- You must be an admin or editor of the Page; profiles and groups cannot be shown.
- Posts appear after the refresh cycle of roughly six hours.
- Free-tier widgets carry Elfsight branding and view limits.
Overview
Facebook Feed from Elfsight shows posts, photos and videos from a Facebook Page you manage on a Squarespace page. It is an embeddable widget hosted on Elfsight's platform rather than native Squarespace code. In Elfsight's editor you log in to Facebook and authorise the widget, which then uses the official Facebook API to pull your Page's timeline, photo albums and videos and refreshes roughly every six hours. Posts show with like counts, reaction icons and comment counts, long posts get a See more link, and clicking a post opens it in a popup on your site with a carousel for multi-image posts. Squarespace has no native Facebook feed block, so this is one of the simpler routes.
Key features
- Posts, photos and videos from a Page you administer
- Official Facebook API connection with automatic refresh
- Like, reaction and comment counts shown on posts
- Popup viewing with full text and image carousels
- Header and menu that switch between newsfeed and gallery
- Interface text in more than 30 languages
- Free plan with Elfsight branding and view limits
Who it suits
Local businesses, clubs, venues and community organisations whose news lives on their Facebook Page and who want the website to stay current without copying posts across by hand.
Honest limits
Only Pages where you are an admin or editor can be connected; personal profiles and groups are out. The connection relies on a Facebook login and, as with any Facebook API app, you may occasionally need to re-authorise. Posts appear after the refresh cycle, not instantly, and visitors who want to comment or react are sent to Facebook. Free-tier widgets carry Elfsight branding and monthly view limits, and the feed goes if your account lapses.
Installation on Squarespace
Authorise your Page in Elfsight's editor, choose the content and layout, copy the embed code and paste it into a Squarespace code block where the feed should appear. Later edits in the editor update automatically.
Related guide: see my review of which Elfsight widgets are worth it on Squarespace.
- Posts, photos and videos from a Page you administer
- Official Facebook API connection with automatic refresh
- Like, reaction and comment counts shown on posts
- Popup viewing with full text and image carousels
- Header and menu that switch between newsfeed and gallery
- Interface text in more than 30 languages
Full specifications
Specifications
Official facebook api connection with automatic refresh
Like, reaction and comment counts shown on posts
Popup viewing with full text and image carousels
Header and menu that switch between newsfeed and gallery
Interface text in more than 30 languages
Clubs, venues and community organisations
Charities and churches with an active page
Anyone wanting the website to mirror the page automatically
Posts appear after the refresh cycle of roughly six hours.
Free-tier widgets carry elfsight branding and view limits.