Mailchimp Retiring Social WordPress Plugin

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Sadly, I recently saw this news about a WordPress plugin that I’ve come to rely on:

2016-01-20_2002I currently use Social to accomplish two things. One, to automatically post a link to any new blog posts on Twitter and the Facebook page for this blog. That’s simple enough to replace, and there are a ton of options to do that.

It’s the second thing I accomplish with Social that may be harder to replace, pulling in comments from Twitter and Facebook to the comments here on the blog. I don’t know that there’s another plugin that has that functionality.

Does anyone out there have any ideas? If not, we may see that feature go away. Oh well. It was nice while we had it.

 

 

 

 

 

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