Adding social media accounts

A social media account (“account” in short) in Kentico represents one of the following:

• Facebook page
• Twitter channel (also referred to as user)
• LinkedIn company profile

Before you add an account, Connect Kentico to the social media by means of an app.

You add accounts and assign them to apps to enable posting to the accounts.

Adding a Facebook page

Adding a Twitter channel

1. Open the Twitter application and switch to Channels.

2. Click New channel.

3. Type a Display name that will appear in the list of channels.

4. Select a Twitter app.

   • If you haven’t created an app yet, see Connecting Kentico to social media.

5. Fill in your channel’s security details – Access token and Access token secret.

   • You can find these on the API Keys page when editing your app on Twitter.
     

6. Click Save.

The system saves the channel and shows it in the list of existing accounts connected to Kentico.

Adding a LinkedIn company profile

Required permissions for adding social media accounts

To add social media accounts to Kentico, an administrator must grant you with permissions for the Social media module. You need either Modify or Modify accounts.