Title: bSocial
Author: Casey Bisson
Published: <strong>April 11, 2012</strong>
Last modified: October 30, 2014

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# bSocial

 By [Casey Bisson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/misterbisson/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bsocial.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bsocial/)

## Description

 1.  Add [Open Graph metadata](http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fgigaom.com%2Feurope%2Fstudents-force-facebook-to-cough-up-more-user-data%2F)
     to your site for improved sharing in Facebook and other social networks.
 2.  Select featured comments to highlight interesting conversations.
 3.  Add Twitter’s JS for [Tweet](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button) and [follow](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/follow-button)
     buttons, [intents](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/intents), and [@Anywhere](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/anywhere/welcome).
 4.  Ingest tweets that link to your site as comments on the post they link to.
 5.  Add [Facebook’s JS SDK](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/)
     as used by the [social plugins](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/).
 6.  Adds a Facebook combined like button and facepile widget.
 7.  Add the Facebook recommendations widget to show what other people are reading 
     on your site.
 8.  Includes a Facebook comments widget.
 9.  Optionally ingest from the Facebook comments widget as WordPress-native comments
     on the post.

#### History

The bSocial plugin is derived from bSuite and includes many of the social features
and none of the cruft from that plugin. See [the whole family of bSuite plugins](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bsuite).

#### In the WordPress.org plugin repo

Here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/

#### Fork me!

This plugin is on Github: https://github.com/misterbisson/bsocial

#### Build status

[Master build status at Travis-CI](https://travis-ci.org/misterbisson/bsocial): 
[](https://travis-ci.org/misterbisson/bsocial)

## Screenshots

[⌊bSocial includes the JS SDKs you need to add social buttons for Twitter and Facebook,
as seen on Tease.FM.⌉⌊bSocial includes the JS SDKs you need to add social buttons
for Twitter and Facebook, as seen on Tease.FM.⌉[

bSocial includes the JS SDKs you need to add social buttons for Twitter and Facebook,
as seen on [Tease.FM](http://musictotakeyourclothesoffto.com/blog/lets-get-it-on/).

[⌊Easily add many Facebook widgets.⌉⌊Easily add many Facebook widgets.⌉[

Easily add many Facebook widgets.

[⌊Incorporate conversations in Twitter and Facebook into your WordPress-native comment
stream.⌉⌊Incorporate conversations in Twitter and Facebook into your WordPress-native
comment stream.⌉[

Incorporate conversations in Twitter and Facebook into your WordPress-native comment
stream.

[⌊The Open Graph metadata improves sharing and discoverability of your site.⌉⌊The
Open Graph metadata improves sharing and discoverability of your site.⌉[

The [Open Graph metadata](http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fgigaom.com%2Feurope%2Fstudents-force-facebook-to-cough-up-more-user-data%2F)
improves sharing and discoverability of your site.

## Installation

 1. Place the plugin folder in your `wp-content/plugins/` directory and activate it.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“bSocial” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Casey Bisson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/misterbisson/)

[Translate “bSocial” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bsocial)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bsocial/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bsocial/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bsocial/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bsocial/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **6.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress Version ** 3.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/)
 * Tags
 * [bSuite](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bsuite/)[comments](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
   [facebook](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[featured comments](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-comments/)
   [LinkedIn](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/linkedin/)[social](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/)
   [social networks](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-networks/)[social proof](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-proof/)
   [twitter](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)[widgets](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/bsocial/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Casey Bisson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/misterbisson/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bsocial/)

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