What information can I include in a social message?

You can share whatever you want in a social message. The only limits are those that each specific social network might define. Thus, for example, Twitter messages can’t be longer than 280 characters, or Instagram social messages force you to share (pin) an image. If you don’t know what you can or can’t share on a specific social network, please take a look at their terms and conditions.

Nelio Content offers a unified user interface for sharing messages on social networks. It helps you to:

• write the message you want to share,
• share a certain link (usually, your post’s permalink), and
• attach one or more media files (images and videos, depending on the target social media channel) to enhance your social message.

When sharing a social message with a link, social networks tend to assume that you’re interested in sharing the content of that link. That’s why most of them attach a “preview card” of the content you’re sharing.

Nelio also includes a preview of all your messages, which helps you to get an idea of how things will look like when actually shared on the real network:

Use placeholders

On the other hand, Nelio makes it super easy to share current post’s information (which is the most common scenario). When writing down the message you want to share, just use the placeholders you have available to save you time by clicking on the placeholders icon.

In fact, {title]{permalink} are already in place when creating new messages (as depicted in the screenshot above). You can obviously use other placeholders in combination with any other text or emojis you may want to share.

Use templates

If you have already created social templates to share in your automation groups, you also have the option to select one of these templates (click on the Templates icon) and use it for the creation of your message.

Attach a media file

Finally, you can also attach images or videos to your social messages. To do that, just click on the Picture or the Video icon below the dialogue’s text area.

This will open WordPress’ built-in media file selector. Select the one (or more) files you’re interested in sharing and click on Choose.