Your website can integrate with Facebook and Instagram. You can automatically share any page, news story or blog and have it appear as a post on your social media website, without having to log in separately to your social media accounts.
If you have the Newsletter Builder Add-on enabled, switching on social media integration will also allow you to pull through recent posts to your newsletters.
Contact our Support Team if you can't see the Social Media options and want them enabled.
Social Media Settings
Access your Social Media settings from the Website tab:
Select an option from the menu:
- Share settings.
- Facebook account.
- Instagram account.
Share Settings
- Select Social Media settings from the Website tab:
- Select Share settings:
The Social Media Settings page loads: - Enter your Website Referral URL. If you have more than one website, enter your main one.
- Check those items you would like to Share by default from News stories, Blog posts, Photo Albums, Pages, and Calendar Events.
- Select Update Settings to save your preferences.
Integrate with Facebook
To share content on Facebook, your school must have a Facebook page. For more information about creating Facebook pages, see Facebook's guide and video tutorial (https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/set-up-facebook-page).
- Select Social Media settings from the Website tab:
- Select Facebook account:
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From the Facebook Authorisation Settings page, select Authorise access to Facebook:
- Follow the instructions presented by Facebook to log into your Facebook account. Your Facebook account must have access to your school's Facebook page.
- When prompted, select the school's Facebook page.
Ensure your Facebook account has permission to post to your school's Facebook page - the user must have full Facebook Access & not just Task Access.
You can check this here: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=profile_access
When your website is authorised to access Facebook, a green box informs you.
You can revoke the authorisation by selecting Disassociate with Facebook.
Integrate with Instagram
To share content on Instagram, your school must already have created an Instagram account.
- Select Social Media settings from the Website tab:
- Select Instagram account:
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From the Instagram Authorisation Settings page, select Log in via Facebook:
- Follow the instructions presented prompting your to log in to your Facebook account. Your Facebook account must have access to your school's Instagram.
- When prompted, select the school's Instagram page to post to.
When your website is authorised to access Instagram, a green box informs you.
You can revoke the authorisation by selecting Disassociate with Instagram.
Permissions to Share to Social Media
If the users you want to post to social media are not site administrators, you may permit them to share to Social media, using a custom security role.
Share to Social Media
Now that you have integrated your social media platform with your website you can share articles to your social media feeds by following the steps in the Share to Social Media article.
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