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Creating a slideshow, slider, or carousel from your Facebook posts

If you’re using the Pro version of the Custom Facebook Feed WordPress plugin then you can use our Carousel extension to create sliding carousels out of your Facebook content.

If you’re using the free WordPress plugin, or the PHP Standalone version, then it’s possible to achieve a basic slideshow by doing the following:

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1) Add a class to the shortcode of the feed that you want to convert into a slideshow:

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Reviewers can now post under a nickname instead of a real name, and no one can tell the difference.

A review on your own site still has a name and a face, because you own the page it's on.

Follow, because every week I break down another way platforms are rewriting the trust you're borrowing.

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2) Set the number of posts to display to be the number of posts you want to include in the slideshow (10 for example). You can do this by using the ‘num’ shortcode option:

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You can reply to a customer from the school pickup line and never open the full message.

The move: send something tiny back the second the message lands, not the answer, just "got it, checking."

The real answer comes later, when you get a gap. Nothing's reset, the thread holds your place.

Follow, I break down a fix like this every week.

#wpchat #smallbusinesstips #customerservice #wordpress #businessownerlife@
... See MoreSee Less

You post on Instagram every single week, and your homepage still looks like nobody's home.

You've already done the work. It's just stuck on somebody else's page instead of your own site.

Point your own site at what you're already doing, and a new post updates your homepage automatically.

Follow, and I'll show you how to set this up on your own site next.

#smashballoon #smallbusinesswebsite #wordpress #socialproof #websitetips
... See MoreSee Less

Your form's still waiting on nine o'clock. Your customer stopped waiting an hour ago.

A lost sale doesn't make noise, it just stops showing up, because the buyer's already in a thread on Instagram or WhatsApp, picking whoever answers first.

The form was never the villain. The wait was, and now it's over.

Follow, I'll show you where to put that button next.

#wpchat #wordpress #whatsappbusiness #smallbusinesstips #customerservice
... See MoreSee Less

A business spends years earning five-star reviews, real proof, right there in black and white.

Then Google runs a sweep to clear out fake reviews, and real ones get pulled in too. No warning, no appeal.

There's a difference between a review you earned and one you own a copy of. It comes down to whether it lives on a page you control.

Follow, I break down how small businesses own their proof instead of renting it, weekly.

#smashballoon #googlereviews #onlinereputation #ownyourcontent #smallbusiness
... See MoreSee Less

Open your own contact form tonight, on your phone, in the dark, like a stranger would.

You'll probably get a reply thanking you for your ticket, then wait twenty-three hours for something polite, useless, and far too late.

Most owners have built a contact page they've never once used the way a stranger would.

Follow, I'll put out another one of these audits, so save this before you test yours.

#wpchat #smallbusinessowner #customerexperience #wordpress #websiteaudit
... See MoreSee Less

I keep opening local business websites, and it's always the same thing.

Their Facebook's alive with comments from last week, but their homepage's been frozen since 2019.

Grab five real posts or reviews you already have and drop them on your own homepage today.

Follow, I open one of these live every week. Send me your site and I'll tell you what's asleep on it.

#smashballoon #smallbusinesswebsite #wordpress #socialproof #localbusiness
... See MoreSee Less

Google reviews just went anonymous.

Reviewers can now post under a nickname instead of a real name, and no one can tell the difference.

A review on your own site still has a name and a face, because you own the page it's on.

Follow, because every week I break down another way platforms are rewriting the trust you're borrowing.

#smashballoon #googlereviews #onlinereputation #localbusiness #trustsignals
... See MoreSee Less

Google reviews just went anonymous.

Reviewers can now post under a nickname instead of a real name, and no one can tell the difference.

A review on your own site still has a name and a face, because you own the page it's on.

Follow, because every week I break down another way platforms are rewriting the trust you're borrowing.

#smashballoon #googlereviews #onlinereputation #localbusiness #trustsignals
... See MoreSee Less

WhatsApp just gave your customers a way to message you and keep their number completely hidden.

Your contact form still wants three things: name, number, best time to call. But the WhatsApp option already skips two of those.

Every field you don't need on a form is now a reason to lose the enquiry.

Follow, I break down one of these WhatsApp-era shifts every week.

#wpchat #whatsappbusiness #wordpress #smallbusinesstips #customerservice
... See MoreSee Less

Your 5-star reviews are stuck on Google.

They should be working on your homepage, not hiding behind a link nobody clicks.

Now anyone on your site sees those same five stars, without ever leaving to find them.

Grab Reviews Feed Pro and set this up today. Follow, I post one of these fixes every week.

#smashballoon #googlereviews #reviewsfeedpro #websiteconversion #smallbusiness
... See MoreSee Less

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3) Add the following JavaScript to your site. This can be done manually using a custom JavaScript plugin. For further information see our documentation here. Please note, if you change the class option in the shortcode above to be anything but “slideshow” then make sure to change that on the first line of the snippet below:

var shortcodeClass = 'slideshow',
    cffSpeed = 5000, 
    $cff = $('#cff.'+ shortcodeClass);
    $cffItem = $cff.find('.cff-item'),
    cffNum = $cffItem.length,
    cffCur = 0;
$cffItem.hide();
setTimeout(function(){ $cff.find('.cff-item').eq(0).show(); }, 200);
setInterval(function(){
    $cff.find('.cff-item').eq(cffCur).fadeOut( "fast", function() {
        if( cffCur == cffNum-1 ) cffCur = -1;
        cffCur++;
        $cff.find('.cff-item').eq(cffCur).fadeIn();
    });
}, cffSpeed);

4) You can change the speed of the transition by editing the cffSpeed = 5000 value at the top of the snippet. 5000 is equal to 5 seconds (5000ms).

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