5 Powerful Facebook WordPress Plugins
If you are the owner of a WordPress blog and want to know the best Facebook plugin for WordPress in 2014 you are going to love this post.
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I have built up several WordPress powered blogs in the social media niche so naturally I have installed plenty of Facebook plugins to figure out the best way to integrate my sites with Facebook.
This article explains five free Facebook plugins for WordPress that I use turbo-boost my blogs.
1. Official Facebook for WordPress Plugin
Downloads: 1,804,967
The Official Facebook for WordPress Plugin adds Facebook social plugins to your WordPress site.
In the comments below someone brought it to my attention that this plugin has not been updated in well over a year, and it only has a 2 star rating.
The plugin does have plenty of downloads, however I do not recommend using it. I have tried using this plugin, only to soon after become frustrated with how it works and delete it.
Nonetheless I will share the features below.
Features
- Open Graph protocol markup optimizes your content for social sharing and rich story previews on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Mixi, and more.
- Facebook Insights support for Facebook accounts associated with a Facebook application.
- Add Like, send, and subscribe buttons to every post to help your site’s readers share content with friends or stay connected to future content shared by your site on Facebook.
- Enable the Facebook Comments Box social plugin to encourage new comments from logged-in Facebook users and his or her Facebook friends. Comments associated with a post are sorted according to social signals including friend networks, most liked, or the most active discussion threads.
- Recommendations Bar helps visitors discover additional content on your site by recommending posts and encouraging Like shares.
- Recommendations Box suggests related posts in a configurable widget.
- Mention Facebook friends and Facebook pages associated with a post.
2. Facebook Page Promoter Lightbox
Downloads: 91,269
The Facebook Page Promoter Lightbox is a lightbox that shades out your website while highlighting your Like Box.
Although I prefer to use a Lightbox to promote my newsletter, I have tested this method and it is very effective for getting new likes.
If you have a WordPress website with good traffic implement this plugin if you want to run up your fan count fast with new Facebook fans.
The settings for this plugin that can be adjusted are: the Like Box size, delay of the light box, and color of the back shade.
Below is an example of what this plugin can look like.
Want even more likes for your page? Check out this epic article for 50 great ways to get more Facebook page likes.
3. Facebook Share and Like Buttons
The plugin that I currently use that is at the top of this post is called Floating Social Bar.
The plugin I use for the Facebook and Twitter share buttons to the left of this page are from the plugin AddThis Smart Layers.
For the sharing buttons at the bottom of this post check out the plugin shareaholic.
Feel free to use it. ????
4. Facebook Thumb Fixer
Having a problem with your WordPress featured image not showing up as your Facebook thumbnail image? This plugin is for you.
Facebook Thumb Fixer is for those who have the problem where sharing a post on Facebook shows the wrong (or no) thumbnail image.
It works by making sure the thumbnail is derived from the featured image of your post. If your post doesn’t have a featured image then it will use a fall-back image that you can specify.
The plug-in inserts the open graph meta properties, which Facebook and other social services look for when someone shares your page. These properties contain information about the page and of course the image you spec
5. Facebook Page Plugin
The Facebook Page plugin is developed by Facebook and is a great way to integrate your Facebook page with you WordPress site.
The reason I recommend this is because if you implement a Facebook Page Plugin you can get new likes for your page without having to send your traffic away from your site.
The page plugin also shows your call to action button if you have one enabled.
To create a page plugin you use the page plugin widget building tool shown below.
Facebook Page Plugins also give you the option to display friends faces, content from your page.
The best way to integrate the code you get is to copy and paste the code generated from the widget builder into a text widget in your sidebar.
I find that I get more new likes when I place my page plugin higher in my sidebar and above the fold.
Feedback
Have you integrated any Facebook plugins with your WordPress blog? Let us know in the comments below!
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Hey there,
Thanks for your nice article on “5 Powerful Facebook WordPress Plugins”. Hope users will get benefit from your helpful and information write-up.
Hi
I’m using http://www.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-facebook-feed WordPress plugin to get facebook feed on to my wordpress site and its great
I have the big answer…
WordPress Social Login 2.3.0
I use this plugin in my site :
multicaribbean.com
Its working for login and comments too !!!! Amazing, with avatars from the social networks, added username, name surname, email, really great.
I try everyone becouse I try to create a good social comment place in every of my results, and now its working, recommended.
Hey Garin
Regarding the Facebook comments, they are great for social shares.
So I am considering replacing my native wordpress comments system.
My issue which may stop me is that google does not crawl the comments.
Looking for 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.
The ‘SEO Facebook Comment’ plugin works, but its strange to have the native wordpress comments directly below the Facebook comments.
Wondering if you have any recommendations for making Facebook comments on blogs crawlable?
Thank you, I’ve installed Facebook Page Promoter Like Box and it’s pretty cool.
Thanks for your comment. Have you implemented the Get Facebook Likes plugin? I’m considering using the plugin but I want to see a live demo of it first.
Hi Garin,
I liked your list of Facebook plugins. Its really hard to find WordPress plugins for Facebook that actually work. Thanks for sharing this. I currently use floating social bar plugin for social sharing. For contact form, I like WPForms Lite. It is much easier than Contact Form 7.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/
Hi Jessica,
I know what you mean, Facebook is constantly changing so it is tough for developers to keep up.
Thanks for sharing WP Forms Lite. It seems like a good option. Currently I am using the WordPress Jetpack plugin to power my WordPress web forms and it seems to work well.
Cheers! ????
These are truly amazing concepts in on the topic of writing a blog. You have moved some diligent factors here. Any way keep up wrinting.
The matter is known to all of us that among the social media Facebook is the most popular and containing nice unique variation to visitors .
After creating a site, for traffic this is very much essential to add some of Facebook button options those redirect the link to face book ultimately .
And this is why there are a number of plugins to be used on the site . The plugins shared here help to make the site user friendly .
Thanks for sharing these necessary plugins here .
Thanks for your comment and compliment. Glad you enjoyed this post! ????
Here is another one (recently release) called Smart Facebook Page Like Overlay, also provides customizations and very easy to configure ( and good looking too ). https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-facebook-page-like-overlay/
Hey Sergey, thanks for sharing this plugin! It seems powerful. I tried adding it to this blog but the like button showed up in a language I didn’t recognize. If you know were I can get an English version of this plugin please let me know. Thanks!
Hm, that’s wired. Could you please take screenshot of what you see when you install plugin and send it to wp-plugins [at] aquacrista.com along with your WordPress version. It could also be related to Site Language field of you installation, I assume it’s set to English? There is translation file included with plugin that translates it to Russian and I assume that translation takes over in your case, not sure why yet.
Anyways, I’ll be glad to ping developers and resolve this issue.
This was a Good Post. Helped me to select it for my Pakistan Super League Blog.
thank you
Great list. This will made people simply integrate Facebook on their websites instead of going to Facebook Developers page
Amazing list, however the official Facebook plugin has been abandoned and doesn’t get any update since March, 2014
If you looking for an up-to-date Facebook plugin, you may check Facebook Comment Slider here: http://codecanyon.net/item/facebook-comment-slider-for-wordpress/5166547
It is an all-in-one plugin with Facebook Like Box, Comment Box and Fan Page Wall.
Thanks for the great list of plugins really amazing listing, here is another plugin that could be useful for integrating facebook api with wordpress based site, it’s cheap as well imho :
https://www.xtendify.com/en/plugins/wordpress/social-networking/1056-facebook-integration-pro
Thank-you. I’m thinking a facebook comment plugin is the way to go when you enable commenting on your blog. Who doesn’t have facebook right?
Thanks for sharing these power tools Garin. I’m running a site and thinking of using one of them.
Great post Garin. It gave me a starting point for Facebooking my new website.
I couldn’t get step 5 to work. I copied the code and pasted it into a text widget for my blog side bar and saved. It did nothing. there were two sets of codes and I didn’t know which to use, so I tried both out independently of each other, but no luck.
Any ideas?
The like box isn’t working for my wordpress.com blog, do I need a paid WP for this to work? I get 2 codes, which one do I need to paste?
You need a self-hosted version of WordPress.org for any of these plugins to work.
Ok! That explains it ????
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Great info,
I have used some of these facebook plugins and they are extremely powerful for generating more traffic to your blog, thanks for sharing ????
Thank you for the article! Is that possible to not show the box to those who already like my page? Thanks!
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Great Post Garin ???? i selected the first one to install in my blog.
Thanks for it.
Thanks tons!
Handy post, tx, and just leaving a comment to check whether a login is mandatory with the FB Comments plugin.
Nice
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