Why no Twitter (X)?
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Why no is there no Twitter (X) connection option in Jetpack Social? It’s great that you include Bluesky, etc, but I’d think Twitter would be a no-brainer. Is there any way to add it (function hook, etc)?
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But the warning is about Jetpack Social settings, indicating our connections to our social media platforms won’t work:
Jetpack Social – Live social media site connections, powered by Jetpack: 5
Is that a false message?
Also, we corrected the cause of the error:
HTTP Error - http_request_failed - cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 5001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received… and still, only re-share is working, the posts do not happen when a scheduled post is published. Where do you see the sharing jobs report that showed the above error? I’d like to check that, now that we made changes that should fix the timeout error.
Lastly, when re-sharing, images appear in all but Mastodon. Is there something that can be done to fix that?
Well, sorry to report back that it’s not working after all.
Going back to square one, I removed the mu-plugin and tried a few test posts. It seem that scheduling a post as the logged in user works, but, as admin or editor, if I schedule a post that someone else owns, it does not work. Is this something intentional with Jetpack Social?
We have many authors, but restrict that role from being able to publish, as we want to review before publishing. So we need to be able to schedule posts by other authors as admin.
We tried this new mu-plugin filter to try and bypass the behavior, but it doesn’t work:
add_filter('jetpack_social_pre_publish_post', function( $should_share, $post ) {
if ( $post instanceof WP_Post ) {
// You can tighten this if you only want to affect certain post types/statuses.
// For now, if it's transitioning to publish, we force sharing.
if ( $post->post_status === 'publish' ) {
return true;
}
}
return $should_share;
}, 10, 2);Okay, solved it. Just needed to check the “Mark the connection as shared” box in Jetpack Social Connected accounts. This is apparently needed if scheduling an Author post as Admin.
I did have to be logged into https://cloud.jetpack.com/ in order for the setting to take. There, the checkbox is called “Connection available to all administrators, editors, and authors.” Does this mean we have to be logged in there at the moment we publish a scheduled post? I think it will log us out automatically at some point, correct?
We spent days trying to figure this out. It ought to be emphasized somewhere in the plugin interface.
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