GMC Facebook Feed Gallery — Documentation (WordPress)

GMC Facebook Feed Gallery embeds a Facebook page's posts, photos and videos directly on your WordPress site as a fast, responsive gallery, with a local lightbox, optional media caching and simple shortcodes. It works in two connection modes: the official Facebook Page Plugin (no token needed) or the Meta Graph API for a fully native gallery. It is aimed at tour operators, hotels, restaurants and any brand that is active on Facebook and wants that content on its own site instead of a fixed third-party embed.

Installation

1. In your WordPress dashboard go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin.
2. Choose the plugin .zip file you downloaded (keep it zipped) and click Install Now.
3. Click Activate. The plugin's settings screen appears in the admin menu after activation.

Requirements: WordPress 6.0 or newer and PHP 8.1 or newer.

Configuration

Open the plugin's settings screen from the admin menu and decide which connection mode you want:

• Page Plugin fallback — no token required. The plugin renders the official Facebook Page Plugin for your page. You can set the Page Plugin locale and store Page Plugin defaults in the global settings.
• Meta Graph API — enter a Meta Graph API page access token in the settings. This mode pulls posts, photos and videos and renders them as a native, responsive gallery. You can also pin a specific Graph API version if you need to.

Other settings worth reviewing:

• Local media cache — enable it to serve photos and videos from your own site, which makes the setup more GDPR-friendly and keeps the feed rendering even when the Graph API is slow. A stale-cache-on-error fallback keeps showing the last good content if the API is briefly unavailable, so the block never goes blank during an outage.
• Layout defaults — cards or list layout, number of columns, a Load More button, optional header and page text, like / comment / share stats and an optional link back to Facebook.
• Colours — accent and overlay colour pickers are available both in the widget editor and in the global plugin settings.

The fastest route to a working feed is a saved feed: use the Quick setup presets, keep the global-connection mode, leave the collapsed advanced options for later, check the live layout preview and copy the ready-made shortcode.

Using the plugin

Placing a feed with shortcodes

Four shortcodes are available and can be placed in any post, page or widget area: [gmcfacebookpagefeed], [gmcfacebookfeed], [gmcfacebookgallery] and [gmcsocialpage]. Examples:

• Page Plugin embed: [gmcfacebookpagefeed page="https://www.facebook.com/PAGE_NAME" tabs="timeline"]
• Graph API gallery: [gmcfacebookgallery page_id="PAGE_ID" access_token="TOKEN" type="photos" columns="3"]

With a saved feed you normally don't write attributes by hand — the settings screen gives you a copy-ready shortcode for the feed you configured.

Gallery layouts and the lightbox

Graph API feeds render as responsive cards or list layouts with configurable columns and an optional Load More button. Photos and videos open in a local lightbox, so visitors stay on your site. The Showcase layout adds a hover-reveal overlay showing the post text plus likes / comments and date, with a fixed 3-column default.

Caching behaviour

When the local media cache is enabled, media the plugin has already fetched is served from your site. If the Graph API is slow or temporarily down, the plugin serves the cached content it already has, so the page still renders instead of breaking.

Languages

The plugin ships with English, Italian and Spanish out of the box and respects your site's multilingual setup.

Updates & licence

After purchase you receive a Download Key with your licence email. Enter it on the plugin's settings screen — this key unlocks licensed one-click updates from the GMC / FuerteventuraTV update server. The plugin checks the update server on its own (about every 12 hours) and shows new versions under Plugins / Dashboard → Updates like any other plugin, as long as your licence is active. The updater validates the licensed gateway download URL before it is used for a one-click update, and you can also re-download the latest build from your account at any time.

The software is released under the GNU GPL. Your purchase covers the official build, licensed updates and support for one site; the licence applies to the wp-gmc-facebook-page-feed plugin — the Joomla edition is a separate product. For more sites or client projects, contact us for a volume or agency arrangement.

Support

For help, reply to your purchase email or message us on WhatsApp at +34 633 168 995 (the same line appears in your licence email). Please include the product name and version, your WordPress and PHP version, and a public URL or screenshot with any tokens or keys masked. We answer in English, Italian and Spanish. If the product does not work as described and we cannot fix it for you, you can request a refund within 14 days of purchase.