After signing up on contentfry and creating your Team, the next step is to open a Room. The Room is where you will set up and manage your Social Wall. To get started, click on «Create a Room» on your contentfry dashboard. Enter the name of your Room in the designated field and Save it.
💡A Room is like a project. You can always change the name of the Room later.
Step 1: Add a Connection
To get your Social Wall up and running, start by collecting content from social networks.
1. In the «Connections» menu on the left-hand side of your contentfry dashboard, select the social network from which you want to collect content.
2. Most platforms require authentication, so please log in or authorize access if prompted.
3. Once you grant contentfry permission to collect content from the network, your authorized profile will appear in the pop-up. You are now ready to create your first connection.
💡 Learn here why connecting your social media accounts is necessary and how to manage your connected accounts.
4. In the tab at the top, choose the type of connection (source) you want to create. The available options vary depending on the social network, as each network determines what is possible on its platform.
5. As an example, let’s create a Hashtag Connection from Instagram. First, select "Hashtag" from the top tab. If you manage multiple businesses, choose the one you want to use for collecting hashtag content. Then, enter the hashtag in the designated field.
6. Next, decide whether or not you want to review the collected content before it's publicly displayed on your Social Wall:
Moderation «on»: contents must be approved by you before they are publicly displayed
Moderation «off»: contents will be directly displayed publicly
7. Click on «Create» to finish setting up and create the connection.
8. Congratulations, you have created your first connection. Contentfry will now collect the content from the social network. This may take a few seconds.
Need more information on how to connect Social Networks?
These articles might be helpful:
All articles on how to connect to individual networks: Collecting Content Overview
List of all available Connections: Available Connections
Step 2: Moderate your content
If you have enabled moderation, all new content in your dashboard will have a 'moderation pending' status indicated by the gray field with a clock icon.
1. Start moderating your content now:
Click on the green button below the post to approve it and show it on your Social Wall
Click on the red button below the post to deny it and hide it on your Social Wall
2. After moderating a post, the status symbol in the top right corner will change from pending (grey) to approved (green) or denied (red) and the colored moderation buttons will become gray. You can change the status of a post at any time later.
Step 3: Style your Social Wall
After collecting and approving your first content, you can now create the design for your social wall. For this, Contentfry provides you with various Social Wall templates (Displays) to choose from.
To begin, click on the Displays panel on the left-hand side of your dashboard. Then click on "New Display" in the newly opened interface.
2. You will now see an overview of all available Displays. Select the type of display you want to create from the menu on the left or simply scroll through all available displays.
There are displays that are better suited for embedding on a website, and other displays that are better suited for displaying on a TV screen.
2. Click on a Display to preview the Display with your own content. Click on "Use this display" if you want to continue with this template or "Back to displays" if you would like to choose another one.
4. After selecting a Display template, you can now start customizing it. In the Display Menu, you will find three tabs:
Display: Make basic settings such as adding content filters or banners.
Design: Define colours and shapes.
Settings: Decide which information you want to display.
5. After you have made changes, always click on «Publish changes» in the upper right corner so that the changes are applied and saved.
Step 4: Share your Social Wall
Are you happy with the style of your Social Wall? Then you are ready to show it on your website or screen.
1. Click "Share" in the menu above your display. You have now switched to the Share menu.
2. If you just want a quick preview of your Social Wall, you can click on the share icon in the menu at the top right. This will open a new window where you can also copy the URL for your Social Wall if you want to show it on a TV Screen.
💡 There must be enough approved content for the preview to work. Please make sure that you have enough approved content (green status symbol) before creating your Display. Step 2: Moderate your Content.
3. Click on 'Get the Code' to obtain the embed code for your website. Copy the code from the pop-up window and paste it into your website's HTML.
Need more information on how to embed your Social Wall?
Here you will find the complete article on how to publish the Social Wall, explaining all possible options: