Social Media

Written by: John | 11th Jul 2014

How to simply integrate Social Media into your Website

Social media integration, add social media to your website to easily keep your viewers up to date with special offers and updates, via a bespoke or standard Twitter feed, Facebook status updates and “like” buttons.

By linking your social media accounts together one simple update can be shared amongst your various social media entities and directly with your website.

Want not put one on your site? Here’s how:

Twitter

  • Go to your Twitter account, select settings (the little cog) & select settings again.
  • From the menu on the left select widgets.
  • From the “Widgets” pane on the right select create new.
  • Your username should already be filled in, now select what you want from the basic options.
  • Click “Create Widget”
  • Now copy the code shown below the feed preview.
  • Paste this code into a wordpress widget “Text Area” or in the desired place on your website.

That’s it! You now have a basic twitter feed included on your website. Simple.

Facebook

Put a facebook like/Feed box on your web site.

  • Go to this address.
  • In a separate tab of your browser open the account/page you wish to use & copy the page url from the address bar.
  • Paste your url into to “Facebook Page URL” on the plugin set up page.
  • Select the required options & click “Get Code”.
  • Select “IFRAME” from the tabs on the pop uo window.
  • Paste this code into a wordpress widget “Text Area” or in the desired place on your website.

All done! you now have a Facebook feed on your site.

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