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Translating our Plugin

You can find the Site Language select option in your wordpress admin under Settings / General If you would like to translate our plugin just make sure the files you have added to translate your wordpress in the wp-content/languages folder are named, for example, nl_NL.mo and nl_NL.po Our plugin will look in our languages folder…

Get API Key for YouTube

With the new rules and API version 3 changes YouTube is requiring all users that want to view videos outside of YouTubes website to register and create a Project to access the API. The good news is this process is fairly simple. In order for you to get the YouTube feed working you need an API Key. Here…

How to get API Keys and Tokens for Twitter

In order for you to get the Twitter feed working you need four keys; the Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token and Access Token Secret. Below are the steps to get those 4 keys. Go to https://apps.twitter.com/app/new and log in, if necessary. Enter your desired Application Name, Description and your website address making sure to enter the full address…

How to create an Instagram Access Token

NOTE: It is now required that Feed Them Social Users or Feed Them Instagram users only need to click the button on the Instagram Options page of our plugin to get your Access Token. For anyone else who is not using our plugin the info below is still useful. If you are getting an error…

How to create a Pinterest Access Token

Updated 7/5/2018: It appears at this time Pinterest has pulled the option to create a token on there website. In order for you to get an Access Token now you will need to be the owner or have the owner of the Pinterest feed you want to show, click the button on the Pinterest Options…

Custom Date & Time for Feeds

If you would like to show a custom date format for your Facebook or Twitter feed you can choose an option from the list as show in the example below. This is perfect if you are living in Europe or other country and would like to have the date formatted properly. You can find this option…

Fit thumbnail on Facebook galleries

By adding -70% and -10% to the options at the end of the shortcode I can control how the thumbnail fits into my custom feed. The result looks like the below. If I do not add a percent the photos will be centered as depicted in the second photo. Below is example of the full…

Custom CSS Option

With this option you can add you own CSS to change the look of any of your feeds. You can find this option under the Settings > Global Options tab.  

Create Facebook App ID Token

NOTE: As of mid April 2018 Facebook has changed its policy on privacy and because of this change Facebook Group endpoints have been retired from the API. We are hopeful that at some point we’re able to retrieve them again but for the time being this is where things stand. Thanks so much for all…

Powered By Text

This option allows you to remove or keep the Powered By Feed Them Social Text that will appear below all social feeds from us. This option is not checked by default. If you would like to remove this text: Log into your WordPress install. Click the Feed Them menu tab or Settings tab. Now Click…