Social Photo Fetcher
Allows you to automatically create Wordpress photo galleries from Facebook albums. Simple to use and highly customizable.
3.7(12 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Social Photo Fetcher is a WordPress images plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 258K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 14% this week. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
3.7/512 reviews
1.0K+active installs
258K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Social Photo Fetcher (previously called “Facebook Photo Fetcher”) allows you to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums.
The idea was inspired by Fotobook, though its approach is fundamentally different: while Fotobook’s emphasis is on automation, this plugin allows a great deal of customization. With it you can create galleries in any Post or Page you like, right alongside your regular content. You do this simply by putting a “magic HTML tag” in the post’s content – much like WordPress Shortcode. Upon saving, the tag will instantly be populated with the Facebook album content. Presentation is fully customizable via parameters to the “magic tag” – you can choose to show only a subset of an albu…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Good support and flexible
by Jeff Sterup·6 years ago
The author responded quickly for my support request and the plugin offers several hooks to tweak it and make it work how you want.
works bit needs more options
by Moheimen·7 years ago
works bit needs more options
Does the work!
by rogasgr·9 years ago
Does the work i needed, a bit awkward at first to set it up but works pretty well.
Doesn't update
by diana135·10 years ago
To me, this is pretty much useless since the plugin does not automatically sync with the facebook album. You have to manually update the album photos on your WordPress site by clicking a button in the plugin settings. The whole point of installing this plugin was to enable the client to post photos on the website without having to go into the WordPress admin. The plugin author says that users should create their own cron jobs to sync the facebook album and their WordPress site. I will buy a plugin that is written to include the sync feature instead.
Very useful. Would love to see widget integration
by whiteriverdesign·10 years ago
App works well though loses connection randomly and needs re-syncing via the settings page. It’s not a big issue but a bit frustrating when images stop displaying occasionally. We had to work out a way to provide our client with access to this plugin as it wasn’t available to ‘editor’ users initially, only ‘administrator’ users.
It would be great to see easy integration with widgets and custom fields (ie: advanced custom fields plugin). It only seems to generate the code properly when used in the main WYSIWYG content box.
Note: We have just tried implementing the ‘Albums for PHP’ option as per instructions on the plugins website and this may overcome the need for a widget integration.
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 6This week: 33Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.0
84.1%
Other
10.4%
v2.5
5.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.0.4 (2021-03-23)
- Update instructions for finding FB Page IDs
- Changed donate link
- Tested w/ WP 5.7
Contributors
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