[![How to Automatically Publish WordPress Posts to LinkedIn 1](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/posts-to-linkedin-upscaled.webp)](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/posts-to-linkedin-upscaled-1030x1030.webp) # How to Automatically Publish WordPress Posts to LinkedIn Aug 31, 2025/by [Vadim Pavlovich](https://coma.lv/en/author/djcoma/) LinkedIn is a social network for professionals and a very strong platform that can bring traffic to your site. In this post we will look at how to automatically publish your WordPress posts to [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/). **Important:** automatic publishing of WordPress posts to LinkedIn is possible **only to a LinkedIn Page** (a company or brand page). This is a LinkedIn limitation: its API does not allow third-party services to publish content to a personal profile. If you only have a personal profile, first create a LinkedIn Page for your site or company. #### Method One: Automatically Publish Posts to LinkedIn with IFTTT IFTTT stands for If This Then That. It is a service that lets you connect online accounts and make them work for you. First you need to create an IFTTT account by signing up on their [website](https://ifttt.com/). After registration you can create your first **applet**. Just click the Create button in the top menu. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-071718.jpg) An applet consists of two parts. The first part is called **This** — this is the condition that triggers an action. Click the **Add** button, type WordPress in the search and choose it as the channel. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-071904-845x575.jpg) ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-072100.jpg) Next IFTTT will offer you to choose a trigger. You can, for example, choose **Any new post** — then the applet will run every time a new post is published. Or use **New post with tag or category** if you want publishing to happen only for certain tags or categories. Now we will use Any new post as our trigger. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-072825.jpg) After that the service will ask you to connect your site. Before connecting the site, make sure you have an **Application Password**. You can create it in the WordPress admin area under *Users → Your Profile* in the *Application Passwords* block. Give it a name, for example *IFTTT*, click *Add Application Password* and copy the generated code. This is the password you will use for the integration, not your usual administrator password. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-074224.jpg) Connect your site by specifying its address, the username (your WordPress login) and the application password. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-073256.jpg) If you see the error *“There was an error connecting WordPress. Try again”* when trying to connect, most likely access to xmlrpc.php on your site is blocked. You can check this by opening https://yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php in your browser. If you see the message **403 Forbidden**, access is denied by the server or a security plugin. In this situation there are two ways out: - Allow access to XML-RPC (in your hosting settings or in security plugins such as Wordfence or iThemes Security). - Or use an alternative method via RSS. *Every WordPress site already has RSS and it requires no configuration. To use RSS, when creating the applet choose **RSS****→ New feed item** / **New feed item matches.** instead of the WordPress channel. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-081246.jpg) ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-081453.jpg) Specify the address of your feed, for example https://yoursite.com/feed/. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-081946.jpg) After a successful connection (via the WordPress channel or RSS), we choose the second part — **That**. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-083314.jpg) Find and choose LinkedIn as the channel. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-083452.jpg) After that IFTTT will offer you to choose the **action** to be performed when the trigger fires: - **Share an update** — share a text update on LinkedIn. - **Share a link** — share a link to your post. - **Share an update with image** — share an update with an image. - **Share an update with video** — share an update with a video. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-083928.jpg) Choose a suitable option. We chose **Share an update with image**. The site will ask you to connect to your LinkedIn account; enter your details and confirm access by clicking the Allow button. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-084248.jpg) After a successful connection, at the **Complete action fields** step you can check and, if necessary, adjust the selected action. Make sure the title, link and image were pulled in correctly, and make changes if needed. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-090512.jpg) When everything is ready, click **Create action**, then **Continue**, and activate the applet. Done — now new posts from WordPress will be published automatically to your LinkedIn page. You can always see your applet by going to the **My Applets** page. You can also edit, stop or pause the applet at any time. #### Method Two: Automatically Publish WordPress Posts to LinkedIn Using a Plugin You can also automatically share WordPress posts to LinkedIn using dedicated plugins. In this guide we will use [**WP LinkedIn Auto Publish**](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-linkedin-auto-publish/), one of the popular plugins with LinkedIn API support. After installing and activating the plugin, a settings item will appear in the WordPress menu. Here you will see the **Connect with LinkedIn** button. When clicked, it opens the LinkedIn authorization window, where you need to log in to your account and allow the plugin access. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-100144.jpg) After successful authorization, the plugin will show a list of the LinkedIn Pages you manage as well as your personal profile. **Choose the page** to which you want to automatically publish posts — auto-publishing to a personal profile is not officially supported. After choosing the page, you can configure which elements of the post will be used (title, link, image) and enable or disable auto-publishing for each specific post with a new meta field on the editor screen. ![WordPress](https://coma.lv/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ekranuznemums-2025-08-31-101319.jpg) Now new WordPress posts will be published automatically to the selected LinkedIn Page. You will also find a new meta field on your post editor screen. With it you can disable or change the sharing settings for each post. --- *Our specialization is WordPress website development and maintenance. Contact us for a free consultation — [vadim@coma.lv](mailto:vadim@coma.lv), [+371 29394520](tel:+37129394520)* ---