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 mobiles and support i18n (or internationalization)
That's what Matt Kelly, engineer at Facebook had to say on the Facebook developers blog yesterday. The social network giant has released the Facebook plugin for WordPress (available here) with an intention to cover the vast majority of the bloggers and website owners who use the WordPress platform for their sites. This doesn't come as a surprise since WordPress is the most widely used platform for publishing content. It alone accounts for nearly 17 percent of all sites and, if you can believe it, 49 of the top 100 blogs use WordPress as their publishing and sharing platform(reports CNET). The list includes giants like CNN and New York Times. Some of them it seems are already using the plugin to wider their social reach with ease. Interested users may head here for the installation instructions of the plugin.
Matt further clarifies that after you are done installing the plugin, you could cross post the content published to WordPress to your Facebook Timeline as well as the Facebook Pages that you may manage. To be able to mention the names of your friends and pages as you share the content is more of a bonus. While you can also comment on any post that may be trending on the social network.
The Facebook Plugin For WordPress nearly has all the features that you are used to on the web version of the social network. So you will have the Like, Send and Subscribe buttons. The Comments ability is included with SEO support; You will be able to click the Recommendations bar to start getting recommendations. You will be able to Like content and also able to add the what you are reading to your Timeline.
There will be added widgets for support. Here is a look to what they are and what for:
Facebook Plugin For WordPress has the current version as 1.0 and is compatible with WordPress 3.1.1 or higher(up to 3.4). The plugin has already been downloaded nearly 11K times. According to WordPress.org page, it seems to have an average rating so far; with 23 ratings.
The Facebook Plugin For WordPress nearly has all the features that you are used to on the web version of the social network. So you will have the Like, Send and Subscribe buttons. The Comments ability is included with SEO support; You will be able to click the Recommendations bar to start getting recommendations. You will be able to Like content and also able to add the what you are reading to your Timeline.
There will be added widgets for support. Here is a look to what they are and what for:
Facebook Plugin For WordPress has the current version as 1.0 and is compatible with WordPress 3.1.1 or higher(up to 3.4). The plugin has already been downloaded nearly 11K times. According to WordPress.org page, it seems to have an average rating so far; with 23 ratings.
Are you using this plugin on your blog?
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