Facebook Fan Box Cache WordPress Plugin
Are you tired of using FBML or an iframe to load in your Facebook Fan Box / Like Box? Me too. So I wrote this plugin that takes care of the issue.
** Facebook recently changed their fanbox markup. If you are having problems, please update to the latest version. **
This plugin was written to take care of a serious issue. We were getting horrible load times on any page that contained the Facebook Fan Box iframe code. Especially during the evenings when everyone else in the world AND their mother was on Facebook playing Farmville and asking ME to join them. I wanted nothing of it, and I didn't want my website to suffer the consequences. So after some research, I wrote up this plugin.
Now, you have got to give credit where credit is due, so I must say that this plugin is a WordPress adaptation / implementation of code inspired from my reading of this post by Aaron Saray.. It isn't cut and
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Usage of Facebook Fan Box Cache over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 4 to 3 — down 1 (-25%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 3 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 3 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 4 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 4 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 4 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 4 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 4 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 4 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 4 | — |
Sites running Facebook Fan Box Cache
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