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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26 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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Costas TroulosNo Gravatar

18. Oct, 2010

Thanx for the tips. It worked like a charm.

BrigittaNo Gravatar

01. Dec, 2010

Hi Brian,
I’m fighting with a problem- maybe you can help: when I want to join a group – or write on the wall of a group in FB – and although I’m logged OUT of my PROFILE Page, my comments show up with my PROFILE instead of my FAN PAGE — how can I change this. Please note – I did not even “LIKE” my own FAN Page – especially to keep those 2 entities apart…

PS- thanks a lot for that TWITTER-connection tip – I’ve tried several others twitter-apps- but they don’t work!!

Brian WongNo Gravatar

01. Dec, 2010

I don’t think you can comment on a group or wall of any other FB page as your fan page. It will always show up as your profile.

NaveenNo Gravatar

31. Dec, 2010

Great Article. We are planing for travel site for india. It
will help us to do Social Media Marketing. Thanx.

now its over not working yet :(

SageNo Gravatar

26. Jan, 2011

Genius! Thanks Brian. The schematic illustration is the icing on the cake. Can you make the same type of instructions for the clock on my VCR?

TerryNo Gravatar

06. Feb, 2011

Thank you for the excellent advise.. cheers

Tony MayerNo Gravatar

12. Feb, 2011

I would like to add another way of doing this. When on your Facebook Page, not profile, go to the notes app, and then click Page’s Notes. From here you can import any blog by rss feed, and all posts will be morphed into a Facebook Note, and therefore posted on the page’s Wall. You can also block people from commenting on facebook, forcing them to comment on your blog site. Then you just need to connect your Facebook Page with twitter using the new Facebook Pages Twitter Connect http://facebook.com/twitter

Ciao!

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27. Feb, 2011

Hi,

Is this still the only solution to do this? It’s somewhat cumbersome…

Kris OlinNo Gravatar

08. Mar, 2011

Thanks for a great tip. This works just fine, however there is a slightly faster way of doing this as well. You can import your Word Press blog’s RSS feed into your Facebook Notes page. This will operation also publish them to your Facebook Wall. All you have to do is edit your Notes import settings and add your blog feed there.

Cheers,
Kris Olin
http://twitter.com/KrisOlin

NielsNo Gravatar

08. May, 2011

Thanks to all, some fantastic tips here to link everything and import my blog in to facebook.

Jameson HenkleNo Gravatar

26. May, 2011

Thanks Brian, this was all good except for facebook will not grant access to my fan page. I’ve been looking for the best way to post to both fb and twitter when I publish my post, and if I can get the fan page to work this will be perfect. Appreciate the advice.

Brian WongNo Gravatar

26. May, 2011

Jameson – try the instruction on this post: http://brianwong.com/blog/howto-hootsuite-pingfm-wordpress-socialmedia/
You should be able to post to Twitter and Facebook page directly using Ping.FM and as a bonus, you can post to ALL your other social media profiles that you register on Ping.FM

JanNo Gravatar

27. May, 2011

Brian thanks for your tips. I’m wading my way through to work out which one or variety of options I need to implement. Was originally looking for how to automate the follow feature and welcome bit for Twitter. LOL there’s so much more!

Brian WongNo Gravatar

27. May, 2011

Yeah – its a never ending process :)

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