Facebook plugin for WordPress
Social plugins and publishing in your WordPress site
Official Facebook plugin for WordPress
The Facebook plugin for WordPress adds Facebook-powered social features to your WordPress site themes and publishing flow. Automatically add page markup optimized for social sharing. Grow your audience with shared stories powered by Facebook's Like Button and Send Button. Publish new content to your authors' Facebook Timeline or your site's Facebook page as you publish the post.
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Add Facebook social features and functionality to your WordPress site.
Improve link summariesEvery WordPress post, author page, and even your home page receives automatic support for Open Graph protocol markup to highlight your site content in Facebook News Feed. | Make posts more social with social pluginsAdd a Like Button or Send Button before and/or after your posts to help visitors easily share your content on Facebook. Grow your subscriber audience using the Follow Button. Capture additional pageviews with the Recommendations Bar. |
Recommend content in a social contextAdd a Recommendations Box or site Activity Feed as a WordPress widget to expose additional site content based on Facebook likes and comments by friends. Display your Facebook Page content and encourage more Page likes with a Like Box. | Facebook-powered commentsAdd Facebook-hosted threaded comments to your WordPress site backed by Facebook identities, moderation, blacklisted words, and more. Comments are displayed in the social context of each visitor, highlighting comments from friends or comments with the most likes instead of a purely time-based discussion view. |
Publish to Facebook
Publish to your author's Facebook Timeline or your site's Facebook Page to promote your site content on Facebook immediately after it becomes public.
Connect WordPress and Facebook accountsConnect WordPress authors with a Facebook account for a Facebook-specific byline and optionally publish new public posts to Facebook. Connect your site with a Facebook Page to share new content with your Facebook Page fans. | Configure a custom Open Graph actionAdd a news article-specific Open Graph action to your Facebook application to enable author posts to Timeline with custom messages, mention Facebook friends and pages, and mark published posts as explicitly shared for improved distribution. |
Getting started
Install and activate the WordPress plugin. Set up a Facebook application to enable additional features.
Install the plugin
Add the Facebook plugin for WordPress to your WordPress server's plugin directory via the WordPress administrative interface, uploaded via FTP, or checkout a copy using Subversion.
Configure a Facebook application
Track social interactions with your site content on Facebook and unlock additional plugin functionality with by associating a Facebook application with your WordPress site.
Customize
Use our plugin as a starting point for your own code.
Hook to filters and actions
Customize default behaviors of the Facebook plugin for WordPress with custom filters and actions exposed through the WordPress Plugin API.
Fork our GitHub repository
Fork the Facebook plugin for WordPress active development repository on GitHub and submit pull requests.
Updated about a week ago