Q: I have been testing Publer, and think it's great.
A very clean interface, which is my major gripe with Social Bee - terrible, messy interface! So great work on that front.
I had a few suggestions I wanted to send your way I am hoping you can think about:-
1. With Pinterest, can we please get the option to post the same post to multiple boards at once? With Pinterest, you usually pin one pin to multiple boards, so creating a new pin for each board takes ages. Take a look at Promorepublic - you just select the boards you want your pin to go to, and can choose as many as you want.
2. We need to be able to change the follow-up comment setting for each account we are posting to. I.e., if you have a post going to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, I only need a follow-up comment on Instagram to provide a link for people to follow, but it inevitably gets posted to the other profiles as well.
3. Can we get @mention integration? Promo republic just added this. So that, when creating, for example, a Twitter post, it can pull the @ profiles information from Twitter and give you options?
4. So, the biggest site for publishing to Pinterest is Tailwind. They have a key feature that, so far, I have not found another service provider provide. That is the ability to mix up your posts AND have them scheduled at an optimum time. What I mean by this, is that you can make all your pins for 1, 2, 3 months, whatever, at a time, and then click a button to randomise when those pins go out over the stated time period. What that means is, rather than creating your own schedule, Pinterest will 1. Post your Pins at an optimum time for your boards and audience, and 2. Rather than pinning one pin to all its selected boards at once, it might post it to board 1 on Monday, board 2 two weeks later on a Tuesday, board 3 in a month, and so on. That keeps content you post to Pinterest fresh, rather than spammy, but you can create them all at once and post to the scheduler all at once. Does that make sense?
5. Lastly, I knwo you can have hashtags as a group through shortcodes, but it would be great to get groups of hashtags you have made as a simple button instead.
Thanks!
Ervin_Publer
May 14, 2024A: Hi there,
I'm happy to hear that you like the UI :)
Regarding your questions:
1. Because we rely on Zapier for Pinterest, we cannot do anything about this at the moment. Zapier can only post to one board at a time. Once we get direct API access from Pinterest (our application is still pending), maybe we can do something about this (it can be done).
2. We're gathering feedback on this one and we will eventually make it happen.
Feel free to subscribe for updates and give your upvote here: https://publer.nolt.io/342
Meanwhile, you can try the following workarounds:
- Schedule your posts WITHOUT any follow-up comment and then go to Posts -> Scheduled and SET the follow-up comment on the Instagram post.
- Schedule your posts WITH a follow-up comment for all social networks and then go to Posts -> Scheduled and UNSET the follow-up comment on the Facebook and Twitter.
3. Mentioning is already supported for Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts (very soon for LinkedIn owned Pages). It works just like Facebook, Twitter etc. You simply type @ followed by the account you want to mention.
Keep in mind that mentions are specific for each social network, so if you're posting accross different social networks, you need to click on "customize post for each social network" first. Try the following, create your base post, click on post customization, go to the Twitter version of the post and add the mention. You can do the same for Facebook as well.
4. This seems very complicated (technically wise). Feel free to submit it as a feature request on our feedback page: https://publer.nolt.io
If a lot of people want it, we will take action. As much as we want to satisfy everyone, it's impossible. We get tens of requests every single day :D
5. We want to keep the dashboard as clean as possible and buttons are the biggest enemy. The more buttons, the more complicated it will look. Anything in particular you don't like about the current implementation? You simply type {{ and the shortcodes suggestion will show up where you can pick your saved group of hashtags.
Let me know if I missed anything.
Cheers,
Ervin
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Hey there! Thanks for the super-speedy reply. One of the really great things with Publer is the response from the developers, so credit to you guys.
Thanks for the updates on these questions, and clarifying how to do some things.
In regards to the shortcodes, I think it's just because it's not obvious for a lot of people. I am fine with the current implementation because I am a tech person, but my wife would never remember what the shortcut is, between all the various other programs I get her to use and their ways of working, too! Just an obvious button like the others you have would help there, I think.
The other problem with shortcodes is that there is no way to edit them once they are in a post. This is quite a big deal. For me, for example, I run a Smoothie recipe website. I have a list of hashtags for different smoothie types (by diet, ingredients, type of meal, etc etc). I can have 40 hashtags or more to choose from. With SocialBee, for example, I can click the Hashtag collection button, it then pastes all the hashtags in, and I can delete the ones that aren't relevant. With the current Publer implementation, there is no way to do this. I would have to create a shortcode for every hashtag (which defeats the object of creating a list of hashtags, as you have to remember all the different shortcodes). So to be able to edit what the shortcode put in after use is really key, or a hashtag group implementation like SocialBee, where you can choose/delete/edit hashtags that are inserted on a per-post basis. I hope that makes sense!
I had a couple other suggestions I will add to your feedback page, but just for visibility here:-
1. The "select where to post" list should be able to be grouped by brand. Currently it's grouped by social media platform, but brand seems more useful, as you are more likely to post across one brand's social media profiles at the same time, and it keeps them visually in the same place.
2. Seeing Crello on AppSumo right now, is there any chance to get that as an integration along with Canva?
3. Would there be a way in the future to get a smart posting schedule based on analytics? So Publer would work out when to post something based on best user engagement/visibility times?
4. It would be great to get some options around auto-schedule posting. So rather than it just going to the next time slot automatically, it would be great to be able to select an option which does, say, 1 post per day, or 2 posts per day, or 3, etc. So it would auto-fill the posts your are doing based on the number of posts per day you choose at the time you make the posts.
5. Could we get some feedback on how long posts will take to finish scheduling? I scheduled 30 Instagram posts and I was worried it was not working as the "Schedule" button just kept doing its animation for 10 minutes or so, it was rather nervous as to whether it was going to work!
Thank you!
The feedback on the hashtags / shortcodes makes sense. Hadn't thought of this case before. Feel free to submit it as a feature request on our feedback page so that we can keep track, otherwise it will get forgotten. We receive literally tens of feauture requests every day.
https://publer.nolt.io
Regarding your other questions.
1. You should be able to group social accounts together https://help.publer.io/en/article/how-to-group-social-accounts-iuod17/ for faster selection and even better, you can create a team (soon to be renamed workspace) for every brand that you manage. This way you don't accidentally mix the content between your brands. Some more info: https://blog.publer.io/creating-teams-and-team-collaborations
2. For now we want to focus on the Canva integration. Maybe Crello will follow at a later time. You can subscribe for updates here: https://publer.nolt.io/205
3. We will focus on analytics more by the end of the year (already planned) and smart posting schedule is indeed something we have in mind.
4. Feel free to submit this feature request on our feedback page as well.
5. Scheduling should only take a few seconds, unless there was a spike in traffic / usage. Let me know if the slowness happens again (via chat is better as I only check this page once a day).
Kindest regards,
Ervin