Integrating facebook with WordPress and vice versa
September 5, 2007 – 6:56 am | by Miriam SchwabI’ve been collecting links to WordPress plugins that link WordPress blogs to facebook profiles, but Adam Hirsch has beaten me to it and put together an excellent list of WordPress-facebook plugins that allow you to cross post articles and photos to and from Facebook, display users, status, and share posts on facebook.
When I started using facebook, I discovered a built-in way to make your facebook notes display new posts on your blog. Here’s how to do it:
- Go to your profile, and click on More under Applications.
- Click on Notes. Under My Notes, on the right-hand side, there is a link that says Edit settings. Click on that.
- Add your blog RSS feed to your settings.
Now, every time you update your blog, the post appears in your Notes, and your facebook friends will see it.
The disadvantage to this is if you have more than one blog or site, then you have to choose one to publish on your profile. In that case, it’s probably worthwhile to check out the plugins listed on Adam Hirsch’s site.
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11 Responses to “Integrating facebook with WordPress and vice versa”
By Ryan on Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
Wordbook gets my vote for most useful Wordpress-Facebook interaction … http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook/
I find it very useful for keeping my Facebook friends updated with what I post on my personal blog.
By Adam on Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the shout out! Great web site too, never knew about it, definitely adding it to my feeds that I read…
By Miriam on Sep 5, 2007 | Reply
Hey Adam: no problem, that’s a great list you put together.
I’m so glad you’ll be reading the feed, and I hope it doesn’t disappoint…
By Grifty on Sep 10, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for this post, Miriam. The Notes feature does just what I was looking for and a little bit more. Didn’t realise it was that simple.
I found your site through Adam’s blog, so thanks to him too. I will also be checking your feed from now on. Great stuff.
By Miriam on Sep 10, 2007 | Reply
Glad I could help, Grifty! I think I came across this Notes feature by accident.
Another feed subscriber - hurray!
By Ryan on Oct 4, 2007 | Reply
I found a problem with Wordbook. It doesn’t seem to work in conjunction with multiple blogs, ie: you can only feed posts from one blog to it.
By Miriam on Oct 4, 2007 | Reply
Ryan - try out what I described in my feed mashup post. I’m using it now on Facebook, and it works great. All new posts from all my blogs appear as notes in Facebook via one RSS feed.
By Ryan on Oct 5, 2007 | Reply
The problem with all routes I’ve seen to import notes so far is that you can view most of the blog post without leaving Facebook. And the new Wordpress setup I’m preparing for dunedinicehockey.co.nz will have VERY short posts. So people wont even need to leave Facebook, they’ll be able to view the entire news posts within Facebook whereas I’d rather them leave Facebook altogether to get them hooked into the site rather than relying on Facebook.
Another problem with Wordbook is that you can’t use it with multiple profiles at the same time, ie: I’d like to have members of my site display the posts on their Facebook profile, but Wordbook only works with one profile at one time.
Oh well, will probably have to go the notes route unless another solution comes along
In a nutshell: Wordbook is the best option I’ve seen so far for importing your blog posts into a single profile as long as you don’t want to use it with multiple blogs or profiles.