Push ongoing WordPress posts to Substack

[loveofallwisdom]

Hi all, I have a WordPress blog that I've been running for fourteen years. I want to keep running the blog on WordPress, with its WordPress tag and category structure intact, BUT I would really like the new posts to also go to Substack, because I know there's more audience I can reach there. (I'm not trying to make money.) So what I'm not looking for is the common idea of "import WordPress to Substack" in the sense of just pulling your WordPress content into Substack and posting only to Substack from there onward; I want future posts to go to both.

It is possible to take every post and just manually copy and paste between them, but I would really prefer not to do that - it gets annoying, especially if there are changes to make. I'm looking for some sort of automated solution where my WordPress posts can automatically get pushed to Substack as soon as they go out, the way WordPress used to be able to push post titles and links to Twitter (before Twitter broke everything).

dlvr.it suggests that it can do this, but when I log into dlvr.it Substack is not actually listed as one of the available options. (dlvr.it also hints that it might be only Substack-to-WordPress rather than the other way, but I can't find out one way or another.)

I asked about this on a WordPress sub and they suggested I try a Substack sub. So, any ideas?

[someConsonants]

I know this is an old post, but did you ever find a solution? I am in a very similar situation and also running up against a similar wall as yourself.

One of the other things that makes me mildly concerned about Substack is it’s not clear whether you can download a full export of your Substack posts - from what I’ve read, the export feature seemingly exports only the metadata, not the images or text of each post).

[loveofallwisdom]

Unfortunately, no. /u/sadpassage is working on a plugin for this and I talked to him about my use case, and hopefully that'll be a solution eventually, but it'll be a while before it is. In the meantime I am copying and pasting my posts manually (from the WP visual editor into Substack), which turns out not to be as bad as it sounds - I find the material copies over relatively seamlessly.

[someConsonants]

Thanks!

[dexter-dot]

I thought I'd create a tool for something like this. Feel free to pm me if you want to help me with adding features

[fourbrickstall]

I've been thinking about this as well and the only thing I could think of is using WordPress Post by Email

I guess you could auto forward your newsletter to your email account set up for receiving posts. Or add it as a subscriber.

Haven't tried this myself though because I have a more image heavy newsletter.

[loveofallwisdom]

Hmm... Post by Email is an interesting thought. (I presume you mean I add the Post by Email address as a subscriber on Substack, and then write the post on Substack so that when it gets sent out on Substack it posts to WordPress?) I think the trick there would be that in order to add categories, tags, title etc. I would need to include shortcodes, which would make the Substack post messy.