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SocialEyes is a modular social feed aggregator that displays posts from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other platforms in beautiful skin styles on your WordPress site.
Current version includes:
— Facebook integration — display posts from any Facebook Page you manage 
— Masonry skin — Pinterest-style grid, 3 columns on desktop, 2 on tablet, 1 on mobile 
— Light and dark themes — automatic system preference detection or force a specific theme 
— Click to expand — full post modal with images and complete text 
— Auto-advance — optional automatic rotation on mouseover 
— Customizable via CSS variables — full control over colors and styling
SocialEyes is built with a modular architecture. Future updates will add Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, RSS feeds, and additional skins like Masonry grids and more.
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Connect your Facebook Page (requires Page ID and Access Token)</li>
<li>Add the <code>[socialeyes]</code> shortcode to any page or post</li>
<li>Posts are fetched from Facebook’s Graph API and cached for performance</li>
<li>Visitors see a beautiful masonry grid of your latest posts</li>
<li>Click any post to view full content in a modal</li>
</ol>
Posts are cached for 30 minutes by default (configurable in settings). SocialEyes fetches fresh posts automatically when the cache expires.
<h3>Key features</h3>
Modular architecture 
— sources and skins are discovered automatically. Drop new modules into folders and they appear in the admin panel. No code changes needed.
Facebook source 
— fetch posts from any Facebook Page you manage. Control image handling (prefer images, all posts, or images only) and number of posts to fetch.
Masonry skin (after Pin Interest model) 
— 3 columns of posts visible on desktop, 1 on mobile. Click to expand, swipe gestures, keyboard navigation. Infinite loop for seamless browsing.
Theme system 
— light and dark themes with CSS variables. Force a theme via shortcode or let users’ system preferences decide. Full customization available via CSS.
Performance optimized 
— feeds are cached in WordPress transients. Configurable cache duration (5 minutes to 24 hours). AJAX loading prevents page blocking.
Clean admin panel 
— tabbed interface organized by Settings, Themes, and Sources. Clear separation of concerns makes configuration intuitive.
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
v1.0.4 — Standalone JavaScript widget (use outside WordPress) 
v1.1 — Instagram Business integration 
v1.2 — Twitter/X integration 
v1.3 — Grid skin 
v1.4 — Multi-source feed mixing
<h3>Getting your Facebook credentials</h3>
Page ID: 
1. Go to your Facebook Page 
2. Click About in the left sidebar 
3. Scroll down to find your Page ID
Access Token: 
1. Go to <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook Developers</a> 
2. Create an app or use an existing one 
3. Add the Pages product 
4. Generate a Page Access Token with <code>pages_read_engagement</code> permission 
5. For long-lived tokens, exchange your short-lived token using the Token Debugger
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the Facebook Graph API to fetch posts from Facebook Pages.
What is sent: 
– Your Facebook Page ID 
– Your Facebook Access Token 
– Request parameters (number of posts, fields to retrieve)
When data is sent: 
– When the plugin fetches posts from Facebook (every 30 minutes by default, or when cache expires) 
– Data is sent from your WordPress server to Facebook’s servers 
– No visitor data is sent to Facebook – only your server-side credentials
Service information: 
– Service: Facebook Graph API (provided by Meta Platforms, Inc.) 
– Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ 
– Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php 
– Developer Terms: https://developers.facebook.com/terms
The plugin does not send any visitor information to Facebook. It only fetches publicly available posts from Pages you manage using your own API credentials. All communication happens server-side between your WordPress installation and Facebook’s API.

SocialEyes

Display social media feeds from Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms in beautiful, customizable skins.

BjornW

<blockquote>
THIS PLUGIN IS NOT MAINTAINED ANYMORE! 
 For historical purposes this plugin is still online. The general concept could still be useful, 
 the code is probably not working and horrible outdated.
</blockquote>
Create streams of sitewide aggregated content from your multisite WordPress installation with bbAggregate.
A stream contains posts from those blogs allowed to participate in the stream. Anyone writing posts can add his/her post to one or more streams. 
The streams are shown by using a specific page template. (see also the examples directory). It offers functionality similar 
to the sitewide categories / global terms, but with more control and (hopefully) less buggy behaviour.
This plugin adds two database tables to your installation:
<ul>
<li>$prefix_bbAggregate_item (links an item to a stream)</li>
<li>$prefix_bbAggregate_stream (contains the stream info) </li>
</ul>
NB: This plugin is only useful for a WordPress Multisite installation in which multiple 
blogs are being used.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
First, you create a stream (neccessary user capabillity: ‘manage_options’,admin role works perfectly). (See screenshot-4.png) 
It is recommended to only use letters, numbers and underscores or dashes in the stream name. Spaces in the name may cause problems at the moment.
Streams are defined by a name, a description (which is saved but not yet accessible for public use) and some options (see screenshot-5.png) such as:
<ul>
<li>maximum number of posts (limits the total amount of posts in a stream)</li>
<li>maximum number of posts per blog (limits the amount of posts per blog in a stream)</li>
<li>number of posts per page (limits the amount of posts per page. Pagination is included)</li>
<li>excluded blogs (blogs which have been explicitly excluded from using this stream. Posts from these blogs will not be shown in this stream) </li>
</ul>
After creating a stream (See screenshot-6.png and screenshot-7.png), create a post in a blog which is not excluded from this stream. Below the Post Editing Area you will see a new metabox called 
Streams (see screenshot-8.png) with a list of available streams (streams which have excluded this blog are not shown). By ticking the checkbox in front of the stream name 
you’ve added your post to this stream. Every user able to add a post may add his/her posts to the streams shown.
To show a stream of content you (or the theme designer of the theme you use) need to prepare the theme for showing the items. You need a page template 
for this. An example of this can be found in bbAggregate/examples and the template is called: bbAggregate-template-aggregated-posts. For now you can copy 
it into the directory of your active theme so you can test bbAggregated. Keep in mind though that it will not use your theme’s style! 
Create a page in the blog where you also have copied the page template and select the Aggregated Posts template 
as the page’s template. Add the customfield with the name ‘bbagg_stream’ (without quotes) and customfield value the exact(!) stream name of the stream you want to show (see screenshot-11.png). 
By the way, the example page template the custom field name is hardcoded, but you can change it in the template as long as you also use the new name 
for your customfield. After adding the customfield name and value and publishing the page you can view the page and you should now see your post part 
of the stream’s aggregated content (see screenshot-12.png).
Note: The stream default options can be changed sitewide by visiting the Super Admin->Options (See screenshot-9.png). Look for ‘bbAggregate sitewide defaults’ (see screenshot-10.png). After changing 
the options’ values and saving the changes new streams will use your new defaults. This can only be done by users with super admin rights. Keep in mind that streams are sitewide. Thus streams created in blog 1 
are also visible in the bbAggregate settings of blog 2.
<h3>TODO</h3>
Feel free to send patches 😉
<ul>
<li>Remove database tables upon delete of plugin </li>
<li>Add .po and .mo files for translations</li>
<li>Create php doc files</li>
</ul>

bbAggregate

Create streams of sitewide aggregated content from your multisite WordPress installation with bbAggregate

SocialEyes vs bbAggregate