Grow for WordPress vs XPoster – Share to Bluesky and Mastodon

Ready to grow your audience, increase engagement, and supercharge your traffic for free? Grow saves independent content creators like you time and money by helping your content stand out to the people who matter most: your readers. PRICE New to Grow? Creating an account is 100% FREE. No hidden costs, subscriptions, or charges. All you have to do is sign up today to start bringing your website to the next level. WHY CHOOSE GROW? Grow is a smarter and more efficient way to grow your audience without the expense and hassle of managing multiple platforms. Streamline your workflow, buy back time, and let Grow take care of email and audience engagement so you can focus on what you do best: crafting killer content. CONNECT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE Build stronger relationships and grow trust and loyalty faster than ever! Features like Spotlight Subscribe and Recommended Content make it easy for readers to find and engage with your content… and keep coming back for more. Spotlight Subscribe: When a user scrolls into view, it darkens the rest of the page, highlighting—or casting a spotlight—on the signup form. In-content calls-to-action encourage readers to sign up for Grow as well. Spotlight Subscribe also provides multiple ways to customize the plugin for your needs. Update images and text, and even use different widgets across different pages using the Category Targeting settings or the Manual Placement option. Recommended Content: Sit back and leave the content curation to Grow! When users log in, they’ll receive personalized recommendations based on things they’ve read, shared, or marked as favorites on your website. Meanwhile, logged-out users receive recommendations based on their browsing content and what other users like them have clicked on. Subscribe: Say goodbye to complicated form building and hello to turbocharged list growth and direct referral traffic from your newsletter with Subscribe. Subscribe allows publishers like you to simultaneously build an email list and encourage readers to sign up for Grow and consent to personalized ads. As a publisher, you get to nurture, connect, and develop growing relationships with your readers all while maximizing your earning potential from digital ads running on your website. ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE Customize your feature setup in the Grow Publisher Portal to crush your engagement goals as readers Favorite and Save your top posts. Enhanced Search: Designed with your readers in mind, Grow’s all-new search experience beautifully displays your most popular, latest and recommended content to maximize engagement. Grow’s all-new search beautifully displays your most popular, latest and recommended content to maximize engagement. Exclusive Content: You’re in the driver’s seat with the power to place full recipes, printables, digital downloads and more behind a login. All these benefits are available in one powerful plugin! FAST, EASY CONFIGURATION Activate Grow quickly and easily! Step #1: Start by installing the Grow plugin. If you’ve already installed Grow, go to Step #2. For instructions on how to install Grow on WordPress, visit our help doc Getting Started with Grow’s WordPress Plugin. Step #2: Once the plugin is installed, navigate to Grow in the WordPress sidebar. Step #3: From there, Connect or Create an Account and follow the steps to add the Grow WordPress plugin to your site. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GROW Getting Started with Grow: A Resource Guide Grow Recommended Content Grow: Introducing Subscribe and the Spotlight Widget Grow’s New and Improved Search Experience Introducing Exclusive Content with Grow 1.5.3 – 2025-04-09 Prevent duplicate script attributes from appearing on Ads Scripts Increase Priority for loading of Ads Scripts Prevent accidental dynamic properties in the Options Class leading to php notices Fix persisting issues with textdomain notice 1.5.2 – 2025-01-08 Fix issue with textdomain debugging notice appearing. 1.5.1 – 2024-12-09 Prevent plugin from being optimized in some third-party site optimization plugins. 1.5.0 – 2024-07-16 Fix issues with blank page appearing when attempting to enable Journey. Fix issues with Redirection plugin when Journey is enabled. 1.4.1 – 2024-06-24 Fix issue with duplicate Journey ad slots with newer versions of Create by Mediavine. 1.4.0 – 2024-06-04 Add Journey ad slot integrations with Create By Mediavine and Trellis. 1.3.0 – 2024-04-18 Add ads.txt troubleshooting for Journey by Mediavine. Update domain for ads.txt. Add CSS class to post articles. 1.2.0 – 2024-03-29 Add support for Journey by Mediavine. 1.1.0 – 2024-03-11 Automatically redirect to Grow login page on activation. 1.0.0 – 2023-10-18 Plugin Released Update plugin assets for parsing Fix type and link for Main Menu and feature link (#83) Add support for validity and connectedness in status api (#82) Update readme and add banner (#81) Pass site path to Grow Auth (#80) fix: WordPress dev container always restarts (#79) Escape the values output in the grow script initializer (#78) fix: feature descriptions URL-escaped (#77) feature: add WP_Mock (#74) feature: add dev container support (#73) fix: non-compliant escaping and file access (#72) move screenshots to correct directory (#71) add screenshots to readme (#70) chore: update readme (#69) feat: Add settings link to Plugins Page and Update Plugin URI feat: Add Support for wp build testing workflow with alternate wp builds feat: Use Custom Lighthouse Orb fix: Update docker image Update docker image Update docker image Update docker image Fix Frontent Test 0.1.7 – 2023-08-11 fix: Adjust Typography on Settings Page fix: Bigger Images for Settings Page 0.1.6 – 2023-07-26 fix: Window Size for site authentication now larger fix: Open Help Doc Links in New Tab 0.1.5 – 2023-07-10 fix: Open Authenticated Link in new tab chore: Add Test for Authenticated View 0.1.4 – 2023-06-26 chore: Remove Author URI 0.1.3 – 2023-06-23 chore: Name changed to Grow for WP 0.1.2 – 2023-06-22 fix: Don’t Stretch Images in Settings page 0.1.1 – 2023-06-20 feat: Add changelog Generation fix: Direct Users to correct Grow Site

Post Updates from WordPress to Bluesky, Mastodon, and X. New in version 4.3: Bluesky support. New in version 4.2: Mastodon support. XPoster is a time-saving tool for keeping your social media accounts up to date with news and posts from your site. XPoster uses customizable status templates for updates sent when updating or editing posts, pages, or custom post types. You can customize your messages for each post, using custom template tags to generate the status update. Free Features Support for Bluesky, Mastodon, and X. Use post tags as hashtags Use alternate URLs in place of post permalinks Support for Google Analytics Support for XMLRPC remote clients Use YOURLS, Bit.ly, jotURL, or Hum as external URL shorteners. Rate limiting: make sure you don’t exceed X.com’s API rate limits. Premium Features in [XPoster Pro](https://xposterpro.com) Authors can set up their own accounts in their profiles Time delayed status updates Scheduled update management Simultaneously post updates to site and author accounts Preview and send status updates for comments Filter updates by taxonomy (categories, tags, or custom taxonomies) Upload images with alt attributes Integrated Card support Support for Player Cards with integrated captions where supported Automatically schedule updates from old posts Want to stay up to date on XPoster? Follow me on Bluesky! or Follow me on Mastodon! Translations Visit the XPoster translation site to see how complete the current translations are. Translating my plug-ins is always appreciated. Work on XPoster translations at the WordPress translation site! You’ll need a WordPress.org account to contribute! Extending XPoster Check out my GitHub repository of plug-in extensions.