{"id":2028,"date":"2009-09-14T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T02:23:46","slug":"how-to-automatically-publish-wordpress-blog-posts-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/how-to-automatically-publish-wordpress-blog-posts-to-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to automatically publish WordPress blog posts to Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facepocalypse.com\/\">Simon<\/a> sent me an email asking how to automatically publish (<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>) blog posts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a>. There are a few ways to go about it &#8211; here&#8217;s what I recommend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyvan.net\/code\/feed-facebook-leave-facebook\/\">Feed Facebook, Leave Facebook<\/a> plugin to create a custom RSS feed (with brief article text and a link to the original article).<\/li>\n<li>Follow the instructions in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2009\/07\/22\/import-your-wordpress-blog-into-facebook\/\">this WordPress.tv video<\/a>, but use the above custom RSS feed rather than your normal article feed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only real shortcoming is that the blog posts won&#8217;t appear immediately since you have to wait for Facebook to check for feed updates (maybe every couple of hours or so) before they will appear in your profile.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I think that this is best way to go about things for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Importing your main article feed usually means that the full text of your articles appear on Facebook. A partial (excerpt) feed means that interested readers visit your website for the complete article.<\/li>\n<li>When importing feeds into Facebook, it isn&#8217;t always super-clear that the source is an external website. This technique adds &#8220;[&#8230;]&#8221; (to indicate that there is more) and a &#8220;Read the rest on my blog&#8221; (to show where it came from).<\/li>\n<li>There are other plugins that post immediately, but they must do so via your Facebook account (so you need to provide them with your account details). I don&#8217;t know, this seems potentially dangerous.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really that big on Facebook. I view my blog as a sort of personal journal, and I&#8217;d prefer to have comments and conversations here so that I look back on them in future (and not lose them if\/when Facebook is no longer &#8220;the&#8221; major social networking site).<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; this initially informative post turned into a bit of a rant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon sent me an email asking how to automatically publish (WordPress) blog posts to Facebook. There are a few ways to go about it &#8211; here&#8217;s what I recommend: Install the Feed Facebook, Leave Facebook plugin to create a custom RSS feed (with brief article text and a link to the original article). 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