Free social feed widget
Milap Pater developed Widget for Social Page Feeds. This plugin lets you use a widget to display your Facebook feeds in the WordPress sidebar. It’s compatible with WordPress 3.0.1 and up. You can download the free WP plugin in ten languages.
This plugin allows you to add the application ID as well as the URL for your page. It gives you the option to show or hide certain elements and offers shortcode support. Alternative options include Smash Balloon, Feed Them Social, and Walls.io.
Create a Facebook feed
Widget for Social Page Feeds gives you a simple way to display your Facebook feed in your sidebar. It adds a widget with simple configuration options. First, you can add a title, for example, ‘Like Us On Facebook’. Then, you capture your application ID and your Facebook Page URL. You can select from the following:
- Show posts from the Page timeline
- Hide the cover
- Show profile photos when a friend likes this
- Show a small header
- Adapt to plugin container width.
Next, you set the width and height and select a language. For further customization, the plugin offers a block to add Custom CSS shortcodes. Use [fb_widget] in the Custom CSS block to display your feed in a post or page.
Once you have saved your changes, your site visitors can check out your feed in your WordPress sidebar.
Privacy concerns
There aren’t any major privacy concerns while using this plugin. It doesn’t use cookies, track users, write personal data to your database, or send any user data to external servers.
What about Twitter?
If you prefer to display your Twitter feed, you can do so with the Ultimate Twitter Feeds widget. It will let you show profile feeds, list feeds, and single tweets.
Social feeds on your sidebar
The Widget for Social Page Feeds plugin adds a widget to WordPress that lets you display your Facebook feeds on your sidebar. It’s simple to set up and offers a few customization options. You can also use Custom CSS codes to add the feed to your posts and pages. Never worry about privacy since it doesn’t use cookies, track users, or collect any data.
The developer made a few changes in the latest release. It includes a new code for a review link notice in admin, code optimization, and a fix for code readability.
