Syncing Your Blog To Your Facebook Profile

In most cases, this is not what you want to do. You likely do not want to automatically post your school’s blog content to your personal Facebook Profile. In most cases, you’ll want to sync your blog’s content with your school’s public Facebook Page. I show you how to do that here.

The only time you might want to automatically post blog content to your personal profile is if, for example, the Superintendent (or Principle or a Teacher) has a blog that they want to promote to their Friends on Facebook. This is the only time you would want to automatically post your blog content to your Personal Facebook Profile. In all other cases, I recommend you sync you blog’s content with your Facebook Page…. and you can learn how to do that by simply clicking here.

The easiest way to cross-post your WordPress blog posts to your Facebook Profile is to use a plug-in called “WordBook.”

Download the WordBook plug-in here.

To install the plug-in

  1. Download the ZIP file.
  2. Unzip the ZIP file.
  3. Upload the wordbook directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your website.
  4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  5. Navigate to Options ? Wordbook for configuration and follow the on-screen prompts.
You’ll need to be logged into Facebook in order to install the plug-in.

Once you’ve activated the plugin, you’ll need to click a link that goes to a specific Facebook page where you need to allow the plug-in to access your Facebook data. You’ll then receive a “One Time Code” which you need to enter is your Wordbook application page

Once you’ve done that, you’ll be prompted to add a Facebook App (application) to your account.

From then on out, your Facebook “mini-feed” will syndicate your latest blog posts. However, it will only add future (new) blog posts and not the old ones, so you may need to publish a post or two to see the results.

You latest blog posts will be mixed in with your latest Facebook profile activities, and the Wordbook WordPress plugin will also syndicate any images on your blog (resized) to your Facebook profile.

The disadvantage of using a plug-in like this is:

  • You can only use the plug-in with one blog, which means you can’t have multiple blogs feeding into your Facebook Profile.
  • Also, the plug-in syndicates ALL posts. This means that you can not pick and choose which posts should appear in Facebook and which ones should not.

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