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Autoposting your blog post to Bluesky

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To save yourself time, you can choose to connect your blog to Bluesky and then when you publish a blog post it will automatically create a post in Bluesky for you and post it. You can choose to turn this off prior to publishing a post.

Follow these steps:

  • Go Tools > Marketing and Integrations
  • Then click on the Connections tab at the top of the page.

You will then see this see this window.

Connect to Bluesky window
Creating an App Password

You will then need to create an App password and can do this by clicking on generate it in Bluesky. This allows you to safely connect your account.

creating an app password
App Passwords

Click Add App Password. Here you will be asked to create a name (make a note of this). You will then receive an app password.

Copy the app password and use this in the WordPress window you have open, adding your Bluesky handle in the first box and the 16 digit app password in the second.

Then click Connect account. You will then see this message. Click Connect.

connecting Bluesky
Connecting Bluesky to your blog

Once you have completed these steps your Blog will be connected to Bluesky.

As previously mentioned when you get to the point of publishing a blog post, you have the option to allow WordPress to autopost to Bluesky, do this manually or choose not to create a Bluesky message.

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About Sue Beckingham

An Associate Professor, National Teaching Fellow and Teaching and Learning lead for Computing and Digital Technologies at Sheffield Hallam University with a research interest in the use of social media in higher education.

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