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Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress

Formerly "Custom Facebook Feed". Display completely customizable Facebook feeds of a Facebook page. Supports Facebook oEmbeds.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version4.15.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.1 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update2 Nov 20264h ago
Active installations100K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.7 / 5 from 1,511 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress version 4.15.1 as active, updated 4h ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Display Facebook posts on your WordPress site in an attractive feed. Completely customizable, responsive, search engine crawlable, and GDPR compliant feeds. Automatically powers any Facebook oEmbeds on your site.

“The perfect Facebook plugin with amazing support! What else do you want? ” – JoeJeffries

“I honestly cannot recommend this Facebook plugin enough. The plugin itself is gorgeous and super customizable, and if you run into trouble…support will get you out of it. ” – pamsavoybarnett

Please note: This free Facebook plugin allows you to display text and links from Facebook posts. To display photos, videos, comments, and more, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. See the Pro Version section below for more information.

Features

NEW: Now Supports Facebook oEmbeds

WordPress is no longer able to support Facebook oEmbeds without the use of a plugin. Install Custom Facebook Feeds on your website to support oEmbeds. No developer app required.

Super Simple to Set Up

One of our main priorities has always been to make our Facebook plugin as easy as possible to setup and use. Get up and running in less than 1 minute with our signature quick setup – no Facebook Developer App required.

Display Feeds from Your Facebook Page

Use the plugin to display Facebook feeds from a Facebook page that you are an admin of.

Completely Customizable

By default the feed will adopt the styles of your WordPress theme, but your feeds can be completely customized to look however you like using our visual feed customizer – with tons of options to customize every part of your feed.

Elementor and Divi Ready

Custom Facebook Feeds has a built-in Elementor and Divi block for easy page building. Simply launch your Elementor or Divi builder and find the related Custom Facebook Feed block in the sidebar like any other block.

SEO Friendly

The Facebook feed content is crawlable by search engines adding SEO value to your site. This is unlike other Facebook plugins embed the feed using iframes which are not crawlable.

GDPR Compliant

Automatically integrates with many of the popular GDPR cookie consent plugins and includes a 1-click easy GDPR setting.

Responsive and Mobile Optimized

The plugin layouts look great on any screen size and in any container width.

Unlimited Feeds from Unlimited Different Facebook Pages

We don’t limit how many Facebook feeds you can display on your site. With the use of a shortcode or block you can insert a feed into posts or widgets anywhere on your site.

Built for Speed

Built-in caching means that your Facebook feeds load lightning fast. Set how long the cache lasts until the feed updates again.

Like Box Widget and Visual Header

Include the official Facebook Like Box widget at the top or bottom of your Facebook feed and display a beautiful visual header with your Facebook page or cover photo, profile picture, bio, and number of likes.

So Much More

Show and hide certain parts of each Facebook post, choose whose posts to show in the feed, customize colors, font sizes and styles, the number of Facebook posts to display, set max text lengths, translate text, custom CSS, and much, much more.

Pro Version (Custom Facebook Feed Pro)

In order to maintain the free version of the Custom Facebook Feed plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. Custom Facebook Feed Pro allows you to display photos, videos, the number of likes, shares, reactions and comments for each Facebook post, choose from multiple layout options, filter Facebook posts by type or #hashtag/string, load more Facebook posts into your feed, and more.

Click here for a full list of all differences between the Custom Facebook Feed free and Pro versions.

  • Find out more about Custom Facebook Feed Pro
  • Try out the Custom Facebook Feed Pro demo.

Benefits of Displaying a Facebook Feed on Your Website

  • Increase social engagement between you and your users, customers, or fans
  • Save time by using the Custom Facebook Feed to generate dynamic, search engine crawlable content on your website
  • Get more likes by displaying your Facebook content directly on your site
  • Improve your SEO as all of that quality keyword-rich Facebook content from posts and Facebook comments is directly embedded into your website
  • Display your Facebook content your way to perfectly match your website’s style
  • No Coding Required – choose from tons of built-in customization options to create a truly unique feed of your Facebook content.
  • The Custom Facebook Feed plugin is updated regularly with new features, bug-fixes and Facebook API changes
  • Support is quick and effective
  • We’re dedicated to providing the most customizable, robust and well supported Facebook feed plugin in the world!

How to use the Custom Facebook Feed plugin

Once you’ve installed the plugin there are only a few steps to get up and running:

1) Use the button on the ‘Facebook Feed’ settings page to log into your Facebook account and authorize the plugin.

2) Save the plugin settings and add the [custom-facebook-feed] shortcode to any page, post, or widget where you want the Facebook feed to be displayed.

That’s it! You can then customize the Facebook feed as needed using the settings on the Facebook Feed > Customize page.

For full step-by-step setup directions with screenshots, see here.

Requesting support

Customer support is a huge deal to us. We pride ourselves on always providing quick, effective, and courteous support to all of our users. If you’re having an issue using the Custom Facebook Feed plugin then just let us know and we’ll be there to help as soon as possible.

org, or directly on the Custom Facebook Feed section of our website. We also have a large collection of help documentation and FAQs on our website for all common issues related to the Custom Facebook Feed plugin.

At Smash Balloon we have two goals:

  • Creating and maintaining the most useful, functional, customizable, robust and down-right awesomist Facebook feed plugin your website has ever seen.
  • To provide the quickest, friendliest and most mind-blowingly amazing product support you have ever experienced.
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • facebook account
  • facebook feed
  • facebook page
  • facebook posts
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.1 · PHP 7.4
Update activity2 Nov 20264h ago

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Version4.15.04.15.1
Version4.14.04.15.0
WordPress compatibility7.1.27.1.4
Version4.13.04.14.0
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.2
Version4.12.04.13.0
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