There has been a lot of buzz this week regarding the new Facebook Connect service. After TechCrunch announced that they were “in a relationship” with the new service, I began to investigate the easiest way to add it to a couple of blogs that I run. Not surprisingly, there is already one gentleman from Spain who has been working on a plugin for a couple of months.
If you aren’t familiar with Facebook Connect or how it can work with your blog, I suggest that you visit a sample site called The Run Around.
Since the author of the Facebook Connect Plugin for Wordpress is a native Spanish speaker, I am providing the translation of his blog posting. Before you get started, you will need to have a Facebook Developer account and an existing blog using the Wordpress platform.
Here is the link to download the Facebook Connect plugin for Wordpress. The newest version is 0.0.4. If you need help using the plugin, there is a video tutorial for the configuration here
There appears to be a couple of errors with the plugin when you attempt to use a custom theme. I am currently providing feedback to the plugin author to help him tweak it. In addition, there may be interoperability issues with other plugins that I will list in a forthcoming post.
on Dec 5th, 2008 at 1:31 am
This will be super-exciting when the bugs are ironed out and it’s working well. Something tells me we’re going to see a bunch of stuff crop up with Facebook Connect and Wordpress…
on Dec 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I installed the plugin this morning and am loving what it does. There is so much potential here it’s crazy. I’m not really a plugin developer, but I’d love to help you guys troubleshoot bugs if it would help you out. For instance, after a comment is left on my site users get this message:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘FacebookRestClientException’ with message ‘Feed.publishUserAction cannot be used to automatically publish one-line stories on Connect sites.’ in /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/facebook-client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:1733 Stack trace: #0 /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/facebook-client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(374): FacebookRestClient->call_method(’facebook.feed.p…’, Array) #1 /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/fbConnectLogic.php(242): FacebookRestClient->feed_publishUserAction(’49178716994′, ‘{”post_title”:”…’, NULL, NULL, 2) #2 /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-includes/plugin.php(311): WPfbConnect_Logic::comment_fbconnect(4) #3 /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-includes/comment.php(730): do_action() #4 /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-comments-post.php(71): wp_new_comment(Array, Array) #5 {main} thrown in /home/pureca5/public_html/consulting/wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/facebook-client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 1733
Everything goes through right except the comments page right after making a comment. Sorry to use a comment for this, but thought you might like to know this little bit of info. Feel free to email me at matthew@purecaptures.com if there’s anything I can do to help out.
Matthew Block
on Feb 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 pm
We have members on our site who can create their own profile using Wordpress’s user tables.
Do you know whether there’s a way FB connect can work alongside registered users in Wordpress?
thanks,
Zac
on Feb 5th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Hiya there,
First off thanks much for pointing in the right direction.. That gentlemen from Spain was great, but I needed support..
The problem I’m having is that the plugin no longer works after I changed my site’s domain. Before that, it worked like a charm. I have it turned off right now because it looked very bad now, so I thought better to take it off first.
What happens now is that the photo of the users all displays vertically, so it becomes one tall box that doesn’t look very pleasing. I am also not able to “logout” as when it happens, it simply goes to http://unearthingasia.com/# I haven’t tested on IE, but I suspect there will be more problems there.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Cheers!
-Nik
on Feb 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
We have the facebook connect link working on careerscatalyst.com - it allows members to connect with other people and leverage their network
on Apr 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Hi Guys!
Its a great plugin, I was trying to do something similar for my site to fb but since I found the wp to fb I decided instead to use it, great job… hopefully we all together can buit a robust connection
on Apr 23rd, 2009 at 8:54 am
What if Facebook connected us to everything? http://bit.ly/fbconnected
on Aug 6th, 2009 at 11:31 am
i am still struggling with FBconnect : - (
on Dec 10th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Great potential with this plugin, but support is non-existent.
I had this set up to update my FB page (not profile) and it was working great. But the URL of my page changed and now I don’t know where to configure for the change. There is nothing in the admin section.
Anyone?
on Jan 23rd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.
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