45+ Useful WordPress Facebook Plugins – Integrate WordPress and Facebook!

by Dustin Betonio on June 3, 2013

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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 WordPress Facebook Plugin

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

Facebook Page & Comment Integration

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 - Ajax content like system for WordPress

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

WP Easy Social Hover¨

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

SharePlus cool way to allow social share

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 for WordPress

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

WordpressFB - Facebook Application

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

In Chat - WordPress Plugin for users to chat

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

Facebook Likebox Slider for WordPress

Nice looking slider plugin for Facebook and other social sites.

WordPress Social Share Buttons – MORE INFO / DEMO

WordPress Social Share Buttons

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

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

Facebook Viral Content Locker for WordPress

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

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 / DEMO

Facebook Post Planner - WordPress Plugin

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

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

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

Facebook Page Themes via WordPress Admin

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 for WordPress

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

Facebook Plugins, Comments & Dialogs for WordPress

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 Walleria – WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO

Facebook Walleria - WordPress Plugin

Facebook Walleria is a WordPress Plugin that embeds a number of Facebook Objects into your website. It uses the Facebook Graph to pull information about Albums, Photos, Feed, Comments, Events and presents the information on your website in a sleek style. Instead of doing a double job of updating your site and Facebook profile, Facebook Walleria enables you to update your albums, events and feed on Facebook with the changes appearing in real-time on your website.

Facebook WPress Viral tool for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO

Facebook WPress Viral tool for WordPress 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

Wordpress Like Locker - Like to Read Plugin

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

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

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

SocialBox – Social WordPress Widget

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

attentionGrabber: WordPress Notification Bar

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

Wordpress Social Share

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

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.

Facebook AWD All in one – MORE INFO

Facebook AWD All in one

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

Facebook Members – MORE INFO

Facebook Members

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

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

Facebook AWD SEO Comments

This plugin merge Facebook Comments with native WordPress Comments System. Need Facebook AWD All in One plugin.

WordPress Wassup Plugin – MORE INFO

WordPress Wassup Plugin

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

WP Facebook Like Send & Open Graph Meta

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 Like Button Plugin

Facebook Button Plugin allows you to add follow button in the most easiest and flexible way.

JanRain RPX – MORE INFO

JanRain RPX

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.

Share on Facebook – MORE INFO

Share on Facebook

This WordPress Facebook plugin creates a simple link on the bottom of your WordPress post or page that visitors can use to share your site’s content on Facebook. The admin can set the link to display as simple text, a Facebook icon, or a “Share on Facebook” button either automatically or using the plugin’s template tag.

Simple Facebook Connect – MORE INFO

Simple Facebook Connect

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 Share Statistics – MORE INFO

Facebook Share Statistics

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 Socialize

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

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.

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majnooncomputer June 13, 2012 at 2:58 am

thx nuddy

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compliance software solution June 20, 2012 at 6:19 pm

All plugins are superb

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Raheel Mushtaq June 19, 2012 at 2:19 pm

i just like a dding facebook like box which works quite well :)

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Pavan Somu July 4, 2012 at 4:24 am

Awesome Facebook plugins. But most of them are premium. People will prefer free plugins than premium most times.

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David July 18, 2012 at 9:07 pm

What an extensive review of plugins, thanks for taking the time to put this together.

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SlickRemix July 21, 2012 at 2:10 am

Your missing ours! :)
We wrote this one for people who want to post a Facebook Group Feed onto your website!? Check out our wordpress plugin!! Share this with all of your friends who might be interested its the only plugin of its kind!

http://www.slickremix.com/product/jal-facebook-group/

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Barbei July 23, 2012 at 1:02 am

Nice post. this is a vere yuse full and helpfull .. thanks

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zigga August 3, 2012 at 1:23 am

thanks for sharing. nice article

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Aaron C. Yeagle August 5, 2012 at 1:58 am

I have used several of these and they are all good. Premium plugins are worth every penny.

I have been trying to find a Facebook gateway as a plugin or app.

I want to have a form with 3 items of input – answering the question: What 3 things make you happy? – and when the user clicks “Send” it creates a “Like” and requests permission to post to their Facebook page where it posts those 3 things.

Any ideas?

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Candra August 9, 2012 at 3:34 pm

Excellent Facebook plugins! I had no idea so many were available. Thanks!

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japanese maples August 10, 2012 at 2:19 pm

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Ali September 5, 2012 at 6:12 pm

I have never seen a list like this one.
very useful really.
Thanks for sharing :)

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Osiris September 25, 2012 at 8:46 pm

Ali, yeah I totally agree.
This list is heavy. And unique.

I’m glad I got to see some FB
plugins towards the end of
the list that were free and
by other developers.

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Dario September 6, 2012 at 1:53 pm

Thanks for great list of plugins. I’ve used one on my blog.

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pepe September 21, 2012 at 7:13 pm

why not 200+ Best WordPress Facebook Plugins?
(ironic mode one)

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fun88 September 22, 2012 at 2:34 am

I will be back for reading your content again. Thank you for great information and good stuff.

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12bet September 22, 2012 at 2:34 am

Thank you for great information and good stuff.

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Gouri September 30, 2012 at 9:53 am

Such a robust collection.. didn’t know about many of them.

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annesofie October 2, 2012 at 1:20 pm

Yah it is quite amazing how many WP Plugins JUST for Facebook is out there… I hope you liked the article :)

Best regards,
Sofie

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eli October 1, 2012 at 3:46 am

This extension is very cool… it’s actually make peace between Google and Facebook and enable us to search at Google directly from facebook search box:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lheplhmgjfbljpocjpdfkjonbkapepim

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amrmoghny October 2, 2012 at 3:13 pm

Greeting! They are really awesome ones .. Thanks =)

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Tech Forum October 2, 2012 at 11:01 pm

thank you so much for this great informative article..

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are stretch marks October 17, 2012 at 5:04 pm

This web site definitely has all of the information
and facts I wanted concerning this subject and didn’t know who to
ask.

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Cloe Blanchet October 19, 2012 at 6:07 am

Which one of these plugins lets you suggest what someone should post on their wall?
eg if someone subscribes to something or buys something – I would like a plugin that says “check this out…” or “I’ve just brought….” or whatever the marketing message is.

Which plugin is best for that application?

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Jaswanth Raj October 19, 2012 at 7:02 pm

Thank you..nice article :)

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junnydc October 20, 2012 at 12:10 pm

thanks for the facebook likebox by icrunch. installed it and worked like a charm

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meble January 5, 2013 at 3:48 am

thanks for that list, very helpful

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sandeep October 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm

thanks and nice post sir…..

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bigbudhiphop October 24, 2012 at 4:53 am

great thx you !

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Nali@dogs October 27, 2012 at 11:14 am

thanks for this great article.I was searching in google from the

last couple of days about facebook plugins.But unfortunately i

din’t find any great way.But now my journey comes to an end.Thanks

a lot for your great and informative article.If you post some more

interested articles like this in future.Please suggest me.
I will surely gonna read it
Nali

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Lars October 28, 2012 at 11:15 pm

Thanks for your feedback Nali, glad it helped you out!

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Trucos Apalabrados October 28, 2012 at 6:11 pm

It’s been very useful for my website!

Thanks.

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Credevator November 11, 2012 at 7:06 am

useful stuff …
i was looking for that ..
thnx for the info

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Scoruri Live November 11, 2012 at 9:56 am

Thanks for the list. I take one.

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Ricky1990 December 8, 2012 at 2:55 am

Thanks for great post. I like Content Locker Plugin.

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Isah December 19, 2012 at 1:25 pm

Your post is cool.
I’m having a problem auto directing my blog post to facebook. Need a plugin for that.

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nurdin.nurung December 25, 2012 at 9:38 am

can we use cutom color for likebox facebook plugin? I just see dark and light color..

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Travaux December 29, 2012 at 12:58 pm

very nice collection of fb plugins, thanks for share!

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Anthony Robert January 13, 2013 at 6:11 pm

Has anyone noticed an improvement in comment activity or traffic related to FB comments vs native or Disqus comments?

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Gloria Slater January 18, 2013 at 5:06 pm

After spending two confusing days on the fan page connect plugin, this is fresh air. Have found a few possibilities for replacing this fiasco plugin and getting on with my life. Thanks.

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Gemma W. February 9, 2013 at 11:37 am

Thanks for the list.

I think you’ve forgotten Facebook’s official plugin which includes pretty much everything. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/

It’s the best FB plugin I’ve used so far.

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annesofie February 9, 2013 at 2:12 pm

Thank you for adding that Plugin to the list.
Kind regards,
Sofie

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solaymane February 21, 2013 at 2:08 am

Excellent Facebook plugins..

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Shayari February 25, 2013 at 6:10 pm

Thnks was looking for these kinds of plugins

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stylizacje March 2, 2013 at 5:49 am

very nice list of plugins!

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Joseph Mai March 8, 2013 at 10:16 am

Facebook Viral Content Locker is quit obsolete, you may find another plugin WP viral locker. it’s more advanced.

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Hasad House March 12, 2013 at 7:06 am

There are 40 plugins are available in this blog but i like Facebook Likebox Slider because Facebook Likebox Slider is a flexible plugin with Facebook faces, stream and header. Very easy to install and configure with nice design.

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Alan Jaen April 18, 2013 at 1:22 am

I tried with Facebook Members, its free and easy!

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Belinda April 30, 2013 at 7:26 am

thanks for this article, will try these plugins out on my wordpress site besthideipsoftware.com

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ox April 30, 2013 at 7:55 pm

Guys, since you are obviously moderating comments here why don’t you take a minute and weed out all the backlink BS?

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Chandler May 9, 2013 at 7:00 am

Facebook social plugin caused 8 Errors while validating… Anyone know a better solutions that looks close to the same way as the widget…?

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Sandler May 14, 2013 at 12:07 pm

An Intelligently complied list of WordPress Facebook plugins. However, I would like one more plugin that does the job quite well. Its the Jetpack provided by WordPress. Its a wonderful plugin to share your content over Facebook and other social media network.

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Playdraft May 22, 2013 at 2:57 am

Post planner is awesome but its a paid one. The rest is really great

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Roland May 24, 2013 at 10:58 pm

A lots of useful information, thanks. Btw: There is also a tool called FeedWordpress, this tool imports sticky posts with simple data from you facebook page into your Wordpress Blog. You only need to insert the RSS from your Facebook page.

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