Re-Sharing old Posts – WP Posts, Custom Post types, pages & more

Looking for some terrific ways to automate your social media posting from your website? Need to establish a social media calendar or share an article more than once?

Do you need to promote more than one message in a blog post? Sometimes sharing a tweet with just the title of a blog post is not enough. What if you have a podcast or video that’s an hour long. Is a single title really going to communicate everything that is said via a tweet or share to instagram.

This is where tools to automate sending social media posts from WordPress really come into play. You can establish a schedule to repeat sharing through out the year or the life of the post. You could quote different elements inside the content on each share and a lot more, depending on your needs and the social media sharing service or plugin you choose.  

Revive Social & Revive Old Post (free)

A couple years back, I discovered the Tweet Old Post plugin.  It later rebranded as Revive Old Post, established a website at Revive.social and has been run by an awesome development and support team at Theme Isle.  The original plugin called Tweet Old Post was free. In the WordPress repository that plugin still has the same URL but has the new name of Revive Old Post. It’s a freemium plugin offer now. The Pro version allows custom scheduling and allows the sharing of Pages and Custom Post Types, not just ‘Posts’ like the free version.

This plugin smartly allows you to reshuffle your WordPress or blog content or WooCommerce products into your social media accounts, every few hours or on a schedule that you design.
You can include or exclude items to be shared by category or by tag in WordPress.  You can add hashtags derived from the same.
The Pro version starts off at $79 per year for a single site, and goes up next to 3 sites for $149 per year or unlimited sites for 2 years.
Now over the last year, I went down a rabbit hole with CoSchedule. They offer a calendar and some cool templates for scheduling how each and every post should be reshared. This level of customization is awesome in some ways and slow and overly tedious in others. During the course of the year that I paid for their service, I found them slow to respond if they responded at all. I think CoSchedule has potential. Despite their slick user interface, which is awesome and a key selling point, their inability to speed up their system and streamline things will be a process killer. I could learn it quickly because of the UI, but due to the UI it could never speed up my workflow.
Revive Old Post keeps things simple. It’s inexpensive yearly plans starting at $79 seem like a bargain compared to CoSchedule’s MONTHLY fees that now start at $50/ $100 per month.
For the blogger or marketer that simply wants to keep good content that is not too old or great evergreen content in circulation, I’m recommending Revive Old Post. (If you have a specific defined strategy for each and every blog post and how they are to be shared repeatedly, and this strategy is DIFFERENT for each of those blog posts more often than not, then Coschedule might be your fit.