How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

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If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a Wordpress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that.

Step 1

Login into Facebook. Under Profile, look for Mini Feed column, click on See All.

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Step 2

Under Mini Feed, click on ‘Status Stories‘ on the right column. Scroll all the way to the bottom, look for ‘My Status

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Step 3

Copy the link of My Status, and we are about to use this in Wordpress blog. Your link will look something like the following:

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Step 4 (Wordpress)

Under Wordpress admin, Navigate to Design -> Widget. Look for RSS Widget, add it to your side bar.

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Step 5

Paste the copied URL inside, give it a name, save and your Facebook statuses (or status depends on how many you display) will now appear on your Wordpress blog.

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Posted by hongkiat in Wordpress, Wordpress Tips Tricks , at 06.14.08

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Comments

  1. Welcome to Paradise June 14th, 2008

    Thanks mate, this is a super cool tip.

    Reply
  2. AhTim June 18th, 2008

    Nice tricks. But I prefer twitter as my main micro-blogging platform.

    –blog for dream–

    Reply
  3. Matt August 26th, 2008

    Thanks for the help! This is exactly what I was trying to do and your steps worked perfectly.

    Reply

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