Facebook has announced its first official plugin for WordPress. Since WordPress powers 16.6 percent of the web with more than 600 million unique visitors each month, it was only a matter of time before Facebook would develop an official plugin for the platform. The Facebook plugin for WordPress is a collaborative project between Facebook, Automattic, and several skilled developers on both sides.
Social Publishing
The new official Facebook plugin was designed to “make your WordPress site social in a couple of clicks”. It offers powerful cross-publishing from WordPress to multiple Facebook Timelines for mass distribution of your content.
The Official Facebook Plugin Features include:
- Post to an Author’s Facebook Timeline whenever they publish a new WordPress Post or Page.
- Mention friends and Facebook Pages. This posts to their Timelines as well as lists them on the WordPress Post or Page.
- Post all new WordPress Post or Pages to a specified Facebook Page.
- Like, send, and subscribe buttons can be enabled in a click and are fully customizable.
- Facebook Comments, including full SEO support.
- Open Graph Protocol integration.
- Recommendations bar, which allows users to click to start getting recommendations, Like content, and add what they’re reading to Timeline as they go.
The plugin also includes three widgets for easy display: Activity Feed Box, Recommendations Box and Like, send, and subscribe buttons.
You will be required to set up a Facebook app after activating the plugin, but it shouldn’t be a problem because Facebook provides step-by-step instructions.
Developer documentation for the official plugin can be found at the Facebook for WordPress page if you’d like to delve a bit deeper into how it works.
Have you tried the new Facebook plugin? Will you be using it on your site?
I tried this earlier in a WP multisite… It didn’t work out of the box. I deactivated all plugins to see conflicts and still nothing.. and I didn’t see any JS for FB api in the site’s html… Not sure what’s happening.
Be sure to get rid of every other Facebook related thing you’re already using as you’ll just a fatal error and not be able to activate this one anyway. But once, in place, smooth as silk….
This looks great. Can’t wait to implement this when I get back from vacation.
and finally !
Does any one test it on a BuddyPress site?
Will be trying this out tomorrow. Looks great.
Ahhh, just days after I downloaded the Ultimate Facebook plugin : O
Well, the Ultimate Facebook plugin does a lot more than this plugin, in that it also does Facebook login and registration. If you need those features, then Ultimate Facebook is definitely the way to go!
Sarah, will it be possible to use both, so we can get all features?
I haven’t tested them together. You could give it a try and see if any of the scripts conflict.
Has anyone successfully used Facebook’s plug-in after updating to WP 3.4?
“Publish to a Facebook Page” feature doesn’t seem to work for me. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Hi!
I have installed this plugin but the comment box is not showing, how can I fix this?