How can I use the alternate solution (smapsolutions app) for publishing posts on LinkedIn

We are introducing an alternate solution where you can use an already approved app to auto-post your WordPress posts to LinkedIn.

Please note that “This solution is a paid service and the price starts from USD 10 per year”.

The procedure is given below.

Step 1a: Premium Plugin

In the LinkedIn account section in the plugin, please select the approved app option

Please enter other details and save them.

Now click on the authenticate button.

It will display a popup and login to your LinkedIn account.

Step 1b: Free Plugin

Please select the approved app option and click on the connect to xyzscripts account button.

Now it will display a popup to login to xyzscripts or register to xyzscripts.

If you are creating a new account, it will send a confirmation mail to the registered email and click on the confirmation link.

After confirming the email, please save it and click on the “authorize” button.

Step 2: Applicable to both Premium and Free Plugins

Now you can purchase the SMAP Package. The price depends on the number of LinkedIn accounts, API calls per hour per account.

For publishing a simple text message, it will take 1 API call, the Upload image option will take 2  API calls and the attach your blog post option takes 1 API call.

Posting Method	No. of API calls required in LinkedIn
Simple Text Message	1
Attach Link	1
Upload Image	4
Multi Photo Upload	1 + 3 x No.of images
Upload Video	(size/4)*4 +1

After purchasing the package and successful payment it will redirect to LinkedIn authorization flow.

Now click on the Authorize App button.

After authorization is completed, the LinkedIn pages will be listed.

Click the continue button, it will redirect to the edit-account page, where the selected pages are displayed.

Now save the account and it is ready to publish to the connected LinkedIn account.

Error cases on the authorization procedure

1. Click on continue without selecting pages.