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BJ Facebook Popular Posts

By Bjørn Johansen

Description

Finds the number each of your posts have been shared on Facebook and saves it as a hidden meta field.

The numbers are updated each hour through a cron job.

The update is non-blocking so visitors won’t notice any performance degradation.

A widget for displaying most shared posts is included, and the output is easy to override.

I have only tested this on one site, but it works flawlessly for me. Please let me know if you have any issues. Fastest way to get a response is by Twitter: http://twitter.com/bjornjohansen

Screenshots

  • The Posts overview gets a new, sortable column that shows number of shares on Facebook
  • Widget settings
  • Sample usage of widget. The HTML is really easy to override.

Installation

  1. Download and unzip plugin
  2. Upload the ‘bj-facebook-popular-posts’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory,
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

FAQ

I don’t like your markup. How do I provide my own?

Copy bj-fbpp-widget.tmpl.php to your theme folder and customize as you like. It’s a standard WP_Query Loop.

How do I display the number of shares?

Look inside bj-fbpp-widget.tmpl.php (there’s sample code in a comment).

Contributors & Developers

“BJ Facebook Popular Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

Version 0.2.2

  • Added missing screenshot

Version 0.2.1

  • The included widget now lets you select what post types to show

Version 0.2.0

  • Changed from the graph API to FQL

Version 0.1.8

  • The background updates now uses HTTP 1.1 so it works with shared hosting as well
  • Tested up to: 3.4.2

Version 0.1.7

  • Tested up to: 3.4.1

Version 0.1.6

  • Screenshot descriptions in readme.txt had fallen out. Back in now.

Version 0.1.5

  • Added screenshots
  • Removes output buffering from the update response to avoid timeouts
  • Improved the fetch queue
  • Added filter: bj_fb_num_posts – Number of posts to fetch per batch (hour). Defaults to -1 (all posts)
  • Added filter: bj_fb_post_type – Post type (content type) to find shares for. Defaults to ‘all’

Version 0.1

  • Seems to work just fine

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