Shareist and WordPress work great together. WordPress is the standard for content management systems and is the platform behind millions of blogs and other websites. 

It would be crazy to suggest that you switch from WordPress to another platform, and we’d never do that. While your Shareist notebook can serve as a nice clean website, we’re perfectly happy for you to publish your content anywhere you want.

And WordPress is a great place to do that.

So use Shareist for all your content marketing tasks, like capturing ideas, scheduling, writing content, and publish it straight to WordPress with the click of a button.

Then you can continue the process to send and schedule social media updates to share your newest content, linking directly to the WordPress post.

It’s easy. Here are the steps…

1. Connect Your WordPress Blog

In order to publish to WordPress, you first need to connect your WordPress blog. Go into the Connect settings and locate the WordPress section. Click “Add” and add in the credentials for your blog: Enter the URL (including http://) and your username and password.

While you’re in here, you can also connect up your Facebook, Twitter, Linked in and other accounts.

2. Create Your Content

In Shareist, you create a page of content in a notebook. Click on the Add Page button, and write away.

Actually creating a page in Shareist is a whole ‘nother topic but keep in mind that while you’re editing, the preview is getting the styling from the Shareist notebook preview. If you don’t ever make your Shareist notebook or this page public on Shareist, nobody will ever see that.

When the page is published to WordPress, it will have virtually no styling, just standard HTML tags. Therefore it will inherit the styling from WordPress.

One thing to look out for is image sizes. If your WordPress theme has a fairly narrow content area, an image may end up too wide. You can prevent this by uploading only appropriately sized images on Shareist, or use CSS in your WordPress theme to put a maximum width on the images posted there.

3. Publish to WordPress

When your page is finished, and you’re ready to publish, click on the ‘Publish’ tab in the page builder.

If you’ve properly connected your WordPress blog, you’ll see it in the list of websites to which you can publish. Shareist will communicate with your blog and get the list of authors and categories, which you can select. You can also choose the WordPress status and therefore you can send the content to WordPress in Draft mode if you want to view it there first, or you can set it directly to Published.

After you do save to WordPress the first time, you can push any additional changes to the content, or the publish options by clicking the Publish button again (which will then read “Update”).

4. Share to Social Media

Once you’ve got your page published somewhere — anywhere — you can use the Shareist Share feature to send the page out to your social media networks. Click on the “Share” tab in the page editor to send the page out to Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn either now or scheduled for the future.

If you’ve published to WordPress, the shares will contain a link to your WordPress blog directly. And if you’ve published a page to more than one place, you can choose which link is used.

Use the Share feature to post to several places at once, or scheduled over the next several hours or days by using the new scheduling feature.

Shareist is a Content Marketing Platform, which means it has all the tools in place to capture ideas, schedule them, create content, collaborate with a team, publish, share, and even repurpose content.

On Shareist content is organized into Notebooks, which can also be made publicly visible as websites. But did you know that Shareist also connects up to WordPress and other CMS’s?

WordPress is, of course, a Content Management System, which means there’s some overlap in functionality between the two, but Shareist integrates fully with WordPress, meaning you can use Shareist for all the great things that WordPress doesn’t do well, and publish directly to WordPress.

Shareist is a great tool for doing all the content marketing tasks outside of the scope of WordPress, but also for publishing to WordPress.

With Shareist, you can manage your content and publish it to WordPress, all without even logging into WordPress. You get the best of both worlds.

This blog, running on WordPress, will contain information about effectively using Shareist with WordPress and other tools and platforms.

All the content here is written in Shareist and published automatically to this WordPress blog.