Contributors: codeinwp, marius2012, marius_codeinwp, hardeepasrani, Madalin_Themeisle, rsocial, uriahs-victor
Tags: auto publish, auto post, social media automation, social media scheduling, automatic, facebook, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, autopilot, analytics, sharing
Requires at least: 4.7
Tested up to: 5.2
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: trunk
Automatically share your WordPress posts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. Get more visitors to your website and keep your content alive.
Revive Old Posts is the best Social Media automation tool for WordPress.
The plugin helps you keep your old and new WordPress posts infront of users by automatically sharing them to your social media accounts; improving engagement and driving more traffic to your website.
You can set a sharing interval and the number of posts to share to your social media networks as well as some other filters to help you get the most out of your website content.
Revive Old Posts (ROP) can help keep your website posts and content evergreen by continuosly sharing them to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. Content types shareable by ROP include Posts, Pages, WooCommerce Products as well as any other WordPress Custom Post Type.
For questions, comments, or feature requests, Contact Us!
Checkout the Roadmap to vote on awesome features you'd like to see in the plugin. Roadmap:
Revive Old Posts provides the following features
- Share new and old posts.
- WordPress to Facebook sharing.
- WordPress to Twitter sharing.
- Share to your social media accounts on post publish.
- Choose the time between posts.
- Choose the number of posts to share.
- Choose the maximum and minimum age of posts eligible for sharing.
- Use hashtags to focus on topics.
- Include links back to your site.
- Exclude categories.
- Exclude specific posts.
- Integrated with Google Analytics.
- Compatible with URL Shortners.
Using the PRO version of Revive Old Posts unlocks a host of new features sure to improve engagement on your social media accounts as well as bring more social traffic to your website.
Awesome features in Pro:
- WordPress to Instagram
- WordPress to Facebook Groups
- WordPress to LinkedIn Company Pages
- WordPress to LinkedIn Profiles
- WordPress to Tumblr
- WordPress to Pinterest
- Multiple accounts
- Custom UTM tags for analytics
- Share Content Variations
- Magic tags for Custom Share Messages
- Magic tags for Additional Texts option
- Share Images and Video From Your Media Library
- Custom Post Types support
- Post with image
- Custom Schedule
Checkout the Free vs Pro table HERE.
For updates follow us on Twitter. Post questions and issues on the Support Forum.
Useful Resources
- Check-out our documentation and tutorials here.
- Take a look at our other plugins.
- Read more about WordPress on our blog.
- sk_SK translation by Patrik Žec PATWIST
The following are the steps to install the Revive Old Posts plugin
- In your WordPress Administration Panels, click on Add New option under Plugins from the menu.
- Click on upload at the top.
- Browse the location and select the Tweet old post Plugin and click install now.
- To turn the Revive Old Posts Plugin on, click Activate.
- Check your Administration Panels or WordPress blog to see if the Plugin is working.
- You can change the plugin options from Revive Old Posts under settings menu.
Alternatively, you can use the following steps to install the Revive Old Posts plugin
- Download the latest version of the Revive Old Posts Plugin to your computer from here.
- With an FTP program, access your sites server.
- Upload (copy) the Plugin file(s) or folder to the /wp-content/plugins folder.
- In your WordPress Administration Panels, click on Plugins from the menu.
- You should see Revive Old Posts Plugin listed. If not, with your FTP program, check the folder to see if it is installed. If it isn't, upload the file(s) again. If it is, delete the files and upload them again.
- To turn the Revive Old Posts Plugin on, click Activate.
- Check your Administration Panels or WordPress blog to see if the Plugin is working.
- You can change the plugin options from Revive Old Posts under settings menu.
If you have any questions please ask on the support forum and we will try our best to assist.
REST API error
- This issue is normally caused by an antimalware or firewall plugin. Please try disabling all plugins(except Revive Old Posts) to see if the issue persists. If not then enable each plugin one by one while checking Revive Old Posts dashboard to see if the issue returns, that will help you determine the conflicting plugin.
Plugin doesn't post at the regular interval or sends more posts than it should send to social networks.
- See this document for how to fix this Revive Old Posts Schedule.
Posts are not sent to the social networks and I always see the green badge with 'Sharing'
- See this document for how to fix this Revive Old Posts not posting.
How do I go back to an older version after updating?
- Go to the Plugins area on your website dashboard and click "Rollback". This will rollback the plugin to the previous version.
Any more questions or doubts?
- Contact us at HERE. (enter "free" in the license field)
- Screenshot 1 Basic configurable options for Tweet Old Post to function, with ability to tweet at random interval.
for more you can check out
http://revive.social/plugins/revive-old-post
- PRO Fix: Unauthorized error when updating Pro plugin
- Fix: Error would occur if the user tried to sign in while the API credentials form fields were empty
- Fix: Timer was not stopped if all accounts were removed using "remove all accounts" button
- Fix: Removing an account and then immediately trying to add it back would attempt to validate with old API credentials
- Fix: Use own keys button was appearing in Twitter modal for old installs
- PRO: Share to Instagram, Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Company Pages via Buffer integration.
- New: Made it easier to connect Twitter accounts for new users.
- Fix: Wrong error solution doc link would sometimes be given in Log.
- Fix: Fixed a bug where the sharing queue would be duplicated when switching tabs.
- Fix: Sites with Jetpack Photon feature activated would have issues with sharing images to twitter.
- Change: Made some UX changes to plugin dashboard
- New: Roadmap & Voting button! See where ROP is headed and vote on or recommend features which matter to you.
- Fix: PHP warning when Share Immediately feature would receive a non-array of selected accounts in rare cases.
- Fix: Silent Undefined Index error where Cron would try to fire for non-set actions.
- Change: Allow users who installed ROP prior to v8.3.0 to connect their Facebook accounts using the Revive Social Facebook App. No more need to go through an App review.
- New: An email will be sent to admin email address if the "Share more than once" option is unchecked and sharing is complete
- New: Documentation and support buttons on plugin dashboard
- Fix: LinkedIn Image sharing
- Fix: Facebook sharing timeout on some servers
- Fix: Log would some times show the wrong status message for the share
- Change: Use button to show app credential fields on new installs
- Fix: Use wp_remote_request functions in favor of guzzle which was causing issues on some websites
- Fix: Posting to Pinterest board names with commas
- New: Made connecting Facebook pages to plugin much simpler.
- Fix: When using publish now feature, all services would be checked after page reload even though only one was selected.
- New: Show admin notice when WP Cron is turned off, which can cause posting issues with ROP
- Fix: LinkedIn Image posts were not going through
- Fix: Posting to some Pinterest boards with special characters was not working
- Info: Tested on WP 5.2
- Fix: Minor bugs
- New: Filter introduced for Post Title & Content separator (check revive.social docs)
- New: Known errors will now show a link to the fix in the log area
- Fix: Twitter images would not share for sites which moved to a different protocol but didn't update their image links in the database
- PRO Fix: Moved to LinkedIn API v2 (check revive.social docs)
- New: Feedback button on plugin dashboard. Help us make ROP better by filling out the form!
- Fix: Minor typos
- PRO: You can now share custom messages/share variations in the order they were added.
- PRO Change: Updated custom messages/share variations metabox design
- Fix: Sharing queue issue with sites running WPML plugin
- New: The share post on publish feature is now in the lite version of the plugin. This should help with Facebook app review process (see revive.social docs)
- Fix: Minor bugs
- New: Adds basic support for WPML content sharing(see revive.social docs)
- Fix: Low PHP version notice was not showing the right text
- Fix: Minor bugs
- Fixed undefined variable error
- New: Made post share content filterable, you can now use post excerpt field (see docs)
- New: Pinterest shares will now link to the post on your website
- Changed: Bit.ly authentication method, old method will be deprecated in the future
- Changed: Custom message labels
- Fix: Pointer JavaScript error
- PRO Fix: Publish now feature not always showing
- New: Admin pointers for new plugin installs
- Change: Rename custom messages to "Share Variations"
- Fix: Automatically remove whitespace when adding credentials
- Fix: Excess blank space in shares caused by Gutenberg Editor
- PRO Fix: Publish now not showing on custom post types edit screens
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- Adds: Option to delete plugin settings on uninstall
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- Fix: Change twitter credential labels to match that on developer.twitter.com apps
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- Fix: Various typos
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- Fix: Issue with media library not loading when PRO plugin is installed in some cases
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- Fix: Error when other plugins also try to authenticate with Facebook
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- PRO: Adds support for magic tags for Custom Share Messages and Additional Text
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- PRO: Adds support for custom post type taxonomy hashtags
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- PRO: Adds Option to make share instantly option checked by default
- Fixed issue with hashtags in content
- Adds notice for PHP versions lower than 5.6
- Replaced goo.gl shortener with firebase dynamic links
- Fix rebrandly shortner missing feature.
- Adds option to disable the instant sharing feature.
- Adds support for Pinterest sharing feature
- Adds support for library media sharing feature
- Adds support for immediate post sharing feature
- Changed hashtags placement for Twitter
- Fixed hashtags for Tumblr
- Fixed Jetpack staging mode check
- Fix issue with Exclude posts blank page on non-English websites.
- Adds dedicated app workflow for Twitter authentication.
- Adds tweet intent and review buttons in the header.
- Adds filter for content before sharing.
- Prevent sharing when the website is in the staging environment.
- Improve UI accessibility.
- Adds possibility to fetch more post types.
- Strip redundant shortcodes on post content sharing.
- Fix status migration issue from v7.
- Fix compatibility with the PRO version for the linkedin sharing on company pages.
- Fix compatibility with the PRO version for the thumblr sharing issues.
- Fix small typos in the plugin settings.
- Fix hashtags issue when using post content as a source.
- Fix LinkedIn broken link when no image is used.
- Fix issue with sharing when multiple accounts are used with different custom schedules.
- Adds link only in the preview, remove from facebook message content.
- Adds limit for the number of logs.
- Fix issue with common hashtags using post content.
- Fix issue with add service when an account was removed from the list.
- Fix issue with cron lag between shares
- Improve disable state for pro services.
- Fix exclude posts inconsistency.
- Fix incomplete UTM tags on certain shortners.
- Fix refresh queue on start sharing.
- Fix freezing message in frontend when the sharing is happening.
- Fix Facebook limits regarding the number of accounts fetched.
- Fix compatibility with PRO version regarding sharing on LinkedIn.
- Fix issue with UTM tags and shortner consistency.
- Adds Exclude Posts as a separate page.
- Fix issue with sharing stopped after the first share.
- Fix timeline events refresh when the min interval changes.
- Fix Facebook page accounts not showing in certain environments.
- Adds remove account feature for permanently delete an account from the list.
- Fix schedule synchronization issues.
- Fix LinkedIn authentication with the wrong redirect_url.
- Fix issue with old Facebook applications and strict OAuth urls settings.
- Fix issue taxonomies filter setting.
- Fix filter by excluded posts issue.
- Fix issue when LinkedIn exceptions on login.
- Adds more exceptions handling for Facebook authentications.
- Fix compatibility with pro version for post_types and custom share messages.
- Fix Linkedin error on loading SDK class.
- Fix multiple twitter accounts warning message.
- Fix foreach loop on the services model.
- Fix Facebook authentication issues with application url.
- Adds notice when using an old Pro version.
- Major improvements to the codebase.
- Adds schedule and format per accounts, not per networks as it was before.
- Improve settings UI as well as the accounts authentication workflow.
- Improve posts selections per accounts.
- Improves logs reporting and messages.
- Adds major improvements to schedules trigger, implementing a new way of using wp-cron events for the plugin sharing.
New in v7.4.8
- Fixed facebook display users popup.
New in v7.4.7
- Fixed issue with settings cleared after update/deactivate
- Fixed issue with posts queue
- Added default shortner rviv.ly
New in v7.4.5
- Improved schedule trigger for posts
- Fixed issue with plugin starting
- Fixed issue with post format
New in v7.4.0
- Added support for custom messages
- Fixes issue with multiple taxonomies having the same name
- Fixed instructions for popups
New in v7.3.8
- Improved categories excluding UI in the General tab
- Improved design of the social networks authorization popups
- Added more shortners
- Fixed issue with wrong tags fetch
New in v7.3.7
- Fixed issue with inverted settings in post format and custom schedule
New in v7.3.6
- Fixed issue sample post rendering
- Improved error logging for facebook request
- Fixed typos in facebook description
- Added default tab for Manage Queue
New in v7.3.5
- Fixed issue with encoding
- Fixed issue with shortners and slow loading
- Fixed layout issue for posts with images in Manage Queue
New in v7.3.2
- Fixed issue with exclude posts
New in v7.3.1
- Fixed compatibility with old php versions.
New in v7.3
- Added Manage queue timeline.
- Fixed responsive issues
- Fixed issue with is.gd
New in v7.2
- Fixed randomization algorithm, preventing sharing of same post twice until the end of cycle.
- Fixed date range selection when both values are 0
New in v7.1
- Fixed inconsistency in the schedule. Now posting is more accurate.
- Fixed image sharing issue which was not working for some server configuration
New in v7.0.8
- Added facebook tutorial for facebook share.
- Fixed multisite issue for redirect url
- Making translation ready for new wordpress.org system
- Fixed single quotes problem
- Fixed tumblr tags
New in v7.0.4
- Changed pro banner.
- Fixed bugs with the new facebook api changes.
New in v7.0.2
- Removed twitter update_with_media call.
- Fixed activation error notices when WP_DEBUG was enabled
New in v7.0
- Fixed issue with duplicate posting
- Added Xing and Tumbr Networks
- Fixed issue with random posts on large databases.
New in v6.9.6
- Fixed issue cron stop
- Fixed issue for excluded post
- Added exclude posts from custom post types.
New in v6.9.4
- Fixed issue with share more than once option
New in v6.9.3
- Improved logging system
- Fixed vulnerability issue with update options
- Fixed issues with custom schedule timing
- Improved excluded category design
- Fixed excluded post selection issue
New in v6.8.8
Added a more complex logging system Fixed multiple accounts/posts issue Fixed 404 twitter login error
New in v6.8.5
Completely reworked how cron is working Separated post format by network Added support for custom schedule Added remote cron trigger feature
New in v6.8.2
Fixed no available posts issue
New in v6.8.1
Added language support and custom post types
New in v6.8
Added Facebook and Linkedin
New in v6.7
Fixed interrupted posting issue
New in v6.6
Fixed excluded category issue and some small others.
New in v6.7.7
Added Facebook and Linkedin, Facebook is also enabled for the free users Improved Post with image feature, we can also pull the image from post Fixed Tweet over 140 chars error Added Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Rebranded into Revive Old Posts
New in v6.7.5
Fixed some debug messages
New in v6.7.3
Added settings link, fixed tweet cutting and added cron debug messages
New in v6.6
Fixed excluded category issue and some small others.
New in v6.0
Tweets now are posted immediately, fixed scheduling and added debug messages
New in v5.9
Tags are converted to lowercase automatically now
New in v5.8
Added post by image options in the pro version and some fixes.
New in v5.7
Fixed permissions
New in v5.6
Added bit.ly back
New in v5.5
Fixed the table prefix issue
New in v5.4
Fixed the hashtags length issue
New in v5.3
Fixed the custom field issue
New in v5.2
Fixed exclude categories error, added wp short url, fixed oauth error, removed broken shorten services.
New in v5.0
- Whole plugin was rewrote from scratch and a pro version was added, so after 50 hours of work, here we are. This change will allow us to easier fix issues/ release new features and maintain the plugin.
New in v4.0.9
- Resolved twitter connectivity issue, for users who were not able to connect in 4.0.8. Twitter has changed their policy as per https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239
New in v4.0.8
- Resolved twitter connectivity issue. Twitter has changed their policy as per https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/24239
New in v4.0.7
- Resolved tweet not posting issue.
New in v4.0.6
- Changed how pages are navigated. Should not conflict with any of the plugin that interacts with twitter ever.
- For "Page not found", update the settings and then authorize with twitter.
- If you are not able to update anything or you are redirecting to your home page, reset the settings and try again.
- Code Cleanup.
New in v4.0.5
- Implemented Twitter API v1.1 as Twitter is retiring API v1 from 7th May.
- Handled conflict with BackWPup plugin.
- Some performance improvements with WPSuperCache plugin.
- Some design changes.
- Code Cleanup.
New in v4.0.4
- Resolved issue of tweet not posting automatically. Thanks to Daniel Lopez Gonzalez for helping me.
- Minor Fixes
New in v4.0.3
- Handled too many tweets when W3 Total Cache plugin is installed. Please check and let me know.
- Bug fixes
New in v4.0.2
- Removed the option to specify the consumer key and secret as twitter does not show the application from which its tweeted anymore.
- Most probably, the tweet not posting automatically issue is resolved. Please check and let me know.
- Bug fixes
New in v4.0.1
- Resolved issue of page getting blank after returning from twitter
- added pages to exclude post option
- Bug fixes
- updated the steps of creating twitter application check here http://www.ajaymatharu.com/major-update-to-tweet-old-post/
New in v4.0.0
- You can now change the application name. Change via Tweet Old Post to your specified name. Follow the Steps here, http://www.ajaymatharu.com/major-update-to-tweet-old-post/
- Pages can now be included in tweets. Added an option to select what is to be tweeted (pages, posts, or both).
- Removed "." and used "-" when adding additional text, "." was causing grammatical mistakes if sentence was trimmed.
- Added option to specify number of posts that can be tweeted simultaneously. You can specify how many tweets you want at a time.
- Last but not the least, removed random time slot was causing lot of confusion.
New in v3.3.3
- Resolved permission issue of exclude post.
New in v3.3.2
- Resolved too many redirects issue If its still not working try these steps - Make sure "Tweet Old Post Admin URL (Current URL)" is showing your current URL. - Click on "Update Tweet Old Post Options". - Try to authorize again.
- Removed "" from hashtags. Previously space in hashtag was replaced with "". Now there will be no spaces or "_" in hashtags.
New in v3.3.1
- Changed logic for posting data to twitter.
- Resolved bit.ly issue.
New in v3.3.0
- Attempt to fix logs out issue (Tweet Old Post pushes out when any action is performed).
New in v3.2.9
- Option to reset setting. When something goes wrong, please reset the settings and setup again.
- For people still facing issues of conflict with Google Analytics Plugin, this version should work.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in v3.2.8
- Resolved conflict with Google Analytics Plugin.
- Changed the log file location to root of plugin folder.
- Maintained Tweet Cycle. Repeat only when all post have been tweeted.
- Made other optimizations and resolved some minor bugs.
New in v3.2.7
- Added logging for people who cant make it work can enable and check the log, or mail me the log file.
- Brought back the exclude post option.
- Made other optimizations and resolved some minor bugs.
- Check http://www.ajaymatharu.com/tweet-old-post-update-3-2-7/ for more detailed explanation.
New in v3.2.6
- removed exclude post due to security threat. Will work on it and bring it up back.
New in v3.2.5
- Resolved hashtag not posting issue.
- other bug fixes.
New in v3.2.4
- Bug fixes
New in v3.2.3
- Bug fixes
New in v3.2.2
- Resolved bit.ly issue
- new option for hashtags
- other bug fixes
New in v3.2.1
- Bug fixes
New in v3.2
- Bug fixes
- Option to choose to include link in post
- option to post only title or body or both title and body
- option to set additional text either at beginning or end of tweet
- option to pick hashtags from custom field
New in v3.1.2
- Resolved tweets not getting posted when categories are excluded.
- If you are not able to authorise your twitter account set you blog URL in Administration → Settings → General.
New in v3.1
- Resolved issue of plugin flooding twitter account with tweets.
- added provision to exclude some post from selected categories
New in v3.0
- added OAuth authentication
- user defined intervals
- may not work under php 4 requires php 5
New in v2.0
- added provision to select if you want to shorten the URL or not.
- Cleaned other options.
New in v1.9
- Removed PHP 4 support as it was creating problem for lot of people
New in v1.8
- Bug Fixes
- Provision to fetch tweet url from custom field
New in v1.7
- Removed api option from 1click.at not needed api key
New in v1.6
- Made the plugin PHP 4 compatible. Guys try it out and please let me know if that worked.
- Better error prompting. If your tweets are not appearing on twitter. Try "Tweet Now" button you'll see if there is any problem in tweeting.
- Added 1click.at shortning service you need to get the api key from http://theeasyapi.com/ you need to add your machine IP address in the server of http://theeasyapi.com/ for this api key to work.
New in v1.5
- Maximum age of post to be eligible for tweet - allows you to set Maximum age of the post to be eligible for tweet
- Added one more shortner service was looking for j.mp but they dont have the api yet.
New in v1.4
- Hashtags - allows you to set default hashtags for your tweets
New in v1.3
- URL Shortener Service - allows you to select which URL shortener service you want to use.
New in v1.2
- Tweet Prefix - Allows you to set prefix to the tweets.
- Add Data - Allows you to add post data to the tweets
- Tweet now - Button that will tweet at that moment without wanting you to wait for scheduled tweet
v1.1
- Twitter Username & Password - Using this twitter account credentials plugin will tweet.
- Minimum interval between tweets - allows you to determine how often the plugin will automatically choose and tweet a blog post for you.
- Randomness interval - This is a contributing factor in minimum interval so that posts are randomly chosen and tweeted from your blog.
- Minimum age of post to be eligible for tweet - This allows you to set how old your post should be in order to be eligible for the tweet.
- Categories to omit from tweets - This will protect posts from the selected categories from being tweeted.
8.0 is a major update. Make sure to backup your site before upgrading.