Social

Social surfaces your organisation's own published posts on your intranet, read-only. It never posts, messages, moderates or runs ads. YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS connect instantly with nothing to authorise. YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS connect instantly; Facebook and Instagram are coming soon, once our Meta app review completes. LinkedIn is not supported at this time.

Permissions

No Microsoft Graph permissions and no admin consent. You authorise your own social accounts directly, and the web part reads only content you have already published.

Set up

1. Install the package (see the Install guide). No Graph scopes to approve.
2. Edit a page → add the Social web part.
3. In the property pane, connect each source and choose which to show.

Sources

Connect any of Facebook Pages, Instagram Business, YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds. Per-source tabs let staff filter to one network. YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS connect instantly; Facebook and Instagram use a one-time sign-in that we complete with you while our Meta approval finalises. LinkedIn is not supported at this time.

Layout options

• Layout - grid or carousel, with the number of posts to show.
• Elements - show or hide captions, media, author, dates and like/comment counts.
• Theme - inherits your site theme, light and dark.
• Freshness - posts refresh automatically and are cached for speed.

Title banner

The banner behind the web part title can be styled to match your brand, so the feed reads as your organisation's own channel rather than a default SharePoint heading. The settings live on page 2 of the property pane (Design), in the Header group, starting with Title banner style. Existing web parts are unchanged - the new settings apply only once you choose one.

• Solid colour - a filled band behind the title. This is the default.
• Soft tint - the same colour at low strength, with the title in the colour itself.
• Gradient fade - the colour fading away across the band.
• Two colours - a gradient from your colour to a second one you pick.
• No fill (ghost) - no band, with an accent rule beneath the header.
• Underline - no band, with a short rule under the title text.
• Accent bar - a light panel with a colour bar down its left edge.
• Overline label - a small upper-case label above the title, in wording you set, such as Follow us or the handle the feed comes from.
• Background image - a picture behind the title with a readability overlay, handy if your social accounts already have a cover image.

Alongside the style:

• Banner shape - rounded or square corners, on the styles that draw a band.
• Banner colour - a colour of your own, with a button to go back to the site theme colour.
• Second colour - the far end of the two-colour gradient.
• Banner background image - the picture used by the background image style.
• Overline text - the wording for the overline label.
• Title text colour - automatic by default: contrast is measured against the real banner colour to WCAG ratios, so a banner in a brand colour stays legible. Set it to light or dark yourself on the styles where the banner is see-through or image-backed.

Fields appear only where they apply, so you are never shown a setting that does nothing for the style you picked.

The feed shows only content you have published and authorised, and nothing is shared outside your tenant.