# Any WordPress bloggers? Autopost to Twitter?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395 "2020-08-30T21:09:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395/1 "2020-08-30T21:09:32Z")

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I echo my main blog on WordPress. One interesting feature of WordPress (can’t find how you get to it at the moment, @$#%&\*!) is the option of auto-posting to Twitter, which results in a Twitter post that shows the blog post title, the first chunk of the first paragraph, and clicking on that goes to the actual blog post. But I can’t figure out how to make it include #hashtags.

Anyone using this feature figure out how to get it to do hashtags?

I’ve been doing a clumsy workaround: retweeting my tweets, with the hashtags added on the retweets.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395/2 "2020-08-30T23:17:55Z")

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I’ve been using WordPress for years, for various projects including a couple of blogs. I have never been satisfied with their auto-posting to Twitter and Facebook. It took me longer to tweak the system than it did to just make my own posts.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395/3 "2020-08-31T17:44:37Z")

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The one primary advantage of their built-in Twitter-autoposting is that it somehow uses a very short URL for the blog post link, and that leaves more characters for hashtagging. But since they allow double the length they used to maybe that’s not a relevant issue any more.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395/4 "2020-09-01T15:05:50Z")

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When you edit a page on your WordPress blog, right next to the “permalink” at the top of the page is a button that says “Get Shortlink.” That will show you the link that would be used in autoposting and you can use it for your manual tweet.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wordpress-bloggers-autopost-to-twitter/919395/5 "2020-09-01T21:34:59Z")

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Thanks @Gary_Robson