How to Embed a Facebook Group on Your Website (Best Way)

Do you want to know the easy way to show Facebook groups on your website in WordPress?

Integrating social media feeds into your WordPress by displaying your Facebook group’s timeline on your website is a great way to engage with your customers.

But embedding Facebook groups on your website can be confusing.

That’s why in this guide, we’ll show you an easy way to do this, even if you don’t have any technical knowledge or experience.

But first, let’s see why it’s helpful for you to embed Facebook groups on your WordPress website.

Or, you can click here to skip ahead to the tutorial.

Why Embed Facebook Groups on Your Website?

Facebook now has over 1.4 billion people in Facebook groups.

With so many people actively using Facebook groups, you can reach tons of potential customers by building an online community there.

Using Facebook groups, you can “talk” to your customers to learn more about them and build a relationship.

Also, 70% of B2C marketers get their customers through Facebook. And by embedding your Facebook group on your website, you can easily get people to join your group.

If you display your Facebook group on your company’s website, you get to:

• Help your users easily discover your online community
• Directly interact with your users via your Facebook group
• Strengthen your bond with your customers
• Provide solutions to their product- or service-related problems posted on the group
• Use the power of social proof by showing user-generated content
• And, boost brand awareness by keeping your customers informed via relevant announcements on the group

Embedding a Facebook group on your website makes it easier for your visitors to join your online community, whether you’re a blogger, an affiliate, or an owner of an e-commerce shop.

It’s also simpler for your customers to engage with your business. This is better since they don’t need to jump through hoops just to engage with you.

Also, showing your group on your website helps you build trust with potential customers.

And this is a great thing for you. After all, building trust with your prospects helps you to convert them into customers in the long run.

The Easiest Method to Display Your Facebook Group on Your Website

When you use a Facebook plugin to embed your Facebook group on your website, you can easily display your Facebook group in under 5 minutes!

Using a beginner-friendly WordPress plugin helps you to:

• Easily add Facebook groups to WordPress websites — no coding required
• Encourage your website visitors to join your Facebook group
• Personalize how your Facebook group looks like on your website so it’s consistent with your company’s brand
• Control the type of information (posts, photos, events, videos, albums) you want to show in your Facebook group
• Get help from WordPress experts whenever you have trouble all throughout the process

For this tutorial, we’ll use the Facebook Feed Pro plugin from Smash Balloon.

Facebook Feed Pro is built with the beginner in mind. Using this, you can smoothly add your Facebook posts to your website. You can also personalize how it looks, even if you’re not tech-savvy.

With over 250,000 active users, it’s easily the best Facebook feed plugin for WordPress. Using this plugin, you can even display Facebook events, pages, videos, albums, and even Facebook groups on your site.

Plus. visitors can even join Facebook groups directly from your website.

Plus, by using this WordPress Facebook group feed plugin, you can easily display your online community to your website visitors without having to touch a single line of embed code.

So it’s the best option for you if you don’t feel comfortable directly dealing with HTML, JavaScript, iFrame, CSS, or other coding languages.

With this in mind, let’s start the step-by-step tutorial in displaying your Facebook group on your WordPress website using the Custom Facebook Feed Pro plugin.

Step 1: Download and Install Facebook Feed Pro

Before anything else, you can go and grab a copy of the Facebook Feed Pro plugin.

After that, just install and activate it on your website.

Now sure how to do that? You can just check out our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Step 2: Create Your Facebook Group Feed

From your WordPress dashboard, go to the Facebook Feed » All Feeds menu to get started. 

Now click on the Add New button at the top.

On this new page, you can pick between 9 different types of feeds here. You have the option to choose from timeline posts, photos, albums, Facebook events and much more.

In fact, you can display Facebook group events on your website from here.

Once you’ve picked the Facebook feed type you want, just click on Next. 

In this tutorial, we’re using a timeline feed here.

Step 3: Connect to Your Facebook Group

The next step is to connect a Facebook account to your website so you have a source for your Facebook feed. To add a new source, just click on Add New.

Now you can see a new popup where you can pick between a page or group. Here, just select the Group option and then click on Connect.

Once you do that, the plugin will send you to Facebook. There, you can give the plugin view access to your Facebook account.

The plugin can only view your Facebook posts with that access, but it can’t change anything. So, using Smash Balloon is completely safe.

Just select the Continue option here.

On the new popup, click on the Continue button to proceed.

You can now see all the Facebook groups connected to your account. Just select the group you prefer and then click on the Next button.

After that, you can now see a popup that asks you to add the Smash Balloon app to your group.

To do that, just follow the instructions here.

Now that you’ve added the app, you can just go back to WordPress. On the popup, just click on Done to proceed.

All you have to do now is select your group from the list of sources and then click on Next.

After that, you’ve connected your Facebook group to your website.

Now it’s time to customize your Facebook group feed. Let’s talk about how you can do this in the next step below.

Step 4: Customize a Facebook Group Feed

Now your new Facebook group feed will be open in the live feed editor.

On the left side of the screen, you can see all the customization options.

With these options, you can change your feed type, layout, color scheme, header style, post layout, and much more.

And whenever you make a change, you can see a live preview on the right.

If you want to start customizing, select the Feed Layout option.

When it comes to layouts for your Facebook group feed, you’ve got 4 options here: List, Grid, Masonry, and Carousel.

You can show all the posts in your Facebook group one after the other with the list layout. It’s a good option if you want to make your Facebook posts very visible.

Want to show lots of Facebook posts at once? You can go for the grid option then.

If you just want to show Facebook photos in different columns with their original proportions, there’s the masonry layout.

Finally, you can use a Facebook carousel layout if you want your posts to look more dynamic.

Select the layout you like from all these options. And once you do, you can save changes by clicking on the Save button at the top.

To continue customizing your feed, you can then click on the Customize button on the top.

Now from the options, select the Color Scheme option to set the colors for your Facebook feed.

Here, you’ve got 4 options for your color scheme:

• Inherit From Theme: To copy your theme’s color scheme.
• Light: For a color scheme with a clear white background and dark font color.
• Dark: If you want a darker background with lighter font color.
• Custom: To add your own colors to your feed.

Just select your preferred color scheme from these options here and then click on Save.

After that, you can customize the other parts of your feed, like the header style, margins, post elements, and more.

Once the customization is over, just click on Save.

Step 5: Embed a Facebook Group on Your Website

Now that you’ve customized your feed, it’s time to learn how to add Facebook groups to WordPress. For that, you have 2 ways to do it.

Embed a Facebook Group on Your WordPress Page

First of all, click on the Embed button on your live feed editor.

Now you can see a popup where you can pick where you post your group feed. To proceed, click on the Add to a Page button.

Once you click that, you can see a list of pages where you can post your feed. Select the web page you want and then click on Add.

Now, this Facebook group plugin will send you to that page.

There, just click on the small plus icon (+) at the top. And to finish things off, select the Custom Facebook Feed widget.

Finally, click on the Publish button and you’re done!

And there you go! You’ve now embedded your Facebook group on your website. Now whenever you make new posts on your Facebook group, this feed will automatically show it as well.

You can now open up your WordPress site and see how your feed looks.

Embed a Facebook Group on Your WordPress Sidebar

The second way is to embed your Facebook group feed into your website’s sidebar as a Facebook widget.

You can do that from your live feed editor.

And to open the live feed editor, you can click on the Facebook Feed » All Feeds menu on your dashboard.

On this page, there’s a list of all the Facebook feeds on your website. To proceed, just click on your Facebook group feed.

You can now see the live feed editor once again. Here, just click on the Embed button in the top right corner.

You can now see a popup to choose where to embed your Facebook feed. Here, click on Add to a Widget.

Doing this brings you to the Widgets page, where you can add or remove all the widgets on your site.

Here, just click on Sidebar to go ahead and add your Facebook group widget to your sidebar area.

This will open a panel that shows all the widgets on your sidebar right now. Now click on the plus icon (+) and select the Custom Facebook Feed widget.

Finally, click on Update to add the Facebook group to your website sidebar or footer.

With that, you’ve now added your Facebook group widget on your website sidebar without touching any shortcode or coding language.

Just check and see how it looks.

And that’s it!

Congratulations, you now know how to embed a Facebook group on your website by using a WordPress plugin.

You can embed photos, videos, events, albums, and much more, to make your site more engaging and boost your social media presence.

Want to embed Facebook pages instead? Check out these step-by-step instructions on how to embed your Facebook page’s feed on your WordPress.

Get started with Custom Facebook Feed Pro today.

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