Wordrpress powers more than 16% of the Internet's websites. Needless to say, the WordPress community is ecstatic over Facebook's release of an official WordPress plugin. This plugin is going to help integrate Facebook with blog sites, assist with site promotion and encourage social interaction right from your individual sites. The neat thing about this new plugin is that it does not require any custom coding or techie expertise to install it.
Facebook engineer Matt Kelly wrote the following on the Facebook blog:
“Starting today, WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open source partners and makes it simple for anyone to make their WordPress site more social – no coding required. The plugin will also work on mobile and support internationalization.”
Both the "Page" and "Post" elements of this plugin will allow site owners to easily integrate the author's timeline, mention specific Facebook friends or Fan Pages, publish individual posts to a specific Facebook Fan Page, enable Facebook comments with SEO features as well as a few other amazing features.
Several really cool features of this new plugin is…
Activity Feed Box – The Activity Feed plugin displays personalized stories for the visitor. It also shows the user how their friends are interacting with your content.
Recommendations – Visitors are provided with content recommendations based on the actions of their friends.
Custom Buttons – The site owner can customize the Like, Send, and Subscribe buttons.
I have a quick video to showcase how you set it up and some of these features below:
The link that is mentioned in the video can be found by clicking here.
You can also get more info by going to the WordPress Developer site.
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Kim Garst
Kim Garst is a renowned marketing strategist and speaker who is trailblazing the use of artificial intelligence in digital marketing. With over 30 years of experience as an online entrepreneur, Kim helps entrepreneurs grow their business and authority online by using AI technology. She is leading the way with proven AI frameworks that help entrepreneurs build authority in their space.
She is keynote speaker and an international best-selling author of Will The Real You Please Stand Up, Show Up, Be Authentic and Prosper in Social Media.
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Kim, FABULOUS!!!! Thanks so much for taking a complex app and breaking it down on video for everyone. So appreciate you!!!!
Jamnie, glad it was helpful 😉
Woohoo, glad you found the video helpful, Elizabeth!
Thanks for the helpful video Kim! Very very useful!!!
You are most welcome!
Hi Kim! You are wonderful! I think I love you just a little bit! Thanks for being such a wonderful wealth of information! And this one in particular was super timely!!
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Great video! Thanks for teaching us how to use this new plug in with so many awesome features.
So glad you got some value from it Shirley!
I would get rid of your old comment feature and simply use the new one.
Adam, I hope it is a helpful addition for you.
Glad it was helpful, Adam!
I got it to upload, finally. 🙂 Thank you for the great info. Now, on to the rest of the details.
Love hearing this!