Auto Actions

Your 9 AM post is doing better than usual by lunch. Auto Actions are how she notices that and gets behind it, without you sitting on the tab hitting refresh. You name a like count once. The next post from that channel that clears it gets reposted, or gets a follow-up from you underneath it. That is the whole promise, and the honest version of it is narrower than it sounds.

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Where you set them

Open Plugs in the app menu and the left rail is short. Only channels that have Auto Actions show up there, so you can have ten networks connected and still see one name. Connect nothing that qualifies and the screen says so, then names the channels worth adding. Pick a channel and you get a card per action. Set Plug opens it, you fill in the fields, and Activate saves it. The card then carries a toggle, so you can switch the action off later without losing what you typed. Come back and the button reads Edit Plug. Two things worth knowing before you turn one on:

• The setup belongs to the connected channel, not to a post. Activate it once and it applies to everything that channel publishes from then on.
• It is not retroactive. A post that went out this morning is already past her; the action only attaches to posts published after you activate it.

Nothing here touches your schedule. Your post still goes out at the minute you set. Auto Actions only decide what happens to it afterwards.

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The two actions

Threads is the odd one. It has the follow-up and nothing else, because there is no Auto Repost Posts on Threads at all.

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The trigger, and the ceiling

Both actions read exactly one number: the like count on the post that just published. You give her the threshold, she compares, and if the post is short she does nothing and waits. The gaps widen as they go, because each check waits its own interval on top of the one before it. Six hours of quiet, then twelve, then eighteen. Here is the ceiling, plainly. Three checks and she is finished with that post. There is no fourth look, no daily sweep, no catching up later. A post that takes off on day three has already been left behind, and a threshold set too high simply means the action never fires. Set the number where your posts actually land on a good day, not where you wish they landed. Writing for a slow burn audience? Auto Actions are the wrong tool for it. The whole window closes about a day and a half after the post goes out.

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What the cards say

The wording on each card is worth reading before you set a number, because it is the app’s own description of the action: The age note on Auto Repost Posts, 1 week old posts, is the text the card carries.

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Fields

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X, and the analytics switch

Both X actions read the like count through the X API, which makes them part of analytics. Set DISABLE_X_ANALYTICS on your install and they are gone, rather than sitting there and failing quietly. X has only those two Auto Actions, so losing both takes the channel out of the Plugs left rail altogether. If X was the only channel qualifying, the page falls back to its empty state. The editor plug below, Add Re-posters, keeps working through it. It never reads a number, so there is nothing for that switch to turn off.

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The other plugs, inside the editor

Open a post for X or LinkedIn and look at the channel’s Settings panel, under the platform options. There is a second kind of plug there, and it has nothing to do with like counts or thresholds. It runs once, on a delay you choose, counted from the moment the post publishes. That delay holds as written when no Auto Action is running on the same channel. When one is, both queue up together and each waits its turn, so a long delay can land later than the number you picked. The work is done by your other accounts. You pick which ones from a list headed “Accounts that will engage:”, and the account publishing the post is never in that list, because it cannot repost itself. The delay is a dropdown, not a free field. These are the choices: Running an agency, or a brand account next to a founder account? This is the pair of plugs that pays for itself. The founder account comments on the brand post an hour later, and it reads like a person rather than a schedule. If a plug shows No available accounts, it is not broken. You have connected only one account on that network, and there is nobody else for it to pick.

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Setting one up

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When nothing fires

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Next steps