{"id":7065,"date":"2016-02-21T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcslp.me\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2016-02-21T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:12:03","slug":"how-to-buffer-postshashtags-from-your-blog-using-zapier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=7065","title":{"rendered":"How to Buffer posts+hashtags from your Blog using Zapier"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try to automate as much my life as possible, particularly when it comes to computers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been using the automated \u2018Social Sharing\u2019 on WordPress.com (and indeed, my blogs in general) for years. However, I\u2019m also a keen Buffer user and WordPress.com does not offer a Buffer connection. Because I also use Buffer to handle my Patreon posts, concentrating them all in one place would make things a lot easier.<\/p>\n

What I wanted to do was something quite straightforward, I wanted to turn a blog post entry into post to Twitter (and others) that turned the list of tags I created on the post into #hashtags. This actually doesn\u2019t seem like a particularly complex or uncommon request, but apparently it\u2019s not a standard offering. What I was even more surprised at was that nobody else seemed to have done the same, which has me confused…<\/p>\n

Now there are many options for doing this kind of automated posting, I could have used IFTTT<\/a>, but IFTTT while incredibly useful (I have about 60 recipes on there) is also incredibly simplistic and your options are limited. That means I can\u2019t post from WordPress to Buffer with the required hashtags.<\/p>\n

Zapier<\/a> is very similar to IFTTT, but also has the option of running multistep Zaps that do more than one thing (IFTTT is limited to one target), but better than that you can include a step that runs information through a JavaScript (or Python) script to do some additional processing.<\/p>\n

And this is the key that enables me to do precisely what I need, take a blog post from one of my blogs, process the list of tags into a list of (de-duplicated) hashtags, and then post it into my Buffer queues.<\/p>\n

So, here\u2019s how to get Zapier to do what you need, there are going to be five steps to this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Identify when a new post appears on a WordPress blog<\/li>\n
  2. Run a short Javascript program to take the list of tags (actually Terms) from the Blog post into a deduced and hash tagged version<\/li>\n
  3. Add it to my Twitter Buffer<\/li>\n
  4. Add it to my Facebook Buffer<\/li>\n
  5. Add it to my LinkedIn Buffer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here\u2019s how to get it setup. I\u2019m going to assume you know Zapier and can follow the onscreen instructions, it\u2019s not that complex.<\/p>\n

    Step 1<\/h3>\n