Title: Chat33 – Social Media Auto Post & Comment to DM Author: Chat33 Published: October 9, 2026 Last modified: October 9, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/chat33/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=3736403) ![](https://ps.w.org/chat33/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3736403) # Chat33 – Social Media Auto Post & Comment to DM By [Chat33](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chat33/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/chat33.0.2.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chat33/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chat33/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chat33/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chat33/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/chat33/) ## Description Links in Instagram captions are not clickable, and Facebook posts with an outbound link often get less reach. So readers see your article and have no easy way to open it. Chat33 fixes that. When you publish an article, the plugin shares it to your connected social accounts with a call to action such as “Comment LINK”. Everyone who comments that keyword automatically receives the article link in their direct messages. You write once, in WordPress, and the rest happens in the background. You need a Chat33 account (https://chat33.io) and an API key. The Chat33 Free plan includes 3 flows and 1 connected account; the Starter plan ($19) has unlimited flows. #### Facebook auto post Every new article is posted to your Facebook Page automatically, with the title, excerpt, link and featured image. Choose the Page per article in the editor, or set defaults once in the plugin settings. #### Instagram auto post Share each article to your Instagram account as soon as it is published. Instagram needs an image, so the article’s featured image is used; an article without a featured image is skipped for Instagram and the editor tells you why. Because Instagram captions cannot hold a clickable link, the post asks readers to comment a keyword and Chat33 sends them the link by DM. #### Social media auto post to LinkedIn, X, Threads and Bluesky The same article can go to LinkedIn, X and Bluesky as well. Threads is rolling out. Pick which connected accounts each article is shared to, or use your defaults. Password- protected posts are never shared. #### Comment to DM For Instagram and Facebook, readers who comment your keyword get the article link in their direct messages. You set the keyword and the message text once, and can change them for any article. Comment to DM works on Instagram and Facebook only. #### Your own text per article By default each post is the article title, the excerpt and the link, shortened to fit each network. Write a “Social caption” in the Chat33 panel to use your own text instead, line breaks included. Posting to X? An optional “Text for X” field shows how much of X’s 280 characters you have used. The link or the “Comment LINK” line is always added for you and never cut. #### Facebook first comment Turn on “Facebook: post the article link as the first comment” and your Page adds the article link as the first comment as soon as the post is live, so the post itself stays free of an outbound link. Chat33 tracks clicks on that link and they show up in the results. Set it once in the plugin settings and change it for any article in the editor. #### Results inside WordPress See what happened without leaving WordPress: a panel in the post editor, a column in the posts list and a dashboard widget show the share status, the number of DMs sent and link clicks for each article. If a share fails, the editor shows the reason and a button to share again. Articles are shared only the first time they are published, in the background, so saving or updating a post never posts it twice and never slows down the editor. ### External services This plugin connects to Chat33 (https://chat33.io), a social media automation service, to publish your articles and send direct messages. When an article is shared it sends the article title, excerpt, permalink and featured image to Chat33. It reads per-article results from Chat33 when you open the editor, the posts list or the dashboard. It also sends the comment-to-DM keyword and message text and a flow name that contains your site host, and it calls Chat33 to validate the API key and to list your connected accounts and comment flows on the settings and editor screens. The featured image is uploaded to Chat33’s file storage, which is hosted on Vercel Blob (Vercel Inc.), through a short-lived presigned upload URL; Vercel privacy policy: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy. A Chat33 account and API key are required. Terms: https://chat33.io/terms — Privacy: https://chat33.io/privacy #### More from Nitrotech [Publitio](https://publit.io/?ref=chat33) — image and video storage, optimization and delivery for WordPress, from the same team as Chat33. See the [Publitio WordPress plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/publitio/). ## Screenshots [⌊The Chat33 panel in the editor: pick the accounts, write your own social caption and a text for X, and set the Facebook first comment and comment-to-DM for this article.⌉⌊The Chat33 panel in the editor: pick the accounts, write your own social caption and a text for X, and set the Facebook first comment and comment-to-DM for this article.⌉[ The Chat33 panel in the editor: pick the accounts, write your own social caption and a text for X, and set the Facebook first comment and comment-to-DM for this article. [⌊The Chat33 column in the Posts list: where each article went, DMs sent and link clicks.⌉⌊The Chat33 column in the Posts list: where each article went, DMs sent and link clicks.⌉[ The Chat33 column in the Posts list: where each article went, DMs sent and link clicks. [⌊After sharing, the editor panel shows the result per platform, DMs, clicks and comments.⌉⌊After sharing, the editor panel shows the result per platform, DMs, clicks and comments.⌉[ After sharing, the editor panel shows the result per platform, DMs, clicks and comments. [⌊Dashboard widget: articles shared, DMs sent and clicks in the last 30 days, top articles by DMs.⌉⌊Dashboard widget: articles shared, DMs sent and clicks in the last 30 days, top articles by DMs.⌉[ Dashboard widget: articles shared, DMs sent and clicks in the last 30 days, top articles by DMs. [⌊Settings: connect with an API key, default accounts, automatic sharing and the comment-to-DM keyword and message.⌉⌊Settings: connect with an API key, default accounts, automatic sharing and the comment-to-DM keyword and message.⌉[ Settings: connect with an API key, default accounts, automatic sharing and the comment- to-DM keyword and message. ## Installation 1. Upload the `chat33` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install the plugin from the Plugins screen in WordPress. 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen. 3. Create a free account at https://chat33.io and connect your Facebook, Instagram or other accounts there. 4. In Chat33, create an API key. In WordPress, open the Chat33 settings page and paste the key. 5. Choose your default accounts, keyword and message, then publish an article. It is shared in the background. ## FAQ ### Is the plugin free? The plugin is free. It needs a Chat33 account: the Free plan includes 3 flows and 1 connected account, and the Starter plan ($19) has unlimited flows. ### Does it work with scheduled posts? Yes. The article is shared when it is actually published, which for a scheduled post is at the scheduled time. ### Why was Instagram skipped? Instagram requires an image and the plugin uses the article’s featured image. Set a featured image on the article and use the share again button in the editor. ### Which platforms are supported? Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Bluesky. Threads is rolling out. Comment to DM works on Instagram and Facebook only. ### Can the link go in the first comment on Facebook? Yes. Turn on “Facebook: post the article link as the first comment” in Settings Chat33 (or in the Chat33 panel of an article). The Page posts “Read the full article:” and the link as the first comment once the post is live. It works with or without comment to DM, and clicks are tracked. ### How long are the posts? Can I write a different text per network? Each network gets its own post that fits its limit: X 280 (a link counts as 23), Bluesky 300, Threads 500, Instagram 2,200, LinkedIn 3,000. If the text is too long, the excerpt is shortened first, then the title; the link and the “Comment LINK” line are never cut. Write a “Social caption” in the Chat33 panel to replace the title and excerpt on every network, and an optional “Text for X” for X only. ### Does the keyword need to be exact? No. The keyword matches anywhere in the comment, so pick a distinct word. For example,“ LINK” also matches a comment that contains “linkedin”. ### I deleted the post in Chat33 — why did the DMs stop? The article’s Instagram or Facebook post is linked to the flow through the Chat33 post. Deleting that post in Chat33 unlinks the article, so comments no longer trigger the DM. ### Sharing stays “Queued” WordPress runs background tasks when the site receives page visits. If your host disables WP-Cron, open the post editor, which finishes the share, or set up a server cron job that calls wp-cron.php. ### Are updates shared again? No. An article is shared only on its first publish. Use the share again button in the editor if you want to repeat it. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Chat33 – Social Media Auto Post & Comment to DM” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Chat33 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chat33/) [Translate “Chat33 – Social Media Auto Post & Comment to DM” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/chat33) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chat33/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/chat33/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/chat33/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/chat33/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.2.0 * New: “Social caption” per article, your own text instead of the title and excerpt, line breaks kept. * New: optional “Text for X” with a 280-character counter. * Fix: an article is not shared again after the site address changes (www and non- www). * Fix: keyword and DM message limits count emoji the way Chat33 does. * Fix: “LinkedIn” spelling on the settings page. #### 0.1.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **0.2.0** * Last updated **9 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [auto post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/auto-post/)[facebook](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/) [Instagram](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/instagram/)[social media](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-media/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chat33/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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