Message Formatting Tags
Message Formatting TagsMessage formatting tags
SNAP supports the following formatting tags:
%TITLE% – Inserts the Title of the post
%URL% – Inserts the URL of the post
%SURL% – Inserts the shortened URL of your post
%SLUG% – Inserts slug of the posts URL
%IMG% – Inserts the featured image URL
%EXCERPT% – Inserts the excerpt of the post (processed)
%RAWEXCERPT% – Inserts the excerpt of the post (as typed)
%ANNOUNCE% – Inserts the text till the <!–more–> tag or first N words of the post
%FULLTEXT% – Inserts the processed body(text) of the post
%RAWTEXT% – Inserts the body(text) of the post as typed
%ORID% – Original ID. Post ID for WordPress.
%TAGS% – Inserts post tags
%CATS% – Inserts post categories
%HTAGS% – Inserts post tags as hashtags
%HCATS% – Inserts post categories as hashtags
%AUTHORNAME% – Inserts the author’s name
%AUTHOREMAIL% – Inserts the author’s email
%AUTHORTWNAME% – Inserts @twitter username from the user(author) settings.
%SITENAME% – Inserts the the Blog/Site name
%POSTFORMAT% – Inserts the format of the post
%CF-CustomFieldName% – Inserts the contents of the custom field with the specified name. (example: if your price is stored in the custom field “PRDPRICE” you will need to use %CF-PRDPRICE% tag)
%CT-CustomTaxonomyName% – Inserts the list of custom taxonomies associated with the post
%HCT-CustomTaxonomyName% – Inserts the list of custom taxonomies associated with the post as hashtags.
Examples
1. How to imitate a web-preview for networks with HTML support (Blogger, Tumblr, LiveJournal, Medium, etc..).
Message format:
<p>New Post has been published on %URL%</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>%TITLE%</strong></p>
<p><img src=”%IMG%” alt=”%TITLE%”/></p><p>%EXCERPT%</p></blockquote>
Please note: %IMG% inserts the URL of the image. You need to wrap it in the HTML tag to show the actual picture.
2. WooCommerce Product with Price:
On Sale Now: %TITLE% – $%CF-_price% – %URL%
Blogger:
Custom Taxonomy Usage Example:
Related FAQ
Question: How and where can I change the default text that posted to my networks “New post has been published on …”?
Answer: You can change the default text in the plugin settings for each network.
You can also adjust this text for each post individually.
Please see here for more info about formatting tags: www.nextscripts.com/snap-features/message-formatting-tags
SNAP Features
Accounts
Settings
Powerful Filters
Set what posts go to each network based on categories, tags, type, format and many more criteria.
Limit Autoposting Speed
Custom URLs for AutoPosts
Autopost New Blogposts
Quick Post
"Spin" message post templates
Automatically change/alter the words or sentences in your social media posts
Emoji Support
Export/Import Plugin settings
Format your posts
Hashtags
Additional URL Parameters
URL Shorteners
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