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Version 3: Products, Evergreen content, auto-post templates
Announcing Post to Google My Business version 3! This major plugin update adds a lot of new features you’ve all been asking for, and also improves the plugin from a technical & usability standpoint. New features Publish Products! [All premium versions] The number one feature request was the ability to publish Products to your GBP…
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Auto-publish WooCommerce products to Google My Business
Update February 2023: Check out our new plugin: Product Sync for GBP. Sync your WooCommerce products to your Google Business Profile in one click! Note: The article below is outdated. “Real” product creation is now available for all Premium users of the Post to Google My Business plugin. Google has removed the ability to create…
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Using spintax in Google My Business posts
Post to Google My Business (Pro & Business) support spintax to automatically generate unique GMB Posts. Spintax is a way to mark up text to generate one or more unique variations of the original. Basic spintax example Lets say your original post looks like this: At Acme Electronics, we offer all kinds of residential and…
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How To Post to Multiple Google My Business Locations (at once)
Google My Business only allows you to create posts on a per-location basis. Tricky, if you manage multiple business locations and want to share the same message over multiple locations. You can do it manually, but that’s quite a chore. Here’s how you can post to multiple google my business locations at once. Your Google…
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Action: mbp_autopost_created
The mbp_autopost_created action is triggered when a new automatic post has been created by the plugin. It has 2 variables, $gmb_name, containing Google’s internal post ID, and $gmb_url containing a direct URL to the post in the search results. Usage function do_something_with_post($gmb_name, $gmb_url){ //Do something with the $gmb_name and $gmb_url variables here. } add_action(‘mbp_autopost_created’, ‘do_something_with_post’);…
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Filter: mbp_placeholder_variables
The mbp_placeholder_variables filter can be used to alter or add variables to be replaced with their corresponding value in a GMB post. It has two arguments, $variables and $parent_post_id. Samples Add a variable This will replace %custom_variable% with Custom value in the text of your post function add_custom_variable($variables, $parent_post_id){ $variables[‘%custom_variable%’] = ‘Custom value’; return $variables;…
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Filter: mbp_autopost_post_args
The mbp_autopost_post_args filter allows you to alter the post arguments sent to Google My Business when the plugin creates an automatic post. It has 2 parameters, $args containing the post data and $location containing the GMB location ID. function do_something_with_the_post_args($args, $location){ //Alter the post arguments return $args; } add_filter(‘mbp_autopost_post_args’, ‘do_something_with_the_post_args’, 10, 2); Out of the…
