Wednesday, August 7, 2013

How to embed Facebook posts in Blogger blog.

Social Media has taken the web by storm,and is now increasingly being integrated with various services.Social recommendations have now become a lot more important then they were a few years ago as compared to organic search,which goes on to show that the way the average internet surfs is changing.And it's no wonder that every social network wants you to share it's content all over the web.For that effect ,Facebook,following into the footsteps of Youtube and Twitter ,has launched embeddable posts ,which will enable blogs and websites to share status updates,pictures and videos that are on Facebook.
Sharing your Facebook posts on your blog page could help with the engagement on your site.But before you can embed a post,that particular posts needs to be public.Posts with restricted privacy settings won't be embeddable .So if you're trying to embed your own posts,make sure it is public first.
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How to Embed Facebook Posts to your site.
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Now, there are two methods to embed posts.The Embed option within Facebook posts,and the Facebook Configurator tool.Both these methods will generate a code that can be embedded on any platform or websites,and not just on Blogger.
The Embed OPTION
Facebook is introducing this option within Facebook posts.If you click on the little drop down arrow next to a post,you will see an "Embed Post" option sitting there,among other options.
                         
If it's a photo, you will see an Embed button underneath the photo where you normally find the Download and delete options.Once you click on that button,Facebook will give you an embed code which you can add any where.

Although this is the easiest way(apparently),Facebook is only slowly rolling it out to profiles and page.Right now, only about 5 Facebook pages have received this options,including Mashable ,CNN,The Huffington post etc.So for now, it doesn't have any real use.And that is what other blogs will tell you.But what they won't tell you about is the second method,with which you can embed any post!

Manually creating an embeddable post

In my opinion , this is the easier option.Nut it involves a bit more work.You first have to grab the URL of the Facebook post you want to embed.For photos, you can easily get the URL by clicking on them.But for other media, isn't as easy.At least it doesn't appear so at first.To get a post's URL,simply click on its timestamp.

        Please go to this URL: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/embedded-posts/
Paste URL i the field provided.Once your story loads in the tool, click the get code .

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