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5 February 2016

How to (easily) embed a Facebook post in WordPress

Woman browsing Facebook on laptop computer

I discovered the WP Embed Facebook WordPress plugin when wanting to copy / paste a Facebook post URL into the WordPress post / page editor and finding that it didn’t embed nicely (and automatically).

For example, when I embed a tweet like this, I just paste the URL onto a new line in the WordPress editor and it looks like this:

Just launched http://t.co/Gd6wwetv6s (WordPress website setup for busy people) pic.twitter.com/GvDApNwZUa

— Nick Davis (@nickcdavis) July 8, 2015

Doing the same with a Facebook link doesn’t have the same effect though (at least at the time of writing).

However by simply installing and activating the WP Embed Facebook plugin I was able to embed a Facebook post in a similar way just by pasting the URL of the Facebook post into the WordPress editor.

To see WP Embed Facebook in action check the following link (and scroll a little):

http://genesiswp.guide/2016-02-05/#showcase

I haven’t tested it for Facebook video, page, event, album or profile embeds. The developer says that you’ll need to set up a Facebook App for at least some of those…

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…but it claims it will work for those too and it worked for me for posts without creating a Facebook App.

How to get your Facebook post link

If you’re wondering how do you actually get the individual link for a Facebook post.

Simple hover over the date on the Facebook post you want to grab…

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Copy the link from the address bar on the next screen…

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Now, paste it into the WordPress editor on a new line wherever you want to use it…

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Dependencies

Bear in mind, of course, that if the plugin stops working or you deactivate it, you embedded posts will stop working as well!

For now though it seems a reasonable solution for those wanting to easily embed Facebook posts (and possibly other types of Facebook content) into their WordPress posts or pages.

Alternatives

Don’t want to use a plugin?

It’s possible to embed a Facebook post into WordPress without a plugin but it involves a few extra steps and fiddling with code.

Future native support?

I’m hopeful that at some point in the future WordPress will provide a solution where you can simply paste a Facebook URL straight into the editor, just like a tweet.

For now though it seems like the WP Embed Facebook plugin is the way to go!

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