No-Brainer at Free Level, Stop Reading and Install

This plugin does exactly what you expect it to do, and was either really well designed up front, or maintained and improved, based on how you’d want to use it. You don’t need to be an expert to achieve great results. Works well out of the box.

Integrates perfectly with your Buffer. Set up your Buffer first. Authenticating and setting up the plugin is super easy, and you can select exactly which accounts you have in your Buffer should get posts or changes to pages. You can specify exactly what is going to automatically post–new pages, new posts, edited pages, edited posts. Posting changed content is great for people with evergreen / long-form content they periodically update.

Only warning is to turn off when you’re going to be making a bunch of changes / non-substantive stuff you wouldn’t want triggering a post. The developers thought of this, and there’s a convenient place to disable the auto-post feature within the edit-page / edit-post screen. Perfect! (I’m not sure whether this is the plugin or Buffer, but even when I’ve forgotten to do this, I don’t get 10 posts queued up from a series of 10 back-to-back edits, either.)

One feature request: you can use tags to insert elements (page title, url, etc.) to customize what goes out. The only truly basic thing I see missing is category. Should be easy to pull the post category, right? This would allow more fine-tuned customization, like “New information on [category] . . . ” in the posts. Seems like this might be possible at Pro, I just think it would be a good bridge feature in the free version (without all the customization available at Pro) to entice people to want more.

Looking forward to upgrading to Pro level soon!