ClickSocial

As someone who runs multiple WordPress websites, I know how time-consuming social media management can be. 

It’s way too easy to find yourself spending hours manually sharing posts across different platforms. Not to mention constantly switching between various dashboards just to keep your social presence active!

That’s exactly why we developed ClickSocial. 

After testing dozens of social media tools and seeing how they fell short for WordPress users, we created a solution that finally bridges the gap between WordPress and social platforms. 

If you’re looking for a social media scheduler that works seamlessly with WordPress, saves you time, and helps grow your online presence, you’re in the right place.

In this review, I’ll show you exactly how ClickSocial stacks up against other social media schedulers and help you decide if it’s the right choice for your WordPress website. I’ll cover everything from its key features to pricing, so you can make an informed decision about whether it’s right for you. 

ClickSocial Review: Why Use It in WordPress?

Imagine having the power of Buffer or Hootsuite, but integrated directly into the WordPress dashboard. Sounds good, right? That’s exactly why I designed ClickSocial. 

It’s a handy tool that lets you sort all your social media scheduling and posting without ever having to leave your WordPress dashboard. You can even share your latest blog posts straight from the block editor. Just write your stuff and hit a button to add it to your schedule – no need for complicated workflows. 

Don’t want to share your post straight away? No worries! You can write your social media posts directly in ClickSocial and then schedule them to go live at the exact date and time you want.

If you’ve got some really good, timeless content on your blog, then ClickSocial can help you get more eyeballs on those articles. Just set up your ‘revival campaigns’ and ClickSocial will automatically promote those evergreen posts across your social media accounts. It’s a clever way to keep your best stuff in the spotlight.

Now, you might be wondering how ClickSocial actually works. Well, it comes in two parts: an online app and a ClickSocial plugin for WordPress. The plugin makes it super easy to connect your WordPress blog or website to your social media accounts.

After making this connection, you can create social media posts and schedule them right from the WordPress dashboard. It couldn’t be easier! 

ClickSocial Review: My Honest Review (And Why I Created It)

Running multiple social media accounts is a huge challenge for many business owners. 

Now, there are loads of social media tools out there that promise to make your life easier. But here’s the thing: most of them don’t play nicely with WordPress. And for us WordPress users, that’s a real problem. 

That’s where ClickSocial comes in. Unlike those generic social media schedulers, we built ClickSocial from the ground up to work smoothly with WordPress. 

But here’s the big question: is ClickSocial the right social media scheduler for your WordPress website? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to explore in this detailed ClickSocial review. I’ll be looking at its features, pricing, and support options – while sharing my thoughts every step of the way. 

1. Easy to Use

ClickSocial is designed with ease of use in mind. In fact, according to the ClickSocial website you should be able to schedule your first post within 5 minutes. 

To start, you can install and activate ClickSocial, just like any other WordPress plugin. As soon as you activate it, you’ll see a user-friendly setup wizard. 

This wizard will guide you through connecting your WordPress blog or website to your ClickSocial account.

Part of this easy process involves getting an API key, which lets your website talk to the ClickSocial online app. 

Don’t have a ClickSocial account yet? No problem! The setup wizard will walk you through creating a free account so you can test it out before committing to a paid plan.

Once you’ve connected ClickSocial to your website, you’re ready to start scheduling your social media posts – and you can do it all without leaving your WordPress dashboard!

My Honest Thoughts/Review: Forget about messing with complicated code or confusing settings. The beauty of ClickSocial is its simplicity. Just follow the setup wizard, and ClickSocial takes care of the rest, making it super easy to share content with your followers.

Trust me, I’ve tested quite a few different social media plugins and tools, and ClickSocial is noticeably easier to use than the others.

2. Supports Multiple Platforms

ClickSocial supports Facebook, Instagram, and X (Twitter) so you can connect all these accounts to your WordPress website. This means you can create your posts and manage all your social media profiles in the same location. Plus, we’re planning to add support for even more social media platforms in the future. 

If you’re managing websites for clients, they can even connect their own accounts for you. They just need to give the ClickSocial app permission to access their Facebook, Instagram, or X/Twitter accounts – nice and straightforward.

After making this connection, you can create a unique social media schedule for each account. This is brilliant because it means you can create a completely tailored social media strategy for every channel. 

My Honest Thoughts/Review: It’s great to see that ClickSocial already supports some of the world’s biggest social media sites. Sure, it might not have every platform covered right now, but they’re already planning to add more platforms in the future – so stay tuned!

3. Integrates with WordPress

Rather than using an external social media scheduling tool, ClickSocial allows you to manage everything directly within your WordPress dashboard.

Immediately, you’ll save time since you don’t need to log into external tools in order to create your social media posts – or even worse, log into lots of different social sites separately. 

My Honest Thoughts/Review: When we were designing ClickSocial, I knew it couldn’t be just another run-of-the-mill social media scheduler. That’s why we built ClickSocial from the ground up to work seamlessly with WordPress, something that was missing in the dozens of social media tools I’ve played around with over the years. 

I created ClickSocial to tackle the real-world, everyday headaches that WordPress website owners like you and me actually face – and I think ClickSocial delivers! 

4. User-Friendly Editor

ClickSocial makes it super easy to create engaging social media posts. Simply type your post straight into the ClickSocial editor.

You can also easily add pictures or videos to make your post more eye-catching.

My Honest Thoughts/Review: With ClickSocial, you don’t have to learn every social media platform’s interface just to create good content. You can see what your post will look like and publish it across Facebook, Instagram, or X / Twitter, directly in the ClickSocial editor – I can imagine this saving our users a TON of time!

5. Built-in Social Media Calendar 

ClickSocial makes it much easier to create a social media strategy and stick to your posting plan, thanks to its built-in calendar. This gives you a clear view of all your upcoming posts.

Having this ‘bird’s eye view’ is brilliant because it lets you quickly spot days where you haven’t got anything scheduled, so you can fill those gaps and keep your social media ticking over nicely. 

It’s also handy for checking whether you’ve got lots of posts crammed into a small amount of time, as that’s hardly ever ideal.

My Honest Thoughts/Review: This is the perfect example of a straightforward feature that’s actually a complete life-saver. ClickSocial’s built-in calendar is a must-have for any WordPress user who wants to streamline their social media management.

6. Effortless Social Media Scheduling

ClickSocial gives you a TON of ways to schedule your social media posts, so you can plan your content like a pro.

To get started, you can pick the exact date and time you want your posts to go live on Instagram, Facebook, or X/Twitter. It’s as easy as clicking on the day and time you want!

Don’t want to manually set the time for each post? ClickSocial also lets you define custom time slots. Typically, these will be the times when your target audience is online and most likely to see your content.

Once you’ve defined these custom time slots, they’ll appear as options every time you schedule a post. Talk about convenient!

You can even define unique time slots for each social media account  – so your Instagram posts go live when Instagram is buzzing, your Facebook updates hit at peak engagement, and so on. 

Not sure when to post something? ClickSocial also lets you save posts as drafts. This is perfect when you’re still tweaking your content, or trying to work out the best time to share it.

My Honest Thoughts/Review: In my opinion, ClickSocial makes effortless social media scheduling a reality. You can properly plan your content, schedule everything in advance, and then forget about it.

No more scrambling at the last minute to get something out. It really takes the pressure off.

7. Quick Share and Schedule

ClickSocial makes scheduling your social media posts incredibly easy. In fact, it has a really handy ‘quick share’ feature that posts your new articles to social media the MOMENT they go live.

Don’t want to promote your new posts immediately? No worries! You can configure ClickSocial so it schedules the social media post for the next available time slot.

Finally, you can share the social post as a draft, which is a good option if you want to manually review it.

No matter how you use this feature, you can create a custom template that ClickSocial will use to generate all these automated social media posts. When designing this template, you can use dynamic variables to automatically pull in things like the post’s title.

Going further, you can create different templates for each social media account. In this way, you can optimize these automated posts for multiple channels. This frees you up to focus on what’s really important: writing engaging content that your audience will love.

My Honest Thoughts/Review: ClickSocial’s quick share feature is a complete game-changer. It lets you share new blog posts across all your social media accounts with ease. No more copying and pasting links everywhere – ClickSocial handles everything for you.

8. Post On Time, Every Time

With ClickSocial, you can be confident that your content will get posted on time, even if your site is unavailable or down for maintenance. That’s because all your social media posts are scheduled and sent out using the online ClickSocial app, which is super reliable. 

My Honest Thoughts/Review: In my opinion, this feature is a must-have. It’s like having a dedicated social media manager working away in the background, ensuring everything runs smoothly – even if your site goes offline.

9. Automating Evergreen Content 

ClickSocial has a clever automatic posting feature that can give your older content a new lease of life by re-sharing it automatically. This is a great way to get more mileage from your blog posts and keep your audience engaged. In particular, these revival campaigns work really well for seasonal promotions that come around each year, and evergreen pieces of content that are always relevant.

To set this up, you need to tell ClickSocial what posts it should add to your ‘revival queue.’  You can filter by publication date, tag, and author so you have complete control over which blog posts ClickSocial re-shares. 

Plus, you can decide which social media sites and accounts these re-shared posts will appear on.

To control exactly how these campaigns will look, you can create smart templates that feature dynamic content like the post title, a short snippet, and a short post link. ClickSocial can even automatically turn the post’s categories into hashtags for you – how handy is that?

Even better, you can create a separate template for each social media account. This means you can really tailor your revival campaigns for each specific platform.

Finally, you get to pick the date and time you want your revival campaigns to run.

And that’s all there is to it! No need to spend ages planning complicated strategies for promoting your older content – ClickSocial automates the whole thing for you!

My Honest Thoughts/Review: ClickSocial’s automation for evergreen content is brilliant. It means you can keep sharing your best stuff, get more views, and bring in new people without having to do everything yourself. In my opinion, this is an absolute must-have feature. 

10. Simple Social Media Collaboration

Managing social media is way easier when you’re working as part of a team. That said, you’ll be happy to learn that ClickSocial makes collaboration a breeze. In the plugin’s settings, you can add other people to help manage your social media posts, and give everyone different levels of access depending on their role.

ClickSocial has two main types of permissions:

• Access permissions: These control what someone can do within the ClickSocial plugin. For example, they might have permission to add new social media accounts or change the permissions of other users. This is great for keeping things organized and secure.
• Permissions for specific accounts: This lets you control what someone can do with a particular social media account. For example, you might let someone create and edit posts for your Facebook page, approve posts that other team members have written, edit another user’s posts, or even change the posting schedule. This is super handy if you manage websites for clients or have team members who are experts in different social media platforms.

ClickSocial also has post approval workflows, so users can review and approve posts before they go live. In this way, you can make sure that everything is just right. Plus, you can leave comments and share feedback directly on specific posts. This easy communication can really help your team improve their social media game.

If you’re running a WordPress agency, this collaboration tool can be a real game-changer, helping you keep your team and your clients totally in sync when it comes to social media.

My Honest Thoughts/Review: At WPBeginner, we’ve got team members all over the world, so I know how important good collaboration and communication tools are. When designing ClickSocial, collaboration was one of my top priorities – and I’m very happy with the results!

11. Notification System 

ClickSocial has a handy notification system so you can easily keep track of when your posts are going out.

ClickSocial will also alert team members when they need to take action, in order to remove a roadblock. This means you’re not constantly chasing people up and things can move along much more smoothly. In this way, ClickSocial does a great job at reducing bottlenecks when you’re working as a team.

My Honest Thoughts/Review: For WordPress users who want to stay in the loop, ClickSocial’s notifications are a massive time-saver. 

12. Committed to Data Security

Data security is a HUGE worry for many website owners and online businesses. Having said that, you’ll be pleased to hear that ClickSocial doesn’t collect any personal information from your social media accounts, apart from what it needs to schedule your posts and perform other essential tasks. It doesn’t collect, store, or share any personal data beyond that, so you can rest easy on that front.

Going further, ClickSocial stores all its data in an industry-standard secure system, following all the data protection rules set out by Meta. 

My Honest Thoughts/Review: Data security is something we take seriously across WPBeginner and all our partner websites, so I knew that ClickSocial had to be on the same page. With that in mind, I’m very happy with the level of privacy and protection that ClickSocial provides.

13. Community and Professional Support

With its user-friendly setup wizard and seamless WordPress integration, ClickSocial is designed with ease of use in mind. However, sometimes you may need a bit of extra help, or have some questions you want answered.

If you prefer to find things out for yourself, then ClickSocial has a help centre with full setup guides, alongside a reference section that really digs into specific topics.

Need a bit of one-on-one help? Then all the ClickSocial plans come with professional email support. Just fill in their easy online form and someone from the ClickSocial team will get back to you as soon as they can.

When you’re filling in the form, it’s a good idea to provide as much detail as possible. This will help the ClickSocial team understand what the problem is. For more on this, you can see our guide on how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it.

ClickSocial Review: Pricing and Plans

Fancy trying ClickSocial for yourself? Well, the good news is you can get a free 14-day trial of all the ClickSocial plans. That means you can have a proper play around without having to commit to buying anything.

If you like what you see during the free trial, then there’s 3 plans to choose from: 

• Pro: For $3.99 a month for each social media account, you can schedule all your X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram posts directly from your WordPress dashboard. You can also post new blog posts directly from the WordPress content editor and set up those clever automated revival campaigns. All in all, this is a great starting point for WordPress bloggers, small business websites, and entrepreneurs.
• Business: Coming in at $7.99 a month for each social media account, this plan adds some powerful teamwork features. You can assign accounts to different team members, get notifications, and use ClickSocial’s review and approval processes. With that in mind, this is a great option if you’re working as part of a team.
• Agency: Need to manage websites or social media accounts for other businesses? If you run a marketing agency or something similar, this plan charges you $79.99 for every 10 social media accounts you manage using ClickSocial.

ClickSocial Review: Should You Use It (My Honest Opinion)? 

For years, I watched fellow WordPress users struggle with the same problems I faced – spending hours switching between different platforms, manually sharing posts, and fighting hard to grow their social media following. 

I’ve spent countless hours testing various social media schedulers over the years, but none of them quite understood what WordPress users really needed. Most tools felt disconnected from WordPress, adding extra steps instead of simplifying the process.

ClickSocial changes that by bringing social media management right into your WordPress dashboard where it belongs.

To sum up this ClickSocial review, we designed this plugin specifically for WordPress users – and it shows. This is a user-friendly plugin that makes social media management a natural extension of the WordPress workflow, saving you time, and helping you grow your online presence with ease.

I hope this ClickSocial review has helped you decide whether it’s the right social media scheduler for you. You may also want to check out our expert picks of the best marketing automation tools, or see our guide on how to run a social media contest to grow your site.

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