configure multiple facebook page in single plugin

Hey Santoshw85,

The plugin will support as many feeds (using different Facebook page/group accounts) as you wish on a single site. For purposes of your visitor’s experience in page loading time however it is recommended not to put more than a few feeds on a single site page.

This of course is dependent upon how many posts you are downloading for each feed. If you were only downloading 4 posts from 4 different Facebook accounts then this is a total of 16 posts being downloaded from Facebook which is not a problem.

However if you set the same site page up with the same four Facebook accounts to be displayed and you set your plugin settings to download 100 posts per feed (the maximum Facebook will send per API request) then you are waiting for 400 posts to be downloaded which will significantly affect the page loading time your visitor will experience.

A feed does not make an API call for posts from Facebook until the actual site page containing the feed is visited so putting a single feed on a page and having 500 pages (each with a different feed source) will not be a problem.

To set each feed up differently you would need to use the appropriate shortcode option to identify the Facebook account source. For instance, if you wanted to display a feed containing 4 posts from CBS and another feed containing 7 posts from NBC then your shortcodes for each feed would look like this:

[custom-facebook-feed id=cbs num=4]

[custom-facebook-feed id=nbc num=7]

Thanks for reply,

Suppose i configured 500 page feeds as per mentioned shortcode format, then it will display latest posts from all feeds as same like any fb profile newsfeed? Or it will display posts as per sequence of short codes ?

Hi Santoshw85,

It will display them in the order of the shortcodes on the page. I definitely wouldn’t recommend 500 feeds on a page though, as that would be 500 individual requests to Facebook’s API which would take quite a bit of time and resources to complete.

We do have an extension which is an add-on for our Pro version which allows you to combine posts from multiple different feeds into one single feed, but again, I wouldn’t recommend anywhere close to 500 pages. I’d probably do 10-15 at the most.

Let me know whether that helps.

John

Thanks,I understand now and this plugin is perfect for my requirement.I will buy definitely in near by. I only asked that for 500 page feeds work better or allow facebook if i done refresh interval day or hourly basis instead minutes?.

Hi Santoshw85,

Even if you change the caching time to be 1 day I still wouldn’t recommend loading feeds from that many Facebook pages at once as it’s gonna take a long time to load the page. Once the posts are cached by the plugin then it would be quicker, but it still wouldn’t be advisable to have 500 posts displayed on a page even if the data was cached, as the page may be very sluggish due to the shear amount of HTML rendered. It would be a better idea to split the content up over several pages on your website so that it loads quicker and is then more usable for the end user.

John