Jetpack Social simplifies the process of sharing your posts across multiple social media platforms upon publication. Previously, the ability to share posts retrospectively and schedule future shares was exclusive to subscribers of the Complete plan. However, these functionalities are now available in the Free plan as well.
For an overview of Jetpack Social features, please refer to this page.
How to Use Jetpack Social
You can activate Jetpack Social either within Jetpack or by installing it as a standalone plugin.
Once Jetpack Social is activated, you can automatically share new posts to your Facebook page, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Mastodon.
Support Articles Related to Jetpack Social
For more detailed support documentation on Jetpack Social, visit the following links:
- Jetpack Social: Connecting to Social Networks
- Jetpack Social: Auto-Sharing Posts
- Sharing Notes with Jetpack Social
- Jetpack Social: Manual Sharing Posts
- Jetpack Social: Troubleshooting
- Jetpack Social: Facebook
- Jetpack Social: Instagram
- Jetpack Social: LinkedIn
- Jetpack Social: Tumblr
- Jetpack Social: Mastodon
- Jetpack Social: Nextdoor
- Jetpack Social: Threads
Choose your Jetpack Social Plan
With the Jetpack free plan, you can:
- Auto-share your posts to social media up to 30 times within a 30-day rolling period.
- Share when you publish, or schedule shares for the future*.
- Preview how your posts will look on social networks.
- Save images to your Media Library.
- Allow other users on your site to share to your social connections.
- Recycle content by re-sharing published posts.
The Jetpack Social paid plan includes:
- Everything in the free plan
- Engagement optimization
- Image generator
Privacy Information
Jetpack social is deactivated by default. It can be activated at any time. To activate it:
- Go to Jetpack → Settings in your WP Admin.
- Click the Sharing tab.
- Toggle the Automatically share your posts to social networks setting in the Jetpack Social connections section.
Data Used | |
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Site Owners / Users In order to process cross-service sharing of new blog content, the following information is utilized by the Jetpack codebase: WordPress site URL, site owner’s local user ID, WordPress.com-connected site ID, two automatically-generated WordPress.com secret access tokens (and the expiration timestamp of those tokens), and the post data that is to be shared (ID, excerpt, content, permalink, etc.). Service-specific access tokens (only for connected services) are also used.Additionally, for activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. |
Site Visitors None. |
Activity Tracked | |
Site Owners / Users
We track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We track when, and which, configuration settings are modified (and by which user). Additionally, we track a usage event when a site owner adds a new service connection. |
Site Visitors
None. |
Data Synced (Read More) | |
Site Owners / Users
We sync options that identify whether or not the feature is activated and how its available settings are configured, including the necessary connection data for specific services. |
Site Visitors
None. |