Publicize

If you’re using the Classic Editor, the Publicize options will look slightly different. You’ll find them in the Publish box on your post edit screen when writing a new post.

If you want to toggle any of the Publicize services for a specific post, click Edit next to the list of connected publicize accounts. You can then uncheck the services you do not want to use for this post and add a custom sharing message.

• Saving a post as a Draft will not publicize it.
• Static pages will not be publicized.
• Scheduled posts do get publicized – at the time they’re scheduled to publish.
• If you use a plugin to clone or duplicate existing posts, it will also duplicate its status. If the original post is already published, Publicize won’t be triggered for the cloned post.
• Publicize works for Administrator, Editor, or Author user roles. If you’re a Contributor for a blog, you cannot use Publicize.
• When you add new connections, you have the option to decide whether it will be available to just your account or all of the other users on the blog as well. To make the connection available to everyone, just check the prompt for that at the time you add the connection.
• When making a connection available to all users of a blog, the only thing any other user on your site can do is post to the social network. They do not have access to do anything else such as getting access to the social network account directly.

Facebook and Twitter Publicize select images that are at least 200 x 200 pixels in the following order:

1. Featured image
2. An image attached to the post and inserted
3. Any other image in the post (not attached but perhaps linked)

Tumblr Publicize will display an image if your post is an image post format or if there is an image embedded within the first 256 characters of the post.

By default, Publicize is only triggered when you publish a new post. You can, however, extend this to other Custom Post Types. You have 2 options to add Publicize Support to a Custom Post Type:

1. You can add Publicize support to an existing post type thanks to the add_post_type_support() function. To do so, add the following code to a functionality plugin:

   add_action('init', 'my_custom_init');function my_custom_init() {
       add_post_type_support( 'product', 'publicize' );
   }
   

   You’ll need to replace “product” with your Custom Post Type name.

2. You can add Publicize support when registering the post type:
   

   // Register Custom Post Type
   function jetpackme_custom_post_type() {
   
   
       $labels = array(
           'name'      => _x( 'Products', 'Post Type General Name', 'text_domain' ),
       );
       $args = array(
           'label'     => __( 'product', 'text_domain' ),
           'supports'  => array( 'title', 'editor', 'publicize', 'wpcom-markdown' ),
       );
       register_post_type( 'product', $args );
   
   }
   // Hook into the 'init' action
   add_action( 'init', 'jetpackme_custom_post_type', 0 );
   

Publicize also includes filters to allow you to customize the default behavior with additional plugins, or via a simple addition to your theme’s functions.php, like removing Publicize options from the New Post screen.