Craft CMS is known for its flexibility and content management capabilities, but when it comes to sharing website content on social media, users often face significant challenges. Copying and pasting content across multiple platforms is time-consuming, and formatting issues can make posts look unprofessional.
Social Buddy is a Craft CMS social media plugin that eliminates these issues by allowing users to publish content directly from Craft CMS to platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest, Medium, and Telegram—without switching between tools.
This blog explores seven reasons why Craft CMS users should use Social Buddy to automate social media content repurposing and improve their workflow.
1. Eliminate Manual Posting and Save Time
Managing social media manually is inefficient. Many teams spend five to seven hours per week just copying, pasting, and reformatting website content for different platforms. This repetitive process slows down workflow and increases the chance of errors, such as incorrect links or missing hashtags.
Social Buddy automates the entire process. When a post is published in Craft CMS, it can be automatically shared across selected social media platforms. This eliminates the need to log in to multiple accounts and reformat the content manually. By integrating this automation into their workflow, Craft CMS users can focus more on creating quality content rather than spending time distributing it.
Seamless integration is just as important as automation, which is why Social Buddy is built to work directly inside Craft CMS.
2. Seamless Craft CMS Integration—No Platform Switching
Many social media management tools require users to log into an external platform to schedule posts. This disrupts workflow, adds unnecessary complexity, and requires additional training for teams.
Social Buddy works entirely within Craft CMS, eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools. Users can select which platforms to publish to, customize their messaging, and track publishing history—all from their familiar Craft CMS dashboard.
This integration not only streamlines content distribution but also ensures that users stay focused on their primary workspace, making it easier to manage updates and revisions in real time.
While integration simplifies the workflow, Social Buddy also ensures that each post is formatted correctly for each social platform.
3. Automatically Optimizes Content for Each Platform
Each social media platform has different content requirements. Instagram posts require square images, Twitter has a strict character limit, and LinkedIn posts perform best with detailed descriptions. Manually adjusting content for each platform is time-consuming and prone to errors.
Social Buddy eliminates this issue by automatically optimizing content based on platform-specific formatting rules.
It adjusts:
- Character limits to match platform restrictions
- Image sizes for better visual presentation
- Hashtags and mentions for relevance and reach
With these automatic adjustments, Craft CMS users can be confident that their posts will display correctly across different social networks.
Formatting is only one part of effective social media posting. Scheduling content strategically is just as important.
4. Schedule Posts or Publish Automatically
Timing plays a crucial role in social media engagement. Posting at the wrong time can result in missed opportunities for visibility and interaction.
Social Buddy provides two flexible publishing options:
- Immediate publishing when new content goes live in Craft CMS
- Scheduled publishing using cron jobs to ensure posts go out at optimal times
This feature helps teams plan their content in advance, maintain a consistent posting schedule, and avoid last-minute scrambling to share updates manually.
While automation and scheduling improve efficiency, maintaining brand voice and consistency across platforms is equally essential.
5. Maintain a Consistent Brand Voice Across Platforms
Brand consistency is critical when publishing content across multiple channels. When teams manually post on different platforms, it’s easy for messaging, tone, and visuals to become inconsistent.
Social Buddy allows Craft CMS users to:
- Customize captions, hashtags, and post formatting per platform
- Ensure messaging stays aligned with brand voice and guidelines
- Avoid duplication errors by managing everything from a single content source
This ensures that regardless of where the content is published, it will always reflect the same professional and cohesive brand identity.
Publishing consistently is important, but so is tracking content performance.
6. Track Publishing Performance with Detailed Logs
One of the biggest challenges in social media content repurposing is knowing what has been published and where. Without a clear tracking system, it’s easy to lose track of posts, leading to duplicate content or missed updates.
Social Buddy provides detailed publishing logs that allow users to:
- See a history of all published posts
- Identify successful and failed posts
- Troubleshoot errors with clear status messages
With this level of tracking, content teams can monitor their publishing workflow more effectively and make data-driven adjustments when necessary.
Beyond performance tracking, Social Buddy also provides a cost-effective alternative to manual social media management.
7. Cost-Effective Social Media Management for Craft CMS
Manually copying, reformatting, and posting website content to each social platform consumes hours of valuable staff time each week. This repetitive process pulls team members away from strategic work and audience engagement, creates a bottleneck when content needs to be distributed quickly, increases the chance of formatting errors and inconsistencies, and becomes increasingly burdensome as content volume grows.
Social Buddy provides an affordable solution with three pricing tiers:
LITE FREE | PLUS *$39 | PRO *$69 |
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*PLUS: Plus $20/year after one year. | *PRO: Plus $35/year after one year.
This means businesses can redirect their team's talents toward strategic engagement and content creation rather than repetitive distribution tasks, all without the expense of additional third-party tools.
Understanding how Social Buddy integrates with your workflow is just as important as knowing its benefits. Let's look at how the plugin actually works in practice.
How Social Buddy Works in Craft CMS
Social Buddy is designed to be intuitive and simple to use:
- Connect: Link social media accounts through the plugin settings.
- Create: Write blog posts, product pages, or announcements in Craft CMS.
- Configure: Select the social platforms for distribution and customize messaging.
- Publish: Choose between manual posting or automatic publishing when entries go live.
Monitor: Use detailed logs to track published posts and resolve any errors.
With these five steps, Craft CMS users can completely automate social media content repurposing with minimal effort.
Conclusion
For Craft CMS users, social media content repurposing shouldn’t be a manual, time-consuming process. Social Buddy provides a seamless integration that eliminates platform switching, optimizes content for multiple networks, and ensures brand consistency while saving valuable time. With flexible publishing options and detailed tracking, Social Buddy helps teams streamline their workflow without the overhead of expensive third-party tools.
Get Started with Social Buddy Today
If you’re looking for an efficient way to automate Craft CMS social media integration, Social Buddy is the solution.
- Eliminate hours of manual posting
- Publish directly from Craft CMS without extra tools
- Ensure brand consistency across all platforms
- Track publishing history with ease
Get started today by downloading the free version or upgrading to PRO for full automation and multi-platform publishing.
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