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Mapaprop Plus customers have the option to publish to Instagram. The feature depends on Connect with Instagram.

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Mapaprop records every post and gives you the link to open it (see See the posting history), but it does not manage it: editing the text, changing the photos or deleting the publication is always done from Instagram or from Facebook.

Once you have connected with Instagram, you can publish properties directly to Instagram. This publishing can be done from 3 screens

Properties screen

In the properties area we will see a button with the Instagram icon, as shown in the following image. It is available in Grid view and List view:

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Property record

In the Property record, it is accessed from the buttons in the quick share bar.

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Publishing panel

Any of the previous options opens the publishing panel

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How it works

When you press the publish button, the publishing panel will open.

First, choose where to publish. The "Where do you want to publish?" screen offers you three options:

  • Both networks: Instagram and your Facebook Page.
  • Instagram only: publishes to the Instagram feed.
  • Facebook only: publishes to your Facebook Page.

You can publish to Instagram, to your Facebook Page, or to both networks at once. To publish to Facebook, your account must be connected as an administrator of the Page (see Connect with Meta).

Then choose the type of post:

  • PUBLISH MAIN IMAGE: Will publish the property with the main image
  • PUBLISH GALLERY OF 10 IMAGES: Will publish the property with an image gallery (the first 10 images)

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Publish Main Image

If you chose this option, you will see the image to be published. Click continue

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If you chose this option, another pop-up window will appear that lets you see the first 10 images so you can publish them

Instagram rejects photos that are too panoramic: it accepts up to 1.91:1 in landscape, 1:1 square and up to 4:5 in portrait. If one of the gallery photos goes beyond those ratios, publishing fails — see Unable to generate carousel.

Click to continue.

Option: Domain selection (For website customers)

After selecting the type of post for Instagram, and only if you have one or more Mapaprop Websites and more than one internet domain for the same one, you will be asked to select your domain; otherwise you will move on to the next step (Adding text to the post)

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If you have more than one domain, the following option will appear

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Click the Domain to continue.

Edit the post text (Caption)

Mapaprop inserts a predefined text in the Instagram post, which you can edit if you wish. There is a character limit.

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If you wish, add your own text (it can include #hashtags). Keep in mind that the texts cannot add up to more than 2200 characters

Finally, we press the PUBLISH button

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When the publishing starts, a process begins that can last several seconds. At the bottom right you will see a message for the active task. You can…

  • leave the page while the message remains active
  • stop following it, the task will remain active until it publishes
  • wait for it to finish

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When the publishing finishes you will see this message. From the button you can view the post on Instagram.

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You can check your Instagram account to see the post.

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See the posting history

Every post that goes out from Mapaprop is recorded on the property, so you do not have to open Instagram to know whether you have already published it.

In the Publication panel, the Instagram and Facebook card shows the date of the last post on each network, and the network name opens the actual post.

To see them all, use See full history. This opens Social media history, with one post per row, from the most recent to the oldest, and for each one:

  • the network and the account it was published with (for example, Instagram · @youragency),
  • the date and time,
  • whether it was a Single image or a Carousel,
  • the text of the post, with See more to read it in full,
  • See post, which opens the publication on the network.

Instagram and Facebook appear in the same list, ordered by date: if you published to both networks at once, both posts appear together.

If you have not published this property yet, you will see "This property has not been posted on social media yet". And if you deleted a post from the Instagram or Facebook app, the row is kept but the link may stop working.

See from the listing which properties you have already posted

In the property listing, the ones that have already gone out on your networks carry the Posted on social label. Hover over the label and it shows you the date of the last post.

The label appears in Grid view and in List view, and it updates by itself: when a post finishes it appears without you having to reload the page.

Publish to your Facebook page

You can now publish directly to your Facebook Page by choosing the "Both networks" or "Facebook only" option on the publishing screen, with no manual steps. Your Facebook post also includes a link to the property.

Manual method (alternative): if you prefer, you can also share your Instagram post to the Facebook page linked to the Instagram account.

To do so, you must go to the Instagram post and use the Share to Facebook option

With that option, you will be able to publish to the Facebook page linked to your Business profile.

Finally the post will be available on your Facebook page, with exactly the same content

Share to Facebook pages.

We recommend reading this article How can I publish to my Facebook page from Mapaprop

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