There are three ways in which you can use the Custom Facebook Feed WordPress plugin to display albums from your Facebook page; from your Facebook Photos page, from your Facebook page timeline, or by embedding a specific Facebook album into your page with our Albums extension.
Plugin Version 4.0 and above
From your Facebook Albums page
This method will pull the photos directly from your Albums page on Facebook and display them in a grid format similar to how they are displayed on Facebook, and as you can see in this demo, or in the Masonry layout. The photo description will be shown in the pop-up lightbox for the Gallery layout.
To display a video feed, when creating a new feed select the Albums Feed Type.
or editing an existing one under Facebook Feed > All Feeds > select Edit for the feed > Settings > Feed Type > click Change and select Albums.Â
From the timeline
When selecting the Feed Type, select Timeline. You can control which content to display in the Customize options for the feed later.
For the created feed, go to Facebook Feed > All Feeds > select Edit for the feed > Settings > Filters > Select Only specified posts and Albums. You are also able to a combination of albums, photos, and videos.
Customize the Layout of the Photo Feed
To set the layout to be either Masonry or Grid, go to Facebook Feed > All Feeds > select Edit for the feed > Customize > Feed Layout > Select the layout you want to display. Here you can also further customize the number of posts or columns you want to display for different devices.
Embedding a specific album
You can use our Album Extension to embed the contents of a specific Facebook album into your web page. This will then display a grid of the photos from within that album and allow you to view them in a pop-up lightbox. See the Album Extension page for more information and how to use it here.
Below Plugin Version 4.0
From your Facebook Albums page
This method will pull the albums directly from your Albums page on Facebook and display them in a grid format similar to how they are displayed on Facebook, and as you can see in this demo. When an album is clicked on, the other photos from the album are displayed at the bottom of the pop-up lightbox.
You can display albums from your Photos page in two ways; using the plugin’s Settings pages or using the shortcode options.
Settings pages:
Click on the plugin’s ‘Customize’ page, and in the ‘Post Types’ section uncheck all other post types apart from ‘Albums’. You can then select to show albums from your ‘Photos Page’.
Shortcode options:
Just set the post type to be ‘albums’ in your shortcode and then change the album source to be your Facebook Photos Page, like so:
From your Facebook timeline
If you create an album, add photos to an existing album, or if you upload multiple photos to your Facebook page in one go, then Facebook creates an “album post” on your Facebook page timeline. You can use the plugin to get a batch of posts from your Facebook timeline and then filter through them and only display the ones which are album posts. The albums will be displayed in a “post” layout, as shown below.
You can display album posts from your timeline in two ways; using the plugin’s Settings pages or using the shortcode options.
Settings pages:
Click on the plugin’s ‘Customize’ page, and in the ‘Post Types’ section uncheck all other post types apart from ‘Albums’. You can then select to show albums from your ‘Timeline’.
Shortcode options:
Just set the post type to be ‘albums’ in your shortcode and then change the album source to be your timeline, like so:
Embedding a specific album
You can use our Album Extension to embed the contents of a specific Facebook album into your web page. This will then display a grid of the photos from within that album and allow you to view them in a pop-up lightbox. See the Album Extension page for more information.
