by Syed Balkhi 4.7 (1,508 reviews)

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress

Name: Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress
Rating: 4.7 (1508 reviews)
Author: Syed Balkhi

Formerly "Custom Facebook Feed". Display completely customizable Facebook feeds of a Facebook page. Supports Facebook oEmbeds.

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed ranks #284 among WordPress.org plugins with 200,000+ active installations, is #34 of 8,538 in the Customization category, a 4.7/5 rating from 1,508 reviews, and was last updated Sep 10, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v4.13.0 Current Version v4.13.0

Updated 5 days ago Last Update on 10 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#34 of 8,538 in Customization Top 1% by installs Downloads +532.3% this week Actively maintained

View on WordPress.org

Rank

#284

— No change

Active Installs

200K+

-1.2%

KW Avg Position

4.4

0.2 worse

Downloads

9.6M

+2,700 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

94%

Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (1,508 reviews)

Next Milestone 300K

Total Progress 1.3%

200K+ 300K+

Ranks to Climb

Growth Needed

8,000,000

Active Installs

Pro

Unlock Exact Install Count

See the precise estimated active installs for this plugin, calculated from real-time ranking data.

Exact install estimates within tiers
Track install growth over time
Milestone progress predictions

Upgrade to Pro

Need 98,735 more installs to reach 300K+

Rank Changes

Current #284

Change

Best #

Upgrade to Pro

Unlock 30-day and 90-day rank history charts with a Pro subscription.

Upgrade Now

Active Installs Growth

Upgrade to Pro

Active Installs 0,000,000+

Growth +0.0%

Peak 0,000,000

Downloads Growth

Downloads

Growth

Peak

Upgrade to Pro

Unlock 30-day, 90-day, and yearly download history charts with a Pro subscription.

Upgrade Now

Reviews & Ratings

4.7

1,508 reviews

Overall 94%

1,364 (90%)

45 (3%)

20 (1%)

15 (1%)

64 (4%)

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

9 known vulnerabilities on record · 3 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Oct 9, 2025

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.10.0

CVE-2026-16775 · Fixed in v4.10.0
Oct 9, 2025

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.3.3

CVE-2025-49937 · Fixed in v4.3.3
Jun 9, 2025

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.3.2

CVE-2025-4577 · Fixed in v4.3.2
Apr 10, 2024

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.2.2

CVE-2024-31379 · Fixed in v4.2.2
Dec 20, 2022

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.1.6

CVE-2022-4477 · Fixed in v4.1.6
Dec 16, 2021

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.1.1

CVE-2021-25065 · Fixed in v4.1.1
Oct 29, 2021

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 4.0.1

CVE-2021-24918 · Fixed in v4.0.1
Aug 16, 2021

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 2.19.2

CVE-2021-24508 · Fixed in v2.19.2
Jul 20, 2021

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress [custom-facebook-feed] < 2.19.2

Fixed in v2.19.2

Track This Plugin

Get detailed analytics, keyword tracking, and position alerts delivered to your inbox.

Start Tracking Free

Plugin Details

Version: 4.13.0
Last Updated: Sep 10, 2026
Requires WP: 4.1+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Syed Balkhi

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7
Reviews: 1,508
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

facebook Facebook account facebook feed Facebook Page Facebook posts

Upgrade to Pro

Unlock keyword rankings, search positions, and detailed analytics with a Pro subscription.

Upgrade Now

Similar Plugins

Adminify – White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer

6K+ installs

#2,752

Master Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Widgets, Mega Menu Builder, Popup Builder, Widget Builder & Template Kits

30K+ installs

#1,007

Elementor Website Builder - more than just a page builder

10M+ installs

LiteSpeed Cache

7M+ installs

Ultimate Addons for Elementor – Widgets, Templates, WooCommerce & Header Footer Builder

2M+ installs

#26

Essential Addons for Elementor - Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

1M+ installs

#29

Starter Templates: AI-Powered Website Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg

One Click Demo Import

1M+ installs

#61

Translate Wordpress with GTranslate

900K+ installs

#71

View all Customization plugins

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to showcase their Facebook page content on their website. It solves the problem of manually sharing Facebook posts by automatically displaying a customizable, SEO-crawlable feed of Facebook posts without requiring a Facebook Developer App.

Facebook oEmbed support
Visual feed customizer
Elementor and Divi blocks
SEO crawlable content
GDPR cookie consent integration
Responsive mobile layouts
Unlimited feeds and pages
Built-in caching

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress

The Facebook feed you're trying to display has to be from a publicly accessible Facebook page. This means that you can't display the feed from your own personal Facebook profile. This is to do with Facebook's privacy policies. You can't display a non-public Facebook feed publicly. If your Facebook page has any restrictions on it (age, for example) then it means that people have to be signed into Facebook in order to view your page. This isn't desirable for most Facebook pages as it means that it isn't accessible by people who don't have a Facebook account and that your Facebook page can't be crawled and indexed by search engines. An easy way to determine whether your Facebook page is set to public is to sign out of your Facebook account and try to visit your page. If Facebook forces you to sign in to view your page then it isn't public. You can change your Facebook page to public in your Facebook page settings simply by removing any age or location restrictions you have on it (screenshot), which will then allow the Custom Facebook Feed plugin to access and display your feed.

Yep! Create as many feeds as you like from different Facebook pages. Just click "Add New" to create a new feed and then embed it anywhere on your site.

As of April of 2024 the plugin is no longer able to display posts from a Facebook group. This is due to changes on Facebook's end.

Due to Facebook's privacy policy you're not able to use the plugin to display all of your posts from a personal profile, only from a public page, as posts from a personal profile are protected for privacy reasons. You may have limited success in displaying certain posts from a personal profile but most posts are not able to be displayed. If you're using the profile to represent a business, organization, product, public figure or the like, then we'd advise converting your profile to a page per Facebook's recommendation, as there are many advantages to using pages over profiles. Once you've done so, the plugin will be able to retrieve and display all of your posts.

Yes. Support was added to allow the plugin to power your Facebook oEmbeds as official support for these is no longer available in WordPress core. Just connect your account on the oEmbeds settings page inside the plugin and the plugin will power all Facebook embeds on your site, old and new. No developer app or account required.

This free plugin only allows you to display text from your Facebook posts. To display photos and videos in your feed you would need to upgrade to the Pro version of the plugin. Try out a demo of the Pro version on the Custom Facebook Feed website, and find out more about the Pro version here. Click here for a full list of all differences between the free version and Pro version.

This is a feature of the Pro version of the plugin. To display comments, shares and likes you would need to upgrade from the free version to the Pro version.

It sure is. Unlike other Facebook plugins which use iframes to embed your feed into your page once it's loaded, the Custom Facebook Feed uses PHP to embed your Facebook feed content directly into your page. This adds dynamic, search engine crawlable content to your site.

You can embed your Facebook feed directly into a template file by using the WordPress do_shortcode function: <?php echo do_shortcode('[custom-facebook-feed]'); ?>. My Facebook feed posts are not showing up, or all I can see is the Facebook Like box but no posts Please refer to this FAQ for potential solutions on how to resolve this issue. Changing the font in your Facebook feed and using Google Fonts Please refer to this FAQ for directions on how to use Google fonts in your Facebook posts.

Please refer to this FAQ for directions on how to display your Facebook posts in multiple columns. My Facebook feed appears to have stopped updating / working If your Facebook feed doesn't appear to be showing the most recent Facebook posts then the most likely explanation is that the recent posts in your feed may be shared from a user's personal profile. Facebook's privacy policy doesn't allow posts that you share from personal Facebook profiles to be shared outside of Facebook as the posts don't technically belong to your Facebook page, they belong to the user who posted it to their personal Facebook profile. There's an example of a post shared from a user's personal Facebook profile here. Please note, this isn't a limitation of our plugin, it's a restriction which Meta (Facebook) places on it's content in order to protect the privacy of their Facebook users. Potential solutions You could re-post the Facebook post to your page rather than sharing it to your Facebook page. If you re-post the content as your own post on your Facebook page then the content now originates from your Facebook page and will be displayed in the Facebook feed on your website. If you were to share a post from another Facebook page or public source, rather than sharing it from someone's personal Facebook profile, then it would show up in your feed outside of Facebook, but by default any posts that originate from a personal Facebook profile are protected by Facebook's privacy policy and is the private content of that Facebook profile owner. I'm receiving an error message when trying to display my Facebook posts Please refer to our Error Message Reference page for information on how to resolve common error messages. Creating a Masonry grid layout from your Facebook posts Please refer to this FAQ for directions on how to create a Masonry grid layout from your Facebook feed posts. Avatar pictures aren't showing up in my feed The most common reason for this is that an add-on or extension you have installed in your web browser is blocking the pictures being loaded from Facebook. Try checking to see whether you have any add-ons or extensions installed in your browser and, if so, try disabling them to see whether that solves the problem.