Continuing our series on helpful WordPress plugins we use and recommend for our clients…

Wordbook

Having a presence on social networking sites like Facebook is almost as important as having a website at all (even more so in some cases). So when it comes to getting your message out, it’s handy to be able to post it to your blog and not have to turn around and then also post it to Facebook. That’s where Wordbook comes in. It’s a great little plugin that takes each blog post and submits it automatically to your Facebook feed (photos and all) without having to install a special application at Facebook. Once activated the plugin will ask you to visit Facebook and generate a “one-time code,” which is similar to an API Key like we’ve discussed in previous posts. The Wordbook settings screen provides a link to Facebook that will generate this code, so it’s all very easy to do. Just click the link, login to Facebook, follow the directions and it will spit out your code. Then take that (copy and paste will do nicely) and give it to the Wordbook settings screen and voila!

One caveat, though: If you go back and edit a blog post after it has been published, Wordbook will immediately repost it back to your Facebook feed as if it’s new. Avoid this by temporarily deactivating the plugin just before you make the edit and then reactivate it after the edit is published.

Check out the Wordbook plugin home page for more information or to download it yourself. As usual, don’t forget to donate to the author!

Next time we’ll cover Widgets Reloaded, a great replacement for some of WordPress’s stock widgets.