Title: Publicize custom content Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Publicize custom content * [nsoltan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsoltan/) * (@nsoltan) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/) * Hi! I’m attempting to get Publicize to post a message containing post title + link + hashtags, that is shorter for twitter (title+link) and longer for facebook( gives a lot more space for a message). * I found some older posts suggesting [https://wordpress.org/plugins/publicize-with-hashtags/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/publicize-with-hashtags/) as well as a custom function on [https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/261](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/261) * However, I’ve gotten stuck on trying to get the plugin and/or function to hook when a post is being submitted via XMLRPC. It just doesn’t :/ * Do you have any suggestions on how I could proceed? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903800) * The plugin you mentioned gets triggered with the `save_post` hook. That action is triggered whenever a post or page is created or updated, which could be from an import, post/page edit form, xmlrpc, or post by email. * If it doesn’t work in your case, I would suggest trying with a different XML- RPC client, to make sure the problem isn’t linked to your current client. * Let me know how it goes. * Thread Starter [nsoltan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsoltan/) * (@nsoltan) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903806) * Hi Jeremy! Do you mean the plugin you wrote? Currently neither that or the linked plugin are working while using the WordPress mobile app or importing posts through the python wp-library 🙁 * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903836) * The function might not work when importing posts since imports work a bit differently, and Publicize was built to ignore imported posts. * It should however work with the mobile apps. When using the code snippet I published, could you try to save a new post as a draft in the app, and then publish it? Does it help? * Thread Starter [nsoltan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsoltan/) * (@nsoltan) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903858) * Hi again! Using the online interface I see the # when creating a post. Publicize is publishing the post with the normal template just fine when posting via python and mobile, but no #. * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903874) * Could you paste the snippet you used here, so I can run some tests on my end? * Thanks! * Thread Starter [nsoltan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsoltan/) * (@nsoltan) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903893) * ``` function jeherve_publicize_hashtags() { $post = get_post(); if ( ! empty( $post ) ) { // Grab the tags of the post $post_tags = get_the_tags( $post->ID ); // Append tags to custom message if ( ! empty( $post_tags ) ) { // Create list of tags with hashtags in front of them $hash_tags = ''; foreach( $post_tags as $tag ) { $hash_tags .= ' #' . $tag->name; } // Create our custom message $custom_message = get_the_title() . ' ' . $hash_tags; update_post_meta( $post->ID, '_wpas_mess', $custom_message ); } } } // Save that message function jeherve_cust_pub_message_save() { add_action( 'save_post', 'jeherve_publicize_hashtags' ); } add_action( 'publish_post', 'jeherve_cust_pub_message_save' ); ``` * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903899) * Could you let me know where you pasted that snippet? In a functionality plugin like [this one](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/)? * Thread Starter [nsoltan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsoltan/) * (@nsoltan) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903901) * Hi again! * I used “Functionality”-plugin, I switched to the one you suggested, still the same (lack-of) effect 🙁 * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903903) * Thanks for sticking with me on this. I looked into this a bit more, and I’m afraid that’s an issue with how Jetpack synchronizes its data, as outlined here: [https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/3267](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/3267) * We’ll work on getting this fixed as it sometimes causes other issues when trying to customize Related Posts, but until that issue is closed I’m afraid I won’t have a way to work around this problem. * Sorry not to be of more help. * Thread Starter [nsoltan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsoltan/) * (@nsoltan) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-custom-content/#post-6903913) * Thank you for trying! 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