Roundup Posts: share your best WordPress posts and products as one social post

Some of the best social posts aren't about one article. They're lists: the five articles people missed this week, the products that sold best this month, the deals that end on Sunday. Followers like them because they get several good things in one post. They're also the posts nobody has time to put together by hand every week.

A roundup builds that post for you. On the schedule you set, it picks the posts that match your rules, writes one post that lists them and shares it to the channels you chose.

How a roundup works

1. Go to Planners > New Planner > Roundup and add your channels.
2. Filter: choose the post type and, if you like, a category, a tag or some authors. For products, you can skip the ones that are out of stock.
3. Share type: run it every few days, every week, every month or every year.
4. Source: choose how the posts are picked and how many go in.
5. Summary: name the roundup and save it.

Pick posts by what matters to you

• Latest posts: the newest posts of the period, for a weekly digest.
• Most commented: the posts people talked about.
• Most clicked on social media: the posts your followers clicked most, from FS Poster's link click tracking.
• Highest number in a custom field: any number you store for a post, such as a view counter.
• Best-selling, Top-rated and Products on sale: WooCommerce products ranked by your store's own sales, ratings and sale prices.

By default, each roundup counts only what happened since the previous one, so a weekly best-sellers post shows this week's best-sellers. Switch the period to All time for an all-time list. A minimum keeps thin posts out: if a week brings fewer posts than you set, the roundup is skipped instead of shared. You can also keep the same posts from coming back in the next few roundups.

Write the post once, with item templates

You write the post in the composer you already use, for every channel. The Roundup title keyword adds the roundup's name, and Roundup posts adds the list. An item template decides how each post in the list looks, for example a number emoji, the product name, its price and its link. Write a template once and reuse it in every roundup and on every channel.

Each channel also sets its own image and link. A roundup can share the featured image of the first post, or the featured images of all the posts together, which turns a list of products into an Instagram carousel. The link goes to the first post unless you set your own, such as your shop page.

See what every run did

Every roundup keeps a history. It shows when each run happened and which posts it picked. A skipped run shows the reason, such as too few posts for the minimum. Each run also becomes a regular post in the Calendar and in Logs, so you can check how every channel shared it.

Roundup ideas

• A weekly blog digest every Friday with the latest posts of the week.
• Best-sellers of the month, on the last day of every month.
• Weekend deals every Friday morning with the products on sale.
• The month's most clicked posts, a ready-made "most popular" post.
• Your most commented articles of the year, every December.

Roundups are available on the Plus, Developer and Lifetime plans. The Roundups documentation explains every option, and the FS Poster 8.4.0 release post walks through a full example.

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