Many community and niche media websites rely on the WordPress content management system, and on Facebook as a key community engagement tool. A new plugin announced today makes it easier to integrate Facebook features into Wordpress sites…

According to Facebook engineer Matt Kelly, the Facebook for Wordpress plugin requires no coding skills to install or configure. It’s also mobile-friendly and supports internationalization (especially useful for many ethnic media outlets).

“Once the plugin is installed, you can cross-post content published to WordPress to your Facebook Timeline and the Facebook Pages you manage. You can also mention the names of Pages and friends as you post to further distribute your content.”

For instance, with this plugin installed, if you mention a Facebook friend in a post to your WordPress site, that post automatically appears on that friend’s Facebook timeline.

In addition to this plugin, Facebook also offers several WordPress widgets which can integrate Facebook commenting into your site, display a custom activity feed )so people can see their friends’ activity on your site) and more.

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