I just tested the Jetpack feature “Publicize”. Publicize lets you broadcast your post to your different social networks. It get published as a link to your post. See the images for examples:

Facebook
Facebook
Twitter
Twitter
Tumblr
Tumblr

The problem with this is that Publicize doesn’t treat each post format differently. The particular blog post was formatted as a “Quote”. I would like it to extract and publish the whole message as a status update on Twitter and Facebook. It would be fantastic if the link could be optional. I know that Publicize promises none of these things, I’m just saying that it would be amazing if eventually it did 😉 .

Your thoughts on this?

4 thoughts on “Jetpack Publicize – Could it regard post format?

  1. With “this” do you refer to WordPress Post formats or do you refer to something within Jetpack?

  2. Found this in publicize.php:318
    do_action( 'publicize_save_meta', $submit_post, $post_id, $service_name, $connection );

    If I understand correctly you should update the Publicize_Base::$POST_MESS meta value according to your preference (or just do the occasional extra work to copy-paste your quote into the textarea field). A reasonable way to do this would be checking if post_content + pos_title char count (when tags are stripped of course) is less than lets say 140-150 and in that case include both.

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