X to WordPress Auto-Poster

X to WordPress Auto-Poster

> 🚀 One-click Chrome extension to turn any X (Twitter) post into a WordPress blog post — with media, categories, tags, and draft/publish control.

✨ Features

1. – ✅ One-click button under every tweet on X.com
2. – 🖼️ Auto-detect & upload media(images, videos, OG images from links)
3. – 📹 Video support: Properly handles video tweets and embeds them in WordPress
4. – 🔄 Quoted tweet support Extracts content and media from quoted tweets
5. – 🔗 Interactive content: Makes URLs, hashtags, and mentions in tweets clickable in WordPress
6. – 🖼️ Linked images: Tweet images link back to original X.com posts
7. – 🏷️ Assign categories & tags (fetched from your WordPress)
8. – 🏷️ Auto-generated tags from tweet hashtags (#hashtag extraction)
9. – 📝 Choose draft or publish mode per your settings
10. – 🔒 Secure: Uses WordPress Application Passwords (no OAuth, no third parties)
11. – 💾 All data stays on your server — no external APIs
12. – 🛠️ Developer-friendly: Open, clean, minimal codebase

📷 Screenshots

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

• – WordPress 5.6 or newer (with REST API enabled)
• – HTTPS (required for Chrome extension security)
• – A WordPress user with Author role or higher

Step 1: Enable Application Passwords in WordPress

• 1. check if Application Passwords is enabled
• 2. Go to Users → Your User → Application Passwords
• 3. Add new app: `X Chrome Extension`
• 4. Copy the 16-character password (e.g., `abcd efgh ijkl mnop`)

Step 2: Load Extension in Chrome

• 1. Download or clone this repo
• 2. Open Chrome → Extensions (`chrome://extensions`)
• 3. Enable Developer mode
• 4. Click “Load unpacked” and select this folder

Step 3: Configure

• 1. Click the extension icon (puzzle piece → your extension)
• 2. Enter:
  • WordPress URL: `https://yourblog.com`
  • Username: your WP username (not email)
  • Application Password: the one from Step 1
  • (Optional) Default category, tags, post status, and auto-hashtag extraction
• 3. Click Save

Step 4: Use

• – Go to any tweet on X.com
• – Click “📝 Post to WP” below the tweet
• – See it appear in your WordPress as draft or published post

🔐 Security Model

• – Credentials stored in `chrome.storage.sync` (encrypted by Chrome)
• – Communication uses HTTPS + HTTP Basic Auth
• – No data leaves your browser except to your own WordPress site
• – Application Passwords are scoped to REST API only — cannot log in to `/wp-admin`

🛠️ Development

Project Structure

├── manifest.json # Extension metadata

├── content.js # Injects button & handles posting logic

├── popup.html / .js # Settings UI (categories, tags, status)

Build & Reload

• – After editing, reload in `chrome://extensions`
• – Use Developer mode → Reload for instant updates
• Debugging
• – Open DevTools on X.com → Console for errors
• – Extension popup shows error log for API failures

🤝 Contributing

PRs welcome! Please:

Keep code minimal and self-contained

Avoid external dependencies

Respect user privacy (no telemetry)

📜 License

MIT — use freely for personal or commercial projects.

💡 Author

Built for indie creators who value control, privacy, and automation