
- Change: Always defer template execution until status update is sent.
- Change: Make character counting messages indicate which service limit is reached.
- Change: simplify #account# and #@# handlers.
- Bug fix: Make AJAX submissions aware of more metabox settings.
- Improved error handling.
- Design updates.
- Move XPoster Pro specific code into XPoster Pro package.
- More code documentation.
- Update references to Tweets to be service independent.
- Significant structural reorganization.
- Change output of #account# and #@# template tags for increased predictability.
- Code restructure to group service-specific code.
4.3.2
- Bug fix: Failed to update one version number.
- Bug fix: Github icon should be white.
- Accessibility: toggle buttons were not buttons.
- Compat: Move Pro-only JS & Styles into pro.
- Docs: Document UTM filters.
- Docs: Update language to match documentation & expectation.
4.3.1
- Bug fix: Custom update text not displayed after saving, causing re-save to delete.
4.3.0
- Add support for Bluesky.
- Misc. improvements to handling of multiple services.
- Misc. improvements to UI.
- Minor debugging improvements.
- Bug fix: Avoid JS errors if metabox not enqueued.
- Encode backup title in same manner as primary title.
- Improve coverage of documented filters.
- Removed some unused functions.
- Simplified publishing logic.
- Only upload images to service if is one of that service’s supported mime types.
4.2.6
- Remove textdomain loader (obsolete since WP 4.6)
- Bug fix: HTML encode title sent to X API when using backup title value.
4.2.5
- Bug fix: Fatal error thrown on PHP 8+ if removing stray characters from tag boundaries due to obsolete argument usage in
mb_strrpos(). Props @toru. - Bug fix: Update classes to allow dynamic properties following PHP 8.2 dynamic prop deprecation.
- Bug fix: If template tags were re-ordered in the
wpt_tagsfilter, they were not also reordered in values. - Change: Add fallback call to post title if not in post info array.
- Filter: add
wpt_custom_tagfilter to manage the value of custom tags added inwpt_tags.
4.2.4
- Bug fix: Debugging timestamps saved as microtime but read as time.
- Bug fix: Add selected shortener to debugging info.
- Bug fix: Verify that last status is an array & return unrecognized error message if not identifiable.
- Change: Add $get_url parameter to
wpt_shorten_urlto explicitly determine whether existing short URLs are fetched. - Feature: Status update template tag buttons in editor.
4.2.3
- Bug fix: Update deprecated JS.
- Bug fix: Handle case if connection response is not valid JSON.
- Bug fix: Minor improvements to CSS & JS.
- Update tested to & copyrights.
4.2.2
- Bug fix: Last Tweet notice improperly called array. Props @mattyrob, @pyro-code01.
- Bug fix: Only show upgrade notice if it’s populated in the readme.
- Change: Change scripts to register separately from enqueuing.
- Change: Change Pro filters to a filter instead of a direct function call.
- Tooling: Update to PHPCS 3.
4.2.1
- Bug fix: All notices used error class, regardless of actual status.
- Bug fix: Add a notice when a request exception occurs.
- Bug fix: Misnamed variable in Mastodon authentication process.
- Mention Mastodon in plugin name.
4.2.0
- Add support for posting to Mastodon instances.
- Bug fix: If category and category description not defined, PHP warning thrown.
- Bug fix: Make tabbed navigation use a
navelement for improved accessibility. - Bug fix: Media heading could show in meta box when no media options are enabled.
- Bug fix: Should not show bearer token message on profile page if user settings not enabled.
- Text changes: Change references to “Twitter” and “Tweet”.
- Docs: Improve and add some additional hook documentation.
4.1.2
- Bug fix: Checkbox marked as checked in plugin settings if parent array exists.
- Bug fix: Fix PHP notice when link manager not enabled.
- Change: Use wp_rand to generate random integer instead of mt_rand.
4.1.1
- Debugging improvements.
- Show update to Miscellaneous settings checkboxes immediately. Props @mt8.
4.1.0
- Bug fix: X.com upload endpoint doesn’t support gif; disable upload if gif.
- Bug fix: Fix screen name comparisons so Pro scripts load correctly.
- Bug fix: Save default Tweet length option so character count uses correct value.
- Update: override block editor sidebar padding.
- Update: Combine separate admin script registrations into one function.
- Update: Add versions to registered scripts and styles.
- Update: Remove tab interface in post sidebar.
- Update: Add default template to tweet text box as placeholder.
- Update: Change default excerpt length to 60.
- Update: Add missing sales link & update docs link.
- Update: Remove obsolete FAQ question.
4.0.3
- Remove X.com feed and search widgets.
- Improve error message reporting.
4.0.2
- Bug fix: Need to offer users the option to either disconnect or add a bearer token.
4.0.1
- Prefix vendor classes for better cross compatibility. Props Robert Korulczyk
- Improved catching of Exceptions.
- Remove deprecated CURL arg.
- Only show bearer token admin notice if user already authenticated.
4.0.0
- Rebranding to XPoster.
- Update to use X.com API v2. (https://github.com/noweh/twitter-api-v2-php)
- Those two things encompass a huge amount of change.