There are many WordPress plugins that allow you to post an update to social media sites.

But when it comes to Facebook, its a little tricky. That’s because you can have a Facebook Profile page and a Facebook Public Profile page a.k.a. Facebook Fan Pages.

Because your Facebook “Friends” are different from your “Fans” – a common question I get asked is how to automatically post an update to Facebook Fan Pages instead of the Facebook Profile Page.

This is very powerful because your blog posts will be broadcast to the activity stream of your fans and if they comment or “like” the link, it will then be broadcast to all of their friends stream creating much welcomed syndication to your blog post.

Overview:

Now, I couldn’t find a WordPress plugin that could post directly to my Facebook Fan Page, so here’s the workaround using a Twitter plugin and a Facebook App.

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Setting it Up:

1. First, download the TwitPress plugin and install the TwitPress plugin on your blog.
2. Add the Selective Twitter Status.app to your Fan Page. Note, please make sure you choose whether you want to add the app to your profile page or your fan pages. Then go through the “grant permissions” process to allow this app to post to your Fan Page Status stream.

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Making it Work:

Here You have two choices. If you want ALL your blog posts to be automatically posted to your Facebook Fan Page, then just add the “#fb” tag in the Twitpress plugin edit menu.

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Now, all of your posts will have the “#fb” added to the permalink and will appear on your Facebook Fan Page automatically as a status update.

Now, if you want to DECIDE which posts to add to your Facebook Fan Page each time you post, here’s what to do:

1. After composing your blog post, click on the Edit Permalink option below the post title
2. Add the “#fb” text to the end of your permalink

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That’s it.

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9 Comments

whatawebsiteNo Gravatar

27. Nov, 2009

Brian, I was wanting to know how to do this …. and you've just saved me quite a bit of time. Many thanks, Will

musicaddictionNo Gravatar

06. Dec, 2009

or you can use the networkedblogs application inside facebook and let it do all the work from rss (works for pages too)

ISOC-NYNo Gravatar

08. Jan, 2010

I'm using Wordbook – seems to work fine with pages..

Brian WongNo Gravatar

08. Jan, 2010

You can also use TwitterFeed.com or Hootsuite.com. I am now using Hootsuite for this because it is a great app. You can refer to my post on how to set this up. Its pretty easy.

Oliver SuNo Gravatar

04. Feb, 2010

The coolest thing about WordBooker is when your friends post comments on your status, it feeds back to your WordPress as a comment…

However, after I installed Disqus this neat feature isn't working anymore – I tried importing the comments back from FB but it isn't working. I decide to stick with Disqus because it simply kicks ass.

Anyone have any idea?

ConstantinaNo Gravatar

08. Apr, 2010

Hi Brian,
I have an exclusive womans fashion label and am trying to direct my posts of my blog to my fan page. Thanks for your blog, however I got a little stuck and cant see the Twitter Log in options? Also I tried to add he #fb before I published the blog and when i did it sent my blog haywire with all this code before it. It also didnt post to my Twitter.

Do you have any other thoughts and suggestions to help me?

Thanks

Brian WongNo Gravatar

08. Apr, 2010

Hi, I no longer use the #fb method to post to my fan page. I am now using Hootsuite.com to do it. It give me more flexibility and because it integrates with Ping.FM I can broadcast my blog posts all over my social media sites (more than 30 in total). You can see details in this newer post here: http://brianwong.com/blog/howto-hootsuite-pingfm-wordpress-socialmedia/

sumriNo Gravatar

30. Jul, 2010

I’ve try sooo many time to add this applicatiob to my fan page. But i think i was unsuccessful because I get this message when I want to do step 2 of “setting up” (when i choosed Fan pages tab) :

“You must add this application to one of your pages before you can use it.”

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Brian WongNo Gravatar

30. Jul, 2010

New Facebook rules means you need to add the application as a tab in your fan page as well as allow it permission to post to your pages.

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