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Sync your WordPress blog with your Facebook profile

Posted by Joemar | Filed under Technology

Facebook is the most blogger-friendly social networking site I have ever known, specially if your blogging platform is WordPress. For a hosted WordPress blog, like mine, there are many ways to let your blog and your Facebook profile synchronize and interact.

First, your posts can be automatically fetched by Facebook and an announcement with a summary is displayed in your profile wall. Second, excerpts of your blog posts can be automatically posted as notes in your profile. So all you have to do is write and publish your posts and Facebook will just fetch these for you – no need to copy and paste into Facebook notes or to manually announce in your wall. And of course, the third, you can create a profile badge in Facebook that you can display in your blog’s sidebar as a widget. I’m sure you want to ask how…so here it is:

1. Download the latest version of WordBook – it’s the wordpress plugin you will use to automate the announcement of new posts in your wall – add, install, and activate it. (I’m assuming here that you have the latest version of WordPress, version 2.7). After activation, don’t forget to fix its settings, where you have to enter a code you can get from Facebook. Just go to the settings page for this plugin and I’m sure it will be easy for you to follow on how to make this work.

2. Log in to your Facebook account, proceed to Notes, click on a link to import feeds from a blog, enter the URL of your RSS feed and submit.

3. Create a profile badge by going to your Profile, click on Create a Profile Badge link located in the bottom left portion of your profile page. Customize your badge, copy the HTML code and paste to a text widget in your WordPress blog.

Facebook is great!

Tags: blogging, facebook, wordpress

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