Social Feed Documentation

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Introduction to Social Feed

Social Feed is one of the best Social Feed plugin to show your social feed from your social media accounts. Social feed plugin helps you to display Facebook feed from any Facebook page, show your twitter feed from your username or any hashtag, show your Instagram feed from your account or any Instagram hashtag, show your board pin from your Pinterest account.

Create one simple Social Feeds from one account or create custom social feeds from your all accounts. Create Social Feed to show your product gallery from Instagram. Create Social Feed from your twitter account to show your business tweets or Merge all accounts and create one social feed gallery from your Facebook brand page, Instagram photo gallery and twitter tweets your designs from Pinterest boards.


Who should use Social Feed?

Every WordPress user should use Social Feed if you have Social Accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or VK, Social Feed will show your business or personal profile in a stylish way on your WordPress site.


Let's get started!

If you are planning to show your Social Profile (Business or Personal) accounts on your website to enhance the social sharing experience here you how get started with Social Feed Plugin.


Find the Plugin.

  • The Free version of the plugin can be download from WordPress.Org.
  • Or go to Social Feed Plugin Premium Page to pick the plan that works best for your personal/business needs.
  • Go through the Check out and Payment process to complete your purchase.
  • Once you have successfully completed the purchase, an email will be sent with order and package installer details for Premium Version.


Social Feed Installation & Activation

Installing a plugin through WordPress is quite easy.

Upload the Plugin File

  • Go to Plugins ▸ Add New in the WordPress Dashboard.
  • Click on the Upload Plugin button.
  • Click Browse and select current version of wp-social-feed.zip from your computer that you downloaded from WordPress.Org.
  • Click Install Now.
After plugin installed successfully you can activate them by clicking Activate the button as appear on your screen.

Manually finds the Plugin from plugin directory

If you wish to activate manually.
  • Go to Plugins ▸ Add New in the WordPress menu.
  • Search Social Feed by Arrow Plugins from a search bar.
  • Mouseover plugin thumbnail and press the Install button.
  • After installing Social Feed, Click on the Activate button.


How to create your Social Feed.

After successfully activating the Social Feed Plugin by ArrowPlugins
  • Go to Social Feed ▸ Add New in the WordPress menu.



  • Enter feed name to differentiate it from other feeds in the title field.
  • All the necessary options are selected by default in the feed, if you want to select other options like if you want to hide social icons from feed cards you can check from "General Settings" tab

Now let's setup the Social Accounts for Feed.

- For Facebook Feed setup

  • Go to "Social Accounts Settings" tab and Enable the Facebook Feed.



  • Now create access token for your Facebook Page you want to show feeds of. Click on this link for step-by-step tutorial to create access token of your Facebook Page.
  • After creating Access token you have to copy that access token and paste into this field



  • Now place the URL of your Facebook Page in the Facebook Page URL field.



  • After placing access token and the Facebook Page URL in respective fields, click on the publish to publish post and save settings.
  • Copy the Shortcode provided and paste into the Post or Page where you want to show the Facebook Feed.




- For Twitter Feed setup

  • Go to "Social Accounts Settings" tab and Enable the Twitter Feed from Twitter Tab.



  • Now if you want to show Twitter Feed from your user account the Username button will be auto selected just enter your Twitter Handle with "@" sign.



  • If you want to show Twitter Feed from Hashtag select the Hashtag radio button and enter the Hashtag you want to get with "#" sign.



  • click on the publish to publish post and save settings.
  • Copy the Shortcode provided and paste into the Post or Page where you want to show the Twitter Feed.




- For Instagram Feed setup

  • Go to "Social Accounts Settings" tab and Enable the Instagram Feed from Instagram Tab.



  • Now to show Instagram Feed you need to generate Access Token for that Click on the Button which says "Click here to generate Access Token and User ID".



  • We use Free Service (Credits to Pixel Union for providing service), Click the "Generate Access Token" button to generate access token it will take you to login page to login into your account which is necessary to generate access token.



  • Copy the generate Access Token and paste into the Field.



  • Now generate the "UserID" for your account username (UserID is the numerical id which is alternative to your Instagram Username). Click on the link where it says, "Click here to get UserID"



  • Enter your Instagram username without "@" sign and Click on Find my UserID. Search your Instagram Profile and Copy the UserID.



  • Paste the copied UserID into the plugin's UserID field.



  • To show feeds from Instagram Hashtag, select the Hashtag Radio Button and enter the hashtag without "@" sign.



  • click on the publish to publish post and save settings.
  • Copy the Shortcode provided and paste into the Post or Page where you want to show the Instagram Feed.




- For Pinterest Feed setup

  • Go to "Social Accounts Settings" tab and Enable the Pinterest Feed from Pinterest Tab.



  • Enter the URL of the Board you want to show pins from, First part of the URL will be the username and after the forward slash your Board URL. Combined like www.pinterest.com/username/board.



  • click on the publish to publish post and save settings.
  • Copy the Shortcode provided and paste into the Post or Page where you want to show the Pinterest Feed.




- For VK Feed setup

  • Go to "Social Accounts Settings" tab and Enable the VK Feed from VK Tab.



  • To get Vk Account id we use free service, open http://vkuid.com/, Enter your VK Account URL with username and copy the provided user id and paste into the field in the plugin.



  • click on the publish to publish post and save settings.
  • Copy the Shortcode provided and paste into the Post or Page where you want to show the VK Feed.




General Settings.

Social Feed Plugin provides different and unique settings to beautify your feeds. You can customize your feed styles using these settings.

- Social Feed Styles:
  • Vertical: If you want to show your feed in a vertical style you can select this style, it will show feeds from recent to oldest posts of your selected social network. See Vertical Feed Demo
  • Blog Style: Blog style will show feed in full width like a blog post, it will also be in vertical but in full width. See Blog Style Demo
  • Thumbnails: Thumbnail Feed is only for Instagram, it will hide out all the content and show only images, it's best fit for Instagram.
    - Thumbnail Size: Thumbnail Size will determine how many pictures can be fit into one row.
  • Masonry: Masonry Feed will show your feed in the Pinterest like view, you can make changes into the number of columns you want to show. See Masonry Style Demo
  • - Number of Columns in a Row: This option is only for Masonry View, it will determine how many columns you want in your feed.

- Limit Post Caption Text: This option will increase or decrease the number of post character you have, if you don't want to show the whole text of feed, you can decrease the character count to make your feed post text less.

- Show Photos Only: If your Facebook Page, Twitter Posts have only pictures in them, you can then select this option, other wise the empty post will appear, it will hide content and show only pictures.

- Date Posted Language: If your feed is other than English language you can make it match to your feed by changing the language of your date.

- Hide Date Posted: This option will hide the post date from the feed.

- Hide Post Caption Text: This will hide the text from your feed card, but everything else will appear.

- Hide Social Icon From Feed Card: If you don't want to show the Social Icon, from where that feed is coming from to give cleaner look to your feed, you can check this option.


Appearance Settings.

Appearance Tab will focus on the look and feed of the Social Feed Card, You can make changes into the default width (Specific to Feed Styles), color of the text and size of the text including the style of the profile picture of your Social Network.

- Social Feed Card Width: If you want to change the default width of the feed card you can change the size from this settings, it will only effect on Vertical Feed, Blog Style Feed, Masonry Feed will be effected by the Number of Column.

- Heading Font Size: You can change the default theme font size for the heading using this option.

- Post Content Font Size: You can change the default theme font size of the post content using this option.

- Heading Color: You can change the color of the Heading using this option.

- Post Content Color: This option will help you to change the content color of the post in your feed.

- Date Text Color: To match date color with your feed, you can use this option to change the date of the color in your feed card.

- Profile Picture Style: To change the style of your profile picture from your feed, you can use this option, three styles you can choose from.

Social Feed Support.

We provide robust open source community support on the Social Feed Forum.
Additionally, you can also contact us directly on our email address or Visit our Support Page.

  • FAQ: Do you have any question? Please check FAQ
  • Support Forums: Free support is available on the plugin support forum.

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