When running a blog or website in today’s world it’s important to remember the social aspect of it. Yes, users might visit your blog every now and again and check out what you’ve been up to, but they spend most of their time on social media, Facebook being one of the most commonly used.
That’s why it’s vital for you to combine the two, integrating social media into your blog. Today I’m going to focus specifically on Facebook integration; one of the most popular social media platforms.
But what can you do to integrate Facebook into your blog?
Well, there are a number of ways to combine the two. You can create a social login whereby visitors must login through their Facebook account in order to comment; add like or share buttons to your blog posts; publish blog posts straight to your Facebook page for added exposure; and even integrate Facebook comments into the blog post itself.
All these things can be done using WordPress plugins,resulting in increased traffic for your site and a boost to your social media presence.
The following is our list of the best WordPress plugins for Facebook integration (in no particular order).
Shareaholic
Shareaholic is an all-in-one content amplification and monetization platform that includes many options, one of which is social sharing. It offers you the option to include share buttons, follow buttons, and much more; all 100% customizable, mobile-optimised and built for scale.
WordPress Social Login
WordPress Social Login offers your users the chance to comment and login with various social networks including Facebook. They can register on your site using just their Facebook account, meaning they don’t need to remember any login details. It’s got various customizable options and gives you complete control over user access to your website.
Recent Facebook Posts
Recent Facebook Posts lists the most recent Facebook posts from public Facebook pages. You have the option between using a widget to post your recent page updates or a shortcode to insert them into any page or post you desire. The shortcode can even have some additional arguments to specify particular customisations that you might want.
WPRSSO Core (previously NextGEN Facebook)
NextGEN Facebook is a plugin designed to display your content in the best possible way on Facebook (among other social networks). It’s got a long list of features, all aimed at giving you total control over the information that social websites need, improving your Google search ranking, social engagement and click-through rates.
Facebook Button by BestWebSoft
A simple plugin that lets you add a Follow button to your WordPress site in the easiest way. With minimal settings to play around with, Facebook Like Button lets you put a Facebook button on your site in just a few clicks, instantly connecting your site to your Facebook page.
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WP Social
IK Facebook is an easy-to-use plugin that allows you to add a custom Facebook Feed widget into your sidebar widget area or embed it in a page or post using a shortcode. It even allows you to include a Facebook like button into the page, post or theme, as well as events, photos and galleries.
Feed them Social
Feed Them Social is a plugin that offers you the ability to add custom feeds for Facebook pages, groups, events, album photos (as well as other social media) into your pages, posts or widgets. The social feeds are responsive and you can add as many as you like.
Jetpack
Jetpack is one of the most popular and diverse plugins available for WordPress, and one of its functions is social media optimisation. With Jetpack you can integrate Facebook comments, add like buttons, automatically add posts to your Facebook page and more; all from one flexible plugin.
Facebook Feed WD
Facebook Feed WD is a comprehensive tool for bringing profile/public group/page feeds to your WordPress website with total control over the content type, length and style.It allows you to display the whole timeline of the selected feed , as well as only specific content you’d want to showcase, such as photos, videos, albums events. The plugin comes with multiple layouts for content display, and an advanced lightbox with 15 transition effects, filmstrip option, comments and likes. The plugin is responsive and is highly customizable.
Conclusions & Recommendations
All these plugins do various jobs all related to Facebook integration. Depending on what you need from the plugin, this list certainly has something for you.
The majority of the plugins above are free, with only a few of them being premium and some others having premium add-ons, but overall they all do a great job at integrating your Facebook page with your website, enhancing your social presence.
The world of social media is growing by the day and everyone must keep up, otherwise, risk falling behind the competition. So don’t think about it any longer, integrate with Facebook.
Have you come across any other Facebook integration plugins? Were they good or bad? Leave a comment below and tell us your experiences.
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Hello, I am a little late to the blog plugins party but I was wondering whether there’s a plugin to instantly translate comments to other languages the way twitter offers translation for tweets? I don’t want to use WPML to translate comments.
Thanks in advance.
Pretty nice post!! Thanks, Zahra for sharing the collections of WordPress social plugins. I have been continuously surfing around Google to find social plugins which would help me in website creation. Could you suggest me an apt one to integrate the facebook page to my blog website?
Actualy in my opinion the best plugin for Facebook and Twitter is this one:
Hi Jack, thanks for sharing. I see that this plugin isn’t used by many people. What makes you say that it’s the best one out there?
It does not take much space on the website because of the box slider and it also use pure CSS animations so there is no conflicts between jQuery libraries. Check the demo on your mobile, this plugin is just awesome for my needs.
Regards
Thanks for explaining, Jack! Sounds like a good one.
My salutations to Mark Zahra! Perfect Selection, thank you.
You did a great job, there are lots of useful plugins in the article. I would also add this one – . I came across it when I was searching for the Facebook plugin for my website. I think you could add it to your rating. Thanks for the article!
Thanks for sharing, Andrew!
Hello, you overview cannot be called not the freshest but still it is very informative. Thanks for that!
Would you mind updating it a little? For example with this:
Ultimate Facebook – already not available;
Add link to Facebook – removed from WordPress catalogue;
Fatpanda Facebook comments – hasn’t been updated for more than a year.
I think you can delete those from your list. And here’s a new one: . It’s new and deserves a place in your overview. There’s an online demo on the page, do try it!
Thanks again! I hope you will update you great overview for new users!
I’m using Easy Facebook Feed ) for my website, its a simple plugin but works perfectly.
Thanks! but which method is recommended? Shall we add code manually or plugin is recommended?
Is there a plugin that hints users to share the site to their Facebook When they will close the site?
FeedWind also provides a Facebook feed widget – Completely customizable with CSS, horizontal scroll and will work in nearly any website with a simple copy/paste of the code after creating your widget which takes just a minute or two.
hi, ultime facebook from WPMUDEV was deprecated and long gone from the platform. Currently if you look for “facebook” plugins in wpmudev, there are no more in existecen (there used to be a couple)
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Hey Mark,
You might want to update this list with the Facebook WP album plugin – EmbedAlbum.
It can display a proffesional Facebook, Twitter or Instagram galleries on any website:
Check the free version here:
Or check the demos:
Thanks a lot
Hi
I’m using this WordPress Facebook Feed Plugin to get my facebook page statuses, photos on to my website
wordpress.org/plugin/wp-facebook-feed
Looking for a plugin/app that will ‘grab’ (pull?) items from a FB status (not page) into the blog. Even if it emails the status (which I can grab via Postie plugin.
Is this possible?
Hey Mark
Regarding the Facebook comments, they are great for social shares.
One problem is that google does not crawl the comments.
Been trying to find a solution, and noticed there is a wordpress plugin that makes the comments crawable. Its called ‘Crawlable Facebook Comments’.
Only thing is, its not been updated for 5 years and I’m not sure if it works anymore.
How could someone take your list seriously when the very first plugin has been dead for over 2 years?
Hi Elliot, we’re updating the post right now, thanks for bringing it to our attention! If you have any plugins that you prefer to use for integrating a WordPress site and Facebook, we’d like to hear about them too.
When importing images / comments feed, can the items get imported into your database in case a major change forces it not to work or if you wish to remove the plugin?
Hi, Mark. Just wanted to share another awesome new plugin called Smart Facebook Page Like Overlay ( ) which should be added to the list I think. Super easy to install and configure and has native Facebook look and feel which helps with likes collection on blogs and websites. Try it when you have time!
Also I think official FB plugin is kind of bloated with features and buggy..
I am using this and its great ..
Hi Mark, I’m specifically looking for a plug in that will import Facebook reviews rather than comments or likes, do you know if any of these support that functionality?
Hi, not sure about that to be honest. I haven’t come across such a use case myself before and it wasn’t something I based this list on. I’m sure there must be one that includes this functionality if you have a look through them though.
Did you ever find a plugin for displaying Facebook reviews?
Hi Kim, not yet, and there seems to be a valid reason as to why. Check out the replies on the links below from the Custom Facebook Feed plugin support forum to learn more.