JerryOng.com Community Blog How To Import and Displays Facebook Photo Albums on Your WordPress Blog
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You have hundreds and even thousands of photo in your facebook album to share, some self upload and some photos tag by your friends! Now you can import and displays your facebook photo albums on your wordpress blog and share with your blog readers recent pictures update with this beautiful and simple WordPress plugin - Fotobook.
Introduction
Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums into a page on your WordPress installation. It makes use of Facebook’s API so importing your photos is a breeze.
Features
# Interfaces with Facebook’s API
# Displays photo albums on a WordPress page
# Import photos from mulitple Facebook accounts
# Sidebar widgets for displaying random or recent photos & albums
# Insert individual photos into posts/pages
# Easy-to-use AJAX album management panel
# Frontend validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict
# Works with PHP5 & PHP4
Demo Fotobook Gallery
Check out photo gallery on my blog.
5 Minutes Installation
Do i need to remind again that you need a facebook account and a wordpress blog?
1. Download and unzip the most recent version of Fotobook
2. Unzip and Upload the entire fotobook folder to /your-wordpress-install-dir/wp-content/plugins/
3. Login to your WordPress Admin panel, click Plugins tab and activate Fotobook
4. Go to “Manage” tab and then click the Fotobook link.
5. Follow the two steps for linking the plugin to your Facebook account.
a. Click on “Grant Permissions”, you will received a pop up message required you to re-enter your facebook email and password.
b. Click on “Apply Permissions” to link your wordpress blog with facebook. Once success, you will see your link under “Current Accounts”
6. Now go to Fotobook’s “Manage Settings” click on “Get Albums” as shown below to import all your albums on facebook, you can choose which album to display or hide on your blog.
You’re Done !
you can view imported facebook photo albums in your blog as default setting is http://yoursite.com/wordpress_installation/photos/ you may change this url in fotobook general settings as shown below.
Other Settings
Fotobook General Settings - allowed you to set which page to display your facebook photos on “Album Page” and you can edit the stylesheet if you prefer not to use the defaults, also can choose to select photo display as “embed” or “lightbox” and “sidebar” manner
Fotobook also allowed you to insert imported photos into your blog post!
To upgrade simply replace the old Fotobook directory with the newest version. Re-import all of your albums to complete the upgrade.
FAQ
How do I create a new style for Fotobook?
To create a new style, simply duplicate and rename one of the existing styles and modify the files.
My theme doesn’t support widgets. How do I add the Fotobook widgets manually?
Use the following template functions:
fb_photos_widget(count, mode, size)
fb_albums_widget(count, mode)
Parameters
$count: number of photos/albums to display (default: 4)
$mode: method for selecting photos/albums to display. Can either by random or recent
$size: size of square thumbnails (default: 80)
Examples
<?php fb_photos_widget(4, ‘random’, 80); ?>
<?php fb_albums_widget(5, ‘recent’); ?>
I have the Lightbox style selected but the images pop up in another window.
The Lightbox plugin must be installed and activated.
Can this plugin import photos from Facebook groups or pages?
No. Facebook’s API doesn’t currently allow for this.
My Two Cents
Remember my bad experience with flickr and also facebook? this is a nice plugins to display all your photos on wp blog but what if you’re banned by facebook one day? All photos display on your blog’s photo albums and blog post will be disappear and look awfully empty!
Hope fotobook or similar plugins will support other social networks like Friendster.com and allowed user to pull in all their photos and embed on own blog in soon future!
Have Fun! 
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Hi Jerry, thanks for sharing this information. I’ve a Facebook account but never thought of uploading photos and show them in WordPress. Thanks again for the plugin intro.
what about importing photos from a facebook page?
@Gianko Facebook page doesn’t allowed this feature at this moment, can only pull from personal profile