How To Embed Facebook Photo Album in Your WordPress Blog?

Are you looking for a solution to embed Facebook Photo Album from your FB page into your blog? And, why you should not. It’s a great way to get more likes on your album, increase the natural reach of your uploaded photos & moreover it gives better ROI in the certain scenario.

Even though I highly recommend you to upload photos on your hosting account, but in certain cases like events, bloggers meet, seminars where you have huge number of photos, you are better off uploading them on 3rd party site. Recently, I conducted a series of Bloggers meet in India (ShoutMeet), and after every blogger meet, I had about 30+ photos from that event to share.

Initially, I thought of uploading the images on the blog post & use a gallery WordPress plugin to showcase it. Later on, after giving a lot of thoughts, I realize it’s much better to embed the Facebook album. This will serve lot of purposes:

  • Getting more targeted likes to the page
  • Getting more views on my Facebook album, which in turn will get more likes & more natural reach

Of course, it comes with certain limitations as images are not uploaded on my server. I need to keep a check in future if embedded album is broken or gone due to the plugin or WordPress update. So, I mentally prepare myself for this & found two WordPress plugins to embed Facebook albums, profiles in WordPress. Both of them used the shortcodes & were easy to configure. I will feature one of them which is the best & offers more feature than the other one.

WP Embed Facebook: Embed Facebook Album, Fan Page into WordPress

Before trying this amazing free plugin, I tested Facebook Album plugin that is good but it got some issues with UX, especially on the mobile phone. In search of a better alternative, I tested WP Embed Facebook plugin, which turned out to be a better option with more features.

Embed Facebook Album Events on WordPress
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This is a free plugin & can be downloaded from here. Here are supported embeds by this plugin. Ensure it works only with those data which is shared publically.

  • Facebook Videos
  • Facebook Albums
  • Facebook Events
  • Facebook Photos
  • Facebook Fan pages
  • Facebook Community Pages
  • Facebook Profiles
  • Facebook Publications

Once you have installed & activated the plugin, go to Settings > Embed Facebook to configure the plugin settings. The only major setting you need to do is: Add your Facebook App ID & Secret Key under Facebook Application data settings. You can follow this easy tutorial to get one for your application.

WordPress Embed Facebook settings
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Once you are done configuring all the settings, click on Save. Now, it’s time to embed a Facebook album or a Fan page or Event page into your WordPress blog post or page. This plugin claims that you can directly paste the album URL  & it would embed the album. Surprisingly, that didn’t work for me & I had to use Shortcode, which was also a straight forward process.

This is the shortcode you need to use. Play with width size to meet your requirement.

Here is an example:

Facebook Embed Shortcode
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You just need to add the URL of your Facebook page, Album, Event page in the shortcode above & this plugin will automatically embed it in your WordPress blog.

I also tested the embedded album on the mobile phone, & lightbox worked seamlessly. Tapping an image lead to next image that is convenient & one feature that I missed in the first plugin I tested. Here is a screenshot from my mobile phone:

Facebook Album Lightbox WordPress
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You can check a live example of embedded Facebook photo album in WordPress here.

You can use this plugin in multiple scenarios & especially bloggers who go to the events like Bloggers meet, tech launch events or seminars, they can leverage the features of this plugin in much better way.

I would love to hear more ideas and thoughts of using this plugin to market your Facebook page on your blog. Do share your creative ideas in the comment section below.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

21 thoughts on “How To Embed Facebook Photo Album in Your WordPress Blog?”

  1. Vagelis

    Awesome! But when i embed an album, the image that pops is a lot smaller than the original. If i open it in a new window there is this: s720x720 in the url. If i remove it, i can see the original HD image. The lightbox uses the s720x720. How can I remove that? Any clues?

  2. Maha

    Great Stuff…. useful for all bloggers

  3. WPamplify

    This is a great idea to promote a Facebook photo album and add key images to your website. Best of all, it sounds simple to execute.

  4. Akash Bais

    Nice article bro, but please can you give me such kind of article for blogger, i use blogger, please make a article about blogger next time

  5. Basharath

    Hello bro
    Thank you for letting us know these awesome plugins…

  6. Nikhil

    Hi Harsh,
    I checked it out, bro. It is looking awesome. You always put some creativity in your work so that you can present in an easy way to your readers. I am practicing the qualities you have. You are a super energetic bloggers in India. Hope I will meet you again.

    I will use this plugin on my blog. Hope it won’t break the CSS of my blog.

    Have a great life. 🙂

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Nikhil
      I don’t think it would interfare with your existing blog design. Thanks for your kind words. Hope to meet soon!

  7. M.Mairaj

    Hi Harsh,

    Thanks for sharing another excellent tutorial about embedding Facebook photo album in WordPress blog. Well your step by step guidance make it easy for bloggers to go through.

    Thanks for nice sharing once again 🙂

  8. Santosh Das

    Another Awesome Post Harsh! Never tried anything unique like this. Maybe I will try this in my next post!

  9. YeyDaily

    Thanks for this Harsh. I think this is also helpful for people selling stuff in their blogs but all products are listed in their FB account (sites with no shopping cart).

  10. Ryan Biddulph

    Cool Harsh.

    I shared this on my Facebook wall 😉 Neat way to bring my travel pictures to my blog. I’ve saved so many to my Facebook account, 1 by 1. Now it’s time to maybe showcase a trip or 2 to connect better with my audience.

    Thanks for sharing 😉

    Ryan

  11. CuriousEagle

    Hello Harsh,

    What could be the best way to embed flickr photo albums in the site. Specially how can we make them look like a tiled galleries, the way they are visible in flickr’s photo stream ?

  12. Sumit Sharma

    Harsh this really a great information. I din’t now about embedding facebook album on blog post. Thanks man.

  13. Harry potter

    Hi Hrash. Thanks a lot for helping me. Actually recently i face problem to add photo albums to my blog. I applied your system and it’s really work. I am very happy now.

  14. Siddharth

    Again you written Great article ….Elite class blogging by Harsh Awesome. But what is “Facebook Publications” i did’t use this option ever can you please tell me about this how to use this option. Thanks for sharing.

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Siddharth
      Which option (Facebook publications) are you talking about? I’m not sure of what you are asking.

  15. Aniket

    Can I use my FB pic to show them in my blog ? like featured image or the images which came middle of my blog ?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Aniket
      You need to upload the image on your blog. That would be better in your situation.

  16. Vishwajeet Kumar

    Hi, Harsh, Thanks for this informative post. I was also wondering how to embeded Facebook albums to my blog post and this post really helps me a lot.

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Vishwajeet
      Glad it helped you. Welcome to ShoutMeLoud.

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