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Mongoose Page Plugin

Name: Mongoose Page Plugin
Rating: 4.7 (64 reviews)
Author: Mongoose Marketplace

⤓ Download v1.9.2 on WordPress.org ↗

by Mongoose Marketplaceupdated 2026-05-08🌟The Rising Star

A responsive Facebook feed that finally fits your layout.

HealthyGrowing

86/100

Users enjoy the responsive Facebook feeds despite occasional issues with the paid version.

Loved30/40

Trustworthy12/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum12/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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add_shortcode( 'facebook-page-plugin', function( $atts ) {
    $a = shortcode_atts( [
        'href'     => 'facebook',
        'width'    => '340',
        'height'   => '500',
        'cover'    => 'true',
        'facepile' => 'true',
        'tabs'     => 'timeline',
        'cta'      => 'false',
        'small'    => 'false',
        'adapt'    => 'true',
        'language' => get_locale(),
    ], $atts );

    $hide_cover   = $a['cover']    === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true';
    $hide_cta     = $a['cta']      === 'true' ? 'true'  : 'false';
    $small_header = $a['small']    === 'true' ? 'true'  : 'false';
    $adapt        = $a['adapt']    === 'true' ? 'true'  : 'false';

    $url = 'https://www.facebook.com/' . esc_attr( $a['href'] );

    return sprintf(
        '<div class="fb-page" data-href="%s" data-width="%s" data-height="%s"
            data-hide-cover="%s" data-show-facepile="%s" data-tabs="%s"
            data-hide-cta="%s" data-small-header="%s" data-adapt-container-width="%s"></div>
        <div id="fb-root"></div>
        <script async defer src="https://connect.facebook.net/%s/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v19.0"></script>',
        esc_url( $url ),
        esc_attr( $a['width'] ),
        esc_attr( $a['height'] ),
        esc_attr( $hide_cover ),
        esc_attr( $a['facepile'] ),
        esc_attr( $a['tabs'] ),
        esc_attr( $hide_cta ),
        esc_attr( $small_header ),
        esc_attr( $adapt ),
        esc_attr( $a['language'] )
    );
} );

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Active installs

~15,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

→ on track for 20k+in ~3 months

Rating

4.6★

64 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+275%

Growing fast

8 → 30 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +275% in the last year

8/day a year ago→30/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Mongoose Page Plugin is praised for its ease of use, responsiveness, and flexible display options, but a few users report it sometimes shows nothing or fails in the paid version.

What people like

+Easy to install, set up, and configure×6
+Responsive and works on any device×2
+Provides tabs for Feed, Events, and Messages
+Can fetch feeds from any Facebook page
+Size can be easily adjusted×3
+Works reliably without code, includes both widget and shortcode
+Looks good visually×2
+Auto-size feature correctly scales the box

Common complaints

−Displays nothing after inserting the code
−Paid version fails to work even after troubleshooting

Review trustMostly organic

4.68★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 64 total

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Latest reviews · 64 analyzed

2024-02-25★★★★★Working Well murray297
2024-01-16★★★★★Waste of time eraduili
2023-05-07★★★★★good working with wp 6.2 toritran84
2020-11-21★★★★★Others can't. Mongoose can!codimex
2020-06-10★★★★★Great solution for the Facebook page plugin!askdesign
2020-04-18★★★★★Doesn't work lupo231-shot
2020-01-21★★★★★GREAT PLUGIN moojomoore
2018-02-21★★★★★Perfect. Very easy to install and set up.Andy
2018-01-17★★★★★Works as Described Trudy Beerman
2017-06-12★★★★★Perfect solution to Facebook's non-responsive standard page plugin Anonymous User 15269837

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-08v1.9.2
2024-01-03v1.9.1
2022-12-27v1.9.0
2020-12-13v1.8.1
2020-11-19v1.8.0
2020-04-14v1.7.3
2020-04-13v1.7.2
2019-09-20v1.7.1

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

Mean release-day peak (30d)

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-3.3%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

50%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

3.74

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

86%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.63 → 4.68★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered