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Facebook recently launched Facebook Connect plattform, which gives Facebook users to logon using their facebook identity, to any facebook connect enabled sites they wanted. Enabling Facebook connect is quite complicated, but for site owners build their site with Wordpress, MovableType, vbulletin, and mediawiki is quite straight forward. The plugins are available!

I just got facebook connect wordpress plugin installed several days ago. First one I tried is WP-FBConnect, created by one of Facebook engineers, Adam Huup. The installation is quite simple, you just need to install and activate the plugin, then just add some php code where you want to put the facebook connect button. Then I looked into another wordpress plugin, Sociable.es Facebook Connect plugin. While both has similar function,  but I ended up using sociable’s plugin because they have sidebar widgets on them, with little modification on the widget and add the button in the comment form.

After installing them, I noticed the page is not updated after I logged on to my site using my facebook credentials, it still  the user is not logged on to the site. After some searching, it seems its caused WP-SuperCache plugin, somehow its not registers the user already logged therefore its still serves caches pages. Luckyly, the fix is available.

I still got little problem though, one of my favorite wordpress plugin, Fotobook is not working if FBConnect plugin is enabled. So, if I need to update the facebook photos database or inserting facebook photos into a post, I need to disable the facebook connect plugin first. It complains about can’t redeclare class. I tried to do some modifications, but so far I’m not lucky yet. It seems both fotobook and facebook connect plugin use same facebook library, but use different versions of them.