On this site, publishing one article automatically does two things: the post appears in “What’s New” on the front page, and it gets posted to our Facebook Page. Today we published how that works as a methods document, the “AutoPost Guide”, on GitHub.
Where PhotoStrip and VideoLoop published code, this one publishes a way of doing things: WordPress’s standard RSS feed as the contact point, plus an external RSS-to-SNS relay service. Simple — except for the things only real operation taught us:
- The moment you enable it, the feed’s newest article gets posted once (duplicating it if you had already shared it by hand).
- The “publisher” attribution is visible to Page admins only — visitors see a normal post.
- Whether a post really went out can be confirmed from your own server’s access log alone.
- With cache layers in front, publish-to-post delay can reach a few tens of minutes.
The guide covers the setup steps (as of August 2026) together with those operation-taught details, in both English and Japanese. It is the record of one setup that worked as of August 2026 — no guarantees, MIT licensed. We hope it helps communities, schools and companies that share their activities through a website and social media.
▶ GitHub: RumiCar-group/RumiCar-AutoPost-Guide
Incidentally — this very article is the first one to travel through that automated pipeline to Facebook.
Postscript (about 10 minutes after publishing): measured on this very article. At 23:23 UTC dlvr.it noticed the feed update and fetched this post; at 23:24 Facebook’s crawler read it with utm_source=dlvr.it attached — which, as the guide explains, is the evidence that the automated post went live. About ten minutes from publish, zero human steps.