With a WordPress Facebook plugin, you can integrate Facebook with your blog or website or the other way around. Trust me there are several advantages of doing this and many businesses do it to take optimal advantage of social media marketing!
Facebook have more than 1 billion active users and without a doubt, it is one of the most important social sites to build an online presence on. Users create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. This makes Facebook great for viral marketing in specific niches.
Most serious bloggers and internet marketers are taking Facebook very seriously and treat it as a medium to promote and share stuff with their friends, followers and customers- much like Twitter. Due to the popularity of WordPress it is interesting to have good integration between Facebook and WordPress sites and this is where a WordPress Facebook plugin is useful. In this post, I have gathered some of the best Facebook WordPress plugins that among other things will help you to:
Synchronize and display comments between the two platforms
Use WordPress as CMS to generate content for Facebook pages
Easily add like buttons, widgets etc. to Facebook
Unlock content and downloads by getting likes from visitors
and much more…!
This post was just updated with more interesting Facebook plugins for WordPress and removed plugins that are now obsolete.
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.
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Premium WordPress Facebook Plugins
Both Facebook and WordPress are dominating platofrms in the markets they serve and it makes perfectly sense to integrate them in various ways. Talented WordPress plugin developers have seen this trend and offer premium solutions to help us make the integration process as simple as possible. Let me know if I missed a good plugin!
WP4FB WordPress Facebook Plugin - MORE INFO
WP4FB is a cool WordPress Facebook Plugin for making and maintaining FaceBook pages from WordPress. It offers some really special features controlling what content on Facebook your fans can see and when.
Facebook Page & Comment Integration – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin allows you to have a true integration between your WordPress blog and Facebook allowing you to manage all your content in one spot without having to post in multiple places.
SuperLike – Ajax content like system for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
SuperLike! is a content like plugin for WordPress that let you create your own customized like system in minutes. It works out of the box, admin panel is included for customization/options. Each post has a unique like button that is seperate from the others. You can have multiple like buttons for same post too.
WP Easy Social Hover – MORE INFO / DEMO
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WordPress Plugin – Easy Social Hover allows users to add multiple on hover effects with Social Network Sharing buttons to their images using standard WP media tool. Add Facebook Share, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and GooglePlus sharing to your Images with a Style!
SharePlus cool way to allow social share – MORE INFO / DEMO
Share+ is a very powerful & highly customisable social sharing WordPress plugin which creates a new social sharing experience for your site users. It comes with five pre made themes which allows for high customisability with the power of CSS.
Social Locker for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Social Locker is a set of social buttons and a locker in one bottle. It allows you to lock a part of content on a web page until a user clicks one of the social buttons (Facebook Like, Tweet Button, Google +1) and help you to get more likes/tweets/+1s, traffic and customers!
WordPressFB – Facebook Application – MORE INFO / DEMO
The easiest way to setup and manage your facebook application directly in WordPress This application automatically generates a post in the news stream of your visitors, you can publish anything you want.
In Chat – WordPress Plugin for users to chat – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin allows your registered users to chat with each other. Online users are detected and shown in different color, making people to know who is online. This plugin do not requires any third party plugins or configurations, hence can be run on any common php & mysql server.
Facebook Likebox Slider for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Nice looking slider plugin for Facebook and other social sites.
WordPress Social Share Buttons – MORE INFO / DEMO
Add jQuery social share buttons to WordPress in a stylish floating panel, toolbar or display inline. Adds buttons via jQuery for faster page loading.
Share Locker – MORE INFO / DEMO
Share Locker is a WordPress plugin that lets you hide a content on a page or a post. If a visitor wants to unlock the content, she needs to click on a social button like Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Twitter, Google+ and VK.com.
Facebook Viral Content Locker for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin enables you to lock a content (text, video, images, etc…) inside your WordPress posts or pages, and let your users only access it after connecting with their Facebook account. Your users will need to authorize your app to access your content, and you can define a message that will automatically get posted on your visitors Facebook wall. You also get your visitors emails stored in your database, and you can export your users data as a CSV format from this plugin settings page.
Social Download System for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Social Download System for WordPress gives you instant access to over 2 BILLION social media users allowing them to share your content to start downloads. Combine Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, and LinkedIn to create a social media traffic generating powerhouse of your WordPress site.
Facebook Post Planner – WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
Make it easy to post your updates to Facebook when ever you like by scheduling it. You can select the posts, pages, custom types as you like.
Social Image Hover for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Social Image Hover for WordPress combines all of the web’s most popular social services into one easy to use plugin. Social Image Hover allows you to quickly and easily add hover-over social buttons to your images on-the-fly making them instantly “shareable” on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus. Even better, the hover effects are silky smooth, cross browser, and come with multiple overlay images!
Facebook Subscribe for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Facebook Subscribe for WordPress brings you full control and support of Facebook’s New Subscribe Button social plugin. FB Sub for WordPress is the only plugin offering full shortcode + template tag support for WordPress.
Facebook Page Themes via WordPress Admin – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin comes with five fully coded Facebook Themes that can be seen on our Facebook Page. You can check the links in live preview. All aspects of each theme (images, slideshows, text, logo,etc.) can be added and edited via WordPress Admin which means you do not have to do edit html/php files. Everyone can now add and edit their own content without a hassle.
Social Traffic Pop for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Social Traffic Pop combines Facebook, Google +1, and some great Twitter features to create a very powerful social media marketing tool.
Facebook Plugins, Comments & Dialogs for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a suite of 7 Facebook plugins that can be integrated with one line of code. It’s using WordPress shortcodes to make it very simple to add a Facebook plugin or dialog into any blog post or page. The plugins also comes with 4 widgets ready to be customized + a way to automatically add a Like button and/or the Facebook comment system into all your posts and pages.
Facebook WPress Viral tool for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
This Facebook plugin for WordPress enables you to add some Facebook functionalities to your WordPress blog or website, including the Facebook connect functionalities (connecting with Facebook, creating a WordPress account using Facebook… ). This plugin also provides a way for blog owners to post updates to their user’s wall, and store their user’s emails for marketing or newsletter uses.
WordPress Like Locker – Like to Read Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a pretty cool plugin and maybe the first of its kind. It allows you to wrap your post content in a “Like Locker” that will require the user to like the post to view the content. If you have some premium content or a download (could be an ebook, source files to a tutorial) this is a great way to build virality to a valuable resource by asking visitors to spread the word before showing the link.
Facebook Like to Download for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Facebook Like to Download for WordPress allows you to turn the Like Button into a social media like / traffic building download button
Advanced Social Widget – MORE INFO / DEMO
Advanced Social Widget Adds an advanced widget box to your sidebar giving users the ability to link your site to all the popular Social Networking sites such as Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Pinterest and access to FeedBurner Email Subscription.
SocialBox – Social WordPress Widget – MORE INFO / DEMO
With SocialBox you get an absolutely easy to use WordPress Plugin which enables you to add a sleek social widget to your WordPress site or blog. It supports several social networks and displays the current numbers of Facebook Page Likes, Twitter, Dribbble, Forrst and Digg Followers and YouTube and Vimeo Channel and Feedburner Feed Subscriptions. You can enter default values which will be shown as a fallback if the related API is not reachable.
attentionGrabber: WordPress Notification Bar – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is not directly a Facebook plugin, but it allows you to grab the attention of your visitors by placing a simple, fully customizable banner on your site. attentionGrabber is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a notification bar in your website or blog. With this plugin you can easily display Facebook Like button, custom texts, Twitter posts and even Feed RSS.
WordPress Social Share – MORE INFO / DEMO
The WP Social Share plugin lets your users share your pages using different social networks in a new and elegant way.
Exit Through Facebook Like – MORE INFO / DEMO
Exit Through Facebook Like is a plugin that raises popup box once user clicked any external links in your posts/pages or comments. Popup box suggests user either to Like your webpage on Facebook for immediate redirection to target link or to wait some time to be redirected. Delay period, content and size of popup box is configured through settings page. Settings page also has an option to exclude any external links from consideration.
Free Facebook Plugins for WordPress
There are certainly free plugins that you can use to integrate Facebook and WordPress. I have collected some of the most useful I know of here, but if I missed a good one I hope you will let me know in a comment.
Add Link to Facebook - MORE INFO
Add your WordPress links to Facebook with a custom post using Add Link to Facebook plugin. The plugin allows its user to set up where their links come from and adds these links immediately to Facebook in a customized status template. This plugin also has a PRO version here.
Facebook AWD All in one – MORE INFO
Facebook AWD is an all in one Facebook capabilities for WordPress. Add like button, like box, activity box, FB Comments, Open Graph and FB connect
Custom Facebook Feed - MORE INFO
Custom Facebook Feed is a plugin that imports your Facebook feed and displays them on your site as a feed or turns them into a post. It’s look can be customized to fit your theme’s color and design. Plus, it’s search engine crawlable which is good for boosting SEO rankings.
NextEnd Facebook Connect - MORE INFO / DEMO
Register with just one click using your Facebook account or any Social Media account you have like Google+ and Twitter. Take away the hassle of long registrations and log-ins by using this amazing plugin.
Facebook Members – MORE INFO
Facebook Members is a WordPres Social Plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. It uses Facebook Like Box.
Facebook Like Box Widget – MORE INFO
Facebook Like Box Widget is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes & Recommendation Comments from their own website. The Like Box enables users to: see how many users already like this page, and which of their friends like it too, read recent posts from the page and Like the page with one click, without needing to visit the page.
Facebook AWD SEO Comments – MORE INFO
This plugin merge Facebook Comments with native WordPress Comments System. Need Facebook AWD All in One plugin.
WordPress Wassup Plugin – MORE INFO
WassUp is a WordPress plugin to track your visitors in real time. It has a very readable and fancy admin console to keep tracks of your blog’s users visits.
WP Facebook Like Send & Open Graph Meta – MORE INFO
Add Facebook Like and Send buttons in your WordPress posts or pages. If the user is already logged into Facebook, the plugin display profile photos below the button of a user’s friends who have liked the URL specified.
Facebook Like Button Plugin – MORE INFO
Facebook Button Plugin allows you to add follow button in the most easiest and flexible way.
JanRain RPX – MORE INFO
JanRain RPX WordPress Facebook plugin allows your site to accept logins via various methods, including Facebook Connect, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, MySpaceID, AOL, Windows Live ID and OpenID. After installing this plugin, your users can sign-in and commenting to your blog through these providers and have the providers icons beside the commenters.
Simple Facebook Connect – MORE INFO
A WordPress Facebook plugin that adds Facebook Connect login abilities to your WP blog permitting readers to comment using their Facebook profile. The plugin also allows you to manually publish your blog posts to your FB profile, an FB application, or a Facebook fan page. Other add-ons for this plugin can extend its functionality to import other great features geared toward integrating with Facebook and promoting your website’s content there.
Facebook Panel - MORE INFO
Add a nifty little, floating Facebook icon on your site that lets visitors share your content easily with just a click of a button. The floating Facebook icon reveals a sliding panel that contains Like and Send Buttons as well as a comment area. With this feature, you can immediately share content without copy pasting URLS inside Facebook.
Sharepress - MORE INFO
Sharepress shares your content to Facebook and Twitter accounts. Integrate your Facebook application to start linking your posts to Facebook immediately.
Facebook Share Statistics – MORE INFO
This handy WordPress Facebook plugin provides the administrator with statistics and charts about how many of your site’s posts have been shared on Facebook, how many Likes they’ve accumulated, the number of Facebook comments that were created per post, and how many visits from Facebook each post generated for you.
Gigya Socialize – MORE INFO
Gigya allows you to authenticate users through Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and AOL. Beside this, you can update your social networking sites within your blog and invite your friends to visit your blog through this plugin. Upon activation, just go to Gigya website and get your API and Scret Keys to use this plugin.
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Facebook Posted Items plugin allows you to display posted items from Facebook on your blogs. The fetched post items are in unordered list and you can style them easily. The plugin page shows you how to get the link for your Facebook posted items.
Author : Dustin Betonio
Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. His earlier career was devoted on customer service outside the information highway. Currently studying Law in the same University.