obSocialSubmit
Version
1.8.7 (last update on Apr 24, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
40
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
Type
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57699
Date Added
9 October 2010
Editor's Note
- This extension has additional addons listed in an extension specific category.
- This extension requires registration to download.
MULTIPLE INSTANCES/MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS Edition is now available, please check out the product page.
Social Media Marketing is now easier with this automated Joomla extension - designed to be AUTOMATE SOCIAL MARKETING by EFFORTLESS WAY. Just set it up only one time and enjoy automated social publishing.
WHAT THIS AUTO SOCIAL POSTER DOES?
PUBLISH =>
- Joomla Content (built-in, others need to install separately)
- Weblinks, Banners
- K2, FLEXIcontent, ZOO, SOBI2, Resources, Mosets Tree, jSeblod
- VirtueMart, redSHOP
- EventList, redEVENT, RSEvents, JCal Pro, JEvents, Gigcal, SimpleCalendar
- Phoca Gallery, JoomGallery
- Phoca Download, Docman
- ...
=> TO
- Twitter (built-in, others need to install separately)
- Facebook Fan Page
- Facebook Group
- LinkedIn Group
- Hyves.nl
- Identica
- Ping.FM
- MySpace
- ...
obSocialSubmit FEATURES
* Publish Joomla content, 38+ 3rd party extensions data (depends on installed addon) to 10+ social networks (depends on installed addon).
* Handling both frontend and backend content posting.
* Schedule publishing with built-in cronjob feature, no technical requires.
* Work with auto post article extensions, such as: obFullTextRSS, Feed2Post, RSS2Content, Article Generator, Feed Gator...
* Internal Addon architecture (VirtueMart, Jobline, EventList, DocMan, Repository, K2, FLEXIcontent, Yootheme ZOO, ...) provides ability to publish everything from your Joomla site OR even from a RSS Feed source.
* External Addon architecture (Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Ping.fm, Identi.ca, StatusNet, MySpace,...) provides ability to publish to any online Social Network in the world.
* Flexible shorten service with YOURLS, bit.ly, is.gd, ...
* Use your own Social Network API, publishing to social network using your own brand.
* Works with almost popular SEF extensions: standard Joomla SEF, sh404SEF, AceSEF, Artio JoomSEF, SEF Advance.
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I use this extension for my e-commerce site and it was very simple to install. its modular make up makes it easy to control and diagnose any problems. I use virtuemart 2.0.6 and the plugin that was sent was for a lower version but the developer went the extra mile to make sure everything was working 100% even stopping up late to go on my site and get everything working . I defiantly recommend both the extension and the developer. thanks for reading
obSocialSubmit Review
I had a project where I wanted to help the user take advantage of social media even though they were not very computer savvy much less up to snuff on how to use Facebook or Twitter. The website itself was Joomla/K2 based and I needed a way to auto publish K2 items to both Facebook & Twitter. I didn't want the client to have to log in to three different Applications to alert his customers to new inventory items.
Enter obSocialSubmit. Easy to install after download, although the Addons were a bit hard to find since they are at the very bottom of the page for the extension, I did find them. I obtained both the K2 and Facebook Addons and simply followed the directions to create a Facebook App enter the necessary data into the Facebook Addon config and BAM!!!! Worked like a charm. I then followed the directions to setup a Twitter App and within minutes that too was working as intended.
Installation of the extension and addons are straight forward. Configuring them may take novice users a bit of trial and error but the instructions are clear and concise. If they run into trouble, open a ticket. Customer Service responds in a timely manner and conducts themselves in a courteous and professional manner.
I had opened a ticket to inquire as to where the addons where located and had a response very quickly. Even after I had posted that I found them. Thong Tran from the foobla support team provided great customer service when requested and offered additional contact information and was willing to assist with any additional issues over the weekend and holiday!
If you need a way to cut down your social networking workload with the ability to post to other social networking sites I recommend obSocialSubmit. A quick note, It comes standard with the Twitter Addon but additional addons do cost extra, but worth it.
I had a project where I wanted to help the user take advantage of social media even though they were not very computer savvy much less up to snuff on how to use Facebook or Twitter. The website itself was Joomla/K2 based and I needed a way to auto publish K2 items to both Facebook & Twitter. I didn't want the client to have to log in to three different Applications to alert his customers to new inventory items.
Enter obSocialSubmit. Easy to install after download, although the Addons were a bit hard to find since they are at the very bottom of the page for the extension, I did find them. I obtained both the K2 and Facebook Addons and simply followed the directions to create a Facebook App enter the necessary data into the Facebook Addon config and BAM!!!! Worked like a charm. I then followed the directions to setup a Twitter App and within minutes that too was working as intended.
Installation of the extension and addons are straight forward. Configuring them may take novice users a bit of trial and error but the instructions are clear and concise. If they run into trouble, open a ticket. Customer Service responds in a timely manner and conducts themselves in a courteous and professional manner.
I had opened a ticket to inquire as to where the addons where located and had a response very quickly. Even after I had posted that I found them. Thong Tran from the foobla support team provided great customer service when requested and offered additional contact information and was willing to assist with any additional issues over the weekend and holiday!
If you need a way to cut down your social networking workload with the ability to post to other social networking sites I recommend obSocialSubmit. A quick note, It comes standard with the Twitter Addon but additional addons do cost extra, but worth it.
It is amazing component .. professional and very helpful.... Was designed and implemented in a very flexible way , and the support is amazing also... The team there is always on time and answer and help always... Thank you so much :-)
Obsocialsubmit is the perfect system to share any content from your Joomla to any social network.
The sharing is automatic and the extension is very user-friendly.
Moreover, the support is perfect.
Probably, one of the best Joomla extension, a must-have !
The sharing is automatic and the extension is very user-friendly.
Moreover, the support is perfect.
Probably, one of the best Joomla extension, a must-have !
Owner's reply
Thanks for another MUST HAVE review :)
I installed OBSOCIALSUBMIT on my sites on September 2011. On one of these sites it didn't work. I contact their support personnel and they solved the problem. There were a conflict with another old plugin.
I use this plug-in on all of my sites with no problem since September 2011. I recommend it. It is the best social auto submit plug-in I've seen up to now.
I use this plug-in on all of my sites with no problem since September 2011. I recommend it. It is the best social auto submit plug-in I've seen up to now.
Owner's reply
Thanks for being our loyal customer. Conflict with old extension is sometimes happen. But it will be OK after contacting us with a support ticket. Please do not asking support by emailing us.
I have purchased several commercial extensions for our website and usually have favorable opinions to provide, mainly because I thoroughly read reviews before purchasing. Unfortunately, this extension is an exception to that.
Here are the issues that I have experienced:
1) When I initially inquired, I was told that this could post to LinkedIn profiles and groups. The truth is that this extension is unable to post to LinkedIn groups and can only post to personal profiles. I tried contacting support with no response, so I posted an unfavorable review which immediately prompted a response from the product manager, Thong Tran. He sent an email asking to rectify the situation by providing immediate support and "3. We will make LinkedIn Group add-on for you for free (honestly, we normally offer this custom to customer for 140euros for each custom add-on), we will need 4-5 business days to get it done for you." I received this response on 1/4/12 but I still have not received an update and he has ceased responding to emails.
2) The Facebook Page add-on was functioning for a month then just suddenly stopped. I have tried checking everything without any success and filed a ticket about 10 days ago. I received one response asking for a temp admin login so the developer could check it out. I have been waiting for a response for five days and have submitted a request for update on the ticket, but still no luck.
3) The automated upgrade process would not work and kept throwing an error. I set file and directory permissions to 777 in an effort to get the upgrade install to work, but it continued to error. I filed this as part of the ticket 10 days ago.
What is most disappointing, besides the lack of support and follow through, is that this extension cost me $133 just for a standard version. Take my advice, steer clear of Social Submit and Foobla products - if your experience is anything like mine, it isn't worth all the headaches and lost money. Plus, there are many non-commercial extensions that accomplish the same thing beautifully, even if they don't do it all (i.e. - post to Twitter, FB and LinkedIn all at once.)
Here are the issues that I have experienced:
1) When I initially inquired, I was told that this could post to LinkedIn profiles and groups. The truth is that this extension is unable to post to LinkedIn groups and can only post to personal profiles. I tried contacting support with no response, so I posted an unfavorable review which immediately prompted a response from the product manager, Thong Tran. He sent an email asking to rectify the situation by providing immediate support and "3. We will make LinkedIn Group add-on for you for free (honestly, we normally offer this custom to customer for 140euros for each custom add-on), we will need 4-5 business days to get it done for you." I received this response on 1/4/12 but I still have not received an update and he has ceased responding to emails.
2) The Facebook Page add-on was functioning for a month then just suddenly stopped. I have tried checking everything without any success and filed a ticket about 10 days ago. I received one response asking for a temp admin login so the developer could check it out. I have been waiting for a response for five days and have submitted a request for update on the ticket, but still no luck.
3) The automated upgrade process would not work and kept throwing an error. I set file and directory permissions to 777 in an effort to get the upgrade install to work, but it continued to error. I filed this as part of the ticket 10 days ago.
What is most disappointing, besides the lack of support and follow through, is that this extension cost me $133 just for a standard version. Take my advice, steer clear of Social Submit and Foobla products - if your experience is anything like mine, it isn't worth all the headaches and lost money. Plus, there are many non-commercial extensions that accomplish the same thing beautifully, even if they don't do it all (i.e. - post to Twitter, FB and LinkedIn all at once.)
I have tried several plugins to post Joomla articles directly to Facebook PAGES and this one is the first one that worked correctly. Within 2 minutes of downloading I was perfectly up and running---very easy installation.
When purchasing the product, I made a mistake and purchased the WRONG ONE! I thought that money was gone, but within minutes of submitting a support ticket, I had been refunded. It was my mistake and the OB Team didn't have to refund the money, but they did.
I spend thousands of dollars each year on Joomla plugins for my clients and it is very rare that I purchase a system that is so easy to use; a system that is backed by fantastic service. I highly recommend OBSocial Submit!
Mark Ariail
Owner/Master Designer
WebMark Design, LLC
When purchasing the product, I made a mistake and purchased the WRONG ONE! I thought that money was gone, but within minutes of submitting a support ticket, I had been refunded. It was my mistake and the OB Team didn't have to refund the money, but they did.
I spend thousands of dollars each year on Joomla plugins for my clients and it is very rare that I purchase a system that is so easy to use; a system that is backed by fantastic service. I highly recommend OBSocial Submit!
Mark Ariail
Owner/Master Designer
WebMark Design, LLC
Social Submit accomplished exactly what my social site needed. We are running Jomsocial and wanted our content to also be spread across Facebook and other social networks. ObSocialSubmit did exactly that.
It’s not just one of those plugins that is designed to work only how the developer decide but you can actually customize how you want your posts to look on other social networks! If you want an image, no problem, if you want a custom short URL, no problem, some of your own text, easy, change the order of how this all appears, once again not a problem.
Our Joomla install had many additional plugins that I thought would conflict and cause problems but they didn’t at all!
The only issue we had was immediately resolve and the folks at Foobla just send some new custom code to fix my site. Didn’t cost me a penny! It’s not often you get a plugin and also get custom code with it for nothing.
Real cool plugin, worth the money and it works!
It’s not just one of those plugins that is designed to work only how the developer decide but you can actually customize how you want your posts to look on other social networks! If you want an image, no problem, if you want a custom short URL, no problem, some of your own text, easy, change the order of how this all appears, once again not a problem.
Our Joomla install had many additional plugins that I thought would conflict and cause problems but they didn’t at all!
The only issue we had was immediately resolve and the folks at Foobla just send some new custom code to fix my site. Didn’t cost me a penny! It’s not often you get a plugin and also get custom code with it for nothing.
Real cool plugin, worth the money and it works!
After initially installing my purchased addons I found that some of them did not work correctly and began to worry that I would be stuck with a dud extension.
However after contacting support, Phong was very helpful and timely with his responses (usually less than 24 hours) he updated the plugins several times until we finally got everything functioning correctly. If I had not had the excellent support from Phong then I too would have been extremely frustrated and left a bad review, however Phong addressed all the issues and fixed all bugs in a timely manner and with that level of commitment to the extension I am happy to give it 5 stars.
It now works exactly how I wanted and it will save me hours of manual posting to various social networks.
To the frustrated poster below I found the ticketing system on their website to be a bit flaky, can you re-login and check that your ticket was actually submitted to the support team, as on 2 occasions I wondered why they had not written back and found my ticket had not submitted correctly.
Thanks again to Phong and the team for a great extension!
However after contacting support, Phong was very helpful and timely with his responses (usually less than 24 hours) he updated the plugins several times until we finally got everything functioning correctly. If I had not had the excellent support from Phong then I too would have been extremely frustrated and left a bad review, however Phong addressed all the issues and fixed all bugs in a timely manner and with that level of commitment to the extension I am happy to give it 5 stars.
It now works exactly how I wanted and it will save me hours of manual posting to various social networks.
To the frustrated poster below I found the ticketing system on their website to be a bit flaky, can you re-login and check that your ticket was actually submitted to the support team, as on 2 occasions I wondered why they had not written back and found my ticket had not submitted correctly.
Thanks again to Phong and the team for a great extension!
Everyone managing a website and various social accounts knows that it can be very timeconsuming to keep everything up to date. Using social submit is saving me hours every week. I only have to manage our club website and all our social accounts are automatically updated with content, new image alerts, downloads and events, so that our members can choose how to stay informed about their club.
Ofcourse there are other solutions to do this and even for free (feedburner, ping etc) but it always leaves a footprint/url.
Social Submit allows you to create your own template for posting the content to your accounts and you only get links back your site, not googles or ping etc.
For installing the component just use the joomla installer and then use the component to install additional plugins.
I've had some issues with the component, but the "Foobla Team" helped me solving all of them. Just submit a ticket from your account or even from the admin area of your site (built in ticket system)
Some things that could use some improvement: Documentation (maybe some setup videos) and the update info after installing the component isn't working properly.
I'm running over 20 Joomla sites with lots of paid components and this is one of the better commercial Joomla components, well worth the money!
Ofcourse there are other solutions to do this and even for free (feedburner, ping etc) but it always leaves a footprint/url.
Social Submit allows you to create your own template for posting the content to your accounts and you only get links back your site, not googles or ping etc.
For installing the component just use the joomla installer and then use the component to install additional plugins.
I've had some issues with the component, but the "Foobla Team" helped me solving all of them. Just submit a ticket from your account or even from the admin area of your site (built in ticket system)
Some things that could use some improvement: Documentation (maybe some setup videos) and the update info after installing the component isn't working properly.
I'm running over 20 Joomla sites with lots of paid components and this is one of the better commercial Joomla components, well worth the money!
Although not the cheapest, the product does what is advertised, is flexible and extensible. As a software developer myself, that's Just the way I like to see things done.
Although not all add-ons functioned perfectly at once, all reported problems reported were fixed quickly and without hassle.
Therefore I can recommend this product for anyone who needs to publish internal changes in a website to external social media
Although not all add-ons functioned perfectly at once, all reported problems reported were fixed quickly and without hassle.
Therefore I can recommend this product for anyone who needs to publish internal changes in a website to external social media
Owner's reply
Thanks for your honest review. The killer point of our social publishing Joomla extension is supporting wide-range of 3rd party extensions as well as external social media sites. Since 3rd party extensions & social media sites changes their code, database, API sometimes; some add-ons doesn't work by the time, but just let us know and it will be figured out.
Foobla has done an excellent job with this product and their customer service is impeccable. Their team is quick to respond with any questions I have and are always on the ball with fixing my issue. The obsocialsubmit does everything that was advertised and I highly suggest purchasing anything that has Foobla's name on it.
Owner's reply
Thank you for the review of yours, I'm so happy brand has a position in your mind.
A great component that's one thing but a super great customer service, that's even more important.
What a great customer service.!
I am really happy also with the component even if need to buy the add-on its 100% worth it.
What a great customer service.!
I am really happy also with the component even if need to buy the add-on its 100% worth it.
Owner's reply
Thank you for your review. The support services is always highest priority for foobla guys. For buying addon separately, we don't want to put them all into a package and let our valued customers buy them all while they do need a few only; depends on the need of theirs, they can get what they want at reasonable price.
We work with many clients looking to do more in less time. Social Share helps us deliver that by removing at least one job of sharing articles and events to their various social networks.
Yes you may have to buy an add-on or extension pack, but in comparison to the time cost it is more than worth it!
Support from the foobla team is excellent with most questions/tickets under way or resolved with 24 hours!
Yes you may have to buy an add-on or extension pack, but in comparison to the time cost it is more than worth it!
Support from the foobla team is excellent with most questions/tickets under way or resolved with 24 hours!
Owner's reply
Thanks for the honest review of yours. We do not includes every addons into the package and let you pay for all of that; depends on your needs, you can get what you want at a reasonable price. The most important thing, this auto social publishing Joomla extension saves your previous time in an excellent way. Our support is available if you have any difficulty with the extension or addons.
This is a must-have for any joomla website !
I've had a few problems to set up the addons but the team has been very helpful and reactiv !
A great component, a great team ! Thkx a lot foobla !
I've had a few problems to set up the addons but the team has been very helpful and reactiv !
A great component, a great team ! Thkx a lot foobla !
Owner's reply
Thanks for your review. We're glad to have another happy customer.
I was looking for an easy way to syndicate my postings to multiple social networks and this comprehensive solution did the trick. I purchased the 12month MU pack so that several contributors could have their posts go to different Facebook pages and twitter accounts. Installed and setup without any issues. Developer was super quick on responding to questions and very helpful in guiding me through the setup. I would highly recommend this addon!
Owner's reply
Thanks for your review. obSocialSubmit MI Edition (Multiple Instances) is kinda pro version of this Joomla Social Submit extension, it offers multiple instances for intern addons as well as extern addons, which allows you to post from category A & B to Twitter X account, while category C & D & E can be posted to Twitter Y account. We also care about our valued customer and always try our best on our support services.
This component is great for publishing content to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It works great out of the box and though you have to setup you social network account for it to work. There are very clear instructions on the site, so that's not a problem. It also works with a lot of popular components.
The support is also great, answering all my questions very quickly even on holidays.
I have been using this component for a government site and it works great. It saves a lot of work for social network administrators.
The support is also great, answering all my questions very quickly even on holidays.
I have been using this component for a government site and it works great. It saves a lot of work for social network administrators.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the review of yours. I'm so proud of this Joomla Social Submit extension for serving one more Government site. This social publishing Joomla extension saves people lots of time for doing social administration, you have more time for other important stuff.
I have used this extension on our clients website. Installation is quick and configuring it doesn't take much time. It does exactly what it says. Seamlessly submits content to the social media websites. The best thing is the support. The support is quick and they are very helpful. By mistake we bought a wrong add-on and the support team didn't have any issue to give us the correct add-on for no extra charge.Keep up the excellent work !!
Owner's reply
Thanks for your review. obSocialSubmit offers one-click installation. We put all useful information right inside the extension, and you don't have to open a long stupid User Manual for searching things. For the support, if you submit the ticket in our working time, you will probably get the answer instantly.
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