WordPress is powerful for running your podcast website and it can be the base for automating your podcasting workflow. Here are 13 WordPress plugins to help!

The premise of “automation” (versus automatic actions)

Many tools can do things automatically. But all of the following tools are focused on automation, that is, automatically doing many things for you and not only a single task.

Automation may have a learning curve, but the ultimate result will make up for it!

Jetpack Publicize (https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/) or Social Auto Poster (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/socialautoposter)

Publishing your podcast post isn't the end of your podcasting workflow. It's also critical to share that post onto your own social-network accounts and perhaps other social areas.

Jetpack (https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/) offers a free Publicize module, or you can get a lot more control with the paid plugin Social Auto Poster (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/socialautoposter). Both plugins allow you to link social accounts, such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and more (even Buffer (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/getbuffer)), and then your post will be shared out immediately on publish. Social Auto Poster (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/socialautoposter) even lets you customize how your messages appear before they're sent, or schedule when the messages will go out.

Revive Old Post (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-old-post/) / Revive Old Post Pro (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/reviveoldpostpro) or Tweet Wheel (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-wheel/) / Tweet Wheel Pro (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/tweetwheel)

Like Social Jukebox (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/socialjukebox) and Edgar (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/edgar), Revive Old Post (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-old-post/) and Tweet Wheel (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-wheel/) will automatically reshare your content from your archive. But this is entirely powered and managed from your WordPress website! It can run on your archive as well as automatically on new content.

The Pro versions (Revive Old Post Pro (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/reviveoldpostpro) and Tweet Wheel Pro (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/tweetwheel)) unlock extra features, like custom share messages, sharing with images, more accounts, and much more.

Browser Shots (https://wordpress.org/plugins/browser-shots/)

This is my favorite plugin I discovered in my research for this episode. When discussing content from other sites, it's often nice to include an image to represent that site. You could be commenting on a general website or a specific page. Instead of manually messing with browser plugins, PC apps, or other tools to capture, convert, upload, and include the screenshot of the website, Browser Shots will do that all for you and you only have to enter a simple shortcode in your page or post!

WordPress to Buffer (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-buffer/) / WordPress to Buffer Pro (https://www.wpzinc.com/plugins/wordpress-to-buffer-pro/)

I talked about Buffer (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/getbuffer) in my episode about Internet-based automation tools for podcasting (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/24-internet-based-automation-tools-for-podcasting-tap297/). Buffer (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/getbuffer) allows for easily spreading multiple posts across a schedule as well as crossposting to other networks.

This plugin can also be used instead of Jetpack Publicize or Social Auto Poster (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/socialautoposter) because you can post immediately through Buffer (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/getbuffer).

Simple Podcast Press (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/simplepodcastpress)

I usually talk about Simple Podcast Press (https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/simplepodcastpress) as a better podcast player for your WordPress website. It also has great automation built in!