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<p>Social Bridge is a WordPress plugin that connects your website with social media platforms, importing comments, likes, and shares from social posts to display them on your WordPress site.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Integrates WordPress with Bluesky and Mastodon</li>
<li>Supports plugin extensions for additional platforms</li>
<li>Imports comments, likes, and shares from social media posts</li>
<li>Displays social interactions as WordPress comments</li>
<li>Shows shares as pingbacks</li>
<li>Includes a block and shortcode to display user like avatars</li>
<li>Periodic synchronization via WordPress cron</li>
<li>Custom meta boxes in post editors to link social media posts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h3>Bluesky Integration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge and click on the Bluesky tab</li>
<li>Enter your Bluesky handle (e.g., username.bsky.social)</li>
<li>Generate an App Password in your Bluesky account settings and enter it in the plugin settings</li>
<li>Save changes</li>
</ol>
<h3>Mastodon Integration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge and click on the Mastodon tab</li>
<li>Enter your Mastodon instance URL (e.g., https://mastodon.social)</li>
<li>Generate an access token in your Mastodon preferences under Development <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Applications</li>
<li>Enter the access token in the plugin settings</li>
<li>Save changes</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h3>Connecting Social Media Posts</h3>
<ol>
<li>When creating or editing a post/page, you’ll see platform-specific meta boxes in the sidebar</li>
<li>Paste the URL of your social media post in the appropriate field</li>
<li>Update the post</li>
<li>The plugin will automatically sync comments, likes, and shares from the social media post</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manual Sync</h3>
<ol>
<li>Edit a post that has connected social media posts</li>
<li>In the Social Interactions meta box, click the Sync button next to a platform</li>
<li>The plugin will immediately import any new interactions</li>
</ol>
<h3>Comment Appearance</h3>
<p>In Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge, you can configure how social media comments appear:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fully integrated: Comments look like native WordPress comments</li>
<li>Styled differently: Comments retain their social media identity but appear in the same section</li>
<li>Separate section: Social media comments appear below WordPress comments</li>
</ul>
<h3>Extending the Plugin</h3>
<p>Social Bridge supports extensions for additional social media platforms. Developers can create add-on plugins that register new platform integrations using the provided API.</p>
<p>To create an extension:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a new plugin that depends on Social Bridge</li>
<li>Create a class that extends <code>Social_Bridge_Integration</code></li>
<li>Implement the required abstract methods</li>
<li>Register your integration using the <code>social_bridge_integrations</code> filter</li>
</ol>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
<p>// Register a new integration<br />
function my_plugin_register_integration($integrations) {<br />
    $integrations[‘twitter’] = new My_Twitter_Integration();<br />
    return $integrations;<br />
}<br />
add_filter(‘social_bridge_integrations’, ‘my_plugin_register_integration’);<br />
    `</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>Social Bridge includes built-in integration for two social media platforms: Bluesky and Mastodon.<br />
When enabled, Social Bridge interacts with the APIs of these platforms to retrieve data<br />
from social media posts specified by authors on your site.</p>
<p>These integrations do not transmit any user data from your site to the third-party<br />
platforms. However, they will use the authentication or API credentials you provide<br />
in the Social Bridge settings to access the respective platforms.</p>
<p>The plugin will only communicate with these platforms when explicitly configured to<br />
do so—such as when a post on your site includes social media links in the Social Interactions metabox.</p>
<p>After configured both in the plugin settings and on individual posts, Social Bridge will routinely<br />
re-communicate with these platforms, in order to update its cache of social media comments, likes and shares.</p>
<p>You can review Bluesky’s privacy policies <a href="https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a><br />
and <a href="https://bsky.social/about/support/network-services-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>For Mastodon, each server maintains its own privacy policy. You should review the policy<br />
of the specific server you use. As an example, the mastodon.social policy is<br />
available <a href="https://mastodon.social/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


Social Bridge

Social Bridge integrates WordPress with social media platforms and allows for comment synchronization.

Marcin Pietrzak

<p><strong>Effortless Open Graph & Social Metadata for WordPress</strong></p>
<p><strong>No configuration. Just activate and enjoy optimized sharing across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and more!</strong></p>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>OG — Better Share on Social Media is the ultimate zero-configuration plugin to supercharge your WordPress site’s visibility on social networks. Instantly add essential Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata to every page, post, product, and archive—no setup required.</p>
<p>Whether you’re a blogger, business owner, or developer, OG ensures your content looks great when shared, driving more clicks and engagement from social platforms.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Zero Configuration:</strong> Just install and activate. OG automatically generates all required Open Graph and Twitter Card tags.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Image Selection:</strong> Picks the best image for each page (featured image, first in content, or fallback) for rich social previews.</li>
<li><strong>Comprehensive Metadata:</strong> Adds og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, og:url, and more for all content types.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Support:</strong> Enhances product pages with price, currency, availability, and more.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced Video Handling:</strong> Detects YouTube/Vimeo links and uses their thumbnails for social sharing.</li>
<li><strong>Twitter Card Integration:</strong> Includes summary cards, titles, descriptions, images, and video support.</li>
<li><strong>Pinterest & Related Content:</strong> Integrates with related posts plugins to add Pinterest-specific tags.</li>
<li><strong>Extensible for Developers:</strong> Powerful filters and hooks let you customize or extend metadata output.</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual Ready:</strong> Supports WPML and other translation plugins for global sites.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install & Activate:</strong> No settings page, no complicated options.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Tag Injection:</strong> OG scans your site and injects optimal Open Graph and Twitter Card tags into the <code><head></code> of every page.</li>
<li><strong>Smart Image Logic:</strong> Selects the best image for each page (custom field, featured image, content image, or default).</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce & Custom Post Types:</strong> Automatically adapts to products, archives, and custom content.</li>
</ol>
<h3>What Metadata is Added?</h3>
<h3>For All Content Types:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>og:locale</strong> – Site language</li>
<li><strong>og:site_name</strong> – Blog/site title</li>
<li><strong>og:title</strong> – Dynamic page/post title</li>
<li><strong>og:url</strong> – Canonical URL</li>
<li><strong>og:type</strong> – “article” for single posts, “website” for others</li>
<li><strong>og:description</strong> – SEO description or site tagline</li>
</ul>
<h3>For Single Posts/Pages:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>og:image</strong> – Smart selection (custom, featured, content, gallery, or default)</li>
<li><strong>og:video</strong> – YouTube/Vimeo support</li>
<li><strong>article:author</strong> – Author profile link</li>
<li><strong>article:published_time</strong> – Original publish date</li>
<li><strong>article:modified_time</strong> – Last update date</li>
<li><strong>article:tag</strong> – Post tags</li>
<li><strong>twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image, twitter:player</strong> – Full Twitter Card support</li>
<li><strong>og:see_also</strong> – Related content for Pinterest</li>
</ul>
<h3>For WooCommerce Products</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>og:price:amount</strong> – Product price</li>
<li><strong>og:price:currency</strong> – Currency code</li>
<li><strong>og:availability</strong> – Stock status</li>
</ul>
<h3>Get Involved</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Found a bug?</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/og/" rel="ugc">Report it in the support forum</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Have a feature idea?</strong> Start a discussion in the forum.</li>
<li><strong>Developer?</strong> Contribute on <a href="https://github.com/iworks/og" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Choose OG?</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Beginner-friendly:</strong> No setup required—perfect for non-technical users.</li>
<li><strong>Powerful:</strong> Covers all major social networks and content types.</li>
<li><strong>Flexible:</strong> Easily extend or override for advanced use cases.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight:</strong> No bloat, no slowdowns.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Install OG — Better Share on Social Media today and make every share count!</strong></p>


OG — Better Share on Social Media

Great and easy way to add OG tags - no config, just set and go!

Simple/easy way to add Open Graph tags


The "No configuration" concept is great but there should be optional options, for example:




Manually select the OG image.



Option to set the featured image as OG image by default.



Other options other users suggest.



Add optional configuration


I recently used the OG — Better Share on Social Media plugin, and it has truly elevated my social media sharing experience. This plugin is a game-changer for anyone looking to optimize and customize how their content appears on various social media platforms.


Enhance Your Social Media Sharing with OG — Better Share Plugin!


One click installation and OG data set up as expected.


It does what it promises

The simple method to add Open Graph metadata to your entries so that they look great when shared on sites.

Social Bridge vs OG — Better Share on Social Media