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Nelio Content Plugin Review- WordPress Editorial Calendar And Social Media Automation

There are few plugins without which a WordPress website cannot work smoothly. Nelio Content is one such plugin. It is the only plugin entirely dedicated to WordPress platform that combines:

Content Creation Editorial Calendar + Social Media Calendar + Social Media Autoposting

 We are using WordPress for years and have used many plugins in that period. But Nelio Content is one plugin we are using since its early days (October 2016). In these one and half years, Nelio Content has evolved into a powerhouse plugin that brings the social media right into the WordPress ecosystem, without putting any additional load.

Today it ‘s hard to imagine managing our WordPress website without Nelio Content.

 


How “Nelio Content Plugin” increased our website traffic & social media presence 

The Ultimate Nelio Content Wordpress Plugin Review  

An Extensive In-depth Review of Services of “Nelio Content” after using it for more than a year. Please note that this is not an affiliate post. It’s a product review that we chose to write as a thank-you gesture to “Nelio Content” for providing a fantastic product. It is purely a user based review. We are sharing it the hope that this will help other Online and WordPress Users. 


The importance of Nelio Content WordPress plugin a compelling Social Media

You might be in any profession. You might be a doctor, an engineer, a writer or an entrepreneur.

But to have a real online presence, you need to take care of 3 points:

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  1. A website that over a period can be used as a brand that stands for you. It is the place on the web where you publish contents and articles thereby building a following of readers related to your topic of choice. It’s a compelling medium and has a great potential with time.
  2. Social Media Profile: You must slowly but steadily keep on increasing your social media followers. The major social media profiles that you must target are – Facebook, Facebook Pages, Twitter, Linked In, Google Plus & Pinterest.
  3. Social Media Promotion: Ok! You have a website. You have also created a healthy number of social media followers. You are continuously publishing new contents and also have a stack of excellent old materials. Next job is to engage your social media audience by posting useful articles regularly. That will bring more referral traffic to your website.

All this sounds much easier than it is. Time is insufficient (around nine working hours on average per day), and within that time you have to do so many things to manage your WordPress website including sharing your blog posts to social media.

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The Always Changing Social Media and

the Utility of Nelio Content Plugin

As our website keeps growing & gaining more users, it gets tougher for us to manage it. But it’s a situation, which can make you happy. Anybody who has a website dreams of having a high number of viewers. But with the growing numbers, you should also have the tools to publish new contents and repost your old materials, regularly in front of your social media followers.

We have 5 social media profiles with a healthy following. But it was getting difficult to separately post contents in each social media profile multiple times every day.


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The changes in the algorithm of facebook/twitter (which they say was done to improve the quality of the contents and also to optimize the news feed of users) resulted in a massive decrease in the Organic Reach. As a result, any post shared on a page is now reaching a limited number of page fans. Out of 100, it is reaching around 5.

 To reach more audience, say 50 out of your 100 Fans, you would need to Purchase Promoted Post by spending some dollars. The more you pay, the bigger number of your existing fans will see your posts in their news feed.

But we are among those group of bloggers who do not make millions of revenue from their website. So we simply do not have that much bank balance to spend thousands every week to buy promoted posts so that we could reach more of our fans. 

In such a scenario, the only other freeway we have is to keep sharing our contents to all our social media profile multiple times every day.


 We were looking for a Tool that can help us to do the following:

  1. A tool that will assist us in organizing and planning contents not only for today but next 3 months.
  2. A tool which can help us in storing some great ideas that we can later use to complete an excellent article.
  3. A tool that will instantly let us share posts to social media right after publishing an article.
  4. A tool that can automate the process of sharing our new as well as old contents to various social media profiles.
  5. A tool that will help us share more content and reach more audience than ever before – all on autopilot.

And we were finally able to find such a tool for our WordPress Site

“Nelio Content WordPress Plugin”


Before we start the review, here is the official video of the Plugin


Adding Nelio Content to Your WordPress Website

Go WordPress plugin directory, search for Nelio Content and Install it. Follow the steps in the Video Below.


Connecting to “Nelio Content” API and Loading the Publishing Calendar

Come back to your WordPress Admin Dashboard. On the left side, you will find “Nelio Content.” Just Click on that and enter the connecting zone. It is where the magic connection will happen! You will log into your Nelio Content Account right in your WordPress Dashboard. Isn’t that great? No need to switch between different screens.


Adding Your Social Media Accounts, for Automated Social Sharing of Your Posts.

Once you have installed Nelio Content, you just need to add your social media accounts. It is a one-time step. After adding your social media accounts, you will have the power to automate the sharing of your posts to all your social media profiles.

See the 50 sec video below.

Nelio Content provides you a nifty calendar tool, right in your WordPress admin area. So, you can keep track of the entire publishing schedule for your professional website. It helps a great deal in planning out your content publishing timetable.

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Nelio Content


 Creating & Scheduling your posts in social media.

Nelio Content makes it very easy to schedule the sharing of a new post in social media, right in the post editor area.

Post Creation is as regular as any other previous post you created.

But the Magic happens once you have installed Nelio Content.

After installing Nelio Content, when you create a new post then within the post editor area you will find the option to continuously promote the content for a long duration – all from the moment you publish the post.

“That’s the best part of using Nelio Content.

See this 2 minute video below and you will get the idea. Using this feature, we have automated the entire process of Social Sharing of our blog posts. You can also do the same with your professional website.

By the end of the video, you can see that – I have scheduled the post for next entire week (you can do more also).

That makes the whole process Automated. 

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(You can find it right after the post editor section- in the content writing area of WordPress)

Nelio Content

Using Nelio Content, you can schedule sharing to multiple social profiles – Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest at the same time, immediately after finishing writing the content.

Nelio Content

Time for you now to relax and sit back or get back to your other works.

And you can rest assured that the new post you created will be posted to all the Social Media Accounts that you Chose, automatically. It will keep happening on Auto Pilot. 


Post Evaluator

Nelio Content plugin provides a post evaluator within the WordPress post editor area. This feature evaluates the quality of your post by giving you tips to improve it.


External-Featured Image

Nelio content comes with one more handy feature called External-Featured Image. This feature lets you choose an external image as the featured image for your post. So, you don’t need to upload a new featured image to your server, everytime you write a new post. It also saves your hosting space and bandwidth if your site is on a limited strength shared hosting.


The Power To Share Your Old Post Using Nelio Content

One more fantastic feature that Nelio Content provides is the option to share your old & evergreen materials. Suppose there is a particular old post your readers are sharing on a regular basis. In that case, it will be a good idea to schedule future sharing of that article.

This can be done very easily with the help of Nelio Content. See the 1.49 Sec Video below, that will give you the idea how to use this Amazing Feature of Nelio Content.


Detailed Analytics Of Your Website Posts

Nelio Content can integrate with your google analytics and show you detailed analytics about your posts.

That will help you analyze which of your posts are getting more views. You can check the analytics based on all the categories you have created.

Then you can schedule social shares for the posts that are getting a good response.

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Social Media Automation

(Nelio Content fills the calendar for you with all your new & old blog posts)

Nelio content has redefined social media automation for WordPress websites. There are many social media automation plugins but none of them work like Nelio Content does, completely integrated with WordPress.

Using Nelio Content automation, you do not now need to create the scheduled posts manually.

Nelio content automatically fills up the scheduling calendar for you.

For example, in the conventional approach, you need to create scheduled posts for your new blog article manually by adding the time slots. But using Nelio Content Automation add-on, the scheduling is completed automatically. To do so, go to the Social Media box on the edit page, and there you’ll see the following button.

If you click on the button to Create Social Messages Automatically, the social timeline gets filled with messages created automatically by Nelio Content.

But that is not all. Nelio Content, social media automation add-on gives you the option to generate the scheduled social posts for all your old contents too. Nelio Content will automatically reshare old posts to make sure that your social media accounts are updated continuously with content from your blog.  First, you need to customize how the old posts appear on your social media pages when shared. Nelio Content gives you the option to control that.

You also get the option to choose on which social media profile you want the automation to be activated! To make it even better you can control the frequency of the automation. You can choose medium or high frequency.

You need to click the automation button next to the respective social media profile in the settings page.

Once you activate the Automation add-on for the social profiles and set up an automation frequency, Nelio Content gets to work and starts filling up the calendar with all your previous posts, without you requiring to do anything. The screenshot below shows how your social media calendar appears after activating the automation add-on for your old posts.

That is just awesome!

It saves hours of your time and brings forward all your old contents that were hidden somewhere in your blog post timeline.

And the best part is all this magic happens within your WordPress dashboard. As we mentioned earlier in the review, Nelio Content is a cloud-based software. So, there is no load on your website servers. At the same time, the interface of the Nelio Content is entirely integrated with the WordPress dashboard. Therefore, you carry out all your content planning and social media automation without ever requiring to shift to another website.

You can have an overview of the automation system in the video below:

The Nelio Content Automation comes as a separate add-on at a bare minimum price of 9 $ per month.

In comparison, many top social media scheduling services provide the automation service at a high premium price. For example, Coschedule provides the automation service as an add-on (called Re Queue) for 79 $ per month.

We will see a comprehensive price comparison of all the social media managing platforms next in the review and also price-features evaluation of Nelio Content with each of the major services in the market right now.


Fantastic Customer Service

Fantastic customer support: Experienced WordPress engineers manage Nelio content, and the client’s support has been excellent. Till today they have replied to our every question with detailed answers. Using Nelio content is very easy, and it hardly requires any help. But as a starting point whenever we had any difficulty, we always got the help from the Nelio Content team.


Price Comparison

Many readers have given feedbacks requesting for a price comparison between Nelio Content and other similar software or plugins. Many of the other software that has similar functionality are either dedicated WordPress plugins (where the entire plugin activity takes place within your website server or hosting) or a SaaS software (where you do not need to be on WordPress)

Nelio Content is dedicated only to WordPress as a plugin, and at the same time, it is a cloud-based service. (Which means all the social media scheduling and posting takes place via Nelio Servers hosted on Amazon Web Services. No load on your server)

We researched and checked out some of the plugins/software to provide you a price comparison. Please note that we are going to compare only the Free & Lowest payment option and the features associated with that plan. It will help you to know which plugin/service provides you more features at the lowest price to your pocket.

BUFFER
Free Plan Lowest Price Plan
10 $ monthly
1 Social Media Profiles per
Social Media
Total 10 Social Profiles
allowed
Scheduled posts per
Social profile
10
Scheduled posts per
Social profile
100
Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram, Pinterest

Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram & Pinterest
Extra Team Members/Users
Zero
Extra Team Members/Users
Zero
Visual Social Calendar
No
Visual Social Calendar
Yes
Posts Content Calendar
No
Posts Content Calendar
No
Basic Analytics

No

Detail Social Analytics
No

Source: Buffer Pricing 


HOOT SUITE
Free Plan Lowest Price Plan
14.99 $ monthly
3 Social Media Profiles Total 10 Social Profiles
allowed
Scheduled posts per
Social profile
> 100 (Manual scheduling)
Unlimited Manual Scheduling +
350 Automation Schedule
Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram, Pinterest

Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram & Pinterest
Extra Team Members/Users
Zero
Extra Team Members/Users
1
Visual Social Calendar
No
Visual Social Calendar
Yes
Posts Content Calendar
No
Posts Content Calendar
No
Basic Analytics

Yes

Detail Social Analytics
Yes

 Source: Hootsuite Plans

               Hootsuite Limits


EDGAR
Free Plan Lowest Price Plan
79 $ monthly
NO FREE PLAN Total 25 Social Profiles
allowed
1000 Posts Scheduling Allowed
Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Extra Team Members/Users
1
Visual Social Calendar
Yes
Posts Content Calendar
No
Detail Social Analytics
Yes

 Source: Edgar Plans


Coschedule
Free Plan Lowest Price Plan
39 $ Monthly
No Free Plan.
14 Days Fully functional
trial.
Pay if you want to continue
Total 25 Social Profiles
allowed
Integration into WordPress
Dashboard and Post Editor Area
Social Media Scheduling &
Paid Addon Reque
Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram & Pinterest
1 User
Visual Social Calendar
Yes
Posts Content Calendar
Yes
Detail Social Analytics
Yes

 Source: Coschedule Plans


Nelio Content
Free Plan Lowest Price Plan
10 $
1 Profiles Per Social
Media
Total 10 Social Profiles
allowed
Integration into WordPress
Dashboard and Post Editor Area
Integration in to WordPress
Dashboard and Post Editor Area
1 scheduled post per social media
during post publication in WordPress
Unlimited Social Media Scheduling &
Custom Social Media Scheduling
Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram, Pinterest

Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus, Instagram & Pinterest
1 User

1 User
Visual Social Calendar
Yes
Visual Social Calendar
Yes
Posts Content Calendar
Yes
Posts Content Calendar
No
Basic Analytics

Yes

Detail Social Analytics
Yes

 Source: Nelio Plans


Features Nelio Content CoSchedule HootSuite Buffer Edgar
Lowest Paid Plan
monthly
10 $ 39 $ 14.99 $ 10 $ 79 $
Exclusive Plugin for
WordPress
Yes Works on
WordPress
No No No
Cloud-Based API Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Forever Free
LiteVersion
Yes No Yes Yes No
Number of social
Profiles
10 25 10 10 25
Social Media
Integration
Twitter,
Facebook, Linkedin
Google Plus,
Instagram, Pinterest
Twitter,
Facebook,
Linkedin
Google Plus,
Instagram, Pinterest
Twitter,
Facebook
Linkedin
Google Plus,
Instagram, Pinterest
Twitter
Facebook
Linkedin
Google Plus,
Instagram, Pinterest
Facebook, Twitter
LinkedIn
Number of users 1 1 1 1 1
Visual Drag & Drop
Post Calendar
Within WordPress
Admin Ares
Yes Yes No No No
Visual Drag & Drop
Social Schedule
Calendar Within
WordPress Admin area
Yes yes No No No
Social Media Scheduler
Within WordPress
Post Editor Dashboard
Yes Yes No No No
Content Quality
Assessment Tool
in WordPress Post Editor
Yes No No No No
External Featured Image
in WordPress Post Editor
Yes No No No No
Number of Posts allowed
for Social Scheduling
Unlimited Unlimited 350 100 per profile 1000
Social Analytics & Top Posts Yes Yes Yes No Yes


Final Points about Nelio Content

From the above comparison, it is clear that for any user with a WordPress website, Nelio Content is the most viable option regarding Pricing and Features provided. It's a complete package of Editorial & Social Calendar with social media automation.

For the lowest paid plan of 10 $ per month (Personal Plan) You get to use:

  • Unlimited Social Media Scheduling and Sharing.
  • 10 Social media profiles in all the social media platforms like facebook - page, profile & group, Google Plus Page & Profile, Linkedin Profile & Company, Instagram & Pinterest.
  • Visual Drag & Drop social media calendar and posts calendar.
  • Drag & Drop editorial calendar.
  • In post quality control assessment tool.
  • Complete & detailed social media analytics. Know your top socially performing posts.
  • External featured image (You can link externally hosted image as featured image of post)

For any busy professional with a WordPress website/blog, Nelio Content can be a great tool to increase their online productivity and efficiency.

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For the overall success of your website - you need to have a balance between the two. Nelio Content plugin is the tool that gives you the power to strike that balance.

If we can summarize Nelio Content in 3 words, then it will be

Easy

Efficient

Automation

of all your online Publishing, Content Management & Social Media Sharing.


We have been using Nelio Content at DentalOrg.com since October 2016, and it has indeed been a great experience. Being health professionals & carrying out social health programs, we are always short of time, and Nelio Content is the best online publication manager we have used in a long time. It has automated all our social media postings & campaigns resulting in more reach to people and better health awareness programs. The plugin is also refined/maintained & supported with the addition of new useful features. With Nelio Content you will be happy with your investment.

So, if you have a WordPress website - then Nelio Content Plugin is tailor-made for you. You must try it today and witness the magic of Posting/Social Media Calendar with automated social media sharing of your website contents.


Check the Official Website of Nelio Content here