How to pick an existing post from a wordpress website so it can be automatically shared on SM

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Hi folks,

I’d love to be able to have an automation that picks an existing blog post (perhaps in date order, staring with the oldest and working forward) from my wordpress website and shares it on social media.

I can’t find anything like it.

The only thing I can find is an automation that waits until a new post is published.

Can you give me your thoughts on this?

Thanks
Karl

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Welcome to the Make community!

It would be easier if you use a “Search Posts” module to extract a list of all your Wordpress Posts, their IDs, and Created Date into a Google Sheet. Add a “Last Shared” column.

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Then, use another scenario to Search Rows by “Last Shared” empty or ascending to get the next oldest post that is unused/unshared.

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At the end of the scenario, update that item’s “Last Shared” with the current date.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!

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Thank you @samliew, I really appreciate it.
I’m fairly new to this stuff but knew there had to be a way.

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You’ll only need to do the first scenario once to load the list of posts.

The second scenario above is the “main” sharing scenario, you can schedule as often as you wish.

You might need a third scenario to “Add a new row” to the spreadsheet list whenever there’s a new post on Wordpress.

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Thanks for this. Got the sharing bit down, still having a hard time getting the sheets connection to choose the next line where the last share cell is empty.

Any thoughts?

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I’ve decided to park this, for now, and work my way through the Make.com Academy.
Hopefully this will equip me to do even more with the platform.
Thanks