Widgets are widely used on devices like phones, computers, and even devices like iPads. All widgets are different so that device users have variety to put the one they want most in their device menu or on the virtual desktop.
These widgets can not only be placed on devices such as computers or cell phones, but also on websites. Next, we’ll show you how to place a social media widget on your website, how to use an Instagram Feed widget, and a couple of other things.
How to embed social media widgets on a web page?
There are several kinds of widgets to use. There are the widgets that we all know, which come within the system of computers and cell phones. Now, there are also the widgets that social networks have that are much simpler and a bit simpler.
The widgets that can be placed on web pages are not those that mobile devices or computers bring, but rather those that we can see on social networks. There are several ways to use social media widgets, one of the most used networks to take widgets is Facebook.
However, to take the widgets that Facebook has, you can use at least three tools. The name of these tools is Developers, Adobe Muse and the plugins that the platform with which you are developing your website has. In the next three subtopics, you’ll see how to get widgets out of Facebook.
With the Facebook Developers tool
Removing the widgets with Developers is something very simple, what you should know beforehand is what is the procedure to use the Plugins. See what are the proper steps to access Facebook widgets:
- Go to the Developers tool webpage
- There in the box to remove things from the platform you are going to place the URL address, which in this case is the link to the official Facebook website.
- In the ‘Tabs’ section put the word ‘timeline’, like this in lowercase
- To finish, go to the part below so you can see the codes that you can use to remove your widgets from Facebook
When you finish removing the widget you want from the Facebook platform, you can see how widgets are customized on Android mobiles. Although this is not related to the placement of widgets on web pages, it can be used to customize the menu of your cell phone.
The best thing that can be done to make mobile phones look better in your menu is to add widgets to it. Therefore, there is a way to install new widgets on your iPhone cell phone.
If you have your page in Adobe Muse
Adobe Muse is a tool for creating and customizing web pages. With this tool it is also possible to add widgets to your personal or company website. Pay attention to what you need to do to get a Facebook widget using this tool:
- Access the Adobe Muse tool
- Go to the widget library
- Now, open the Facebook web page from your computer
- Find the widget you want on your website
- Select it and drag it onto the Adobe Muse widget bar
- To finish, wait for that widget to load in the Adobe Muse tool and select the widget to proceed to use it
It’s very easy to use Adobe Muse to pull widgets out of your Facebook page whenever you want to use one. For the most part it’s best to use Adobe Muse to pull the widgets you want to use out of Facebook. It should be noted that there is a way to download the widgets that Gmail has.
Using a plugin
Another alternative that you can use to get a widget from the Facebook website is to use the Plugin. Wizards for creating web pages like. For example, WordPress always provide you with plugins that help you pull widgets from social platforms like Facebook.
Depending on the web page creation wizard you work with, you will have to look for a different plugin, but there is always one that will help you with this.
How to insert an Instagram Feed widget on your website?
If you want to insert a widget from the ones that appear in the Instagram Feed on your web page, what you have to do is execute the following process:
- Open the Google Chrome web browser
- Enter the Instagram web
- Now, press the 3 dots icon
- Go to ‘More tools’ and choose the ‘Tools for developers’ option
- To finish, select with the mouse the widget that you want to remove from Instagram and copy it. Then paste it into your web page from the page code
How do you add social media to a WordPress website?
If you want to add some social networks to your website created with the help of WordPress, it is important that you take into account the use of Plugins. There are hundreds of them that help you add your personal social networks to the official social networks of the website.
The plugin that will help you to put the icon of your social networks in WordPress is one called ‘Simple Social Icons’. Through the use of plugins, widgets are placed on websites, because of this, it is best to use the Simple Social Icons.
