Share Blogger Post Automatically to Facebook using IFTTT

Auto-publishing a blog post on Facebook used to be a challenge. The idea was simple: tell Facebook you have a blog you want to post on your wall, and the social network will do as instructed. However, implementation was more difficult.

Even with Facebook's email feature, only the blog name and title appear on the wall, leaving the content or link behind. There are other plugins, but they don't work as easily as they should. There is always something missing.

How to automatically share blogger posts on Facebook using IFTTT

Here's an IFTTT (If This, Then That) online utility that can move social posts between websites. The setup is quite simple and easy to use. So let's see how we can use IFTTT to automatically share blogger posts on Facebook.

Step 1. Create a free IFTTT account

Visit IFTTT.com and create an account by creating a username and password.

Now IFTTT will guide you through a mini-tutorial: press "this", the word "this" several times, and the "Continue" button. Finally, select the 3 channels you are interested in and click "Next" to register.

Step 2. Create a new recipe

After saving, we need to "create a recipe". A recipe is basically the process of combining two platforms; in our case, we combine Blogger and Facebook. It shouldn't take more than five minutes.

First, click on the "My Recipes" link, then click on the "Create Recipe" button as shown below:

Start building the recipe by clicking on the blue word "this" and selecting a "Trigger Channel". The launcher you need to select is Blogger; search the box as shown below:

Step 3. Connect your Blogger blog to IFTTT

Link your Blogger account to your IFTTT account. A permission request pop-up will appear > click the Permission button and select the blog you want to use with IFTTT from the drop-down menu, then click the Reload button.

When our Blogger blog is online, you can use "Select a trigger" to specify the type of post published on Facebook. You can select "All new messages" or "New starred messages".

Finally, click the blue "Create Trigger" button to go to the next step.

Step 4. Create an "It" trigger.

After signing up, create a recipe that defines the direction you want your blog posts to take. Since you want to connect bloggers to Facebook, the recipe is: If they are bloggers, then Facebook. What you do is replace it with Blogger which is the source and Facebook which is the "target".

To configure the 'tie', click on the blue 'tie'. A window will open with a list of social networking sites. Look for the "Facebook" box and select the "Facebook Pages" option (select the simple "Facebook" option if you want to post to your personal profile).

Step 5. Connect your Facebook page to IFTTT

Connect your Facebook account. Be sure to log in to your Facebook account before signing in. Tap the "Connect" button to open a pop-up window and enter IFTTT on your Facebook page, then select your Facebook page.

Click Done and Go to Next Step and we're almost done…

You will be asked to select an action, where you can indicate whether you only want 'Create status message', 'Create link message' or 'Update photos from URL'. Select "Create Post Link" as shown below:

Step 6. Choose the ingredients

After selecting an action, a Fill Action Fields window will appear with the Link URL and Message fields. To add a component, click on the message box and you will see a session pipe icon on the right. Clicking this will bring up a drop-down menu where you can select a field to insert: select 'PostTitle' and click the blue 'Add Component' button on the right.

If you're not sure what each ingredient does, visit this page .

Step 7. Finish creating the recipe

Finally, click the blue "Create Action" button and your recipe should look like this:

To complete your recipe, click the "Create Recipe" button.

And this is all! This is how IFTTT recipes are created. The next time you publish a post on Blogger, it will automatically be shared on Facebook.