How To Embed Facebook Photo Album in Your WordPress Blog : eAskme |
I have already said many times to keep your photos on your web-hosting account, but in some occasions such as seminars, meets, events etc, make you catch so many photos that you allow to consume your hosting account bandwidth. So in such cases it is better to upload your photos on third party sites.
Today I am going to share how you can easily add your facebook photo album in WordPress blog. This will help you to:
- Get targeted likes to your facebook page
- Gett views on your Facebook album
I ma not saying that there are no limitations of uploading images on third party sites. If you connect your facebook photo album with WordPress then you should keep a check always in future the album you have embedded is broken due to any WordPress update or plugin. You should mentally prepare yourself before uploading your photos on Facebook. Here I am sharing two awesome WordPress plugins to easily embed Facebook albums in your WordPress blogs. You can use any of them using their shortcodes and easily configure them. I am going to feature offers mroe features and works best than the other one.
Also See : How to embed Twitter into Blogger
WP Embed Facebook: Embed Facebook Album, Fan Page into WordPress
When I have tested WP Embed plugin on one of my client site, it proved to be the best choice with more features and better options.
Embed Facebook Album Events on WordPress
WP Embed plugin is a free plugin and you can download it from here. This plugin supports:
- Facebook Albums
- Facebook Community Pages
- Facebook Events
- Facebook Fan pages
- Facebook Photos
- Facebook Publications
- Facebook Profiles
- Facebook Videos
How To Embed Facebook Photo Album in Your WordPress Blog
- Install and activate this plugin
- Go to Settings
- Embed Facebook to configure plugin settings.
- You have to add secret key and Facebook App ID
- After configuring all the settings
- Click on Save.
Now embed a Fan Page or Facebook album or Event page into WordPress blog page or post. Plugin claims that it allows you to paste album URL and embed the photo album. Although that didn't worked when I tried, so I had to use plugin Shortcode.
Shortcode of WP Embed plugin for Facebook:
[facebook=url width=200 raw=true]
You can easily use this plugin, especially if you are a blogger who love to go to the events then you should leverage the features of embed plugin in better way.
Do share how you like to use your photo albums. If you have any question or suggestion, feel free to ask me or share via comments.