Integrating Facebook with your website or blog can have many benefits – Since Facebook is so popular it can help you increase visibility and engagement on your website, while building your Facebook fan base.

Installing the right Facebook plugins can also contribute towards SEO and some of the newer plugins can even allow you to monetise ads embedded in your Facebook published news content.

Choosing a Facebook plugin can be overwhelming – there are pages of options available with plugins for every imaginable customisation and requirement. To help you get started, we’ve listed seven of the most popular free Facebook WordPress plugins, from feeds and likeboxes, to social comments, logins and instant articles.

The only plugin type you won’t find here is social sharing buttons, we’ve covered that already and can tell you this social sharing plugin rocks!

1. Simple Facebook Plugin

What does it do?

The Simple Facebook Plugin provides a very simple way of embedding a Facebook Page in your sidebar as a widget, or on any page using custom shortcodes.

Features and benefits

Display how many users like the Page
Read recent posts from the Page
‘Like’ the Page with one click, without having to visit Facebook

WordPress stats

20,000+ active installations
9 reviews with 4.8 star average

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2. Custom Facebook Feed by Smash Balloon

What does it do?

Allows you to display Facebook feeds from any public page or group on your website. Simply pop your Facebook page or group ID into the Settings page and add the shortcode to any WordPress page, post or widget on your site.

Features and benefits

You can customise the display to match the look and feel of your website
Display feeds from multiple Facebook pages or groups
Show events from your Facebook feed
The design is responsive and search engine crawlable

WordPress stats

100,000+ active installations
399 reviews with 5 star average

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3. Easy Facebook Like Box by Sajid Javid

What does it do?

Allows the user to display a custom Facebook feed, page plugin (like box) and like button using widgets shortcodes, or a popup box.

Features and benefits

• Enables Facebook Page owners to gain likes from their website
• Show or hide faces, header, latest fan page posts
• Responsive layout
• Can be enabled as a pop-up

WordPress stats

• 90,000+ Active Installs
• 172 reviews with 4.5 star average

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4. Facebook auto publish by xyzscripts.com

What does it do?

Allows you to automatically publish posts to your Facebook page or profile. This plugin also allows users to auto publish to their Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Pinterest feeds, with hashtag support for Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest and Google Plus – a real time saver!

Features and benefits

• Includes image with post
• Allows user to filter items based on categories and custom post types
• Allows user to enable or disable publishing
• Has customisable message formats

WordPress stats

• 30,000+ active installations
• 190 reviews with 4.7 star average

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5. Facebook comments WordPress by wpdevart

What does it do?

Allows users to show Facebook comments on their website and place the Facebook comments box on pages and posts. Users reviews point to the simplicity and customisability benefits of this plugin. If you’re looking for a way to engage new visitors and show off your amazing Facebook fan comments, this plugin is a great option.

Features and benefits

• User friendly
• Ability to customise Facebook comments box title including text, text colour, font and font size
• Ability to select where the comments box will be displayed on the page or post
• Customisable box width, comments ordering and ability to set number of comments displayed

WordPress stats

• 10,000+ active installations
• 9 reviews with 4.8 star average

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6. Facebook Instant Articles by PageFrog

What does it do?

Users can publish and manage content directly from WordPress into Facebook Instant Articles (FBIA).

FBIA is a mobile optimised HTML5 markup format that allows news articles to load quickly on mobile as well as allowing branded design and customised visual display. Another feature of FBIA is that articles created in this format can result in improved news feed rankings and benefit site SEO.

This app also integrates with Google Accelerated Mobile Pages. If you’re interested in finding out more about Facebook Instant Articles, the Codeable blog has some great insights, including recommendations on how to get started.

Features and benefits

• The PageFrog app comes with full support for ads and analytics
• Automatically optimises your content to fit with FBIA requirements
• Offers previews of how your content will appear
• Allows you to connect third party analytics
• Makes monetisation very easy

WordPress stats

• 9,000+ active installations
• 30 reviews with 3.8 star average

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7. Nextend Facebook Connect by Nextendweb

What does it do?

Allows you to install a one click login and registration for visitors to your website who have a Facebook profile. According to Elegant Themes, ‘There’s not a lot of features to Nextend’s Facebook Connect plugin, but then again there doesn’t really need to be. It has one simple purpose and by all accounts it does it quite well.’

Features and benefits

• Makes it quick and easy for new visitors to register with your site using their Facebook profile
• Makes it even easier for them to sign back in with the click of one button
• Has a variety of designs allowing smooth integration with all websites
• Easy to use and comes with support