This is BIG NEWS and was just sent out to the developers today (though it was posted in the Facebook Developers Blog yesterday). There is a new Facebook plugin for WordPress which will make it much easier to do make your WordPress website social. There have been many other apps developed, but this is the first one created BY Facebook.

According to the blog, there will be several WordPress Widgets once you install the plugin:

• Activity Feed: Shows readers their friends’ activity on the site, such as likes and comments.
• Recommendations: Gives readers personalized suggestions for pages on your site they might like, as well as a Recommendations Bar option to give users the option to add content to their Timeline as they read.
• Customizable Like, Subscribe and Send buttons.
• Comments Box: Makes it easy for people to comment on your site and post back to Facebook, and includes moderation tools. The plugin also features automatic SEO support for Facebook Comments, so search engines can index them to improve your site’s visibility.

If you want to check it out, you can download it here.

I’ll post again once I’ve had some time to play with it!