tesna.net » Wordpress http://tesna.net Just some random thoughts of me Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:28:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Facebook Connect http://tesna.net/2009/01/13/facebook-connect http://tesna.net/2009/01/13/facebook-connect#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:34:37 +0000 Tesna Rafinari http://tesna.net/?p=175 facebook connect button

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.

]]> http://tesna.net/2009/01/13/facebook-connect/feed 1 Another wordpress plugin, wordbook http://tesna.net/2008/04/12/another-wordpress-plugin-wordbook http://tesna.net/2008/04/12/another-wordpress-plugin-wordbook#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:14:32 +0000 Tesna http://tesna.net/?p=17 I found another cool wordpress plugin related to facebook, wordbook. If you have facebook account you can make your blog posts displayed on your mini-feed and displays a summary of your blog on your profile. It even displays thumbnails if your blog post has image(s) in it. Here’s the example how it looks on my facebook profile:

wordbook on facebook profile

Installation instructions are provided on the wordbook link above.

]]> http://tesna.net/2008/04/12/another-wordpress-plugin-wordbook/feed 3 Fotobook http://tesna.net/2008/04/11/fotobook http://tesna.net/2008/04/11/fotobook#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:24:18 +0000 Tesna http://tesna.net/?p=14 I found interesting Wordpress plugin called Fotobook. As you can see now I got a page called photos, and it contains photos I got in my facebook account. How cool is that? It’s very convenient, as I only needs to upload to one site to show it into multiple site, and it has cool features using lightbox effect. To import the photos it took less than a second on my site, this because the photos still stored on facebook’s server. It’s got some drawback though, it doesn’t have flexibility of a real gallery system such as coppermine or gallery plugin on my old geeklog site. It can’t display full resolution photos, exif data, commenting system, and doesn’t integrate with wordpress post system yet.

Anyway, I’m going to use it for now, until I found better image gallery plugin for Wordpress. I’ve tried NextGen Gallery plugin, but somehow I prefer not to use it. Can anyone recommend nice image gallery plugin?

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