🔐 First Login & Account Setup
After purchasing a plan (via vendor or by paying Rippelle Resident in-world), you will receive an access key that looks like: RIP-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
- Go to rippelle.com
- Click "First time? Activate account"
- Enter your Second Life avatar name (exactly as it appears in-world)
- Enter your access key
- Create a password (minimum 8 characters)
- You're in! Welcome to your dashboard.
🏠 Dashboard Overview
Your dashboard is your control center. It has three main tabs:
- Dashboard — Your brand settings, connected platforms, post history, and sub-accounts.
- Schedule (Pro & Pro+) — Create, schedule, and manage custom posts.
- Wallet — Your balance, subscription, auto-renew settings, brands, and transaction history.
🎨 Setting Up Your Brand
Your brand identity is used to format all your posts across platforms.
What to configure:
- Brand name — Your shop or business name
- Tagline — A short description (e.g. "French-style furniture for Second Life")
- Logo URL — A direct link to your logo image (hosted on Flickr, your blog, etc.)
- Website URL — Your blog or marketplace link
- Brand color — Used for auto-generated images (see Smart Image Handling)
⏸️ Pause & Activate Posting
New accounts start with posting paused. This gives you time to set up your brand, connect your sources and destinations, and make sure everything is right before going live.
- Click ▶️ Activate in your dashboard header when you're ready to start posting.
- Click ⏸ Pause anytime to stop all automatic and scheduled posting.
📷 Content Sources
Sources are where Rippelle pulls your content from. When you publish a new photo or blog post, Rippelle detects it automatically and distributes it to your connected platforms.
You configure your source from the Brand Configuration card on your Dashboard.
Flickr
Rippelle monitors your Flickr photostream for new uploads.
- In Brand Configuration, select Flickr as your source.
- Enter your Flickr User ID (looks like:
12345678@N00). - Save. Rippelle will now check your photostream for new photos.
Getting your Flickr API Key
Rippelle needs a Flickr API key to read your photostream. Each user must create their own — it's free and takes just a minute.
- Go to Flickr App Garden — Apply for a key.
- Sign in with your Flickr account if needed.
- Choose "Apply for a Non-Commercial Key".
- Enter any name (e.g.
Rippelle) and a short description (e.g.For use with Rippelle social media automation). - Check both checkboxes and submit.
- Copy the Key shown on the next page (you only need the Key, not the Secret).
- Paste it in your Rippelle Brand Configuration under Flickr API Key.
WordPress
Rippelle pulls posts from your WordPress RSS feed.
- Select WordPress as your source.
- Enter your blog URL (e.g.
https://myblog.com). - Pro+ users: you can add up to 5 category feeds to choose which sections to pull from.
- Save. Rippelle will monitor your RSS feed for new posts.
Blogspot (Blogger)
- Select Blogspot as your source.
- Enter your blog URL (e.g.
https://myblog.blogspot.com). - Save. Rippelle will monitor your Blogspot feed.
Weebly
- Select Weebly as your source.
- Enter your Weebly blog URL.
- Save.
Webhook (Advanced)
For advanced users: push content directly to Rippelle via a webhook URL. Useful for custom integrations or automated workflows.
- Select Webhook as your source.
- Rippelle will generate a unique webhook URL for you.
- Send a POST request to that URL with your content (title, description, image URL).
📣 Destination Platforms
Destinations are where Rippelle posts your content. You can connect multiple platforms and Rippelle will format your content appropriately for each one.
Manage your connections from the Platform Connections card on your Dashboard.
Discord
Post to one or more Discord channels via webhooks.
- In your Discord server, go to Channel Settings → Integrations → Webhooks.
- Click New Webhook, give it a name, and copy the webhook URL.
- In Rippelle, add Discord as a destination and paste the webhook URL.
- You can add multiple webhooks to post to several servers or channels at once.
Facebook Pages
Post to your Facebook Page automatically.
- Click Connect Facebook in your destinations.
- You'll be redirected to Facebook to authorize Rippelle.
- Select the Page you want Rippelle to post to.
- Grant the required permissions and confirm.
Post to your Instagram business/creator account.
- Your Instagram account must be a Business or Creator account.
- It must be linked to a Facebook Page (this is a Meta requirement).
- Connect Facebook first (see above), then select your Instagram account.
Bluesky
- Add Bluesky as a destination.
- Enter your Bluesky handle (e.g.
yourname.bsky.social). - Enter your App Password (generate one in Bluesky → Settings → App Passwords).
- Save.
Plurk
- Add Plurk as a destination.
- You'll be redirected to Plurk to authorize Rippelle.
- Confirm, and you're connected.
X (Twitter)
- Add X as a destination.
- You'll be redirected to X to authorize Rippelle.
- Grant the required permissions and confirm.
Mastodon
Connect any Mastodon instance.
- Add Mastodon as a destination.
- Enter your Mastodon instance URL (e.g.
mastodon.social). - Enter your access token (generate one in Mastodon → Settings → Development → New Application).
- Save.
Tumblr
- Add Tumblr as a destination.
- You'll be redirected to Tumblr to authorize Rippelle.
- Select which blog to post to and confirm.
SmartBots
Send group notices to your Second Life group via SmartBots.
- You need a SmartBots account with an active bot.
- Add SmartBots as a destination in Rippelle.
- Enter your SmartBots API key and bot name.
- Enter the group UUID of the SL group you want to send notices to.
- Save.
LifeBots
Send group notices via LifeBots — an alternative to SmartBots.
- You need a LifeBots account with an active bot.
- Add LifeBots as a destination.
- Enter your LifeBots API key and bot name.
- Enter the group UUID.
- Save.
Flickr Upload & Groups
Post photos directly to your Flickr account from the scheduler — and automatically add them to your Flickr groups based on tags.
Connecting Flickr Upload
- Go to Destinations and click Flickr Upload.
- Click Connect Flickr — you'll be redirected to Flickr to authorize Rippelle.
- Once authorized, Flickr Upload will show as connected.
Flickr Groups — Auto-posting by tag
Once Flickr Upload is connected, you can set up group rules. Each rule links a tag to a Flickr group. When you post with that tag, Rippelle automatically submits the photo to the matching group.
- Click Manage Group Rules in the Flickr Upload settings.
- For each group, enter a tag (e.g.
furniture) and the Flickr Group ID. - Save. When you post from the scheduler with that tag, the photo is automatically added to the group.
How to find a Flickr Group ID
The Group ID is not shown directly on Flickr's website, but there are two easy ways to find it:
- Method 1 — idGettr: Go to idGettr.com, paste the full URL of the Flickr group (e.g.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/slarchitecture/) and click Find the ID. The Group ID will look like12345678@N00. - Method 2 — Flickr URL: Go to the group's page on Flickr, look at the URL. If it contains a numeric ID like
flickr.com/groups/12345678@N00/, that's your Group ID directly.