Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Syed Balkhi
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress is a WordPress app, with a 4.7 average rating from 1,505 reviews, as of Jul 15, 2026.
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Syed Balkhi. With a rating of 4.7★ from 1,505 reviews.
AppRanks data: Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress ranks #0 in Facebook on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress is a highly rated WordPress app with an established review history. It is listed in the Facebook category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 1,505 reviews show steady adoption but the app hasn't crossed the heavy-volume bar yet. Review accumulation at this stage tends to come from segment-specific use cases rather than universal adoption, so fit-to-stack matters more than category-leader brand recognition. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.7★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +1,505 reviews provide statistical reliability for the rating average
- +Published by Syed Balkhi — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress works
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Display Facebook posts on your WordPress site in an attractive feed. Completely customizable, responsive, search engine crawlable, and GDPR compliant feeds. Automatically powers any Facebook oEmbeds on your site.
“The perfect Facebook plugin with amazing support! What else do you want? Get it!” – JoeJeffries
“I honestly cannot recommend this Facebook plugin enough. The plugin itself is gorgeous and super customizable, and if you run into trouble…support will get you out of it. Five Stars across the board.” – pamsavoybarnett
Please note: This free Facebook plugin allows you to display text and links from Facebook posts. To display photos, videos, comments, and more, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. See the Pro Version section below for more information.
Features NEW: Now Supports Facebook oEmbeds
WordPress is no longer able to support Facebook oEmbeds without the use of a plugin. Install Custom Facebook Feeds on your website to support oEmbeds. No developer app required.
Super Simple to Set Up
One of our main priorities has always been to make our Facebook plugin as easy as possible to setup and use. Get up and running in less than 1 minute with our signature quick setup – no Facebook Developer App required.
Display Feeds from Your Facebook Page
Use the plugin to display Facebook feeds from a Facebook page that you are an admin of.
Completely Customizable
By default the feed will adopt the styles of your WordPress theme, but your feeds can be completely customized to look however you like using our visual feed customizer – with tons of options to customize every part of your feed.
Elementor and Divi Ready
Custom Facebook Feeds has a built-in Elementor and Divi block for easy page building. Simply launch your Elementor or Divi builder and find the related Custom Facebook Feed block in the sidebar like any other block.
SEO Friendly
The Facebook feed content is crawlable by search engines adding SEO value to your site. This is unlike other Facebook plugins embed the feed using iframes which are not crawlable.
GDPR Compliant
Automatically integrates with many of the popular GDPR cookie consent plugins and includes a 1-click easy GDPR setting.
Responsive and Mobile Optimized
The plugin layouts look great on any screen size and in any container width.
Unlimited Feeds from Unlimited Different Facebook Pages
We don’t limit how many Facebook feeds you can display on your site. With the use of a shortcode or block you can insert a feed into posts or widgets anywhere on your site.
Built for Speed
Built-in caching means that your Facebook feeds load lightning fast. Set how long the cache lasts until the feed updates again.
Like Box Widget and Visual Header
Include the official Facebook Like Box widget at the top or bottom of your Facebook feed and display a beautiful visual header with your Facebook page or cover photo, profile picture, bio, and number of likes.
So Much More
Show and hide certain parts of each Facebook post, choose whose posts to show in the feed, customize colors, font sizes and styles, the number of Facebook posts to display, set max text lengths, translate text, custom CSS, and much, much more.
Pro Version (Custom Facebook Feed Pro) In order to maintain the free version of the Custom Facebook Feed plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. Custom Facebook Feed Pro allows you to display photos, videos, the number of likes, shares, reactions and comments for each Facebook post, choose from multiple layout options, filter Facebook posts by type or #hashtag/string, load more Facebook posts into your feed, and more. Click here for a full list of all differences between the Custom Facebook Feed free and Pro versions.
Find out more about Custom Facebook Feed Pro
Try out the Custom Facebook Feed Pro demo.
Benefits of Displaying a Facebook Feed on Your Website
Increase social engagement between you and your users, customers, or fans
Save time by using the Custom Facebook Feed to generate dynamic, search engine crawlable content on your website
Get more likes by displaying your Facebook content directly on your site
Improve your SEO as all of that quality keyword-rich Facebook content from posts and Facebook comments is directly embedded into your website
Display your Facebook content your way to perfectly match your website’s style
No Coding Required – choose from tons of built-in customization options to create a truly unique feed of your Facebook content.
The Custom Facebook Feed plugin is updated regularly with new features, bug-fixes and Facebook API changes
Support is quick and effective
We’re dedicated to providing the most customizable, robust and well supported Facebook feed plugin in the world!
How to use the Custom Facebook Feed plugin Once you’ve installed the plugin there are only a few steps to get up and running:
1) Use the button on the ‘Facebook Feed’ settings page to log into your Facebook account and authorize the plugin.
2) Save the plugin settings and add the [custom-facebook-feed] shortcode to any page, post, or widget where you want the Facebook feed to be displayed.
That’s it! You can then customize the Facebook feed as needed using the settings on the Facebook Feed > Customize page.
For full step-by-step setup directions with screenshots, see here.
Requesting support Customer support is a huge deal to us. We pride ourselves on always providing quick, effective, and courteous support to all of our users. If you’re having an issue using the Custom Facebook Feed plugin then just let us know and we’ll be there to help as soon as possible. You can either open a ticket on the support forum on WordPress.org, or directly on the Custom Facebook Feed section of our website. We also have a large collection of help documentation and FAQs on our website for all common issues related to the Custom Facebook Feed plugin.
At Smash Balloon we have two goals:
Creating and maintaining the most useful, functional, customizable, robust and down-right awesomist Facebook feed plugin your website has ever seen.
To provide the quickest, friendliest and most mind-blowingly amazing product support you have ever experienced.
Category rankings
As of Jul 15, 2026- Facebook#0of 131Top 1%
- Facebook account#0of 1Top 1%
- Facebook feed#0of 7Top 1%
- Facebook Page#0of 4Top 1%
- Facebook posts#0of 2Top 1%
- _browse_blocks#35of 427Top 9%
- _browse_popular#281of 509Top 56%
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Keyword rankings
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress ranks for 4 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
- Rank #186
- 2.faqRank #249
- Rank #287
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress?
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.7-star rating from 1,505 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Facebook category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Syed Balkhi.
Who uses Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress?
Currently around 200,000 active stores have installed Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress. Its review base of 1,505 signals a mature user community spanning small, mid-market, and enterprise merchants. It is part of the Facebook category on WordPress.