Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries

July 01, 2024

Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries Plugin

Custom social media feeds for Instagram, Facebook Pages, Album Photos, Videos & Covers, TikTok, & YouTube on pages, posts, widgets, Elementor …

Easily Create and Display Customizable Social Feeds from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or YouTube. Responsive on Desktops, Tablets, and Mobile Devices.

Features

Quick Install and Set up.
Create as many social feeds as you want!
Display social feeds on any post, page, or sidebar!
Responsive Design for Social Feeds on all devices.
Saved Feed options for easy editing.
View your Feed while editing the options.
Simple Access Token fetching.
Customize Font colors.
Convert old shortcodes to saved feed options.
Share buttons for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Feeds.
Add Like and/or Follow Buttons above or below any feeds.
Works with Gutenberg Blocks or Classic Editor.

Benefits

Easy-to-use features.
Increases User Social engagement on your website.
Keeps users on your website longer.
Grow your social media audience.
Save Time with automatic feed updates when you post on social media.
Seamless Feed Editing.
Super customizable.
Compatible with any theme.
Optimized for performance.
Secured feed caching.
Fast & Amazing Plugin Support!
Best Social Media Feed Plugin for WordPress.

Reviews about our Plugin and Support

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“Have been using it daily for more than 2 years and never failed us once. It is an amazing plugin, very simple to set up and use. Great work guys and keep up the good work!” ~ stonerecords

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“This is a very versatile plugin that offers a ton of customization and use options. And if you need help, their support is the best I’ve ever experienced with a WordPress plugin developer. Thanks, guys, keep it up!” ~ exonfluxx

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“Hammering out issues with most plugin teams usually takes at least 24 hours. For more complicated support issues, it can take a handful of days to fix a problem. The time between messages with the Feed Them Social support team was around 15 minutes instead of 15 hours. Fantastic.” ~ tunare

Documentation & Support

Get started or learn more about the plugin and its extensions’ features using the Feed Them Social Documentation

All SlickRemix plugins come with FREE Basic Support! If you need help or have questions we’re here to help, just post on our Support Forum and we’ll respond to you as quickly as we can! (usually within 48hrs)

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Feed Them Social was Developed By SlickRemix –> https://www.slickremix.com/

Installation

Please see the Installing and Activating the Plugin
Log into WordPress dashboard then click Plugins > Add new > Then under the title “Install Plugins” click Upload > choose the zip > Activate the plugin!

Screenshots

Facebook Feed. All Feeds Work on Pages, posts, or Text Widgets. Adjust the height to make it a scrolling feed too. Demo
Facebook Popup with comments. All popups for feeds are available in the Premium Extension. Demo
Facebook Popup example showing a video. Demo
Facebook Album Photos Feed. Demo
Facebook Popup for the Album Photos. You can show album photos, your latest photos or even album covers with our plugin. Demo
Instagram Feed. We have a new style and a classic style format. Demo
Instagram Popup with a description of the photo or video. Premium Feature. Demo
Twitter Feed. See photos and videos in your feed. Show @ or # or user type feeds. Demo
Twitter Popup with photo description. Premium Feature. Demo
Vine Feed. Show as many vine videos as you want. Demo
Vine Popup that shows video. Available in the Free Version. Demo
Our premium version also offers the YouTube Feed. Demo
YouTube Feed Popup. Demo
Settings page where you can generate a shortcode for any of the feeds and more.
Facebook Options page of our plugin. The other pages have similar options.
Add the shortcode you generated from the settings page to any post, page, or text widget.

FAQ

How do I convert an old Shortcode?

Please see the Convert old Shortcode Documentation

Are there Extensions for this plugin?

Yes. We have the Premium Extension, Facebook Reviews, Facebook Carousel and the Combined Stream extension. Premium Extensions and Bundles

Changelog

Version 4.2.9 Monday, July 1st, 2024

New > Settings > Cache Time: 1, 2, 3, 6 & 12 Hour option added.
Fix > Shortcode Location > The page ID was not updating in the Shortcode Location on the Feeds list page. Also added check for $post in case it’s null.
Fix > Instagram > PHP 8.0+ > Warning undefined variable for instagram_basic_output & instagram_columns_tablet
Fix: Instagram: Follow Button > Some themes would wrap the button icon and replace the font causing the format to look bad.
Fix: Premium: Facebook Feed > Number of Words Option. Line breaks and links were being removed.

Version 4.2.8 Thursday, June 6th, 2024

Important Notice > Facebook Feed > Photos: On 6-28-2024 Meta updated the API and in doing so broke the /photos/ type=uploaded endpoint. We have created a ticket are waiting for a response to the issue.
New > Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Feed: Added option to change the number of columns for the feed on desktop, tablet, and mobile.
New > TikTok Feed: Added fts-tiktok-bio-profile-wrap to the Feed Width option.
Fix > Cache Time: Option was always defaulting to 15 minutes because of incorrect check. Thanks to Jeff Sterup for pointing this out.
Fix > Instagram Feed > php8.1+: utilizing the blog_charset option we set the htmlspecialchars function otherwise set the default characterset as UTF-8.
Fix > Notice > php8.2+ > Deprecated Notices for License Updater files and Metabox Functions Class.
Fix > Additional Misc PHP Warnings and Notices.
Note > YouTube: Re-save your existing YouTube feed to get the latest responsive updates.

Version 4.2.7 Thursday, April 11th, 2024

Update: Feed Them Social works with WordPress version 6.5.2

Version 4.2.6 Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

New: Facebook & Instagram Business: Option to manually add the ID and Access Token.
New: TikTok: Revoke Access Token button added. This will also unschedule the cron job for refreshing token.
Fix: Instagram Business: Add check for bio details to prevent PHP notices.
Fix: YouTube: Undefined index: youtube_video_comments_display and a couple other misc PHP warnings & notices.
Fix TikTok: Profile photo and stats not displaying due to API changes. Fetch a new access token to fix this issue.
Fix: Add isset for shortcode check to prevent PHP notices.
Fix: Issue with share icons being modified by 3rd party styles.

Version 4.2.5 Monday, February 19th, 2024

Update: Facebook & Instagram Business: The business_management permission was added to the access token request. This will allow you to retrieve page(s) you are admin of that are located within your Facebook Business Manager.
NOTE: Works with WordPress version 6.4.3

Version 4.2.4 Wednesday, January 31tst, 2024

NEW: TikTok: Flip the comment icon to be more aligned with TikTok’s design.
FIX: TikTok: Remove trailing comma in access token that was causing fatal errors with php 7.0-7.2

Version 4.2.3 Saturday, January 27th, 2024

NEW: TikTok Feed > Profile: Add truncated number option for followers, following, and likes. ie. 1.2K, 1.2M
FIX: TikTok: Hide profile photo option not working.
FIX: TikTok: Change API url to v2 and make a POST request to get the video data instead of GET.

Version 4.2.2 Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

NEW: Facebook Feed: Now the thumbnail image will display even if you have age or country restrictions on your business page.
NEW: Premium: Facebook Feed > Popup: Thumbnail images for comments will now display.
FIX: Premium: Facebook Feed > Feed Type > Videos: Option was still showing premium required even if you had the premium version activated and the play button size option was incorrectly set.
FIX: Premium: Facebook Feed: Hide, thumbnail, username or date options not working.
OPTIMIZE: Facebook Feed: Reorder all Yoda notations for checks for better readability of the code and fix some code that was causing notices to appear in the error.log for Albums.

Version 4.2.1 Tuesday, January 15th, 2024

NEW: TikTok Feed: Added TikTok Feed. You can now display your TikTok posts on your website. Demo
NEW: Feed Edit page: Only empty cache when an actual post amount change, name change, or new access token is added. This will help with performance and reduce API calls.
NEW: Font Awesome 6.5.1 added to the plugin. All new modern icons for the feeds are in place.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Add email address to the list of text to convert to links in a post description.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Share count not appearing for all post types.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Title link was missing in some promotional posts.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Add check for http on share links because sometimes there is a phone number like tel:+55555555 and not a url.
NOTE: Works with WordPress version 6.4.2
SECURITY: Added nonce check for the rating notice.

Version 4.2.0 Tuesday, December 5th, 2023

NEW: Facebook: Case type messenger_generic_template added. This allows shared posts from Instagram to appear with photo.
NEW: Facebook: Albums Feed: Now you can add a since date which allows you to pull in newer albums if you have a large collection.
NEW: Facebook: span tags have been added around the likes, comment and shares items in a feed. This solves the issue of some themes that remove basic html spaces and allows for further customization.
FIX: Facebook: Feed Settings > Facebook Fixed Height: Remove unneeded class and style if the height option was not set.
FIX: Settings: Make sure the Powered by Text is also removed in the popup option when using the Premium version.
FIX: Feed Edit: Hide the text that says, More than 6 Requires Premium, when the Premium plugin is active.
FIX: Premium: Facebook Feed > Popup: In some cases the content for the popup was not loading on the first click.

Version 4.1.9 Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

FIX: Instagram: Feed not displaying properly on some installs when jquery is loaded in the footer.
FIX: Instance of use_custom_js_scripts was not being used and outputting a PHP notice.
FIX: Instagram: Warning Message: number_format expecting float as first parameter.
FIX: Facebook: Feed not displaying likes/comments count on posts with only text when Reviews extension is active.
FIX: YouTube Setting: Single Video: Background color for video container option not showing.
FIX: Premium: YouTube: User Specific Playlist: The Load more videos.
FIX: Premium: YouTube: Show videos on right or left side.
FIX: Premium: Facebook: Remove inline !important on post for width of grid feed.
FIX: Feed Settings: Remove the loading feed and empty cache message when no access token is present.
FIX: Share: Remove svg icon for Twitter.
NEXT UPDATE: Add date option for Facebook Albums.
NEXT UPDATE: Add Email notification when an access token expires.
NOTE: Works with WordPress version 6.4.1

Version 4.1.8 Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

FIX: Facebook Feed: Link for posts with only text were not directing to Facebook properly.
NOTE: Works with WordPress version 6.3.1.

Version 4.1.7 Monday, August 28th, 2023

FIX: Security fix. User controlled data was able to be entered into the Leave a Review message container. (Thanks to the researcher Abdi Pranata at Patchstack.com for reporting the security vulnerability.)
FIX: Sanitize text fields on Twitter urls.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Share and View on Facebook link not displaying for posts with no image or video.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Likes and Comments were not working correctly because a new permission was introduced in the API that was required. Get a new access token and these features will work again.
REMOVE: Facebook Feed: Remove the option “Display Posts made by Page and Others” now because one, you cannot post to a page anymore you can only tag a page and two this now requires the Page Public Content Access permission which we do not have currently. We will inquire to see if we can get this permission for our plugin.

Version 4.1.6 Thursday, June 6th, 2023

NEW: Beaver Builder Module added. When editing or creating a new page, or post you can look for Social Modules and Feed Them Social will appear. You can also search for social in the modules list and Feed Them Social will appear.
NEW: Elementor Module added. When editing or creating a new page, or post you can look search the Widgets and Feed Them Social will appear.
FIX: Instagram Feed: Image resize scripts moved to the bottom of the feed so it will load even in js type tabs.
FIX: YouTube Feed: Load more not working for the User Specific Playlist. Misc php warnings. Removed default value for Channel Feed that was causing issues when feed edit page reloads.
FIX: Astra Theme: The close button for popup was not positioned correctly when hovering.
FIX: Facebook Feed: Check that feed data is countable before looping over it. Thank you LiamMcArthur for creating this hotfix.
NOTE: Twitter Feed: As of the recent API changes and Twitter now charging us to pull Tweets, the feed may only work sometimes because we are being rate limited. We are looking into alternate options. The hashtag, search, retweets, replies, and load more option will also not be available until further notice. If your feed does connect, we suggest setting the cache time to at least 3 days or more.
REMOVED: Settings: Developer mode for caching.

Version 4.1.5 Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

FIX: The path to the languages folder was not correct. Thank you so much @eriamel for pointing this out.

Version 4.1.4 Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023

NOTE: Tested with WordPress version 6.2.2.
FIX: Instagram Feed: Load more button was not working unless you had the option popup set to yes.

Version 4.1.3 Monday, May 8th, 2023

FIX: Translations were broken from wrong Domain Path set in main file.
FIX: Text strings had the wrong Text Domain set. The strings with feed_them_social are now updated to feed-them-social.
ADDED: Accidentally removed the.md file in version 4.0.0. It’s back now.
NOTE: We are working to get the plugin translated into more languages. If you speak another language other than English, we could use your help. Please go to Feed Them Social Translations Any languages beyond 90% translated will automatically be included in the plugin.

Version 4.1.2 Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

FIX: Twitter Feed: We have created a new APP that allows access to v1.1 of the API. To get your feed working again simply click the Get Access Token button under your Twitter Feed.

Version 4.1.1 Monday, April 3rd, 2023

NOTE: Twitter Feed: Twitter API is not functioning anymore with our current App. Resolution pending. Waiting for feedback from the Twitter API Developer Team as to when we might be restored. This appears to be a blackout for many developers at the moment.

Version 4.1.0 Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

FIX: Facebook Feed. WordPress 6.2 conflict. PSR-0 depreciated, must use PSR-4 now.
FIX: Instagram Basic Feed. Expiration refresh time increased from 7 days to 55 days.
UPDATED: readme.txt to credit WebFX.com for reporting security vulnerability.

Version 4.0.81 Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

FIX: Instagram Business: Access Token Inputs not displaying correctly.
UPDATED: POT file.

Version 4.0.8 Monday, March 27th, 2023

NEW: Feed Them Social Gutenberg Block support added.
FIX: Security fixes. (Thanks WebFX.com for reporting the security vulnerability.)
UPDATED: Text strings for internationalization shortened and cleaned up.
FIX: Combined Streams: Facebook & Instagram Business Access Token clash.

Version 4.0.7 Tuesday, March 14th, 2023

FIX: Carousel Feed: Script not loading.
FIX: PHP: Trailing commas making it impossible to load the plugin in vs 7.0-7.2. Depreciated safe_mode call for System Info details.

Version 4.0.6 Thursday, March 9th, 2023

FIX: Facebook Feed: PHP warnings for position of social icon. Thanks to @thewebtailors for fixing this.
FIX: Twitter Feed: PHP warnings for popup. Thanks to @ericbourges for letting us know about this.
FIX: SMTP issue by removing pluggable call in feeds-cpt-class.php Thank you @pixelshrink & @kenrichman for letting us know about this.
FIX: Depreciated warnings in updater-check-class.php and updater-check-init.php. Thanks to @jpniekamp for bringing this to our attention.

Version 4.0.5 Wednesday, March 8th, 2023

NEW: Import/Export: Single Feed Options. With the click of a button, you can submit your feed options and get support.
NEW: When requesting support through our beacon on a Feed edit page, the System Info and Feed Options are already copied to the form.
FIX: More Depreciated notices for PHP 7-8.1

Version 4.0.4 Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

FIX: Missing Convert Legacy Shortcode instructions on the front end for legacy shortcodes.
COMING SOON: Import/Export: Single Feed Options.

Version 4.0.3 Wednesday, March 1st, 2023

FIX: Twitter: Follow Button not displaying.
FIX: Label for Facebook option on Feed edit page changed to “Number of Posts.”
FIX: Instagram: Height option to create a scrolling feed.
FIX: do_action upgrader_process_complete call causing Fatal Error in some instances. Right after the update, you may see the notice again; however, that is the last time you will see it.
FIX: Settings: Custom CSS & JS option.
FIX: Settings: Date & Time options on Settings page.
FIX: Settings: Twitter Time offset.
FIX: Site Health: error about date and time default.
FIX: Enqueue scripts only on pages that display our shortcode.
FIX: Error.log: PHP 7-9.19: Warnings notices.
FIX: PHP 8+ Warning: suppress Trim words functions with #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] Full fix coming soon.
REMOVED: Old trim_words function as it was depreciated already.
NOTE: Please update any Paid extensions as well.

Version 4.0.0 – 4.0.2 Monday, February 20th, 2023

NEW: Custom Post type now houses all feed types.
NEW: All Social feed settings can now be saved making it easier to edit your social feed when necessary.
NEW: Shortcode Location column under the Feeds menu option. This will display a link to the page where the shortcode was placed.
NEW: All additional feed options that were only available globally are now available per feed.
NEW: Settings page with tabs to better organize all the options.
NEW: Add your own Custom JS options.
NEW: Option to map old shortcodes to the new format.
NEW: Migrates all old Global Options settings to our new Settings page.
4.0.1 FIX: Shortcode appearing above content on the page and json error on shortcode page save.
4.0.2 FIX: Re-added missing language files causing is_readable error for some users.
4.0.2 UPDATED: Readme and PHP Required notation.
4.0.2 FIX: Fix Permissions and remove it effecting global capabilities.

See Changelog.txt in the plugin for the full changelog.