5 Cool Facebook-Related WordPress Plugins Plugin

5 Cool Facebook-Related WordPress Plugins

December 9, 2009  /  Dian Ara  /    0

Facebook is the most popular social networking site today; more than half a million new users register to it everyday. Installing a Facebook plugin to your WordPress site enables your site visitors to easily share the posts. Here are 5 cool Facebook-related WordPress plugins.

Add to Facebook
Once you install this plugin on your WordPress site, you can see a footer link at the bottom of each post. By clicking on this link, user will be asked to sign in to his/her Facebook account and the post will be automatically added to his/her Facebook mini-feed.
You can choose to display either a text link “Share on Facebook” or a Facebook button or both combined at the bottom of each post.

Facebook Dashboard Widget
It is a dashboard widget that allows you to see all of your friends’ Facebook updates, even if the Facebook site is blocked.

Feed Facebook, Leave Facebook
It allows you to post a note in Facebook containing an excerpts of your WordPress post. You can use it to direct your Facebook visitors to your blog; by clicking the “View original post” below the note they will go straight to your WordPress post page.

Facebook CommentsTNG
It pulls comments from imported Facebook notes back to your WordPress site. It displays a manual import button to manually import comments, daily and hourly timers, a limit option to limit how far the plugin goes and an e-mail field to be set if you have a gravatar to use.

Sharecount for Facebook
It displays the number of times the current page has been shared on Facebook. It also allows your WordPress site visitors to share it themselves. It uses awe.sm for tracking and offers Google Analytics integration. No need to have an awe.sm account though.