Social Plugin – Metadata

Display meta information from the social network “Facebook” using either a widget or shortcode.
Currently supported meta information which can be gathered are:

• Business hours
• Page about text
• Last posted entry (incl. text, link and date)
• Show events

Check out the Installation instruction for further details

Add it through wordpress or unpack the downloaded zip file into your wp-content/plugins directory

Quick Guide

To sychronize and output meta information (E.g. Business hours, About Us, last posts) from facebook pages, follow the below steps:

1. Register as Facebook Developer and create a new Facebook App
2. Fill in the Facebook App ID and App secret from the app you just created into the Social Plugin (Menu “Tool” -> “Social Plugin – Metadata”)
3. Use the “Login and Sync” button to connect your facebook account with your Facebook App
4. Switch to the Appearance -> Widget page once successfully logged in and pick the “Social Plugin – Metadata”
5. Setup the widget for the page and content you want to display on frontend

Shortcodes

If you prefer to use Shortcodes, the below options are available

[social-businesshours page_id=”…” empty_message=””]
[social-about page_id=”…” empty_message=””]
[social-lastpost page_id=”…” limit=”…” max_age=”…” empty_message=””]
[social-events page_id=”…” filter=”…” category=”…” link=1 limit=3 upcoming=1 date_format(_start|_end)=”…”]

1. 

   The settings page

2. 

   The widget located in a side bar

3. 

   Output of the widget configured to display business hours

Changelog can be found on Github project page