Grab Facebook posts and display on WP

[dev]

What is the plugin or code of choice to grab the latest (say 5) posts from your website and display them in a WP widget area?

A client is asking for this and I was honest with her saying I didn't know how to do that but would find out.

Would really appreciate any help on this.

[CleanPageDom]

Hi there

I've used Custom Facebook Feed a few times in the past, which seems to be pretty straightforward. Feed has to come from a Facebook Page or Group, though, not a personal Facebook account.

Thanks
Dom

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[dev]

What do you mean by a "Facebook Page?" vs. a "personal Facebook account"? She has a FB account for her book:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mommy-Loves-Baby/366034080200279?ref=hl

Will plugin capture posts to above?

(Obviously, I'm not a FB expert!)

Thanks!

[CleanPageDom]

I'm no expert either. I mean a page or group as in a company/community project or public group as opposed to, say, my personal Facebook profile (this violates FB's TOS).

Your friend's page is a Page (as it were!) so it should be fine.

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[nunotmp]

You can use this Facebook social plugin Like Box Plugin you can configure to your liking on that page and embed the code into a text widget in your sidebar.

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[dev]

@nunotmp That Like Box code worked great. I popped the header stuff in the Genesis Settings Header box and the other code in a Text Widget and popped it in a sidebar.

If you want to see what it looks like it is at a work-in-progress site: http://curtischristinepress.com/wp/

I worked for a while trying to turn the headers from FB from blue to green but could not find the right CSS to do it. Sooner or later I'll figure it out. The blue does not go well with the site. The 'stuff' that works in Chrome's "inspect element" tool, did not work when put into the CSS file (I use a 'custom.css' file on sites which I slurp in with some code in functions.php.)

If anyone knows how to turn the blue to green, that would be great! But thank you so much for this Like Box. I would have NEVER found it. (And since the code is from FB, I'm sure it's safe and will work well... which is seems to.)

[dev]

Well, I spoke too soon. While the code in Like Box worked well in a sidebar at 1140 screen width, it was not responsive. I found that here are a zillion different ways to make this iframe responsive but none of them seem to have it totally right in my testing.

The Custom Facebook Feed plugin worked OK... except you don't get graphics unless you upgrade to their $50 per year deal which client thinks is too expensive for the one feature they want. We can live with the text-only portion.

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