Get Facebook Likes interacts with Facebook Graph API and saves likes, shares, and comments count to post meta right after users hit Like/Share button or leaves a Facebook comment therefore you can do some awesome stuff that you think it's impossible before like order posts, order search results, vote, deeper analytics... by Facebook likes (and shares, comments too).

As we're both developers and end users, we're obviously love fast & ease of use plugins. Get Facebook Likes uses native Facebook JS SDK and works right after activated, no cronjob setup is required. Just a few options to tweak your script to the highest speed.

• Basic Mode which compatibility with all WP Sites
• Advanced Mode which have better performance and more accurate
• Use native Facebook API to listening user event and get facebook likes/shares/comments
• Save likes/shares/comments to post meta for further use
• Built-in shortcodes [likes], [shares], and [comments]
• Likes custom column and sorting
• Most favourite content on the Dashboard area which display top 10 posts which have most likes+shares+comments
• Display likes/shares/comments in Post Editing screen if Meta Box plugin is installed

• Display most liked post from your website
• Create a contest on your website which use Facebook Like (or Share) to vote
• Restrict content, require at least X likes to view.
• Discount your product if it has at least X likes
• Track Facebook likes, shares, comments per day
• ...

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/get-facebook-likes directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. Use the Settings\Get Facebook Likes screen to configure the plugin

Likes, Shares and Comments are saved in wp_postmeta table as fb_like_count, fb_share_count, fb_comment_count and a special field called fb_total_count so basically, you can use get_post_meta() function to retrieve these values.

We're created some helper functions and examples to make this process easier. Let's try it:

Get num of likes, shares, comments, or total likes+shares+comments

Likes, Shares, Comments and Total Likes+Shares+Comments can be retrived by using gfl_count() function

gfl_count( $custom_field_name, $post_id );

Where

$custom_field_name (Required) name of custom field. Default: fb_like_count

$post_id (Optional) Post ID. Default: Current Post ID

Get Num of Likes

gfl_likes( $post_id );

When

$post_id: Optional Post ID to get likes, default: current post id

This function is a shortcut of gfl_count();

Shortcodes to display likes, shares, or comments

[likes], [shares], and [comments] are shortcodes to display related action. You can also pass post id in case you want to display value from another post or outside the post. Like so:

[likes id="35"]

Order Posts By Likes

The most favourited part is here. You can order post by Facebook Likes/Shares/Comments or total of them. This is the example:

$args = [
	'meta_key' 	=> 'fb_like_count', 
	'orderby' 	=> 'meta_value_num', 
	'order' 	=> 'DESC'
];

$query = new WP_Query( $args );

Or simply pass variables to URL like so:

http://example.com/?fsortby=likes&forderby=desc

Please note that fsortby supports likes, shares, comments, and all forderby supports asc, and desc

To learn more about WP_Query. See WP Codex.

Version 1.1 comes with Javascript Events, this allows you listening Facebook Events, Updating Events so you can extend it to create your own addons. Awesome right?

To subscribe an event, you must run GFL.subscribe() method after page load. The syntax like so:

GFL.subscribe(event, callback);

To fire an event, you can run GFL.fire() method after pageload, like so:

GFL.fire(event [,arguments]);

Example:

Run an anonymous function to log url when user hit like button

jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
	GFL.subscribe('edge.create', function(url) {
		console.log(url);
	});
});

Run my_custom_function() after update likes/shares/comments count

jQuery(function($){

	function my_custom_function() {
		alert('Update Successful');
	}

	GFL.subscribe('update.after', my_custom_function)
});

No, Get Facebook Likes works without App ID. But it's recommended to use more advanced feature of Facebook like App Tracking, Moderate Comments, etc...

If you've already installed Facebook JS SDK by placing their script right after open body tag or by another plugin. Just uncheck Auto add Facebook JS SDK to wp_head option and place GFL_Main.init(); after FB.init(); in window.fbAsyncInit method like Setup Guide in Settings\Get Facebook Likes

Yes, each time the update like event was fired (also applied to share, comment), it makes a GET request to Facebook to retrieve total count of them. This because some users may like or share your post outside of your website.

• New Most Liked Widget
• New Auto add like and share buttons so users don't have to edit theme file or use other plugins

• New Add sorting query args so user can sort posts via url
• New Convert to K, M, B if total likes, shares, comments is more than 10k
• Fix [comments] shortcode doesn't works

• Improvement Add Likes, Shares, Comments columns in Most Favourite Content meta box
• Improvement Add settings page hooks and default settings filter
• Improvement Most Favourite Content widget now showing Likes and Shares
• Improvement Add minified script gfl-main.min.js
• Fix Javascript Event doesn't works properly
• Fix Use WordPress recommended text domain

• New Introduction to JS Events
• New Add I18N support
• New Allows users set JS SDK Locale
• Improvement Use gfl_count() instead of gfl_facebook_count();

• Initial Release