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.