Flow Flow – Social Stream for WordPress

Flow-Flow — WordPress Facebook Instagram Twitter Feed Grid Gallery is a multipurpose social media wall plugin that allows to display a mix of social media feeds (+ RSS and WordPress) in beautiful responsive galleries and widgets. For example, you can add custom Facebook feed, Instagram feed and Twitter feed mixed in one gallery. Embedding user generated content (UGC) from multiple sources is a great way to add social proof to your WordPress website and increase your brand presence and boost your sales. User behavior researches show that over 70% users won’t buy from you if you don’t have reviews or social proof of any kind. For its price, this plugin is a great alternative to web services that charge monthly payment for similar functionality. No monthly Subscription with Flow-Flow WordPress Social Stream!


* This product is not affiliated, partnered or sponsored by any of social network companies above. It’s only approved to access their API platforms respectively as third-party agent.


GDPR compliant. This plugin doesn’t store any data of your site visitors.

Smart caching with background server task allows to deliver content blazingly fast without slow page loading. It’s especially crucial when many networks are pulled or you have big traffic. Plugin is responsive, highly customizable and works well on mobile devices. It’s great to use this plugin for streaming your news, photos, reviews and any other content you can imagine! When only one network is not enough!


Plugin doesn’t expose your private details (like tokens, app IDs and app secrets) to browser and keeps it on server so we provide 100% security for any sensitive data. Plugin provides monitoring tools so you can see status of all your connected feeds and easily troubleshoot issues.

Supported Feed Sources

flow flow social stream supports 12 social networks feed sources plus WordPress and RSS feeds. There are 40+ different feed types in total. This is huge! Imagine you can use the only one plugin instead of all those different mono network feed plugins. And you get fantastic unified design of all those different type of content including text posts, image or videos. Your social media wall will look amazing with no exceptions!

• • Facebook: posts and albums of public PAGES.
  • Instagram: any public Business/Creator account, by username, hashtag feed, by location.
  • Twitter: home timeline, any public user, search including hashtags, user lists, likes feed.
  • YouTube: user, channels, search, public playlist.
  • Pinterest: latest pins and public boards.
  • SoundCloud: public playlists.
  • Foursquare: location tips, location photos.
  • Flickr: public user photos, photos by tag.
  • Dribbble: public posts of user, likes of user.
  • WordPress: blog posts, comments, custom post types, posts of specific categories, comments of specific post.

(only own site, others blogs can be streamed using RSS feeds)

• Tumblr: photo posts (will be more types in future).
• Vimeo: public videos of user, album, channel and like feed of user.
• RSS: any valid RSS feed. ATOM format is not supported.
• Google+: (RETIRED April 2019)
• LinkedIn: (RETIRED May 2019)

Twitter Search API restricts getting tweets older than a week.

WordPress Social Stream Features

You can moderate your social feeds with this plugin excluding posts by URL, by username, by words. Broadcast your news, make portfolio, show client testimonials by your company’s tag etc. Plugin provides social sharing buttons to drive user involvement and interaction. We’re focusing on increasing the number of use cases for plugin.

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How plugin works

You create streams in Flow-Flow WordPress Social Stream admin and copy generated shortcodes. Then you put these shortcodes in any block on any page of your site. When social stream is shown first time, it’s got cached (takes more time for initial caching but then it will show blazingly fast) and rest of visitors see this cache for cache lifetime. So for example if you have set 20 min cache and 10000 users visit your site within these 20 min, it’s only one time plugin will request API to pull data, for the rest of time users will see cached data almost instantly. Considering that server runs cache renew task in background it guarantees plugin’s amazing performance.

Design your feed

Flow-Flow provides a great design customization of your streams. Select your layout from mansory, justified or one-height grid. Build your card with help of drag&drop constructor. Style cards and the whole stream fast and easily. Even your grandmother can do!

How To Mix Multiple Social Feeds

First of all you can have multiple socials feeds (the only limit is your server capacity). The magic thing is that you then add as much social feeds from one or different social networks as you want. For example, you want to include in one stream 3 Twitter accounts, 1 Instagram hashtag, 2 Pinterest boards and 5 Facebook feeds. No problem! Here is a visual scheme:

Content Filtering

Filter is optional feature of Flow-Flow. If you would like to use plugin with complex streams this feature could be handy.

Requirements

• PHP 5.6+
• jQuery version 1.7 and above. jQuery is included in WordPress by default.
• The more feeds you have the more powerful server you need. Average server can handle around 100 feeds no problem.