Top 10 Facebook Plugins For Your WordPress

WordPress Facebook plugins integrate with your WP blog to distribute content between your WordPress website and Facebook. These Facebook plugins for WordPress may be simple social sharing buttons to more complicated WP Facebook plugins that can synchronize and display comments between the two mediums. In our review list below, we’ve identified some of the best WordPress Facebook plugins that are available.


WordBook – This Facebook plugin alllows you to automatically post your WordPress blog publications to your Facebook profile’s wall. It will also pull in images from that post to display to your friends from their FB news feed and allow them to comment on the article at Facebook.

Fotobook – This Facebook WordPress plugin permits the user to import photo albums from Facebook to his or her own WordPress blog using the Facebook API. Photos can then be displayed on a single post, page, or via a sidebar widget. The plugin also includes a AJAX album panel for managing your photo albums.

Like – A WP plugin for Facebook that integrates the new Like button for sharing content with your Facebook friends. Features include the ability to access your Facebook fan pages, send updates to fans, change the width and height of the button, display the share count, change font and color of the button, show the Facebook profile pictures, display or hide the button anywhere on your site, and much more.

Facebook Comments for WordPress – This WP Facebook plugin will integrate Facebook commenting into your blog allowing your readers to comment using their Facebook profile. The plugin can be customized to change the look of the comments and set the maximum number of comments that should be displayed to visitors. Commenters are additionally given the opportunity to post their comment to their own FB profile.

Facebook Dashboard Widget – If you’ve ever wanted to export your Facebook friends’ updates into your blog this WordPress Facebook plugin is perfect for your needs. In additional to importing your friends’ status updates RSS feed, it also grabs your own activity feed so that you can display it a dashboard widget in your WP admin panel without logging into Facebook. The admin can set the number of items to be displayed, change the width and height of the widget, or choose to display the content in one’s sidebar.

Status Press Widget – This WP Facebook plugin lets you display your status update from Facebook in your WP blog’s sidebar via a widget. It also works with Twitter, Last.FM and other social networks that allow users to update their status.

Share on Facebook – This WP 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 – 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 – 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. The analytics are assigned to each post such that you can easily find out how effective a given article was at referring visitors to your site from Facebook.

Facebook Fan Box – If you have a Facebook fan page for your blog, you can display any recent updates and new fans using this fan box plugin. Customized settings for this WordPress plugin permits the admin to change the appearance, dimensions, stream stories, and limit the number of fans that are shown.