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Q Auto Linkedin How to use?

Written by Trung Dam | 23 December 2010

You want to introduce your contents like the articles, the products and more but tired of going to Linkedin to update every single article.

And here what you need for help: Q Auto Linkedin version 1.5.0 - our plugin for Joomla 1.5 is now released! (Purchase Q Auto Linkedin product here) This plugin allows you automatically post new articles to your Linkedin.

As a admin, you don't need go to Linkedin to update that new articles, all thing you need to do is just create articles on your site then as you decided it will be shown on Linkedin. Advertising products become so easy with help of the plugin.

Q Auto Linkedin how to use:

When you installed this plugin successfully, please go to configuration to function it (see images below).

Image 1: Q Auto Linkedin parameters in control panel

Click to "Create linkedin API Uses for plugin" link. Please enter your Linkedin password to accept the application permission, when you logged in successfully you will see the image like this:

Image 2: Q Auto Linkedin information when logged in

Now please copy and paste these information to counterpart textbox in your plugin control panel in Image 1: Q Auto Linkedin parameters in control panel

In Image 1: Q Auto Linkedin parameters in control panel, please notice at note "Allow edited articles" ("No" for default), and choose "Yes" to allow the edited articles can be posted to your Linkedin.

And now if you go to create a new article, you will see the Q Auto Linkedin option like this image (please notice at the red mark):

Image 3: Q Auto Linkedin options when create a new article

To have a description for the article (see Image 5: Q Auto Linkedin Demo) in Linkedin, you must enter the description text into the "Metadata Information" in Parameter area like this:

Image 4: Q Auto Linkedin Metadata Information

After you completed all the instructions above (Remember to tick on the "Post to Linkedin" option and You can add a short text in "Aticle Message" textbox), please click "Apply" or "Save". Now you can go to your Linkedin to see, it will be like that:

Image 5: Q Auto Linkedin Demo