How to add Facebook and Twitter widgets

Posted on April 7, 2020


Facebook and Twitter widgets

Facebook and Twitter feeds can easily be added to ProudCity-powered government websites.

You can see here how we’re using these widgets at proudcity.com: https://proudcity.com/connect

There are two ways to add these to your website:

Here’s how to manually add Facebook and Twitter widgets to your government website.

NOTE: From your page editor, make sure you’re working in Pagebuilder mode and not the visual editor option. At the top right of the page editor menu, there is a button for ‘Page Builder.” Select this. You will be asked to confirm that you want to switch the editor, select ‘Yes.’

Pagebuilder option

You will know that you’re in a Pagebuilder enabled page if you’re seeing widget boxes rather than a WYSIWYG editor. This is an example of what you should see:

Pagebuilder mode

Step 1: Select ‘Add Widget’ option in Pagebuilder mode

Select ‘Add Widget’ option in Pagebuilder mode

Step 2: Select your embeds

Click on ‘Facebook Page Embed’ or ‘Twitter Page Embed’ to add the widget to your page.

Facebook:

Add Facebook widget

Twitter:

Add Twitter widget

Step 3: Customize the widgets to your specifications

Hover over the widget in Pagebuilder and select ‘Edit.’

Customize widgets

When completing the customization, select the ‘Done’ button.

Facebook:

Facebook Page Embed

Twitter:

Twitter Page Embed

Step 4: Update page and view

Update page
See an example of the Facebook and Twitter widgets at proudcity.com/connect.

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