Embedding Facebook videos on your website

Posted on by Marie Page

I’ve used Facebook’s embed functionality many time over the years.

Here’s an example of a link post embed:

Embedding posts are particularly useful for link share posts where you have curated content from another online source but want to additionally use it on your website. Of course a straight copy and paste job would be violating copyright, but you are allowed to embed your Facebook link post on your site. They are also ideal if you have created a Facebook Live video and want to share it further, perhaps on your blog.

The visual look of these embeds is a little different for video and you have more options to consider. You can choose to show the entire post including your copy and the likes and comments fields or just the bare minimum. Here’s the basic option:

And here is the one with the full post selected:

Clicking the Advanced button gets you some additional options and further explains how you can tweak the html code if required.

How to embed a Facebook post on your website

This is really simple and is similar to the way you embed YouTube videos too.

Go to the post you want to embed (in the example below I’m embedding a video post).

Click the down arrow in the top right corner and the embed code will appear.

Copy and past that into your website. Change the pixel width in the code as you need to.

Facebook embedding a post

Marie Page

About Marie Page

Marie Page is one of the UK’s leading Facebook marketing experts. She is a founding partner of digital marketing consultancy The Digiterati and the Digiterati Academy e-learning portal for marketers and entrepreneurs. Her award-winning Master's Dissertation was the culmination of three years' academic research into Facebook that resulted in a book (and companion online course) 'Winning at Facebook Marketing with Zero Budget' that became an Amazon bestseller. Marie's work on the Facebook News Feed algorithm was featured in The Huffington Post. A recognised thought leader on social media, Marie is often approached by journalists for comment in articles such as this Telegraph article. She was also interviewed for ITV's Tonight show on Facebook privacy issues in relation to advertising. Marie is a regular guest on digital marketing blogs and podcasts including Social Media Examiner and Smart Insights. In 2018 she is speaking at Brighton SEO, Europe's biggest search and marketing conference. Marie is also author of two Smart Insights books: 'Smarter Guide to Facebook Marketing', now in its fourth edition, and 'Facebook Ads Guide', both edited by Dr Dave Chaffey. Marie is also a part time yoga teacher.

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