Title: Social Plugin – Metadata
Author: ole1986
Published: <strong>March 16, 2021</strong>
Last modified: July 12, 2024

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# Social Plugin – Metadata

 By [ole1986](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ole1986/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/social-page-metadata.1.1.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-page-metadata/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-page-metadata/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-page-metadata/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-page-metadata/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-page-metadata/)

## Description

Display meta information from the social network “Facebook” using either a widget
or shortcode.
 Currently supported meta information which can be gathered are:

 * Business hours
 * Page about text
 * Last posted entry (incl. text, link and date)
 * Show events

Check out the Installation instruction for further details

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The settings page
 * [[
 * The widget located in a side bar
 * [[
 * Output of the widget configured to display business hours

## Installation

Add it through wordpress or unpack the downloaded zip file into your wp-content/
plugins directory

**Quick Guide**

To sychronize and output meta information (E.g. Business hours, About Us, last posts)
from facebook pages, follow the below steps:

 1. Register as Facebook Developer and create a new [Facebook App](https://developers.facebook.com/apps/)
 2. Fill in the Facebook App ID and App secret from the app you just created into the
    Social Plugin (Menu “Tool” -> “Social Plugin – Metadata”)
 3. Use the “Login and Sync” button to connect your facebook account with your Facebook
    App
 4. Switch to the Appearance -> Widget page once successfully logged in and pick the“
    Social Plugin – Metadata”
 5. Setup the widget for the page and content you want to display on frontend

**Shortcodes**

If you prefer to use Shortcodes, the below options are available

[social-businesshours page_id=”…” empty_message=””]
 [social-about page_id=”…” empty_message
=””] [social-lastpost page_id=”…” limit=”…” max_age=”…” empty_message=””] [social-
events page_id=”…” filter=”…” category=”…” link=1 limit=3 upcoming=1 date_format(
_start|_end)=”…”]

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Social Plugin – Metadata” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ole1986 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ole1986/)

[Translate “Social Plugin – Metadata” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/social-page-metadata)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-page-metadata/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/social-page-metadata/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/social-page-metadata/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/social-page-metadata/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

Changelog can be found on [Github project page](https://github.com/Cloud-86/social-plugin-metadata/releases)

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.5**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.5.8**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-page-metadata/)
 * Tags
 * [facebook](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[meta data](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/meta-data/)
   [show](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/show/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-page-metadata/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ ole1986 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ole1986/)

## Support

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