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Displaying Facebook Albums Using the WordPress Plugin

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.

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 an album feed, when creating a new feed select the Albums Feed Type.

Select Albums as the Feed Type in the Custom Facebook Feed customizer

or editing an existing one under Facebook Feed > All Feeds > select Edit for the feed > Settings > Feed Type > click Change and select Albums

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.

Custom Facebook Feed: Select Timeline as the Feed Type

For the created feed, go to Facebook Feed > All Feeds > select Edit for the feed > Settings > Filters >  Select Only specified posts and AlbumsYou are also able to a combination of albums, photos, and videos.

Customize the Layout

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.

Setting the Album Sort Order

Starting in Custom Facebook Feed 4.8.0, you can choose how albums are ordered in your feed. Go to Facebook Feed > All Feeds > select Edit for your album feed > Settings > Advanced > Album order. The dropdown offers three options:

Custom Facebook Feed Album order setting
  • Default from API: uses the ordering Facebook returns from its API (the original behaviour). Best when you want the same order as your Facebook Photos page.
  • “Updated on” date: orders albums chronologically by the date each album was last updated. Adding new photos to an existing album bumps it up the list.
  • “Created on” date: orders albums chronologically by the date each album was first created. Newer albums appear first, older albums at the bottom.

Save the feed after changing the setting. The new order applies on the next page load of any page where the feed is embedded.

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