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Feed Them Social And Elementor?
Take My Money!

Building client sites in Elementor or rebuilding and maintaining your own site? Hey, we get it. Sometimes you have to dig in and get the thing done. We have great news. Feed Them Social is now an Element in Elementor. Or it’s a widget. Well, widgets are elements. And you don’t need to switch out…
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Sunsetting Our Free Twitter Feed

Photo By: Chris Haverstick We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to share an important update regarding the Twitter Feed in our WordPress plugin Feed Them Social. Recently, under Elon Musk’s decision, Twitter has opted to monetize the API that powers this feature. This has directly impacted the cost structure of providing…
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Why Do I Need To Display My Social Media Feed On My Website?

We all understand that social media is ubiquitous; it is everywhere. The world’s biggest brands, your favorite sports teams, government entities, healthcare, and most small businesses all integrate their social media feeds on their sites. Displaying your social media feed(s) on your site can help in a multitude of ways. Here are some of the…
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How End-to-End Unit Testing Makes Feed Them Social A Better WordPress Plugin

Whether you’re a small business owner DIY-ing your WordPress website, a freelancer building sites for small businesses, or an agency helping automotive repair shops with SEO, you need social media.  Small businesses thrive with the power of word-of-mouth marketing, reviews, and referrals. You know how to use social media to drive traffic to your website,…
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Update on Feed Them Social 4.0

Making Steady Progress It’s been a while since we made an update but I’m here to report we are getting super close to wrapping up Feed Them Social 4.0 (previously planned as FTS 3.0, but the UI update has been pushed to FTS 4.0). Right now we are tying the feeds with the new Options…
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Feed Them Social 4.0 Major Changes

Feed Them Social Changes Ahead We will be revising this post with images in the weeks to come depicting the new layout and look. This is a notice to all Feed Them Social users that we will be making some major positive changes to the plugin in the upcoming months. At the moment to create…
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Instagram API Changes – Effective March 31, 2020

Notice: Starting March 31, 2020, Instagram will depreciate its old API. Our Feed Them Social plugin(s) supports the new API, however, in order for our users to access the new Instagram API you will need to reconnect your account with our new APP. We are currently waiting for APP approval from Facebook. As soon as…
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Instagram Hashtag and Location Options

Here are the details of what we know. But in short the Hashtag Search and Location information will be retired on the Instagram API platform on December 11th, 2018. Today, we are launching a new Hashtag Search feature for Businesses on Instagram. With this new feature, businesses will still be able to discover content and…
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Sell Photos in WooCommerce + Bulk Upload, Protected Categories & More

If you’re a photographer, then you’ll know that clients expect to be able to view and purchase your photos on your website. As the world’s leading e-commerce platform, WooCommerce is hugely popular with professional photographers. However, it’s missing some vital features for selling photos online. While WooCommerce has all the basic e-commerce functionality you need,…
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Feed Them Social – Version 2.4.0 Update

Today we pushed Feed Them Social version 2.4.0 Instagram Feed This is an exciting update as we have removed the “Convert Instagram ID” button which was broken due to Instagrams recent API Changes and replaced it with a much better method. We have also created a new shortcode attribute called access_token=. This means that you can share…
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Facebook API Changes on April 4th, 2018

Facebook Changes Facebook has decided to retire certain public API endpoints without warning on April 4th, 2018. This is affecting parts of our plugin Feed Them Social. It will no longer be possible to display feeds from Groups or Events at this time with our plugin (vs 2.4.1+). Facebook has effectively cut off the group…
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Instagram API change on April 4th, 2018

Instagram Changes and what this means for you or your clients Instagram decided to retire API endpoints without warning affecting parts of our plugin Feed Them Social. It will no longer be possible to display feeds of other users instagram accounts – only your own. Hashtag feeds and user accounts you have access to should…
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