194 – Automate Your WordPress Site with IFTTT

Announcements

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• WordPress 4.0 Beta 4

Is there a plugin for that?

With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository.

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Thank Me Later is a plugin that you can automatically send a message to your visitors who leave a comment on your blog. You can set the length of time it takes to respond and provide your commenter a way to connect on social media or send them a coupon code.

Automate your WordPress site with IFTTT

In today’s episode, we look at how we can use a free internet resource called IFTTT to put your blog to work for you. The ideas below are just a few of the things that you can do to automate your online brand.

• What is IFTTT?
  • IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: If this, then that.

Here are some examples of how you can use IFTTT with your WordPress site:

• Tweet my WordPress blog posts
• Post Instagram images to your WordPress site
• WordPress to Google Plus
• Archive WordPress posts to Evernote
• Send WordPress Updates to LinkedIn
• When a new blog post is published add to BufferApp
• Backup a WordPress post to Google Drive
• Convert #wordpress blog posts into #pdf using #Printfriendly and store them in #Dropbox
• Upload a YouTube video creates a WordPress post
• When an RSS feed is updated, send an email to your assistant
• Be notified as soon as someone posts their blog post and leave a comment on their site

Call To Action

• What IFTTT recipes are you using? Leave them below in the comments