Magento – Automatically Publish New Products to Social Media

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I want to add this functionality to my store, when the store owner add a new product to the store. I want to share this product automatically in social media hubs (Facebook, Instagram, twitter and google+), share it on Facebook like posting it on a facebook page.

I don't know where I should start. Could you give me a hint how to do this?

Edit one: I think it is better to handle the process of auto posting using script files. Suppose I have a controller outside Magento scope that will use Magento SOAP api to get the product then post it to social network. I want a way to pass the product id to this controller when the admin adds the product using get request. I searched inside the code and found two ways to do it.

First way to override saveAction() in Mage_Adminhtml_Catalog_ProductController. And the second way to override _afterSave()in Mage_Catalog_Model_Product which one is better ?

Best Answer

saveAction(): won't catch products added outside of an actual admin creating the product.

_afterSave(): called any time the product is saved. Just be wary of that.

The above information are foundational to deciding which is better for you (and your client's) purposes.

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Magento – How I Can Add Link In Header For Social Media Icon

Here is how I did it.

I was using my custom theme. Go to folder app/design/frontend/vendor_name/theme_name/Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml

        <referenceContainer name="header-wrapper">
            <container name="custom.header" htmlClass="headerSitemenu" htmlTag="div">
                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="social.links" before="-" template="Magento_Theme::social-links.phtml">
                </block>
            </container>
        </referenceContainer>

My custom .phtml file name is social-links.phtml. In this file I have the following code. This file is located at <mage-root>/app/design/frontend/vendor_name/theme_name/Magento_Theme/templates/social-links.phtml

<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2016 Magento. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

// Social Icons Bar
// custom file added by Cameron Dixon

?>
<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('Magento\Cms\Block\Block')->setBlockId('header_social_test')->toHtml();?>

So my custom CMS Block name is

"header_social_test"

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