Getting Started With SteemPress
SteemPress is a WordPress plugin by @howo and @fredrikaa that makes it easy to post to WordPress and Steem simultaneously. Just publish your post to WordPress as usual, and it automatically gets added to Steem too.
While the authors are working on getting it added to the WordPress Plugin Directory, you'll have to install it manually for now. Not to fear, it's actually pretty easy!
Install
- Download the plugin from the Github page. You'll want to click the green "Clone or download" button, then hit "Download ZIP". Save this file wherever you like.
- Navigate to your WordPress admin dashboard and sign in. The URL is usually in the form
yoursite.com/wp-admin. If you're already logged in, you can just visit your site and use the link from the admin bar at the top:
- Click "Plugins" in the left sidebar and then press "Add New".
Then press "Upload Plugin" (button is right where "Add New" used to be), and select the zip file we downloaded in the first step.
Once the upload is complete, you'll see a link that says "Activate plugin". Press that, and you're done. Nice!
Setup
We'll need to give SteemPress some information about our Steem account in order for it to make posts to the Steem blockchain with your account. To set this up, visit the plugin's setting page. Select "Plugins" from the left sidebar again, then scroll down til you find SteemPress and follow the "Settings" link.
Now you'll see three fields: Steem username, posting key, and default tags. The Steem username is just as it sounds, whatever you use to sign in to Steemit and other Steem services (no "@" symbol). Your posting key can be found in your wallet on Steemit. Click your avatar photo, then select wallet, and go to the permissions tab:
The first line will be for your posting key. Press the button on the right side that says "Show Private Key", then copy the string of text into the appropriate field of the SteemPress settings. Don't worry, this will only be stored on the server your site is hosted on.
Finally, choose your tags. These will be automatically added to any posts you make to Steem using SteemPress. When you're finished, hit the blue "Save all changes" button.
Usage
Ok, we're ready to make a post to WordPress and Steem, at the same time! This is actually the really easy part. Just publish your post on WordPress, and it'll automatically show up on Steem too.
That worked like a charm. Yay!
Wrapping Up
Finally, there are a few things to note about the plugin's functionality at the moment:
- Any post that you make to WordPress will be mirrored to Steem. Since there's no way to delete a post from Steem, be sure before you hit the publish button
- SteemPress will automatically self upvote your posts
- There's no way to repost your old WordPress blogs to Steem
Hope this was helpful! Please drop any questions into the comments. The SteemPress team would love your help with testing and building the plugin. See their introduction post for details.
This is great, I think this can literally begin a new chapter in steemit adoption!
Yea, nice idea.
im trying to do this on wordpress, but its not giving me a settings option
Hmmm, try selecting Setting in your left sidebar, then look for a SteemPress option below that in the list.
got it, was on the wrong wordpress link, thank you!
Glad you figured it out!
So is that correct currently there is no way from WordPress to disable on a post level? "Any post you make to WordPress will be mirrored to Steem." Do we still have the issue of even if you select not to publish on Steem, it did it anyway?
That is correct, for now. Per post controls including tagging are planned for v1, which is in development.
Activating and deactivating the plugin as needed is clunky, but could be done.
Ok. This will be awesome to have in v1. Thank you.
V1 is available now from the WP plugin directory. See the announcement here.
@scottyeager - Tremendous job done by you! I will check the plugin on our websites.
Question: Whenever I copy-paste my content from my wordpress blog to Steemit, Cheetah bot sends me a notification. And that affects reputation.
Do you think Cheetah bot will be ok to have content clone coming through the plugin?
Thanks! The developers deserve most of the credit—I just wrote the guide :)
There have been questions about Cheetah by others (my WordPress site doesn't actually show blog posts, so I haven't had this problem). You might be able to find some answers in the comments of the original post.
One suggestion was including links back and forth between the two copies, to prove it's not plagiarism. It actually looks like you can be added to a Cheetah Bot white list if you're doing that. See this post.
Thank you so much @scottyeager for this blog and instructional on how to install the Steempress plugin on wordpress. I did it successfully and it sync'd on the first try. I am very impressed and excited, I gave you a shout out credit/ tag in my post. Thanks again
https://steemit.com/asher/@asherunderwood/steempressplugintesting123asherunderwoodcom-gn3p9zm806
Post on my website: https://asherunderwood.com/steempress/
Happy to help! Thanks for the mention!
I read the announcement post and in time there will be a way to publish old posts on Steemit. I downloaded using your guide so thank you!
Yes, many cool features are planned for future versions! Glad to hear I could help you get started with SteemPress.
This is a great idea! I have a WP site and know enough to make posts. I will try this and see if this old dude can figure it out. :) About the old posts, what if I went back and just reset the publication date and time? It publishes on WP as a new post, at least as far as I can tell. @scottyeager Peace
This initiative is going to take steem to a different level. This will not only create a pathway for wordpress users but this will also provide an idea for other platform users to start adopting Steemit.
Same bug as other users. Error message "cannot connect to steem server".
cURL is installed. Newest version of wordpress.
Thanks for the report. It seems that the outbound connections are being blocked by some hosts (could also be WordPress config). The devs have a fix coming for this in the next version.
So many use cases popping up on top of the Steemit blockchain! This is soooo exciting! I've entered a new world that's changing my life as a music creator - finally being able to monetize my music. I can't say how grateful I am for this!
Yep, the ecosystem effect here is really impressive. Especially with Utopian rewarding folks for building projects like this, there's so much potential!
It's awesome! I can't wrap my head around Utopian yet... I guess it's more for programmers. But it's fantastic that it provides this opportunity!
Utopian is a little confusing at first, and it is targeted as developers and others who contribute to open source projects.
The basic idea is that users submit contributions to Utopian documenting what they've done for open source. They have a team of moderators who approve submissions. Once a submission is approved, it gets upvoted some amount by the Utopian account, which has a large amount of Steem Power, and other users who support the project.