Jun 21, 2010

Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a Wordpress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that.

Step 1

Login into Facebook. Under Profile, look for Mini Feed column, click on See All.

Step 2

Under Mini Feed, click on ‘Status Stories‘ on the right column. Scroll all the way to the bottom, look for ‘My Status

Step 3

Copy the link of My Status, and we are about to use this in Wordpress blog. Your link will look something like the following:

Step 4 (Wordpress)

Under Wordpress admin, Navigate to Design -> Widget. Look for RSS Widget, add it to your side bar.


Step 5

Paste the copied URL inside, give it a name, save and your Facebook statuses (or status depends on how many you display) will now appear on your Wordpress blog.


1 comments:

Awesome, that’s exactly what I was scanning for! You just spared me alot of searching around

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